Mark de Silva and Greg Gerke discuss 'The Logos'
“The Logos is a seance, a conjuring of unbodily plasmas, blackbox TV metaphysics for the word-made-without-commentary... autoluminescent realism transacted at godspeed..." —Louis Armand
On November 21, 2022, Third Place Books welcomed Mark de Silva for a discussion of his latest novel, 'The Logos,' a book that, according to Kirkus Reviews, is "bidding to join the company of the postmodern titans who dominated late-20th-century American fiction." Silva was joined in conversation by Greg Gerke, author and editor of the journal 'Socrates on the Beach.'
About The Logos. . .
Jaded and adrift, a young painter in New York joins his fate to a mercurial titan of industry in the hopes of finding a new artistic form—and quite possibly a new life. Cutting-edge intoxicants, the vagaries of desire, and an obscure art magazine with unlimited ambitions collide on the ultimate stage, where only delusion can ease the chase of mystique. In an epic new novel ranging across acting, advertising, professional sports, and the city, Mark de Silva offers up a grand meditation on the bitter glories of 21st century being, the human impulse to search for something original in the cacophony of a continuously replicating world, and the self-revelations living in our perception of others. The Logos is a sweeping and intimate inquiry into all things New York, and now.
Praise for The Logos. . .
“Bidding to join the company of the postmodern titans who dominated late-20th-century American fiction: Gaddis, Gass, DeLillo, Wallace… A hefty old-school social novel.”
―Kirkus Reviews
"Mark de Silva is high among the remnant few whose writing still justifies the writing of novels. He has earned this distinction by treating the novel not as a form but as a formative languaging of the world that spins and tilts beneath the reader."
―Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus
Mark de Silva is the author of the novels Square Wave (Two Dollar Radio, 2016) and The Logos (Clash Books [US] and Splice [UK], 2022), as well as the essay collection Points of Attack (Clash Books, 2020). He holds degrees in philosophy from Brown (AB) and Cambridge (PhD). He is the fiction editor of 3:AM Magazine and a research editor at the New York Times Magazine.
Greg Gerke’s work has appeared in Tin House, Film Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, and other publications. Last year Zerogram Press released a new and expanded version of See What I See, a book of essays. He also edits the journal Socrates on the Beach.