Letters to the Editors: Recent Episodes
Letters to the Editors
Following the compilation and publication of Letters to the Editors bi-weekly journal, LTTE Podcast presents new readings from artwriters and beyond. Each issue also includes conversations with writers, artists, and publishers. Hosted and produced by Anna M. Szaflarski. Bonus tracks include readings of original writing by Szaflarski. Supported by AKV Berlin Publishing
Berlin-based Canadian artist Lauryn Youden takes host Anna M. Szaflarski on a search for locating rest in her text "Waiting Rooms...Locating Rest". Between distraction, pleasure and waiting it's seems nowhere to be found.
Nathan Beyonce Ma reads, "We Need to Talk about Nathan", a speculative editorial interview with himself from the future. Afterwards, Ma and host Anna M. Szaflarski talk about Nathan's virtual alter-egos, about Gwyneth, about getting famous, and how our humanity is getting in the way of it all.
Poet and philosopher Daniel Falb reads "Chicxulub Paem" and talks to host Anna M. Szaflarski about its relationship to his research on Geophilosophical Metaphysics; talking about deep geological time, remarking on the relative novelty of global thinking, the athropocene and the mechanics of transcendental empiricism.
Host Anna M. Szaflarski calls Precious Okoyomon in Ohio to listen to her read her poem, "It's dissociating season". Afterwards they talk about her writing process, manic behaviours feeding creation and the powerful force of text messages. xo
Author Vijay Khurana (www.vijaykhurana.com) reads from his current novel-in-process and talks to host Anna M. Szaflarski about fiction as a psychological laboratory and the existence of sexual underpinnings in friendships.
Novelist John Holten joins host Anna M. Szaflarski to read, "The Future of Reading", followed by a conversation on the speculative end to literature and fiction as we know it.