Episodes
Andrew Bertaina interviews Nick Rees Gardner. Topics include: buying a store, morning vs evening writing, running, emo poetry, going to college for drugs, leaving college for rehab, the story collection DELINQUENTS AND OTHER ESCAPE ATTEMPTS, rewriting, slowing down, reviewing books, influence, rhythm, subverting the rehab narrative, and more.
Published 10/30/24
Jason McCall interviews Tasha Coryell. Topics include: seasons, ambience videos, re-shifting priorities, moving to thrillers, unpublished novels, relaxing about publishing, running, LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER, a very millennial character, entertainment, the forthcoming Matchmaking for Psychopaths, and more.
Published 10/23/24
Jason McCall interviews Juan Carlos Reyes. Topics include: reading as gateway, writing and creativity, temp jobs, academia, Seattle, Hinton Publishing, THREE ALARM FIRE, triptychs, collecting stories, narrators, and more.
Published 10/16/24
Drew Hawkins interviews Jami Attenberg. Topics include: the new novel A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN, ground rules, first lines, family games, loss, time, phones, perspective, 1,000 Words of Summer, and more.
Published 10/09/24
Drew Hawkins interviews Kirsten Reneau. Topics include: the debut essay collection SENSITIVE CREATURES, different selves, sexual assault & gendered violence, the very personal, nature, images, animals, ideal writing situations, editing lit mags, organizing a collection, cicada season, implicating others, and more
Published 10/02/24
Kristine Langley Mahler interviews Dennis James Sweeney. Topic include: reading before bed, the forthcoming HOW TO SUBMIT, small presses, hybridity, photographs, Crohn's, THE ROLODEX HAPPENINGS, performance, artmaking, meaning-making, and more.
Published 09/27/24
Kaycie Hall interviews Puloma Ghosh. Topics include: writing and illustration, elementary school notebooks, the short story collection MOUTH, being generous to a past self, story changes through drafts, elements of horror and supernatural, working on novels, green M&M fanfic, and more.
Published 09/20/24
Joshua James Amberson interviews Tomas Moniz. Topics include: engaging with an audience, a book tour/honeymoon, working with a bigger press, zines and zine community, working on multiple projects, trying and failing to sell a book, RAD DAD, writing and receiving letters, the new novel ALL FRIENDS ARE NECESSARY, and more.
Published 09/12/24
Erin Slaughter interviews Jenny Irish. Topics include: Maine & Arizona, childhood imagination, academia, body scrutiny, the new book HATCH, having or not having a child, the violent division in America, genre & hybridity, and more.
Published 09/05/24
Sara Rauch interviews Ursula Villarreal-Moura. Topics include: teaching, learning to read like learning to drive, poetry, a move to fiction, the debut novel LIKE HAPPINESS, not writing in 3rd, ambiguity, stories we tell ourselves, healing in the right environment, and more.
Published 08/11/24
Jason McCall interviews Brooke Champagne. Topics include: finding time, 20+ years of teaching, NOLA FACE, trying to quit writing, collecting essays, time's role in craft, approaching the page at different stages of life, and more.
Published 08/02/24
Mike Nagel interviews Andrew Bertaina. Topics include: selves on the page, THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE, evaluating your own work, modes of essay, mind as setting, representing others, good catalysts, speed, valuing the reader, and more.
Published 07/23/24
Jeff Alessandrelli interviews Mallory Smart. Topics include: growing up in Chicago, writing in high school, studying history and philosophy, logic and therapy, a preference for narrative, starting Maudlin House, an app that forces you to write, I KEEP MY VISIONS TO MYSELF, pressure and nostalgia, and more.
Published 07/17/24
Aaron Burch interviews Josh Denslow. Topics include: moving to Barcelona, formative places, the desire to share creative work, rejection, the novel SUPER NORMAL, humor and the reality of fiction, fun, and more.
Published 07/10/24
Teresa Carmody interviews Kristen E. Nelson. Topics include: imperfect queer & trans narratives, calling in community, other voices, IN THE AWAY TIME, a later-in-life PhD, hybridity & divinations, the limits of the body, constraint, autobiographical experiments, timescape, personal disasters, and much more.
Published 06/17/24
Emily Adrian interviews Justin Taylor. Topics include: growing up as a child actor, growing into a writer, a couple Donald Barthelme anthologies, his first books, the new novel REBOOT, realism, the supernatural, tv forms in the novel, a bottle chapter, Portland, Dawson's Creek, and more.
Published 05/24/24
Michael Wheaton interviews Lucas Mann. Topics include: becoming co-owner of Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, community in Providence RI, the gap between life & writing about the life, growing up reading and watching, ambition, ATTACHMENTS: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, intimacy and its mediation, threading and/or juggling, writing about parenthood, resembling a real human, body image, overlapping thinking and feeling, and more.
Published 05/09/24
Drew Hawkins interviews Maurice Carlos Ruffin. Topics include: book tour, previous life as a lawyer and restaurant owner, becoming a writer, paces of production, the usefulness of distraction, New Orleans, THE AMERICAN DAUGHTERS, knowing who you are, writing as a man about women, freedom and loss, and more.
Published 05/03/24
Lena Crown interviews Richard Scott Larson. Topics include: blocking out time, writing as a critic, an early interest in horror, a crisis of fiction, memoir vs book-length essay, the new memoir THE LONG HALLWAY, visibility, hiding queerness, masks, Michael Myers/Halloween, loneliness and observation, film form, fear and shame, and more.
Published 04/24/24
Aaron Burch interviews Jason McCall. Topics include: a recent bout with cancer, the rhythm of art and community, teaching, approaching writing as a fan, sports and pop culture, the essay collection RAZED BY TV SETS, the contradictions of fandom, collective celebration, playing with your offhand, and more.
Published 04/19/24
Sara Rauch interviews Julia Hannafin. Topics include: writing for tv and a podcast, journaling as a kid, the debut novel CASCADE, quiet drama, danger, sharks in the Farallon Islands, predator/prey, desire, gender, place, addiction, time, and more.
Published 04/16/24
Joshua James Amberson interviews Jeff Alessandrelli. Topics include: Portland OR, the podcast The Steer, Jeff's novel AND YET, working in poetry and prose, the SPD collapse, the issues at PANK that led Jeff to pull his novel, the reissue of the novel with Future Tense, writing as a publisher, and more.
Published 04/10/24
Michael Wheaton interviews Zachary Pace. Topics include: working in publishing, finding a subject, moving to essay from poetry, I SING TO USE THE WAITING (Two Dollar Radio, 2024), other people as mirrors, growing up on media pre-internet, listening, and more.
Published 04/04/24
Sara Lippmann interviews Ben Tanzer. Topics include: small town insularity, the new novel THE MISSING, time, regimen, not being precious, persistence, prioritizing yourself, detaching from outcomes, patience, and more.
Published 03/28/24