JERSEY CITY / NYC — Bud Smith is the author of Teenager, out now from Vintage. He is also the author of Double Bird (2018), Work (2017), Calm Face (2016), F250 (2014), and Tollbooth (2013), among other books. He is also a good friend. This convo is from 9 May 2022, 2 nights ago, the night before his novel Teenager dropped. Bless.
TEENAGER: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/679124/teenager-by-bud-smith/
1 min - pod start
5 min - “the New Jersey devil”
9 min - Don Quixote / picaresque
24 min - should novels be educational
28 min - “reading as prayer/meditation”
30 min - on working on Teenager w Gian
57 min - on how Teenager ended up where it did
1 hr 1 min - on Bud’s day job
1hr 15 min - on Salinger
1 hr 33 min - on Gordon Lish / carver / ford
Sean Thor Conroe is the author of Fuccboi: A Novel: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394819/