NAPLES — Giancarlo DiTrapano is the founder, editor, and publisher of New York Tyrant. The magazine initially, starting in 2005. And then of Tyrant Books, starting in 2010. I spoke with him in his apartment in Naples two days ago, before flying back to the states yesterday. After flying out there 11 days ago. He wrote for Vice for a minute during the early tens and has ran the workshop Mors Tua Vita Mea, with the writer Chelsea Hodson, in Sezze, Italy since 2015. He grew up in Charleston, West Virginia and spent many years in New York City before moving out to Italy five years ago. We talk about how he came into the game with the magazine and the imprint, what he’s psyched about writing-wise now, a whole bunch of stuff. Thoroughly enjoyed ripping this convo and running it back.NY Tyrant: https://nytyrant.com#POD CONTENTS6 min - pod start: G dissing and me tryna defend Ferrante lmaoo8 min - Of Love and Other Demons by Garcia Marquez9 min - Autoportrait by Edouard Leve / story versus bars/syntax11 min - translated versus untranslated 11.5 min - G: “We should be recording this.” Me: “Bro it’s recording.”12 min - coffee ready13 min - move from kitchen to living room13 min - McClanahan , bars v. Voice 14 min - on Liveblog (2018) by Megan Boyle19 min - ‘prep’ = Preparation for the Next Life (2014) by Atticus Lish and ‘shapiro’ = Supremacist (2016) by Dave Shapiro22 min - story on linking w Atticus Lish26 min - How to Live is bigger than How to Write27 min - Louise Gluck32 min - Babak Lakghomi38 min - "everything important in literature is about Death"41 min - on mimicry / imitation46 min - on exclamation points / nietzsche ecce homo48 min - Lutz49 min - Tyrant Vol 3 No 2 / young Diane Lane "the Outsiders"55 min - story of G pulling up to nyc / FSG59 min - putting out the first Tyrant mag / Sheila Heti1 hr 2 min - DFW1 hr 3 min - “all these lit mags started bc the Internet”1 hr 6 min - Supremacist by David Shapiro1 hr 12 min - drugs according to music era1 hr 18 min - first linking w Castro1 hr 21 min - what/who G hype on rn / Honor Levy1 hr 22 min - Christopher Kennedy1 hr 29 min - mors tua vita mea1 hr 37 min - on how relevant or not relevant being out here for writing1 hr 40 min - How the infrastructure of Literature upheldIntro song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1YnDZXJ7Dj0Uk9Pqu4tdAX?si=evQ3qjohRo2VxpXVIQwtigSean Thor Conroe https://mobile.twitter.com/stconroe lives in Harlem.