Letters to the Editors

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.

Anna M. Szaflarski's short melody "Behind Your Back"

Austrian artist and author Eva Funk reads, "going on being (a sea cucumber)", then talks to host Anna M. Szaflarski about being a liar, her reclamation of cuteness as a legitimate artistic strategy and gushes about a few of her favourite authors.

Phoebe Blatton reads her story, "Every Lovely Limb's a Desolation", followed by a conversation with host Anna M. Szaflarski about artwriting and the dilemmas of writing about small dramas.

Bonus tracks will be released seperately from the LTTE podcasts, including writing, read and written by Anna M. Szaflarski

The very first episode of Letters to the Editors, and its a bit of an audio rough start. Ha! 1. Invited by a project called Parafil in Guadalajara, Mexico, to present the LTTE book, Anna puts the print project finally to rest with an interview with Graphic Designer and collaborator Santiago da Silva. Da Silva and Szaflarski share thoughts on LTTE, upcoming projects and the alternative ways of an editor. 2. Balam Bartolomé's poem "Nahual" is read in Spanish (by Maria Fernanda Camarena) and English (Szaflarski), followed by a conversation with Szaflarski and the author.