DMV / NYC — Nicolette Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) is her first book. I saw Nicolette read from this collection a couple times early this year, and reread it a couple times this past fortnight.Buy Imaginary Museums: https://softskull.com/dd-product/imaginary-museums/POD CONTENTS3 min - pod start4 min - small rooms big rooms card rooms basements11 min - on “Winners” - https://magazine.nytyrant.com/winners/14 min - on how life in Slovakia vs. US19 min - “Field Notes” / Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch21 min - Krasznahorkai24 min - on the traditions Nicolette partaking in25 min - The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti27 min - Intimate Lighting, dir. Ivan Passer28 min - on making art in communism 31 min - experience working with Soft Skull33 min - on how these stories written36 min - me repeatedly belaboring “the Nature”37 min - Thomas Tallis / Abba39 min - on what Nicolette working on now / Marta Becket41 min - solitude vs. sharing. Kierkegaard definition of a saint: “to will the one thing”42 min - subsequent books as answers to questions posed in previous ones44 min - female eels47 min - on Waldorf55 min - Rings of Saturn by Sebald57 min - mycology– Sean Thor Conroe, http://1storyhaus.com