An excerpt from Don DeLillo's Underworld.  Music by Charles Mingus.

Blather

Waste

An excerpt from Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. Music by Chris Brokaw.

This would be a pleasant world if everbody could just ride and ride.

I liked the way Gonzague Van Bervesseles sang "Sylvie" in Jean-Paul Civeyrac's A Paris Education (2018) so much that I recorded it so I could share it with you.

Erik Satie's "Sylvie" sung by Gonzague Van Bervesseles

An excerpt from a work in progress. Music by Arvo Pärt.

Dead Rae

An excerpt from a work in progress. Music by Ran Blake.

Can't Recall

An excerpt from from a work in progress. Music by Mute Duo.

Don lived upstairs from the Blue Light

An excerpt from a work in progress. Music by the Dick Slessig Combo.

Flyover

I read Canto 27 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" as part of a celebration of his 201st birthday. The entire poem, read by many people, here.

"Song of Myself"—Canto 27

What happens when you set up a book talk and no one shows up? Paul Durica (of the Newberry Library) and I talk about Soviet Stamps and the writing racket to a bunch of empty chairs in the secret back room of Uncharted Books in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago.

If a Tree Falls...

I make my triumphant return to The Green Arcade in San Francisco and discuss Soviet Stamps, art, cabdriving, and other related and unrelated topics with Ben Terrall (Namaste, Motherfucker!)

Return to The Green Arcade

Kyle Beachy (author of The Slide and many, many essays about skateboarding) puts me through my paces about Soviet Stamps, art, writing, making a living, and much else at Logan Square's City Lit Books.

Soviet Stamps w/ Kyle Beachy at City Lit Books (1/30/20)

Christian TeBordo interviews me about my new book, Soviet Stamps and other related topics at The Dial Bookshop in Chicago.

Soviet Stamps at The Dial

Tim Kinsella interviews me about my book, art, writing, and all that jazz at the Rainbo Club in Chicago on August 31st, 2019.

Samarov & Kinsella at the Rainbo Club

Christian TeBordo meets me at the Rainbo Club to talk about his forthcoming short story collection, Ghost Engine, teaching writing, and how he got from being the son of two pastors to where he is to day—the author of six books and the director of an MFA writing program.

Christian TeBordo talks writing

Bits and pieces of what's on my mind. Maybe some talks with others about Chicago, about art, about music and movies. The things I love. More: http://dmitrysamarov.com