Art in Action interview - Author Tauno Biltsted

An interview with Tauno Bilsted recorded in NYC in August 2023 that took place at the Umbrella House, a formally squatted building that is now a home for artists, community activists and workers in the East Village in Manhattan. In this interview we speak about "The Anatomist's Tale" published by Lanternfish Press, this is a write up: Glorious Marshalsea! The cells here—slick with algae and vomit, sweaty with the resigned terror of their occupants—have seen the end of many rogues and more than a few innocents. Born into abject poverty in the British Empire, our narrator aspires to a better life as a ship's surgeon—until a tyrannical captain provokes a mutiny, forcing him into a life of piracy and eventually to a tropical commune of maroons called New Madagascar. Told through a series of confessions to those who visit the narrator during his imprisonment at Marshalsea, The Anatomist's Tale relates one man's brush with the heady freedom of outlaws—and the price of returning to "civilization." Info: https://www.akpress.org/the-anatomist-s-tale.html Graphic is from Tauno's website for community dialogue services in NY, info: https://www.umbrelladialogue.org Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Thank you to my friend Spike Taylor for helping to make this interview happen. Stefan produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30-5pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30-10am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Tuesday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 1:30pm also in Montreal.