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Mallory Smart interviews today's hottest authors about musical influences, genres, and how all of that plays into the way that they write. Some episodes can be abstract and others are just plain dorky. Either way, they're always fun and informative...
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Jeff Alessandrelli is most recently the author of the novel And Yet (Future Tense Books, 2024). His work has previously been published in The American Poetry Review, Fence, New American Writing, Lit Hub, BOMB, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. In addition to his writing, he also directs and co-edits the nonprofit book press/record label Fonograf Editions. He’s at https://jeffalessandrelli.net/.
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Sam Berman is a short story writer who lives in Chicago and works at LakeFront Medical with Nancy, Andrew, and Patrick. All terrific coworkers. He has had work published in Forever Magazine, Joyland, Expat Press, Maudlin House, the Northwest Review, The Masters Review, Vlad Mag, HAD, Hobart, CRAFT, Dream Boy Book Club, and Rejection Letters. He was selected as the runner-up in The Kenyon Review’s 2022 Nonfiction Competition as well as a finalist for the 2022 & 2023 Halifax Ranch Prize. This year he has nominations pending for the Pushcart Prize and a Best American Short Story nomination. He has forthcoming work in Back Patio Press, X-Ray and The Idaho Review, among many others. In addition to his writing, Sam is also the Director of Storyfort, a literary festival held during Treefort Music Fest every March in Boise, Idaho.
Website: www.sam-berman.com
Twitter: @Taylorbabe411
Instagram: @sugarcainberman
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Sam Berman is a short story writer who lives in Chicago and works at LakeFront Medical with Nancy, Andrew, and Patrick. All terrific coworkers. He has had work published in Forever Magazine, Joyland, Expat Press, Maudlin House, the Northwest Review, The Masters Review, Vlad Mag, HAD, Hobart, CRAFT, Dream Boy Book Club, and Rejection Letters. He was selected as the runner-up in The Kenyon Review’s 2022 Nonfiction Competition as well as a finalist for the 2022 & 2023 Halifax Ranch Prize. This year he has nominations pending for the Pushcart Prize and a Best American Short Story nomination. He has forthcoming work in Back Patio Press, X-Ray and The Idaho Review, among many others. In addition to his writing, Sam is also the Director of Storyfort, a literary festival held during Treefort Music Fest every March in Boise, Idaho.
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Jillian Luft is a writer and Florida apologist. Her debut novel, Scumbag Summer, is set for publication on June 20th via House of Vlad Press. You can read more of her work at jillianluft.com.
Twitter: @JillianLuft
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Jillian Luft is a writer and Florida apologist. Her debut novel, Scumbag Summer, is set for publication on June 20th via House of Vlad Press. You can read more of her work at jillianluft.com.
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Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and Editor-in-Chief of Maudlin House. She is the host of the literary/music podcast Textual Healing and cohost of the horror movie podcast That Horrorcast. Her latest book, I Keep My Visions To Myself, just came out from With an X Books.
Find her on Twitter: @malsmart
Kirsti MacKenzie has published in HAD, trampset, Identity Theory, and Rejection Letters. She studied creative writing at Humber College and Memorial University but learned the most from bathroom graffiti in dive bars. Kirsti is also the EIC of Major 7th Magazine. Her book, Better to Beg, came out earlier this year. She lives in Ottawa and can be found perpetually on her bullshit @KeersteeMack
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John Patrick Higgins is a writer of long and short stories, screenplays and plays. He has had bad teeth for as long as he can remember and you might expect him, being English, not to notice. But he has noticed, and he’s doing something about it. His new book, Teeth, recounts his journey from a mouthful of moist gravel to a pristine, pacific smile, with the Pole-star wattage of a Hollywood A-lister.
Get it now from Sagging Meniscus Press and read about John's musings on his blog.
He's also on Twitter: @JohnnyMuggins
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Brianna is a writer based in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to being a member and on the social media team for the Horror Writers Association, she’s also co-chair of the Seattle Chapter. She has work in Beautiful Tragedies 2 and 3, The Dire Circle, The Nottingham Horror Collective, Under Her Skin, _and HorrorScope: A Zodiac Anthology Volumes 1 and 4_. In fall of 2023 her debut horror poetry collection, Fashion Trends, Deadly Ends, was released and she was a “Writer in Residence” at the Chateau d’Orquevaux in France. Malotke’s next collection, Lost Cherry, will be published with January Ember Press fall of 2024. She also has a romance novella series, Sugar & Steam, written under the pen name of Tori Fields.
Website: https://brimalotke.wixsite.com/malotkewrites
IG: @briannamalotke
TikTok: @briannamalotke
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John Patrick Higgins is a writer of long and short stories, screenplays and plays. He has had bad teeth for as long as he can remember and you might expect him, being English, not to notice. But he has noticed, and he’s doing something about it. His new book, Teeth, recounts his journey from a mouthful of moist gravel to a pristine, pacific smile, with the Pole-star wattage of a Hollywood A-lister.
Get it now from Sagging Meniscus Press and read about John's musings on his blog.
He's also on Twitter: @JohnnyMuggins
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Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and Editor-in-Chief of Maudlin House. She is the host of the literary/music podcast Textual Healing and cohost of the horror movie podcast That Horrorcast. Her latest book, I Keep My Visions To Myself, just came out from With an X Books.
Find her on Twitter or Instagram: @malsmart
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Ari Gold is a film director, poet, musician, & founder/president of Grack Films. His movies have screened at Sundance, Telluride, Karlovy-Vary, & hundreds of other festivals, & he has won over fifty prizes, including best film at SXSW (twice), the Student Oscar, and Best Director at the American Cinematheque / ARPA. Ari is currently in post-production on his third & fourth feature films. Helicopter expands on his student-Oscar-winning short film about his mother’s death, & features legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Brother Verses Brother, a musical odyssey from the streets of San Francisco, is a companion to Ari’s first book of poetry (Father Verses Sons, Rare Bird Lit, 2024).
Previously, he directed a romantic drama called The Song of Sway Lake which played 52 international film festivals, winning Best Feature at over a dozen of these. It features Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan (Umbrella Academy), & Mary Beth Peil. His first feature film, air-drum cult comedy Adventures of Power, was called "One of the funniest films in recent years" by NY Magazine, and features Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Nick Kroll, and Adrian Grenier.
Ari has a dozen other film & TV projects in various stages of development, and also hosts a podcast about drumming called HotSticks, featuring some of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Ari’s most unusual distinctions include a High Times Magazine "Stoner of the Year" award (for his performance as a drug dealer in the rave film Groove), and a Guinness World Record for commanding the largest air-drum ensemble on earth. And yes, his name was “borrowed” by a TV show.
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Emmy-award winner Ben Tanzer's acclaimed work includes the short story collection UPSTATE, the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool. Ben is a storySouth and Pushcart nominee, a finalist for the Annual National Indie Excellence and Eric Hoffer Book Awards, a winner of the Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival Nonfiction Prose Award and a Midwest Book Award. He also received an Honorable Mention at the Chicago Writers Association Book Awards for Traditional Non-Fiction and a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. He's written for Hemispheres, Punk Planet, Men’s Health, and The Arrow, AARP’s GenX newsletter. His forthcoming novel The Missing will be released in Spring 2024 by 7.13 Books. He lives in Chicago with his family.
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Beatriz Seelaender is a Brazilian writer from São Paulo, Brazil. Traces of her writing can be found all over the internet, especially if you follow her on Twitter (biaseelaender) or instagram (slanderdawg). Her award-winning novella, "All According to Norm", will be out later this year and can be pre-ordered on the Black Spring Press website.
Recent poetry: https://www.litmoralitmag.com/beatriz-seelaender-three-pieces
Fiction about music: https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/cagibilit.com/music-for-the-people-in-the-shadows/amp/https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/cagibilit.com/i-hate-you-more-than-i-love-you/amp/
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Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His published works include the dark fiction collection Pre-Approved for Haunting, the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost and Turn, as well as the novelette Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare. His forthcoming works include the themed short-story collection The Children's Horror and the sci-fi/horror novel Abducted. Visit him at http://patrickbarb.com.
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Joshua Bohnsack‘s work has appeared in The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Salt Hill, AGNI, SAND, Lit Hub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Essay Daily, and others.
He is the founding editor of Long Day Press, a hand-bound chapbook publisher, faculty advisor of Oyez Review, and teaches at Roosevelt University’s MFA in creative writing program. He received an MFA in creative writing at Northwestern University and a BA at the University of Iowa. Previously he served as the managing editor for TriQuarterly, editorial assistant at Dalkey Archive Press, and managing editor of Curbside Splendor Publishing.
He grew up on a farm and ran an ice cream shop in rural Illinois until he moved to Chicago. In addition to writing & publishing, he is a printmaker and makes music, currently with the Iowa country band Gold Dust.
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Brian Allen Carr is an American writer. He is the author of the short story collection Short Bus and was the winner of the inaugural Texas Observer Story Prize as judged by Larry McMurtry in 2011. Carr was also a finalist for the 2011 Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for First Fiction.
His latest book, Bad Foundations, just came out from CLASH books. It’s a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life is falling apart. S.A. Cosby described the novel as “a raw and ferocious journey into the heart of the working class.”
It’s dedicated to Taylor Swift…
For Taylor Swift
My kids will probably spend my royaltieson your merch, so I might as welldedicate the whole book to you.
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Brianna Malotke is a writer based in the PNW. In addition to being a member and on the Social Media team for the Horror Writers Association, she’s also co-chair of the Seattle Chapter. Her most recent horror work can be found in Dark Town, Lost Souls, _and _The Nottingham Horror Collective. She has horrifying poems and short stories in the anthologies Beautiful Tragedies 2 and 3, The Dire Circle, Out of Time, Their Ghoulish Reputation, Holiday Leftovers, and Under Her Skin. In August 2023, her debut horror poetry collection, Fashion Trends, Deadly Ends, was released by Green Avenue Books. Her romance novella series, Sugar & Steam, will have its third book released February 2024 and is written under the pen name of “Tori Fields.” During 2023 she was a “Writer in Residence” at the Chateau d’Orquevaux in France. For more malotkewrites.com
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Kyler Bingham Is a writer, educator, and proud dog dad. He lives in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake Dirt is a literary and film zine, podcast & radio show hosted by Kyler Bingham. Salt Lake Dirt airs on KPCR 92.9FM every Monday at 6:00pm PST in Los Gatos, CA.
You can listen to the show on all podcast platforms and follow the instagram: @saltlakedirt
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Scott Mitchel May is a writer living in Madison, WI. His short fiction has been published in many literary journals including The Maryland Literary Review, HAD, W&S, Maudlin House, Bending Genres, and Rejection Letters.
He was the winner of the 2019 UW-Madison Writers' Institute Poem or Page Competition in the category of literary fiction, and his unpublished novel, Bridgeport Nowhere, was shortlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers' Project Literary Award.
His debut novel, Breakneck: or, it happened once in America, was published by Anxiety Press in late April 2023. He is also the author of the novelette, All Burn Down, forthcoming in October 2023 from Emerge Press, and his second novel Awful People: a ghost story is coming in early 2024 from Death of Print Books.
He holds a GED from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a BS in English Literature from Edgewood College. He tweets @smitchelmay.
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Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His published works include the dark fiction collection Pre-Approved for Haunting, the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost and Turn, as well as the novelette Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare. His forthcoming works include the themed short-story collection The Children's Horror and the sci-fi/horror novel Abducted. Visit him at patrickbarb.com.
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Wilson Koewing is a writer from South Carolina. His debut story collection "Jaded" is available from Main Street Rag/Mint Hill Books. Click HERE to purchase. You can read an interview where Wilson discusses the writing of JADED at Bull Magazine HERE. His second book, QUASI, is available from Anxiety Press. Click HERE to purchase.
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Sarah Edmonds is a queer author and filmmaker from southeastern Pennsylvania who currently serves as video poetry editor for the West Trade Review and as Editor-in-Chief of For Page & Screen Magazine. Their films have been featured in several international festivals and their writing has been published by, or is forthcoming with, Wolfsinger Publication's Us/Them Anthology, Ethel Zine, the West Trade Review, _Decoded: Pride Anthology, _and Black Spot Books' _Under Her Eye _poetry showcase, among others.
You can get their novella from Thirty West and be sure to use the discount code "20RECORDSPIN" when checking out for a 20% off discount: https://www.thirtywestph.com/shop/fullmoonrecords
Sarah also run's this zine: https://forpageandscreen.home.blog
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Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and spooky stories, hailing from the southern United States and currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) with his wife two kids, and a naughty (but lovable) puppy in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As a writer, his short fiction appears in Nightscript, Diabolical Plots, and Cosmic Horror Monthly, among other publications. His longer works include the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost (Grey Matter Press), Turn (Alien Buddha Press), and The Nut House (serialized in Cosmic Horror Monthly), the novelette Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare (Spooky House Press), and his debut dark fiction collection Pre-Approved for Haunting (Keylight Books/Turner Publishing). Barb is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and a Full Member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
Patrick's Twitter: @pbarb
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Austin Ross is the author of the forthcoming novel Gloria Patri, out August 22 from Malarkey Books. His work has appeared in Literary Hub and elsewhere. He lives just outside Washington, DC, with his family.
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Sarah Edmonds is a queer author and filmmaker from southeastern Pennsylvania who currently serves as video poetry editor for the West Trade Review and as Editor-in-Chief of For Page & Screen Magazine. Their films have been featured in several international festivals and their writing has been published by, or is forthcoming with, Wolfsinger Publication's Us/Them Anthology, Ethel Zine, the West Trade Review, _Decoded: Pride Anthology, _and Black Spot Books' _Under Her Eye _poetry showcase, among others.
You can get their novella from Thirty West and be sure to use the discount code "20RECORDSPIN" when checking out for a 20% off discount: https://www.thirtywestph.com/shop/fullmoonrecords
Sarah also run's this zine: https://forpageandscreen.home.blog
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Caleb Bethea is a writer from the Southeast. He's an MFA at the University of South Carolina and works as a copywriter. The best of his time - by far - is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. Catch his work in Maudlin House, HAD, Twin Pies, hex, Autofocus, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter at @caleb_bethea_
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Nick Gregorio is a husband, writer, teacher, dog-dad, punk, nerd, teeth-grinder, and mall-walker living and writing just outside of Philadelphia. He is the author of five books, and his work has appeared in many print and online journals. He earned his MFA from Arcadia University in 2015, and his second novel, Launch Me to the Stars, I'm Finished Here, was released from Trident Press during the summer of 2023.
He can be found at: http://nickgregorio.com Instagram: @mister__nick Twitter: @mister_nick_ Linktree: MisterNick
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Dennis James Sweeney is the author of You’re the Woods Too (Essay Press, 2023) and In the Antarctic Circle (Autumn House Press, 2021), as well as several chapbooks of poetry and prose, including Ghost/Home: A Beginner's Guide to Being Haunted (Ricochet Editions, 2020). Formerly a Small Press Editor of Entropy and Assistant Editor of Denver Quarterly, he has an MFA from Oregon State University and a PhD from the University of Denver. Originally from Cincinnati, he lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches at Amherst College.
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Jessamyn Violet has worn countless different hats and hairstyles. She is or has been, at one time, sometimes, or all the time, the following: A writer, a heavy dreamer, a drummer, a poet, a producer, an actor, a director, an editor, a pianist, a photographer, a journalist, a stand-up comedian, a front woman, a hiker, a biker, a rockstar, a rebel, a really nice girl you can take home to the parents, a feminist, a DJ, a teenager with an “attitude problem,” a singer/songwriter, a bartender, a humorist.
Music: Originally from Boston, MA, Jessamyn began to study classical piano and music theory at the age of 8 and went on to perform Chopin at Steinway in New York City at the age of 18. A few years later, while writing a book about musicians, she was inspired to start drumming. Now she’s worked with legendary musicians in all types of settings—studios, shows, tours and festivals. Some of the significantly awesome people she’s worked with include Tony Berg, Bob Clearmountain, Rami Jaffee, Jessy Green, Eva Gardner, Tim Lefebvre, Jesus Coomes, and Kii Arens.
Writing: Jessamyn Violet is a writer and drummer living in Venice Beach, CA. Originally from Massachusetts, she graduated with a BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College. She went on to earn an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. Her poetry book “Organ Thieves” was published by Gauss PDF. She’s placed short fiction in 805 Art + Lit, Adelaide, Little Break and Three Elements. Her debut novel Secret Rules to Being a Rockstar is out now..
Acting/Production: Jessamyn studied acting with Joe Palese (The Actor’s Space) in Los Angeles for years, going on to be cast in all different types of projects. She’s been in short films, commercials and music videos as well as worked behind the scenes as part of the crew, with a passion for producing, directing and editing music videos. You can view her IMDB page here.
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Scout Tafoya is a prolific director, author, and critic from Doylestown, PA. He's directed 30 feature films, published two books about filmmaking and his work has been featured in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Film Comment, and Nylon Magazine among other publications.
Check out Scout's work:
https://www.withanxbooks.com/but-god-made-him-a-poet https://www.patreon.com/honorszombie letterboxd.com/honorszombie
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Scout Tafoya is a prolific director, author, and critic from Doylestown, PA. He's directed 30 feature films, published two books about filmmaking and his work has been featured in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Film Comment, and Nylon Magazine among other publications.
Check out Scout's work:
https://www.withanxbooks.com/but-god-made-him-a-poet https://www.patreon.com/honorszombie letterboxd.com/honorszombie
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Drew Buxton is a writer and social worker from Texas. His short story collection So Much Heart is available for preorder now from With an X Books. His work has been featured in The Drift, Joyland, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, and Vice among other publications. Find him at drewbuxton.com.
Check out other With an X Books here: www.withanxbooks.com
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Drew Buxton is a writer and social worker from Texas. His short story collection So Much Heart is available for preorder now from With an X Books. His work has been featured in The Drift,Joyland, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, and Vice among other publications. Find him at drewbuxton.com.
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Dennis James Sweeney is the author of You're the Woods Too, In the Antarctic Circle, and chapbooks including Ghost/Home: A Beginner's Guide to Being Haunted. He lives with his family in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. He graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993.
He drove a cab—first in Boston, then after a time, in Chicago— which led to the publication of his illustrated work memoirs Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and second cabbie book from a press not worth mentioning.
He has designed and published five books since.
He writes dog portraits and paints book reviews in Chicago, Illinois.
You can see more of his work than you'd ever want to at dmitrysamarov.com.
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Josh Dale is a cat-loving, native Pennsylvanian. He hopes you listen to this podcast outdoors and away from society. www.joshdale.co
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Jessamyn Violet is a writer and drummer living in Venice Beach, CA. Originally from Massachusetts, she graduated with a BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College. She went on to earn an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. Her poetry book “Organ Thieves” was published by Gauss PDF. She’s placed short fiction in 805 Art + Lit, Adelaide, Little Break and Three Elements. Her debut novel Secret Rules to Being a Rockstar is forthcoming from Three Rooms Press in April 2023.
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Austin Ross is the author of the forthcoming novel Gloria Patri, out August 22 from Malarkey Books. His work has appeared in Literary Hub and elsewhere. He lives just outside Washington, DC, with his family.
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Matthew Binder is the author of the novels Pure Cosmos Club, The Absolved, and High in the Streets. He's also a primary member of the recording project Bang Bang Jet Away.
Spotify: Bang Bang Jet AwayIG: matthew_p_binderTwitter: @mbinder711
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Scott Mitchel May is a writer living in Madison, WI. His short fiction has been published in many literary journals including The Maryland Literary Review, HAD, W&S, Maudlin House, Bending Genres, and The Metaworker. He was the winner of the 2019 UW-Madison Writers' Institute Poem or Page Competition in the category of literary fiction, and his unpublished novel, Bridgeport Nowhere, was shortlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers' Project Literary Award. His debut novel, Breakneck: or, it happened once in America, was published by Anxiety Press in late April 2023. He is also the author of the novelette, All Burn Down, forthcoming in October 2023 from Emerge Press, and his second novel Awful People: a ghost story is coming in early 2024 from Death of Print Books. He holds a GED from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a BS in English Literature from Edgewood College. He tweets @smitchelmay
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Matthew Binder is the author of the novels Pure Cosmos Club, The Absolved, and High in the Streets. He's also a primary member of the recording project Bang Bang Jet Away.
https://www.matthewbinder.net/
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Caleb Bethea is a writer from the Southeast. He earned his MFA at the University of South Carolina and works as a copywriter. But, the best of his time - by far - is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. Catch his work in Maudlin House, HAD, Twin Pies, hex, Autofocus, Rejection Letters, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter at @caleb_bethea_or find his other work on his Linktree: https://linktr.ee/caleb_bethea_
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Sean McCallum lives outside of Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children. The Recalcitrant Stuff of Life is his debut novel.
Be sure to check out his website: https://www.seanmccallum.com/
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John Cotter is the author of the memoir Losing Music, published by _Milkweeds Edition_s, portions of which have appeared in Raritan, Catapult, Indiana Review, and Guernica. His novel, Under the Small Lights, was published by Miami University Press in 2010, and his fiction, essays, criticism, and theater pieces have appeared–or will soon– in New England Review, Epoch, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Georgia Review, Adroit, The New York Times, and_ Commonweal_.
John has worked as a theater director, ghostwriter, trash collector, copy editor, and teacher of environmental ethics, English literature, and history. From 2009 – 2017 he was Executive Editor at the arts and review site Open Letters Monthly. In 2018 he was Artist in Residence at SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine; in 2022 he was a resident fellow at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. He lives in New England with his wife, the poet Elisa Gabbert, and teaches at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
contact: john@johncotter.net
Represented by Noah Ballard at Verve Talent & Literary: NBallard@vervetla.com
twitter: @smalllights
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Nick Gregorio is a husband, writer, teacher, dog-dad, punk, nerd, teeth-grinder, and mall-walker living and writing just outside of Philadelphia. He is the author of five books, and his work has appeared in many print and online journals. He earned his MFA from Arcadia University in 2015, and his second novel, Launch Me to the Stars, I'm Finished Here, is forthcoming from Trident Press in the summer of 2023.
He can be found at: http://nickgregorio.comInstagram: @mister__nickTwitter: @mister_nick_Linktree: MisterNick
Be sure to keep an eye out for Launch Me to the Stars, I’m Finished Here: A Novel (June 2023) from Trident Press, and use the code: TRIDENTPRESS when checking out for a 10% discount.
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Christina Quay is a florist, artist, and mother when she isn't writing books with her partner Chase. She graduated from the University of South Florida where she studied Journalism and Spanish Language. She resides in Florida with her family where she dreams of a climate that isn't quite so...red.
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Kirsti MacKenzie has published in HAD, trampset, Identity Theory, and Rejection Letters. She studied creative writing at Humber College and Memorial University but learned the most from bathroom graffiti in dive bars. She lives in Ottawa and can be found perpetually on her bullshit @KeersteeMack.
You can check out her most recent short story, All Fucked Up On Shell Bras, on Maudlin House.
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Join Mallory Smart as she discusses all things music & writing with some of the coolest people in the lit world. Listen to her and her guests go wild about their musical influences, fav genres, and how it all goes back into how they write.
Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts(or anywhere you listen to podcasts)
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Claire Hopple is the author of five books. Her fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Peach Mag, Forever Mag, and others. She grew up in the woods of Western PA and currently lives in Asheville, NC. More at clairehopple.com.
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Kyle Seibel is a writer in Santa Barbara CA. His work has been featured in Joyland Magazine, New World Writing, and Wigleaf. He is represented by Christopher Schelling of Selectric Artists and his debut collection of short fiction is currently looking for a publisher. Follow him on Twitter @kylerseibel. He's been getting a lot better lately.
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Kirsti MacKenzie has published in HAD, trampset, Identity Theory, and Rejection Letters. She studied creative writing at Humber College and Memorial University but learned the most from bathroom graffiti in dive bars. She lives in Ottawa and can be found perpetually on her bullshit @KeersteeMack.
You can check out her most recent short story, All Fucked Up On Shell Bras, on Maudlin House.
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AUG STONE is a writer, musician, & comedian. Author of the comedy novels The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass and Off-License To Kill, as well as the memoir _Nick Cave’s Bar, _his journalism has appeared in The Quietus, The Comics Journal, Under The Radar, and many more sites and magazines. Aug was a founding member of H Bird and The Soft Close-Ups, and has played in countless other bands. He performs comedy as absurdist stream-of-consciousness raconteur, Young Southpaw.
His Twitter is @AugStone and his website is: http://www.augstone.com/
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AUG STONE is a writer, musician, & comedian. Author of the comedy novels The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass and Off-License To Kill, as well as the memoir _Nick Cave’s Bar, _his journalism has appeared in The Quietus, The Comics Journal, Under The Radar, and many more sites and magazines. Aug was a founding member of H Bird and The Soft Close-Ups, and has played in countless other bands. He performs comedy as absurdist stream-of-consciousness raconteur, Young Southpaw.
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Scott Laudati lives in Brooklyn with his bo-chi, Josie. He is the author of Play The Devil (novel) and Camp Winapooka (poems). His poetry and short stories have been published by Columbia University, X-R-A-Y, University of Chicago, Hobart, and many others. Visit him anywhere @ScottLaudati
On a side note: his favorite Jack Kerouac book is On The Road…
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Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and Editor-in-Chief of the indie press, Maudlin House. She talks about music and literature on the podcast, Textual Healing, and about horror movies on her podcast,That Horrorcast. Her novel, The Only Living Girl In Chicago, just came out from Trident Press in August 2021. Her hybrid short story collection, THE WRITER, came out on December 31st 2022,
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Caleb Bethea is an MFA at UofSC, studying fiction by night. By day, he works as a copywriter. But, the best of his time is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. You can read his work in HAD, Maudlin House, Autofocus, Twin Pies, Bending Genres, hex, and elsewhere. He tweets at @caleb_bethea_
Check out his writing here: https://linktr.ee/caleb_bethea_
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A former high school English teacher, Michael Paul Kozlowsky is the author of the upcoming literary novel SCARECROW HAS A GUN from Imbrifex Books. Writing as M.P. Kozlowsky, he is the author of the YA novel FROST, and three middle-grade books - JUNIPER BERRY, ROSE COFFIN, and THE DYERVILLE TALES. He lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.
Represented by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory.
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Michael Paul Kozlowsky is the author of the literary thriller SCARECROW HAS A GUN. Writing as M.P. Kozlowsky, his children's novels include JUNIPER BERRY, FROST, ROSE COFFIN, and THE DYERVILLE TALES. He lives in New York with his wife, two daughters, and beagle Huxley. He can be reached on Instagram and Twitter @mpkozlowsky, or at his websitempkozlowsky.com.
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Caleb Bethea is a writer from the Southeast. He's an MFA at the University of South Carolina and works as a copywriter. The best of his time - by far - is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. Catch his work in Maudlin House, HAD, Bear Creek, Twin Pies, hex, Autofocus, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter at @caleb_bethea_
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Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After a false start at Parsons School of Design in New York, he graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993.
Upon graduation he promptly began driving a cab—first in Boston, then after a time, in Chicago— which eventually led to the publication of his illustrated work memoirs Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Where To? A Hack Memoir (Curbside Splendor, 2014).
Music to My Eyes (Tortoise Books, 2019) is his first non-cabbie-related book.
Soviet Stamps (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is the second.
All Hack (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is a summation of his cabbie-related work.
Old Style (Pictures&Blather, 2021) is his first work of fiction. He has exhibited his work in all manner of bars, coffee shops, libraries, and even the odd gallery (when he's really hard up.)
He writes dog portraits and paints book reviews in Chicago, Illinois.
You can see more of his work than you'd ever want to at dmitrysamarov.com.
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You can buy his new book, paint-by-numbers here: https://shop.dmitrysamarov.com/home/paint-by-numbers
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Bobby Miller is a writer and filmmaker from New Jersey who lives in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in Maudlin House, Expat Press, and Bending Genres. His films have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, and Fantasia. He's currently working on his first novel, and yes, has a Substack you should read: BobbyMiller.Substack.com
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Amy Long is the author of Codependence (2019), selected by Brian Blanchfield as the winner of CSU Poetry Center’s Essay Collection Prize. Her work has appeared in Diagram, Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review and elsewhere, including as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2019.
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J.D. O’Brien is the author of Zig Zag from__Schaffner Press. It comes out in January.
Description:
Capri Dall has a foolproof plan to knock over the marijuana dispensary where she works. But when her boyfriend botches the heist, the two of them end up in a stolen car with a trunkful of rare high-end weed--and an unhinged security guard on their trail.
Harry Robatore is a burned-out rhinestone cowboy, barely scraping by as a bail bondsman. Agreeing to help out an old pal, and settle his bar tab, he sets out to track down the lovers on the run. The chase begins in the San Fernando Valley and leads him deep into the heart of the Mojave Desert--building to an explosive showdown at a ghost town tourist trap.
Zig Zag is equal parts Elmore Leonard and Charles Portis--with Larry McMurtry's cowboy hat along for the ride.
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J.D. O’Brien was educated by nuns and holds a degree from the Jack Dempsey Bartending School in New York City. He edited the comedy zine Flop Sweat and his writing has appeared in Arthur Magazine, Dazed and Confused, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. His essay on Chevy Chase was anthologized in The Lowbrow Reader Reader, published by Drag City Books. He has worked as a bartender, cold caller, dishwasher, and Strand Bookstore employee. After stints in New York City, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon, he returned to his home of western Massachusetts. He has a dog named Lefty.
You can buy Zig Zag here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/zig-zag-j-d-o-brien/18619829?ean=9781639640133
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Joseph Fasano is an American poet, novelist, and songwriter. His novels include The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020). His books of poetry include The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). His debut album of original songs, The Wind that Knows the Way, is available wherever music is streamed or sold.
Fasano's honors include the Rattle Poetry Prize, the Cider Press Review Book Award, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, and a nomination for the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year." His work has been widely translated and anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 (Faber and Faber, 2022). He teaches at Columbia University and Manhattanville College.
The Swallows of Lunetto comes out on November 25th. Preorder a hardcover or paperback copy while they last!
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Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE ANCESTOR, SLOW DOWN, THE MENTORfrom St. Martin’s Press, THE DESIRE CARD, ORANGE CITY, and the Young Adult series RUNAWAY TRAIN and GRENADE BOUQUET. In this episode, he'll be reading from his book, Immoral Origins.
His books are in various stages of development for film/TV. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction that’s outside-of-the-box.
After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Writers Review, Cagibi, Necessary Fiction, Hypertext, If My Book, Past Ten, the anthology Dirty Boulevard, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Underwood Press and others. He is a contributor to Pipeline Artists.
His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. Lee is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series.
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This is a special edition episode where I am joined by C.E. Hoffman to talk about Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights. We geek out about our favorite tracks, dive deep into how Taylor has grown as an artist, admit that neither of us were "swifties", and attempt to figure out what kind of literature Taylor Swift might be into.
For those who don't know C.E. Hoffman:
C.E. Hoffman is a published writer from Canada. Sluts and Whores, their #OwnVoices Urban Fantasy debut, was released Feb 2021 by Thurston Howl Publications. They’ve edited the e-zine Visceral Uterus since 2012. Meanwhile, their novels incubate. Inspirations run from Edith Wharton to Martin Millar to Zadie Smith. C’s brain hosts tea parties for Haruki Murakami and C S Lewis. J D Salinger rants to Allen Ginsberg while Allen makes eyes at Irvine Welsh. Michelle Tea recites with Assata Shakur, Joy Harjo, and Saul Williams. Shakespeare’s always there, but he’s shy. So are the musicians. (MCR, Marianas Trench, The Hold Steady, Azealia Banks, Eminem, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meredith Wilson…) C devours books. Favourites of late: There There by Tommy Orange, Jack Wang’s We Two Alone, and Neil S Reddy’s forthcoming JubJub Juice. They’re psyched to read Second Bell by Gabriela Houston, whilst enjoying Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. C writes about magic, sex, and death. They hug trees, love cats, and clearly dig Taylor Swift's new album.
Website: https://cehoffman.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CEHoffman2
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Mason Parker is an Okie-born, Montana-based writer. He holds an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. His work has been featured in X-R-A-Y, Hobart, the International Journal of Wilderness, and BULL Men’s Fiction. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness with his partner and two dogs.
He just released the collection, Until the Red Swallows It All, from Trident Press.
You can find out more about him on his website: https://www.masonparker.net/
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You can find Mason on Twitter: @lowkey_okie
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Hillary Leftwich is the founder and owner of ☿ Alchemy Author Services & Writing Workshop and Community Coven, a community-based workshop. She lives in Denver where she hosts/organizes At the Inkwell Denver, a literary reading series focusing on providing a liberated space for writers. Hillary focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma, mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease.
Her memoir, Aura, was just released by Future Tense Books.
She recommends pairing this piece with From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea by The Cure.
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Ravi Mangla is the author ofThe Observant (Spuyten Duyvil) andUnderstudies (Outpost19). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction, Tin House Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY.
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Ravi Mangla is the author ofThe Observant (Spuyten Duyvil) and Understudies (Outpost19). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction, Tin House Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY.
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Jack Moody is a novelist and short story writer from wherever he happens to be at the time. He is the author of the novel Crooked Smile, the short story collection Dancing to Broken Records, and the forthcoming novella The Monotony of Everlasting, out October 1st, 2022 with Anxiety Press. He is a former staff writer for the literary magazine and podcast Brick Moon Fiction, and his work has appeared in multiple publications including Misery Tourism, Maudlin House, Punk Noir Magazine, Scatter of Ashes, Paper and Ink Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Bear Creek Gazette, and The Saturday Evening Post. He didn't go to college.
In this very wild episode, we talk about weird celebrity encounters, Taylor Swift, 9/11, and The Monotony of Everlasting.
It takes us 20 minutes to get to these topics because we go on a strange horror movie tangent but when we get to music and literature it gets very rad!
You can hit up his Twitter: jack_is_moody
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His website: https://linktr.ee/jackmoody
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Jack Moody is a novelist and short story writer from wherever he happens to be at the time. He is the author of the novel Crooked Smile, the short story collection Dancing to Broken Records, and the forthcoming novella The Monotony of Everlasting, out October 1st, 2022 with Anxiety Press. He is a former staff writer for the literary magazine and podcast Brick Moon Fiction, and his work has appeared in multiple publications including Expat Press, Misery Tourism, Maudlin House, Punk Noir Magazine, Scatter of Ashes, Paper and Ink Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Bear Creek Gazette, and The Saturday Evening Post. He didn't go to college.
Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press/The Accomplices 2019). Her hybrid poetry and CNF collection, Saint Dymphna’s Playbook, is forthcoming from PANK Books in 2023. She is the founder and owner of Alchemy Author Services & Workshop, teaches at Lighthouse Writers, and is a creative writing professor at the University of Denver and an assistant creative writing professor at Colorado College. She focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma, mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease. She is an intuitive Tarologist and has been reading Tarot for over 25 years coupled with her clair abilities and studies under several well-known psychic medium mentors. She teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities as well as writing. She lives in Denver with her partner, son, and a cat named Larry.
Her latest book, Aura, just came out from Future Tense Books. Aura is more than a memoir— it’s a spellbook for survival, a powerful promise from mother to son, and an intimate examination of power, spirituality, and the abuse of both. Leftwich weaves together the stories of her life to create startlingly raw memories that are both personal and profoundly universal. She explores the devastating impact of patriarchy in her own life while searching for answers in witchcraft, womanhood, and motherhood. Urgently portrayed and deeply felt, Aura is a complex tapestry of letters, spells, and memories. Her story is a vivid confrontation against an unforgiving world that traps women and children in the systems meant to save them. This is a story for seekers, searchers, and anyone in the process of saving themselves and their loved ones.
To get to know Hillary more, go to her Twitter: @HillaryLeftwich
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Check out her website: https://hillaryleftwich.wordpress.com/
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C E Hoffman (they/them) was born, gave birth, and tried to die in Edmonton, AB (not necessarily in that order.) A grant recipient, Writer’s Union of Canada member, and winner of the 2022 Defunct May Day Chapbook contest, they’ve been published widely online and in print since 2010, and edited Punk Monk Magazine since 2012.
Their #OwnVoices short story collection SLUTS AND WHORES is available via Thurston Howl Publications, their chapbook BLOOD, BOOZE, AND OTHER THINGS IN NATURE is out from Alien Buddha Press, and Bottlecap Press just released their second poetry chapbook, GHOSTS, TROLLS, AND OTHER THINGS ON THE INTERNET. Find more weirdness at cehoffman.net and follow them on Twitter @CEHoffman2.
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Kevin Sampsell is an American writer living in Portland, Oregon. He has worked at Powell's Book Store since 1998 as an events coordinator and the head of the small press section. His memoir, A Common Pornography, was published by Harper Perennial in January 2010.
His latest book, I Made an Accident: Collages and Poems, just came out from Clash Books.
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Be sure to check out past episodes and future ones every other Saturday. Textual Healing also has new micro-episodes called "Off The Record" that will appear every Saturday where there aren't full-length author interviews. The next "Off The Record" episode will feature C E Hoffman reading an excerpt from their new chapbook, Ghost, Trolls, And Other Things On The Internet.
Scott Mitchel May is a writer living with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin. His work has appeared in Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, The Bear Creek Gazette, The Maryland Literary Review, Bending Genres, and many more. He was the winner of the 2019 Poem or Page Contest at the UW Writers' Conference in the category of Literary Fiction. His debut collection of short fiction, DeKalb, Illinois is a Paradise What Eats its Own, was published by Alien Buddha in 2022. He works as an administrator for The Only in Wisconsin Giving Foundation where he coordinates grants for non-profits doing work in the areas of childhood education, healthcare, domestic violence emergency sheltering, and hunger relief. Scott holds a GED from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a BS in Literature from Edgewood College.
In this episode, we do our best to just talk about Austin’s new book and how music plays into it! But in the classic Textual Healing style, we get into very weird tangents. Cover bands. Four Lokos. Painting Nails. Taylor Swift. Fun playlist ideas. Everything.
Austin Davis is a poet and activist. He is the founder AZ Hugs For the Houseless. Austin is the author of LOTUS & THE APOCALYPSE, among other books. His writing has been widely published in dozens of literary journals and magazines including Pif Magazine, After the Pause, Philosophical Idiot, Soft Cartel, and Collective Unrest.
You can find Austin on Twitter @Austin_Davis17 and on Instagram @austinwdavis1.
Here is his website: https://msha.ke/austindavis/
Check out articles about his activism and writing on
LitHub: https://lithub.com/poetry-is-a-form-of-love-austin-davis-on-bridging-art-and-activism-with-az-hugs-for-the-houseless/
NPR: https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2022-03-03/poet-austin-davis-finds-solace-in-art-with-lotus-the-apocalypse
Maudlin House: https://maudlinhouse.net/circles-and-self-care-an-interview-with-austin-davis-about-lotus-the-apocalypse/
SODA & TELEPATHS: https://sodaandtelepaths.com/austin-davis-lotus-the-apocalypse/
There were a few times when our mics got cut off and we had to restart certain parts of our conversation. Only one of those times is left in the episode for the sake of context. Taylor Swift context.
"Off The Record" is a new micro-segment of Textual Healing. Authors on the show get to pair some of their writing with music that they think matches it best.
Francis Daulerio is a poet and teacher from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University in 2014 before releasing If & When We Wake (Unsolicited Press 2015) and _Please Plant This Book_ (The Head & The Hand Press 2018), both with illustrations by Scottish artist, Scott Hutchison. Francis has also released All Is Not Lost, a collaborative vinyl EP of poetry-infused music to benefit the Tiny Changes charity organization, and With a Difference(Trident Boulder 2020), a split book of ‘covers’ with Philadelphia author Nick Gregorio. Francis is a mental health awareness advocate, and has performed across the United States and abroad to raise money for suicide prevention.
He just released a full-length poetry collection called Joy from Unsolicited Press.
You can check out his website: https://francisdaulerio.com/
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His Twitter: @FDWrites
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Nada Alic is a writer in Los Angeles. Her debut story collection BAD THOUGHTS is out July 12, 2022 (Vintage).
From 2014-2016 she collaborated with artist, Andrea Nakhla on an art and fiction book series called “Future You,” featured in Urban Outfitters, Cool Hunting, The Rumpus and elsewhere. In 2019, her short story, “The Intruder” was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. That summer, Nada attended the Banff Centre for the Arts writing residency. In 2020, She received a literary grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Previously, Nada was an editorial director and community manager for brands such as Etsy, Society6, Gap Inc and Athleta. For nearly a decade, she championed independent artists by creating opportunities to help them grow. Through education and partnerships with non-profits like Planned Parenthood, Girlschool and PS ARTS, she advocated for the growth, well-being and recognition of artists from all disciplines.
You can find out more about her work on her website: http://www.nadaalic.com/
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Bud Smith works heavy construction and lives in Jersey City, NJ. He is the author of Teenager (Vintage, 2022), Double Bird (Maudlin House, 2018), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press, 2017), among others. His wife Rae Buleri is behind the illustrations in Teenager. You can find her on Instagram @raewatch.
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Graham Irvin is a writer who lives in Philadelphia. He was born in North Carolina. He is the author of Liver Mush, from Back Patio Press. And he tweets weird things @grahamjirvin._ _
In this episode, we talk about his book, Liver Mush, the fact that it's a real thing that you eat, coffee, awkward social interactions, AWP, the last concerts we’ve gone to, and what our signs are. For those randomly interested, I'm a Virgo...
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Tobias Carroll is the author of three books: one novel, one story collection, and one work of nonfiction.
His most recent book, Political Sign, was published by Bloomsbury as part of the Object Lessonsseries in 2020. Prior to that came a collection of short stories, Transitory, and a novel, Reel, on Rare Bird Books.
His second novel, Ex-Members, will be released by Astrophil Press on June 15, 2022.
He also is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn and writes the Watchlist column for Words Without Borders. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram and Patreon.
Scott Mitchel May is a guy doing things like writing and skating and going to therapy and working and submitting and also too he enjoys reading and cooking and classic cars (but in a vague way where he's never owned a classic car) and punk rock and hardcore hip-hop. He loves his wife.
In this episode, we talk about musical genres and all the different elements that make them what they are, weird things that are overrated and underrated, Scott’s writing, and how psyched I was to finally interview someone who likes Frank Turner.
Be sure to check out his website: https://www.scottmitchelmay.com/
Grab a copy of his book, DeKalb, Illinois is a Paradise What Eats Its Own: a collection of short stories from his site or on Amazon.
In this episode, I got a chance to get to know first-time author, Amy Klinger. Amy just came out with the book, In Light Of Recent Events. It's a book about life, love, music, and work in the 1990s.
In the 1990s American workplace, survival of the fittest is sometimes less about clawing your way to the top than developing good camouflage. And Audrey Rohmer is doing her very best to blend in as an undistinguished middle manager. Uninspired by her job and uneasy about her father's new marriage, Audrey coasts through the workweek leaning on her “partner in apathy” – an admin assistant named Pooter – to keep her relationship with the married head of her department from becoming water cooler gossip.
Amy made a playlist for In Light Of Recent Events available on Spotify and Apple Music. You can read about it and find the links to it here: https://amyklinger.com/the-ilore-playlist/
In this episode, I got a chance to chat with one of my favorite writers: Wilson Koewing
Wilson is a writer from South Carolina. His work is featured in publications like X-R-A-Y, New World Writing, Maudlin House, No Contact, Wigleaf, and Hobart. His memoir "Bridges" is forthcoming from Bull City Press.
Listen to hear us talk about his crazy writing process, Foo Fighters, what music he liked in his formative years, the mystery of Weezer, presidential campaign songs and so many other random but literary-related things.
You can check out his writing at: https://www.wilsonkoewing.com/
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In this episode we talk about Lee Matthew Goldberg’s new book, Vanish Me, 90’s grunge music, Heathers, Pete Davidson, SNL, public transit, his next projects, and what it's like to have your book optioned.
Fun fact: this was recorded before the Russian/Ukraine War. Ignore our prediction that the extreme negative world events in our lifetime are slowly coming to an end and won't pop back up until global warming kills us all…
Fun fact #2: this is the last podcast I recorded before I had sinus surgery. So there is a little heavy breathing on my end 😂
Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE ANCESTOR, SLOW DOWN, THE MENTORfrom St. Martin’s Press, THE DESIRE CARD, ORANGE CITY, and the Young Adult series RUNAWAY TRAIN and GRENADE BOUQUETS.
His books are in various stages of development for film/TV. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction that’s outside-of-the-box.
After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Writers Review, Cagibi, Necessary Fiction, Hypertext, If My Book, Past Ten, the anthology Dirty Boulevard, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Underwood Press and others. He is a contributor to Pipeline Artists.
His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay contests.
Lee is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. Follow him on Twitter Facebook Instagram
In this episode, I got a chance to catch up with Sean McCallum. Sean lives outside of Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children. He just came out with his debut novel, The Recalcitrant Stuff of Life. It's published by Outcast Press and is available to buy on Amazon. To find out more about Sean, check out his website: https://www.seanmccallum.com/. He is also on Twitter @Sean42McCallum.
We talk about his book, traveling, obscure Canadian music, best concert experiences, and my favorite: dumpster diving. I also dish on what books inspired me to make this podcast and we discuss the best way to share a soundtrack for a book.
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Mike Keren is a clinical psychologist with advanced training in psychoanalysis and family therapy. He currently maintains a private practice with adults and couples in central New Jersey, although in the past he has worked in a variety of community and correctional facilities. Although he has a general practice he has a particular interest in working with caregivers as well as helping families talk about end of life issues.
Mike enjoys a challenge in his free time and has explored the world of competitive gay tournament bowling (several trophies and a bit of prize money), golf (bored to tears) as well as stand-up comedy. His foray into stand-up comedy even became the subject of a friend’s senior thesis at film school.
Mike worked the open mic and bar comedy scene for several years but decided to leave the stage to the younger folks. He decided then to channel his humor into creative writing. If you are reading this paragraph you are holding his first book in your hands. It's called, Four Funerals, No Marriage: A Memoir.
Mike is supported in his endeavors by his loving husband, Tom, and their two canine children, Carley and Clyde. They divide their time between central New Jersey and the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
Bobby Miller is a writer + filmmaker known for making genre-bending comedies. His short film TUB and feature debut THE CLEANSE add horror and fantasy to the mix. The films’ world premiered at Sundance and SXSW and have screened at film festivals worldwide.
THE CLEANSE was released in theaters by Sony Pictures in 2018 and made RottenTomatoes Top 10 Best-reviewed horror films of 2018 list. It also earned several Fangoria award nominations including “Best First Feature”. He followed it up with directing, and executive-producing CRITTERS ATTACK, a reboot of the cult horror/comedy franchise, for Warner Brothers Home Video & SY FY in 2019.
Shortly before that, he wrote/directed the comedy short film: END TIMES, which played Fantastic Fest, Fantasia, and film festivals worldwide, winning several awards and premiering online as a Vimeo Staff Pick.
He's also written for animated television shows such as SUMMER CAMP ISLAND for Cartoon Network and STAR VS THE FORCES OF EVIL for Disney TV. Outside of his Film/TV work, he's been a digital comedy producer for places like BuzzFeed, SuperDeluxe, MTV, SoulPancake, and Google. He’s currently writing his first novel.
Christina Rosso-Schneider lives and writes outside of Philadelphia with her rescue pup, Atticus Finch, and bearded husband, Alex, where they run an independent bookstore and event space called A Novel Idea on Passyunk. In 2016, she received an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from Arcadia University in 2016. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE (Maudlin House) and SHE IS A BEAST (APEP Publications). Her fiction and nonfiction work centers around gender, sexuality, fairy tales, and the occult, and has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. When she isn’t writing or working at the bookstore, she leads various writing and occult-based workshops. Check out the events page to get information on upcoming readings and workshops.
In this episode, I got a chance to speak with KKUURTT.
KKUURRTT is a fiction/comedy writer who has once been described (by someone he dislikes) as having panache. His debut novel Good at Drugs is out now on Back Patio Press. It, like most(?) of his writing, delves into music subculture, which is what made him a perfect (in his opinion) podcast guest for Textual Healing.
We kind of get into everything in this episode. Raves, jam bands, fake names, and so much more...
You can find KKUURRTT on Twitter @wwwkurtcom or on Neautral Spaces. Check out his book, Good At Drugs, from Back Patio Press.
In this episode, I got a chance to speak with Duncan Birmingham.
Duncan Birmingham is a writer living in Los Angeles. He has worked on Maron on IFC. He also wrote and was co-executive producer for Blunt Talk. In 2021, he released a short story collection, The Cult in My Garage from Maudlin House.
We talk about his latest projects, LA, jam bands, the music he’d put on a playlist for The Cult In My Garage, and first concerts.
In this episode, I got a chance to speak with Jessie Lynn McMains.
Jessie is a cross-genre writer, punk poet, small press publisher, and spoken word performer. Their latest work includes Self-Portrait With Ghost And Trains from Hello America Stereo Cassette and Wisconsin Death Trip from Bone and Ink Press.
We talk about books, riot grrl music, the new Matrix movie, what the difference is between folk and country music, payphones and so much more.
Find out more info about Jessie at recklesschants.net.
Emilly Giselle Prado is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. As an award-winning multimedia journalist, Emilly spent half a decade independently reporting on a wide range of topics, most often centered on amplifying the voices and experiences of people from historically marginalized communities. Her writing and photographs have appeared or are forthcoming in more than 30 publications including NPR, Marie Claire, Bitch Media, Eater, Electric Literature, The Oregonian, and Remezcla.
Emilly is the author ofFuneral for Flaca (Future Tense Books, 2021), a memoir-in-essays called, “Utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” by Ms. Magazine, and Examining Assimilation (Enslow, 2019), a youth non-fiction title at the intersections of identity and society. She is a Tin House and Las Dos Brujas Workshop alumna, Blackburn Fellow and MFA Candidate at Randolph College and a co-founder of Portland in Color. She also moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017.
Originally I wanted to name this episode Strongbox but realized that few people would get the reference. Luckily, Spencer did as I explained getting almost shut out of my building by a neighbor as I was rushing inside to make it in time to do the interview because I gambled that I grab coffee and be back within 10 minutes (I made it). After we laughed about that for a while we got into some pretty random but fun conversation about what kind of music he's into, Gen X, his new book, and how he's pro-Steely Dan (another one).
A bit more about Spencer though: He has worked as a sailor, copywriter, economics professor, and record store clerk, among other disreputable professions. He was born in the Detroit suburbs, spent most of his life in Florida, and now lives in San Francisco. His first novel, How I’m Spending My Afterlife, will be published by Woodhall Press in September 2021.
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In this wildly fun episode, I interview Jeff Schnieder. Jeff is a writer, founder of Pig Roast Publishing, and the former guitarist and songwriter of the noise-rock bands Arab On Radar and Made in Mexico.
We get pretty into 90’s music and talking about the major genres of the time, different generations, weird stories about his old band Arab On Radar, and how he went from a badass musician to a badass writer.
This is a pretty chill episode. Blake Wallin comes on and about his latest book, Papal Glow, amongst other things. We get into religion, politics, music, and how anxiety-inducing it is to be a millennial. But of course, we do our best to stick to music and what the book is about.
Papal Glow is the time between centuries, that little dust mote trailing in the sun's glare between folds of the partition that separates the public from true knowledge. It is the preventative strain keeping the powers-that-be at bay while the world swirls by unnoticed. This glow imbues a young boy named Leo, who must use the papacy to divide the time between those centuries, speed up modernity at the very beginning of the 19th century, and oppose the ever-growing reign of Napoleon. But as Leo grows into his papal role, the lines between what Leo wants and can achieve grow smaller as well, until Leo sets up a miracle himself and the time between centuries becomes as small as a dust mote.
In this episode, I interview Nicole Morning. We talk about Tinder, punk music, what's behind her writing, and how weird it is to be an adult.
She is the author of Selftitled* from Trident Press and _*Soft Animal_ from Hello America Stereo Cassette.
The stories and poems in Selftitled—as honest and charmingly chaotic as a deathbed confession—explore an America of tinder dates, mysterious scars, unflattering selfies, motherhood, and drugs. Things can be hard here, but self-pity will only distract from life's splendor. In Morning's work, the stars themselves toss beckoning pebbles at the bedroom window.
Nicole's stories and poems on Soft Animal are hard and graceful, flawless and troubled. Her writing is modern and relatable, unpretentious but deeply refined. Her voice is unique and human; a voice made for this form. You want to listen to this on long drives. You want to listen to this when you're supposed to be working. You want to listen to this. I'm telling you right now. You do.
On today’s podcast, I’ll be interviewing Steve Gergely.
Steve Gergley is a writer and runner from Warwick, New York. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, Cleaver Magazine, Hobart, Pithead Chapel, Maudlin House, and others. In addition to writing fiction, he has composed and recorded five albums of original music.
In this episode, we talk about 90s music, writing, Tommy Boy, Gilmore Girls, and sorts of weird things.
In this episode, I'll be interviewing Joseph Fasano.
Fasano is the author of the novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the "20 Best Small Press Books of 2020." His books of poetry are The Crossing(Cider Press Review, 2018), praised by Ilya Kaminsky for its "lush drive to live, even in the darkest moments"; Vincent (2015), which Rain Taxi Review hailed as a "major literary achievement"; Inheritance (2014), a James Laughlin Award nominee; and Fugue for Other Hands (2013), which won the Cider Press Review Book Award and was nominated for the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award."
In this show, we'll be discussing his writing, folk music, fascism, and future projects he's been working on.
Check out Bart's books from Trident Press
Take a look at his website for more information: https://bartschaneman.com/
In this week's episode, I interviewed literary icon, Aaron Burch.
Aaron Burch is the author of the memoir/literary analysis Stephen King’s The Body; the short story collection, Backswing; and the novella, How to Predict the Weather. He is the Founding Editor of HOBART.
He is working on a novel, a maybe-chapbook of short-short prose, and collection of essays, THIS WAS ALL BEFORE THE INTERNET, about growing up and music and religion, essays from which, about Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, and Alice in Chains, have appeared in Salon, Catapult, and The Smart Set.
He lives in Ann Arbor, MI with his collection of almost every ticket stub from a movie and concert he went to in the 90s and early 00s. He teaches at the University of Michigan.
We took time to talk about his music essays, concert experiences, and how Hobart got started. We even spoke about road trips and lock-ins.
BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Press and is the author of several books, including Sad Laughter (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018). His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Heavy Feather Review, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Fanzine, and HTMLGIANT. He lives in Florida.
In this episode we explore all the different music mediums that you used to listen to and how we used to burn CDs and make mixtapes, obviously, we discuss KISS because he’s the man behind that question I ask almost every episode, and we hit on when we first met at a reading in Miami.
In this episode, I'll be interviewing C E Hoffman. C E Hoffman was born, gave birth, and tried to die in Edmonton, AB (not necessarily in that order.) They wrote their first novel at 11 yrs old, and have continued ever since.
From 2010 onward, they have been published widely in print and online. They love life and hate bios.
On the show, I take us into wild tangents like horror movies, life in the US vs Canada, internet personas, philosophy, and literary muses.
Their novel, Sluts and Whores, is available on Amazon here: https://t.co/pazPzNjcp8?amp=1
On today’s podcast, I’ll be interviewing Adam Gnade about basically everything but focusing mostly on his record label, Hello America Stereo Cassette, where he releases audio recordings of writers' work.
Adam is both a writer and musician whose work is released as a series of books and records that share characters and themes; the fiction writing continuing plot-lines left open by the self-described "talking songs" in an attempt to compile a vast, detailed, interconnected, personal history of contemporary American life.
In this episode, I get a chance to chat with Lee Matthew Goldberg about a wide array of things, but mostly 90's music and culture since that's at the heart of his newest book, Runaway Train.
Lee Matthew Goldberg is also the author of the novels THE ANCESTOR, SLOW DOWN, THE MENTOR from St. Martin’s Press, and THE DESIRE CARD.
He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. His Sci-fi novel ORANGE CITY will be published in 2021 along with RUNAWAY TRAIN, the first book in a YA series. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction that’s outside-of-the-box.
We discuss the last concerts we went to before Covid, favorite 90's bands, what it's like to write several novels at once, and my favorite: PORTLANDIA.
In this episode, I interview Gauraa Shekhar. Gauraa Shekhar is a Founding Editor of No Contact, the Interviews Editor at Maudlin House, and an Assistant Editor at X-R-A-Y. Her debut short story “Other Significant Others: A Glossary” was a finalist for the Francine Ringold Awards for Emerging Writers and earned a nomination for the PEN/ Robert J. Dau Award. Gauraa’s work has appeared in Nimrod, Contrary, Sonora Review, Vol.1 Brooklyn, Literary Hub, Hobart After Dark, and elsewhere. She lives in Richmond, Viriginia with her husband and young dachshund.
Show notes:
0:40- Mallory’s racist building manager
3:08- Christmas trees
7:15- names that no one pronounces right
9:47- Coffee
17:14- Covid
25:48- Millennials and social media
31:35- Gen Z
32:36- whitewashing of American history
33:43- Gen Z playlist names
35:53- Blink-182
37:35- My Chemical Romance
39:08- feeling like a Tall Child
41:02- TikTok
43:12- Kevin Sterne’s tweet about perfect albums from the last 10 years
44:13- sad girl music
48:00- Lena Dunham
49:29- music memoirs
50:16- KISS
53:44- divisive musicians (Steely Dan, Taylor Swift…)
1:03:32- No Contact Magazine
1:04:45- Fav Music Genre
1:06:43- music vs writing
1:09:59- Allen Ginsberg
1:11:25- Gauraa’s current writing
1:13:13- Gauraa’s playlists
1:15:40- Being short at concerts
1:17:19- music festivals
1:22:28- Coping with the loss of concerts during the pandemic
1:23:15- WiFi names
1:25:38- Gauraa reads “MARISSA COOPER IS PROUD OF WHAT SHE DID AND SHE’D DO IT AGAIN”
In this episode, I interview Andrew Wilt from 11:11 Press. He is not just a publisher. Andrew has also been working professionally in writing for over a decade. He is the author of Age of Agility: The New Tools for Career Success, which is currently being used as a textbook in universities, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies.
Timestamps 00:00 -- Intro
01:42 -- The Midwest Hello 04:26 -- Nonconformists, Like Everyone Else 07:38 -- 11:11 Press 10:55 -- Maudlin House 13:45 -- COVID 19:20 -- The News 25:21 -- Music 28:06 -- Yogananda 31:30 -- Brave New World 33:15 -- Playing Music/Religion 44:50 -- The US Work Ethic/Individualism 46:00 -- Poised Apple Records (2008)/FBI Interrogation 53:50 -- Transition to Writing/Politics 2008-now 58:58 -- Seattle/Small Presses 66:45 -- Andrew Reads from Collected Voices in the Expanded Field 78:35 -- Closing
Books/authors mentioned in this podcast:
Alain de Botton (The News: A User's Manual), Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Anton LaVey (The Satanic Bible), Paramhansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi), Alan Watts (The Wisdom of Insecurity), Robert Wright (The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment), Mallory Smart (I Want to Feel Happy but I Only Feel _ _ .), Collected Voices in the Expanded Field (34 Authors in 34 Chapters)
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In a very strange and wild episode of Textual Healing, I got a chance to interview Leza Cantoral who is one of my favorite people in the lit world today! It gets weird, it gets dark, and it actually gets pretty damn hysterical. It's lit.
Leza is a Xicana writer & Editor-in-Chief at CLASH Books. She is also the host of Get Lit With Leza. As a result of her being a megafan of Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath, she curated and edited an anthology of stories called Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath which is available on CLASH Books. She’s the author of the surreal horror story collection Cartoons in the Suicide Forest & alt lit poetry & social media commentary about modern alienation, Trash Panda.
If the sound is a bit off at times in this episode it's because we were both a bit "lit" during the recording of it, which of course set the perfect mood for us to go off on wild tangents about cults, The Bling Ring, drugs, and how we both originally wanted to be filmmakers.
The main focus though is Leza's truly excellent and diverse taste in music. We go on about Courtney Love, Lana Del Rey, The Weeknd, Marilyn Manson, and Madonna. When we aren't talking about that, we're railing against the patriarchy, what got us both into literature, and annoying guys on the internet.
The best parts are when Leza actually reads a bit of her writing and describes some of the films she made. They aren't at the end of the episode like typical Textual Healing episodes but scattered throughout, so listen to the whole show to catch them!
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This week on Textual Healing, we go off the record with Dmitry Samorov where he tells it as it is when it comes to the 80's.
Not just Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and music still on MTV...
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In this episode of Textual Healing, Dmitry Samarov talks about what it's like to be Gen X in a Gen Z world. We joke around about what the right sayings are and whether our taste in music even matters anymore.
We hit music from all angles. The Pixies, Billie Eilish, Nirvana, Kelly Hogan, and even Taylor Swift are discussed. We disagree about the awesomeness of grunge music but we do agree that Mr. Rogers is creepy. Yes, this episode is all over the place but completely on point when it comes to Dmitry's writing.
Dmitry Samarov writes dog portraits and paints book reviews in Chicago, Illinois. Dmitry has also written several books. He was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States in 1978. This both matters and doesn't. Listen to the show to find out more...
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In this episode, Mallory Smart and Andy Tran get into all of the weird small talk with Taylor Johnson. We dish about our new favorite bands, the kind of poetry we're all into, and sadly even the weather... Lena Dunham and the Armenian Genocide is also somehow discussed as well.
No spoilers, so if you wish to connect those wild dots listen to the entire show.
Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. They are the author of Inheritance_ (Alice James Books, 2020), and their work appears in _The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. They live in New Orleans where they listen.
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Kevin Bigley joins us to talk about his intense love of music, his new book Comaville, and his character Luke in Amazon's Upload.
Kevin is an actor and writer living in Los Angeles. He plays Luke in his latest TV role on Amazon's Upload and Reed Hollingsworth on another Amazon show called Undone.
Most central to this show, though, Kevin just debuted a novel called Comaville from Clash Books. He tells us about the process of writing it and how music isn't just something he listens to for inspiration while writing, he plays it on the side too.
We talk about garage rock, dream pop, indie record labels, and so much more...
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In this lit episode, I am joined by Zac Smith and Giacomo Pope where we talk about nothing and everything. Music genres, literary genres, and even how a genre's name comes into being is discussed in this 2hr long round table.
Zac Smith flexes his knowledge of linguistics and genre. Giacomo Pope goes off on small presses along with an insane grasp on what shoegaze-y indie rock actually is and was. Together we discuss how writers act due to social media and how the artform has given way to clout-chasing.
Fun things to look forward to in this episode are pet names, Spotify royalties, and how I rejected one of Giac's submissions to Maudlin house 20 minutes before interviewing him on his last appearance of Textual Healing.
To get a better vibe of their music tastes check out their Giac's Spotify playlist: We Can All be Sad Bois and his artist page that includes some of Zac's music: Be Softly.****
Zac Smith's most recent book is available at Clash Books and Giacomo Pope's latest book is available at Ghost City Press.
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In this episode, we talk to Noah Cicero about his latest book: Las Vegas Bootlegger: Empire of Self-Importance from Trident Press. We also get into lit topics like the way Bruce Springsteen makes us feel, Smokey and the Bandit, and driving in the desert.
Noah Cicero is 40-years-old, grew up in a small town near Youngstown, Ohio. He has lived in Eugene, Oregon, Grand Canyon, Arizona, Seoul, South Korea and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has a movie made of his first book called The Human War which won the 2014 Beloit Film Festival award for Best Screenplay. He has books translated into Turkish, Kurdish and Spanish. His first book of poetry Bipolar Cowboy was voted one of the best books on Goodreads in 2015. He has many short stories, articles, and poems published at such places as Thought Catalog, 3AM Magazine, Wales Review, and Amphibi.us.
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In today's episode, we have an hour-long conversation full of zany non-sequiturs with Chase Griffin. My co-host, Andy Tran, joins me while we talk with our favorite Florida Man about things like Kanye, SNL, polar vortexes, and Chase's latest novel: _What's On the Menu?_
Chase Griffin lives in Tampa, Florida. His work has been featured in The Oyez Review, Breadcrumbs Mag, Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, Maudlin House, and more. His debut novel, What's on the Menu?, was published by Long Day Press. He has a podcast called The Rocco Atleby Foundation presented by Zero Point Fiction.
Spoiler Alert: Andy might have randomly thrown down a rap during this episode...
In today's episode, Mallory and Andy hit up D.T. Robbins. They talk about folk music, punk rock, Phoebe Bridgers, Bright Eyes, Elton John, and David Lynch. All of which influence his mood and writing. Accents, shoes, IKEA, and so much more are also brought up in this extremely odd podcast.
D.T. Robbins lives in Southern California with his wife and two kids. He’s the founding editor of Rejection Letters. You can find some of his work in Hobart, Maudlin House, and X–R-A-Y Lit.
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In this episode, Mallory and Andy get a chance to interview Claire Hopple about her love of dreamy indie music like Goth Babe, Sniffle Party, and then whatever the hell Yacht Rock is.
Claire Hopple lives in Asheville, NC, though she is quick to claim her Western Pennsylvania roots. She is the author of Tell Me How You Really Feel (Maudlin House, 2020 Tired People Seeing America (Dostoevsky Wannabe, 2019), and Too Much of the Wrong Thing (Truth Serum Press, 2017).
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Giacomo Pope is the author of Chainsaw Poems & Other Poems and the founder of Neutral Spaces.
Much like his writing, this episode is all about passion and obsession. We go further and deeper than we've gone before in this Special Extended Episode of Textual Healing where we discuss not just music and how it relates to an author's specific writing, but ALL writing. Weird cultural habits, philosophy, and travel are also discussed. Things get weird. Things get random. But it always comes down to music and lit**.
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Joshua Bohnsack is the author of Shift Drink (Spork Press, forthcoming 2020) and Burnt Sienna: Cocktails & Stories (Throwback Books, 2017) and his work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hobart, SAND, LitHub, Five:2:One, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and others. He is the founding editor of Long Day Press, a hand-bound chapbook publisher, an MFA graduate in creative writing at Northwestern University, the assistant managing editor for TriQuarterly, and former managing editor of Curbside Splendor Publishing.
He grew up on a farm and ran an ice cream shop in rural Illinois until he moved to Chicago. In addition to writing & publishing, he makes music.
He is featured on today's show where he reads his essay, Mountain, that was published on Vol. 1 Brooklyn. We also get a chance to rant about the band KISS, making your own indie music, and frenemies.
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We get a chance to chat with Kat Giordano. Kat wrote The Poet Confronts Bukowski's Ghost, which is a book of poetry you can still buy on Amazon.
She also wrote the novel The Fountain, which is forthcoming from Thirty West Publishing House in November 2020.
Today we got a chance to talk to her about all things relating to indie culture, her forthcoming novel, and a Spotify playlist she made for it.
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Today I get to interview Nathaniel Kennon Perkinsfrom Trident Press. We talk about garages, punk rock, DIY ethic, and the best music to write to. He is the author of the novel Wallop (House of Vlad, 2020). the short story collection, The Way Cities Feel to Us Now (Maudlin House, 2019), the short novel, Cactus (Trident Press, 2018), and the ongoing literary zine series, Ultimate Gospel.
Hosts Mallory Smart and Andy Tran finally take the time to introduce themselves to the Textual Healing listeners by discussing all things weird. We quiz each other on new writing, Boogie Nights, chill music, and everything else rad going on in our lives.
the title of the film Andy and I couldn't remember was Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Hit us up on Twitter @malsmart or @AndyT187 for any questions or info you might have relating to the show!
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Nick Gregorio comes on as our special guest where we talk about all things Punk, COVID, and the release of his new book, With A Difference , from Trident Press.
He lives, writes, and teaches just outside of Philadelphia. Nick is the author of three books of fiction and is also in the Philadelphia-area punk rock band Grayson. You can check him on his monthly podcast book.record.beer. or buy any of three books from Maudlin House and Trident Press. His latest album from Grayson is available now to stream on Apple Music and Spotify.
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