Dive into Beyond the Zero’s engaging, wide-ranging, wonderfully brainy podcast conversation with Lance Olsen about An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies (Dzanc Books), his marvelous novel-length portrait of Henry Darger, the outsider artist who spent decades creating an immense, intricately imagined world of stories, drawings, and paintings, largely in the privacy of his Chicago apartment.

Along the way, Lance talks about “readerly hormesis,” historiographic metafiction, “memory as a kind of disappearance that isn’t a disappearance,” and how “the only thing more unknowable than the future is the past.” He also gets into memoir as a “subset of fiction,” “corporate authors,” Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Robert Lopez, Joanna Scott, Gilbert Sorrentino, and much, much more.

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