Episode 31: Daniel Torday with Ty Gilpin
Daniel Torday
Daniel Torday is the author of ‘The Last Flight of Poxl West’ and ‘Boomer1’. A two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award for fiction and the Sami Rohr Choice Prize, Daniel’s stories and essays have appeared in ‘Tin House’, ‘The Paris Review’, ‘The Kenyon Review’, and ‘n+1’, and have been honored by the Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays series. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College.
His fourth novel, ‘The 12th Commandment’, was published in January 2023 by St. Martin’s Press.
Ty Gilpn
Ty Gilpin plays mandolin with the Bluegrass band Unspoken Tradition and is music marketing director for Crossroads Studios near Asheville, North Carolina.
Ty Gilpin (far left) with his band, Unspoken Tradition
About the Episode
EPISODE SUMMARY:
If your jam is Bluegrass music, revolutionaries, political rants, and the Wild West of the Internet (otherwise known as the Deep Web), you’re gonna love this episode. Daniel Torday is here to talk about his novel ‘Boomer1’, a story that follows Bluegrass musician, underemployed millennial, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld, who channels his desperation by posting a series of online video monologues that critique Baby Boomers and their powerful hold on the job market. When the videos go viral, Mark loses control of what he began—with consequences that ensnare him in a matter of national security.
Later, mandolin player for the Bluegrass band Unspoken Tradition and music marketing director for Crossroads Studios near Asheville, North Carolina, Ty Gilpin joins me to give a crash course on Bluegrass.
MEDIA AND MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
“Old Rotten Ribbons” by Ty Gilpin (from his solo album ‘Crooked Hollows’)
“Christine’s Tune” by The Flying Burrito Brothers
“Foggy Mountain Breakdown” by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
“Internet” by Post Malone
“John Brown’s Body” by Pete Seeger
“Do I Wanna Know” by Arctic Monkeys
“Mule Skinner Blues” by Bill Monroe
“Mountain Dew” by The Stanley Brothers
“I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” by Soggy Bottom Boys
“Pretty Polly” by Ralph Stanley
“Uncle John’s Band” by The Grateful Dead
“Dust in a Baggie” by Billy Strings
“Dooley” by The Dillards/The Darling Family on ‘The Andy Griffith Show’
“The Old Swinging Bridge” by Unspoken Tradition (Ty Gilpin’s band)
LINKS:
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Daniel Torday’s website: http://www.danieltorday.com/
Daniel Torday on Twitter: @DanielTorday
Daniel Torday on Instagram: @dtorday
Walls of Time Podcast website: https://wallsoftimepodcast.podbean.com/
Unspoken Tradition’s website: https://unspokentradition.com/
Unspoken Tradition on Instagram: @unspokentraditionbluegrass
Unspoken Tradition on Facebook: @unspokentradition
Ty Gilpin on Instagram: @tygilpinavl
Ty Gilpin on Facebook: @TyGilpin
Crossroads Studios: https://crossroadsrecordingstudios.com/
‘Crooked Hollows’ by Ty Gilpin on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/am/album/crooked-hollows/548623407
Daniel Torday
