Podcast appearances and mentions of alan heathcock

Ben Tanzer, a Chicago-based author and consultant, joined Leah to celebrate the launch of his new novel The Missing (available on March 21, 2024) and his love of the book The Basketball Diaries. This conversation is a trip down memory lane, because Leah and Ben have been friends for 15+ years. We briefly discuss the suicide of a mutual colleague. Follow Ben online The Missing release date March 21, 2024 The Missing book tour Ben Tanzer on Bookshop This Podcast Will Change Your Life TanzerBen.com twitter @BenTanzer Instagram @tanzerben/ Facebook @BenTanzer Show Notes Amy Güth Jen Michalski on Finding Favorites  The Missing on Kirkus Reviews This American Life: This American Life Exile in Bookville: Exile in Bookville Lee Matthew Goldberg: Lee Matthew Goldberg The Book Cellar: Book Cellar Finding Favorites bookshop.org shop: Finding Favorites bookshop page Michael Keren: Michael Keren When Words Count: When Words Count Retreat Elizabeth Splaine: Elizabeth Splaine The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll Adam Lawrence Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty John Edgar Wideman Hendrick's Gin: https://www.hendricksgin.com/ Bombay Sapphire: https://www.bombaysapphire.com/us/en/ Tanqueray: https://www.tanqueray.com/en-us Death's Door: https://www.dancinggoat.com/deaths-door-gin Empress Gin: https://empressgin.com/ Alan Heathcock:https://alanheathcock.com/ Matilda: https://www.matilda-babyatlas.com/ David Masciotra: https://davidmasciotra.com/ Sunday Salon: https://sundaysalon-chicago.com/ P&T Knitwear: https://www.ptknitwear.com/ A Novel Idea: https://anovelideaphilly.com/ Village Well: https://villagewell.com/ Eric Spitznagel: https://www.ericspitznagel.com/ Megan Stielstra: https://www.meganstielstra.com/ Finding Favorites is edited and mixed by Rob Abrazado. Follow Finding Favorites on Instagram at @FindingFavsPod and leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts, GoodPods or Spotify. Got a question or want to suggest a guest? email Leah at FindingFavoritesPodcast@gmail.com Support Finding Favorites by shopping for books by guests or recommended by guests on Bookshop.

This week, we're joined by Shawn the Book Maniac for a fun discovery about one of his specialties: finding books that are hidden gems. We share some tips for finding great books that are off the beaten path, discuss why it's important and fun, and share three books each that you may never have heard of before—quite a challenge! Hopefully we will add at least one to your bookstore scavenger hunt list!What are your favorite books that fly under the radar?Shownotes* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Mean Spirit, by Linda Hogan* Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann* Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities, by PaulSeesequasis* Day, by Michael Cunningham* The Hours, by Michael Cunningham* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* The Book of Forgotten Authors, by Christopher Fowler* The Sea Change of Angela Lewes, by Cynthia Propper Seton* The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos, by Nick Jans* A Life on Paper, by Georges-Olivier Chateaureynard, translated by Edward Gauvin* The Conductor and Other Tales, by Jean Ferry, translated by Edward Gauvin* The One Who Did Not Ask, by Altar Fatima, translated by Rukhsana Ahmad* Severina, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, translated by Chris Andrews* The African Shore, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, translated by Jeffrey Gray* Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle* With or Without Angels, by Douglas Bruton* The Sight of Death, by T.J. Clark* Volt, by Alan Heathcock* 40, by Alan Heathcock* The New Perspective, by K. Arnold PriceOther* Shawn the Book Maniac YouTube* Shawn's Mookse Bucket List Video* The Savage Detectives Preliminary Thread* “How did we miss these?” from The GuardianAbout the PodcastThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another.Please join us! You can subscribe at Apple podcasts or go to the feed to import to your favorite podcatcher.Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

The lovely and engaging voice of Julia Atwood gives protagonist Mazzy Goodwin satisfying emotion. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile contributor Alan Minskoff discuss Alan Heathcock's dystopian fantasy of a climate catastrophe. Mazzy is a soldier, and Atwood's cadence subtly moves the suspenseful action of the story forward. Heathcock depicts an America in crisis—political, environmental, and religious—and Atwood delivers it all compellingly. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Blackstone Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for AudioFile's Behind the Mic comes from Simon & Schuster Audio. Listen to GOING ROGUE by Janet Evanovich, read by Lorelei King today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Doerr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. But he's also one of us, Boise! And we are so excited to be talking with one of our all-time favorite authors today. He weighs in on our libraries, shouts out other local writers (looking at you, Alan Heathcock and Kerri Webster), and talks about what it's like to call Boise home. If you haven't read Anthony Doerr's latest novel in which Idaho features prominently, you really should: we can't recommend Cloud Cuckoo Land enough! Speaking of writing, you can register right here for The Cabin's free online writing workshop that we mention in this episode.  If you like today's show, please let us know! Leave us a review, shout us out on Twitter or Instagram, or send a voicemail or text: 208-546-9485. And for more local news from around our city, be sure to subscribe to our “Hey Boise” morning newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alan Heathcock joins us to close this summer's Season Three. Al is the award-winning author of Volt, a collection of short stories, and a new novel, 40, out today from Macmillan Publishers. Ray and Courtney both studied with Al at Sierra Nevada University, and we are absolutely thrilled to reconnect with him here for the podcast.For this special episode, Al shares his lifelong fascination with story. From reading Charlotte's Web as a bashful young boy to now writing “secular bible stories,” Alan Heathcock is a self-professed “consumer of story.” We discuss the creation of literary art, and what it really takes to write empathetic, authentic narrative despite the pressures of the modern market.

Brad Listi talks with Brittany Ackerman, author of the debut memoir THE PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE (Red Hen Press). Ackerman is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University's Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing.  Since graduation, she has completed a residency at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, and has attended the Mont Blanc Workshop in Chamonix, France under the instruction of Alan Heathcock.  She recently attended the Writers by Writers Methow Valley Workshop in May of 2017 under the leadership of Ross Gay.  She lives in Los Angeles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hoy escuchamos a Alan Heathcock, el autor premiado de VOLT.

Aspiring novelist Ben Hess explores writing from the deep end of loss, grief, and uncertainty with teachers and authors Tom Barbash, Gary Ferguson, Alan Heathcock, Pam Houston, and Josh Weil. Links: Writing By Writers - http://writingxwriters.org Tom Barbash - https://www.facebook.com/Tom-Barbash-1403861426501638/timeline/ Pam Houston - http://pamhouston.net Alan Heathcock - http://alanheathcock.com Gary Ferguson - http://wildwords.net Josh Weil - http://www.joshweil.com NPR Fresh Air - Terry Gross interview with memoirist Mary Karr - http://www.npr.org/2015/09/15/440397728/mary-karr-on-writing-memoirs-no-doubt-ive-gotten-a-million-things-wrong Produced & Hosted By: Ben Hess - http://ben-hess.com

Aspiring novelist and screenwriter Ben Hess spent time at the April 2015 Writing By Writers Boulder Generative Workshop and gained insights on the origin of stories, on getting going using Pam Houston’s glimmer technique. The words of wisdom came from award winning writers and teachers Pam, Gary Ferguson, and Alan Heathcock. Links: Writing By Writers - http://writingxwriters.org Pam Houston - http://pamhouston.net Alan Heathcock - http://alanheathcock.com Gary Ferguson - http://wildwords.net Produced & Hosted By: Ben Hess - http://ben-hess.com

This summer, the Modern Hotel and Radio Boise began hosting Campfire Stories, a series of readings produced by Christian Winn and showcasing the work of Idaho’s rich literary community. Featuring original fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenplay, and other forms of writing, the series can be heard every second Monday throughout the summer and will continue into the fall. Campfire Stories, No. 6 features Alan Heathcock and David Abrams ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alan Heathcock’s VOLT was a “Best Book” selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, and Cleveland Plain Dealer, was named as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, selected as a Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month, as well as a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. Heathcock has won a Whiting Award, the GLCA New Writers Award, a National Magazine Award, has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Lannan Foundation, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. A native of Chicago, he lives and works in Boise, Idaho. David Abrams is the author of Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic, 2012), a comedy about the Iraq War which Publishers Weekly called “an instant classic” and named a Top 10 Pick for Literary Fiction in Fall 2012. It was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, an Indie Next pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a Montana Honor Book, and a finalist for the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. His short stories have appeared in Fire and Forget (Da Capo Press, 2013) and Home of the Brave: Somewhere in the Sand (Press 53), anthologies of short fiction about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Other stories, essays and reviews have been published in Esquire, Narrative, Salon, Salamander, Connecticut Review, The Greensboro Review, Consequence, and many other publications. He earned a BA in English from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He retired from active-duty after serving in the U.S. Army for 20 years, a career which took him to Alaska, Texas, Georgia, the Pentagon, and Iraq. He now lives in Butte, Montana with his wife. His blog, The Quivering Pen, can be found at: www.davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com Visit his website at: www.davidabramsbooks.com

Author of the short story collection "Volt"

VOLT, the title of Alan Heathcock's acclaimed collection of linked short stories, is as electric as the name implies. Set in the fictional town of Krafton, a lonely and windswept hamlet that could be located just about anywhere, the eight stories in VOLT feature an unforgettable cast of characters who confront floods, violence, family strife, longing and loss.

  The guest is Alan Heathcock, author of the critically acclaimed story collection Volt, now available from Graywolf Press. Volt was named a Best Book of 2011 by a variety of publications, including Publishers Weekly, GQ, the Chicago Tribune, the ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices