Sat, 31 May 2014
On this week’s show, I talk to the poet Erica Dawson, Plus Nicole Callihan reads her memoir essay, "The Week in News." TEXTS DISCUSSED Nicole Callihan's "The Week in News" originally appeared on The Well and Often Press. Nicole Callihan's poetry collection, Superloop. NOTES Jeremy Greenfield, in an article for The Atlantic, has explored the continuing struggle between Amazon.com and the Hachette publishing group. The Peyton James Freeman Prize for nonfiction essays is now accepting submissions. There is no reading fee, and the contest is being judged by Cheryl Strayed. Horoscopes penned by my signature character Guy Psycho are now available online at The Newer York's site. On this show, I eulogized Bunny Yeager and Maya Angelou.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 7:37pm EDT |
Sat, 24 May 2014
On this week’s show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, plus Rose Tran shares a memoir essay about her unpleasantly Proustian relationship to Florida weather.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 2:28pm EDT |
Sat, 17 May 2014
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Kseniya Melnik, Plus Matt Berman writes about Jean Craighead George's My Side of the Mountain. TEXTS DISCUSSED
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:14pm EDT |
Sat, 10 May 2014
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer Kelly Luce, Plus Nicole Callihan meditates on motherhood, sustenance, autism, and language in "Notes Toward: Babies, Bananas, Boxes." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Nicole Callihan's "Notes Toward: Babies, Bananas, Boxes" first appeared on River and Sound Review. According to The Guardian and Publishers Weekly, some members of South Carolina's state legislature is trying to punish its state universities that support gay and lesbian culture. For more information about the protest over this, check out the website of Writers Speaking Out Loud. Congratulations to Laura Van Den Berg for her story O-Pah-Locka (published in the southern review), and for Dylan Landis for her story, “Trust” (published in Tin House) for winning O'Henry Prizes for 2014. Laura was my guest on episode 91, and Dylan was my guest on episode 48.
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Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 2:49pm EDT |
Sat, 3 May 2014
On this week’s show, I talk to the fiction writer and historian of Florida attractions Lu Vickers, Plus Joe Marchia writes about Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. NOTES Check Out our new videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Cg6lFnfl4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1nXs9hWeY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2jeezvsixU Check out this indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark’s Bookshop to a new home in the East Village. Sheman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is given away to students in an Iowa district in which the novel is banned from schools. On May 13th, I will participate in The Best of There Will Be Words 2013 show. If you're in Orlando, join us. |