Podcasts about alt lit

Today's episode is a conversation with author/poet/screenwriter/journalist Brittany Menjivar. We talk about her new book Parasocialite from Dream Boy Book Club, literature scenes, writing books and screenplays, freelance journalism, and incels. 

This episode is about the controversy surrounding a new book called Molly by an author named Blake Butler. 

Donald and Joey talk to writer Jordan Castro about his new novel, the history of the Alt Lit literary movement, punk rock, and the Midwest. Jordan bio: Jordan Casto is the author of The Novelist (Soft Skull, 2022) and two poetry books. He is from Cleveland, Ohio.

Steff is a poet and Autumn is a novelist. We talk about the writing economy, grad school for poetry, canceling yourself, how Autumn almost won the Passage Prize for right-wing fiction, how to stay free inside the institutions, how Autumn won Steff's heart with a meme about Hitler, how to think about success as a writer today, whether Curtis Yarvin's poetry is good, and Steff's call for suitors (DMs open).Steff✦ Steff on Twitter✦ Steff's websiteAutumn Christian✦ Teach Robots Love✦ Autumn on Twitter✦ Autumn's novelsOther Life✦ Subscribe to the coolest newsletter in the world OtherLife.co✦ Get a free Urbit planet at imperceptible.computer✦ We're building a new country at imperceptible.countryIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on independent intellectual work, join the next cohort of IndieThinkers.org

We discuss the evolution of "alt lit," the formative experience of "indie sleaze" for millennials, why party photography went out of fashion, and the gathering wave of sex negativity.✦ Katherine's newsletter✦ Katherine on Twitter✦ Katherine on Urbit: ~hapnyx-tamnexOther Life✦ Subscribe to the coolest newsletter in the world OtherLife.co✦ Get a free Urbit planet at imperceptible.computer✦ We're building a new country at imperceptible.countryIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on independent intellectual work, join the next cohort of IndieThinkers.org

On this episode, we chat about Mike Ma's Gothic Violence, Alt Lit 2.0, and Miike's best film, Ichi the Killer. JDO tries to reconstruct the movie from memory and we do a deep dive into how something can be so fucked up and so entertaining at the same time.

In 2012, Tao Lin's literature website, Muumuu House published a short story called “Adrien Brody.” Written by the pseudonymous Marie Calloway, it recounted a tryst between a 21-year-old woman and a much older writer (with a girlfriend) in the Brooklyn leftist/literary scene. As people began to speculate about the real identity behind the titular character, a fiery debate started: Was this art, or was this an over-glorified Tumblr entry? Even critics who sided with Calloway, who enjoyed her writing, didn't evaluate the story for what it was: a piece of short fiction.If you Google “Marie Calloway + Adrien Brody,” it's easier to find critiques of the piece than the story itself. To this day, it seems as though Marie's writing is fated to be overshadowed by the conversation around it.On today's episode we finally give “Adrien Brody” the credit it's long deserved. Not as a political statement, not as a feminist act, not as an attempt at micro-fame, but as a work of confessional art that poignantly captured what it meant to sexually awaken in the early 2010s.(We love you, Marie.)Stories and articles referenced:Adrien Brody by Marie Calloway The New Bad Kids of Fiction by Stephen MarcheMicrofamed by Hamilton Nolan The Oversharers Win by Hamilton NolanThe Personal-Essay Boom is Over by Jia TolentinoInefficient Intimacy by Rob HorningMarie Calloway on Her New Novel and Being Called Jailbait by Lisa CarverTheme: Precocious Young Miss Calloway by Momus

Emmet sits down with Default Friend (https://twitter.com/default_friend)of After the Orgy (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/after-the-orgy/id1560522568)about her piece on the Culture of Confession (https://defaultfriend.substack.com/p/48-the-culture-of-confession), the emotional history of the internet, millenial blues, how tumblr turned the academy woke, and more. Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "Juliette's Window" by Black Print. (https://dupagecountyhardcore.bandcamp.com/album/black-print-demo)

Tao Lin was *the* Alt-Lit guy until the scene crashed and burned, and now he's back with... a book about how mushrooms are from space and you have bad teeth because you're a Degenerate. We talk about this, necrophilia, bad scene politics, gross emo guys, tildes, DMT and growing out of being a boring stoner. Music by Svalbard: https://svalbard.bandcamp.com/ And Teksti-TV 666: https://teksti-tv666.bandcamp.com Follow DEATH // SENTENCE on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeathSentencePC and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/deathsentencepc/ And mail me your nonsense deathsentencepodcast@gmail.com

What does it mean to be a writer in a post-Trump, post-Alt-Lit, social-media-driven, content-saturated era? Alex Manley and Guillaume Morissette talk about how writers can engage politically, the responsibilities and limitations literature has to "shift the culture", and if men can write complex women characters. Also discussed: negative reviews; Drake vs. Blake; videogames and the quest for meaning; progressive dating advice; moving to the woods and giving up on art. Alex Manley is a Montreal writer and graduate of Concordia's creative writing program. His debut poetry collection, We Are All Just Animals & Plants, was published by Metatron Press in 2016. Guillaume Morissette is the author of New Tab (Véhicule Press, 2014). If you can, adopt a senior dog from a rescue center near you. Glossary: The Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Link_(newspaper) Montreal Review of Books: http://mtlreviewofbooks.ca The Walrus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walrus Alt Lit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_literature Parc's Dollarama: A dollar store located on Parc Avenue in Montreal's Mile End/Outremont neighbourhood. Literary Mentions: Madeleine Holden Virginia Heffernan David Foster Wallace William Blake Chris Kraus Inside the Frozen Mammoth is created by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec and features writers published by our members. Interviews by Merriane Couture, technical production and editing by Jess Glavina. Anna Leventhal is the executive producer. Original music by Pamela Hart, cover art by Adam Waito. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for supporting this project.

Guillaume Morissette is the guest. His debut novel, New Tab, is now available from Vehicule Press. Melissa Broder says “In this hilarious novel, Morissette meditates on finding and making meaning in a time when distractions coalesce to form the new and glossy void. The deconstruction of regrets, an email with feelings and the screaming universe cement Morissette as both a master of the absurd and a seer of the real. I lol’d.” And Dazed and Confused calls him "Canada's Alt Lit poster boy." Monologue topics: being late, rushing, being unprepared, Alt Lit initiation, Frank Hinton's genitals.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Sarkissian is the guest. Her debut novel, Dear Lucy, is now available from Simon & Schuster. Joyce Carol Oates says "Dear Lucy introduces a young writer with a most original voice and a tenderly eccentric vision.  Julie Sarkissian has created a boldly lyrical, suspenseful, and mysterious fictional world in this striking debut novel." And Ron Rash raves "In Dear Lucy, Julie Sarkissian has accomplished what many veteran novelists never achieve: a startlingly original work that is also profound and wise in the vagaries of the heart. What an amazing debut." Monologue topics: mail, listener reactions to the Tao Lin episodes, Alt-Lit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season One Premier with Janey Smith.

Season One Episode 2 with special guest Musican/Poet Diana Salier.

Season One Episode 4 with special guest writer and KQED hard charger Lizzy Acker.