Jamming Their Transmission: Recent Episodes
John Madera
Talk show featuring innovative artists, writers, musicians, and more in conversation with John Madera.
Today’s episode features Big Other‘s editor John Madera in conversation with Professor Jasmine Syedullah, black feminist political theorist of abolition. Among the things discussed: system racism, the origins of modern policing, the current nationwide of protests against police brutality, the ways policing as an institution reinforces race and class inequalities by design, police and […]
Today’s episode features Big Other‘s editor John Madera in conversation with Professor Richard D. Wolff. Among the things discussed are capitalism, neoliberalism, socialism, Bernie Sanders, Trump, the two-party oligarchy/plutocracy, voting, democracy, and “disaster socialism.” Professor Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to […]
Today’s episode features Big Other‘s editor John Madera in conversation with writer Kurt Baumeister, writer/musician Matthew Binder, artist/musician Hieronymus Bogs, and musician Jeremiah Hosea sharing encouraging words and/or their thoughts about what gives them hope during the contagion. Listen to part one of this series, which features writers Carol Guess, Davis Schneiderman, and Tony […]
This episode features Big Other‘s editor John Madera in conversation with great writers Robert Lopez, Joe Milazzo, and Angela Woodward about life during the contagion. Brendan Lorber also appears with a lyrical weather forecast. And Rikki Ducornet closes the show with a reading from Plotinus, her luminous current work-in-progress. Listen to part one of […]
This episode features Big Other‘s editor John Madera in conversation with great writers Hillary Leftwich and Antonio Nadal about life during the contagion. Among the many things talked about are social distancing, lockdown, shelter in place, quarantine, and/or stay at home; about how their workplaces and modes of working, playing, living, etc., have been […]
This episode features Big Other‘s editor John Madera in conversation with superb writers Carol Guess, Davis Schneiderman, and Tony Trigilio about life during the contagion. Among the many things talked about are social distancing, lockdown, shelter in place, quarantine, and stay at home; about how their workplaces and modes of working have been affected; […]
This episode features writer Norman Lock reading from and discussing his recently published Feast Day of the Cannibals. Among the many things we talk about are writing, literature, reading, books, questions, intertextuality, experimental fiction, history, fiction, historical fiction, research, Henry Melville, Moby Dick, unreliable narrators, sentences, teaching, the Brooklyn Bridge, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, […]
This episode features writer Eugene Lim reading from and discussing his short fiction, his novel Dear Cyborgs, and his novel-in-progress. Among the many things we talk about are writing, literature, reading, books, editing, editors, libraries, librarians, experimental fiction, Jorge Luis Borges, publishing, Ellipsis Press, Third Space Theory, Renee Gladman, Miranda Mellis, Joanna Ruocco, Evelyn Hampton, […]
This episode features writers who are not attending the AWP Conference and Bookfair this year: Rose Hunter, Rebecca Entel, Paul Beckman, Davis Schneiderman, and Michael Martone. Rose Hunter is the author of glass, You As Poetry, [four paths], and to the river, and two chapbooks. Her writing also appears in the Australian Poetry Journal, the Malahat Review, the Los Angeles […]
This episode features writers who are not attending the AWP Conference and Bookfair this year: Roz Morris, Tony Trigilio, Valerie Nieman, Kallie Falandays, Seth Berg, and Michael A. Ferro. Roz Morris is the author of My Memories of a Future Life, Lifeform Three, Not Quite Lost: Travels Without A Sense of Direction, and the Nail […]
