Podcast appearances and mentions of Amy Hempel

The multi-talented writer, comedian, and professor joins Joshua to talk about how authors like Joan Didion and Lorrie Moore helped open her eyes to the life experiences she could one day write about as a renowned short story author herself and soon to be published novelist. Books talked about include but are not limited to "Birds of America" by Lorrie Moore, "Play It As It Lays" by Joan Didion, "Sing To It" by Amy Hempel, "Why Did I Ever?" by Mary Robison "Willful Creatures" by Aimee Bender and "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain" and "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" by George Saunders because Turek Books will begin and won't ever stop with Saunders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kate Brody, debut author of the literary thriller RABBIT HOLE, sits down with Jared to talk about crafting a true crime novel that focuses on the victim's family. Drawing from her own experiences with publishing, she also offers advice for choosing an agent, pivoting if your book doesn't sell, and marketing your work. Finally, she shares the most memorable pieces of advice from her own MFA teachers, including Mary Gaitskill, E.L. Doctorow, and Amy Hempel. Kate Brody holds an MFA from NYU and her work has been published or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Parents, Crime Reads, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Noema, The Literary Review, Write or Die, and other magazines. RABBIT HOLE is her debut. Find her on Instagram and Twitter @katebrodyauthor and at her website: katebrodyauthor.com. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers at MFAwriters.com. BE PART OF THE SHOW — Donate to the show at Buy Me a Coffee. — Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. — Submit an episode request. If there's a program you'd like to learn more about, contact us and we'll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience. — Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application. STAY CONNECTED Twitter: @MFAwriterspod Instagram: @MFAwriterspodcast Facebook: MFA Writers Email: mfawriterspodcast@gmail.com

Notes and Links to Andrew Porter's Work        For Episode 213, Pete welcomes Andrew Porter, and the two discuss, among other topics, his lifelong love of art and creativity, his pivotal short story classes in college, wonderful writing mentors, the stories that continue to thrill and inspire him and his students, and salient themes from his most recent collection, such as the ephemeral nature of life, fatherhood, aging and nostalgia, and friendship triangles and squares.       Andrew Porter is the author of the short story collection The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage/Penguin Random House), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the novel In Between Days (Knopf), which was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers”  selection and an IndieBound “Indie Next” selection, and the short story  collection The Disappeared (Knopf), which was recently published in April 2023. Porter's books have been published in foreign editions in the UK and Australia and translated into numerous  languages, including French, Spanish, Dutch, Bulgarian, and Korean.    In addition to winning the Flannery O'Connor Award, his collection, The Theory of Light and Matter,  received Foreword Magazine's “Book of the Year” Award for Short  Fiction, was a finalist for The Steven Turner Award, The Paterson Prize  and The WLT Book Award, was shortlisted for the William Saroyan  International Prize for Writing, and was selected by both The Kansas City Star and The San Antonio Express-News  as one of the “Best Books of the Year.”    The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the James Michener-Copernicus Foundation, the W.K. Rose Foundation, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Porter's  short stories have appeared in One Story, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, Narrative Magazine, Epoch, Story, The Colorado Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. He has had his work read on NPR's Selected Shorts and twice selected as one of the Distinguished Stories of the Year by Best American Short Stories.       A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Porter is currently a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Trinity University in San Antonio.   Andrew's Website   Buy The Disappeared   The Disappeared Review from Chicago Review of Books   New York Times Shoutout for The Disappeared At about 1:50, Pete asks Andrew about the Spurs and breakfast tacos in San Antonio   At about 2:40, Andrew discusses his artistic loves as a kid and growing up and his picking up a love for the short story in college   At about 5:20, Andrew cites Bausch, Carver, Richard Ford, Amy Hempel, Lorrie Moore, and Joyce Carol Oates' story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” as formative and transformative   At about 8:40, Andrew responds to Pete's question about whom he is reading these days-writers including Annie Ernauex, Rachel Cusk, and Jamel Brinkley   At about 10:00, Andrew traces the evolution of his writing career, including how he received wonderful mentorship from Dean Crawford and the “hugely” influential David Wong Louie    At about 12:15, Pete asks Andrew what feedback he has gotten since his short story collection The Disappeared has received, and what his students have said as well   At about 13:50, Pete highlights Andrew's wonderful and resonant endings and he and Andrew discuss the powerful opening story of the collection, “Austin”   At about 17:55, Pete puts the flash fiction piece “Cigarettes” into context regarding the book's theme of aging and nostalgia   At about 19:00, Pete laments his predicament as he readies to play in the high school Students vs. Faculty Game (plot spoiler: he played well, and the faculty won)   At about 19:40, The two discuss the engrossing and echoing “Vines” short story, including themes within, and Andrew discusses the art life   At about 23:00, “Cello” is discussed in the vein of a life lived with(out) art   At about 24:20, The story “Chili” is discussed with regards to the theme of aging, and Andrew expounds about including foods he likes and that he identifies with San Antonio and Austin   At about 26:40, Pete stumbles through remembering details of a favorite canceled show and talks glowingly about “Rhinebeck” and its characters and themes; Andrew discusses the topics that interest him and inspired the story   At about 30:20, Pete and Andrew discuss “in-betweeners” in the collection, including Jimena and others who complicate romantic and friend relationships   At about 32:50, Pete cites the collection's titular story and the “netherworld” in which the characters exist; Andrew collects the story with the previously-mentioned ones in exploring “triangulation”   At about 34:20, The two discussed what Pete dubs “men unmoored” in the collection   At about 35:15, The two discuss art as a collection theme, and Anthony speaks on presenting different levels of art and different representations of the creative life and past versions of ourselves   At about 37:15, Andrew replies to Pete asking about art/writing as a “restorative process”   At about 38:25, The two discuss the ways in which fatherhood is discussed in the collection, especially in the story “Breathe”   At about 43:15, The two continue to talk about the ephemeral nature of so much of the book, including in the titular story   At about 44:25, Andrew responds to Pete's asking about the ephemeral nature of the book and how he wanted the titular story's ending to be a sort of an answer to the collection's first story   At about 46:20, Pete refers to the delightful ambiguity in the book   At about 47:15, Pete asks Andrew about future projects    At about 50:00, Andrew shouts out publishing info, social media contacts    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 214 with Leah Myers. Leah is a member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of the Pacific Northwest, and she earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of New Orleans, where she won the Samuel Mockbee Award for Nonfiction two years in a row. Her debut memoir, THINNING BLOOD, is published by W.W. Norton and received a rave review in the New York Times.    The episode will air on November 28.

This week, host Jason Jefferies welcomes back New York Times bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk, who discusses his new novel Not Forever, But For Now, which is published by our friends at Simon & Schuster.  Topics of discussion include book tours, changing publishers, shock value, punk rock, nature films, kangaroos, Portland, OR, Amy Hempel, Winnie the Pooh, serial killers as pen pals, Pericles and Agamemnon, Kurt Cobain and Jonestown, and much more.  Copies of Not Forever, But For Now can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.  

Sam Lipsyte is the author of many beloved books, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and faculty member at Columbia University's MFA program. Gabe and Sam dig into his recent non-fiction piece in The New Yorker which is, in part, about the classes he took from the legendary editor Gordon Lish.* They also discuss Sam's recent novel, No One Left To Come Looking for You, which is a Gen X masterpiece. Gabe and Sam also talk about Public Enemy, his father's relationship with Muhammad Ali, and Sam's love of the word Antwerp. *Gordon Lish, as editor, is responsible for helping launch many of your favorite writers, including: Amy Hempel, Barry Hannah, Diane Williams, Ben Marcus, Garielle Lutz, Raymond Carver, Christine Schutt, Will Eno, and Brian Evenson. Jude Brewer was executive producer and editor for this episode Buy Sam Lipsyte's recent novel No One Left to Come Looking For You Buy Sam's recent novella Friend of the Pod Read Sam's recent nf piece in The New Yorker, “A Lesson for the Sub” Listen to Sam's noise-punk band Dungbeetle from early 90's Read Sam's By the Book interview in NYT Read Sam's essay about his father, the legendary sportswriter Rate/review Kurt Vonnegut Radio (this is how you help our show live) Find Gabe on Twitter and Instagram and email More episodes: Sinead O'Connor George Saunders Kurt Vonnegut Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Quarterly was a literary magazine edited by Gordon Lish from 1987 to 1995. (I was Mr. Lish's editorial assistant in the early '90s.) I'll read just one story from the Spring 1988 issue of the journal: "Darling" by Willam Tester. Gordon Lish is an acclaimed author and editor. A former editor at Esquire and Alfred A. Knopf, he is celebrated for his notable work with authors including Raymond Carver, Denis Donoghue, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus, and Christine Schutt, among many others. His books include Dear Mr. Capote, What I Know So Far, Mourner at the Door, Extravaganza, White Plains, Peru, Zimzum, The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish, and more. He is married and lives in New York. He is 89 years old. Support the showRead Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.comhttps://readmetosleepricky.com

The Quarterly was a literary magazine edited by Gordon Lish from 1987 to 1995. (I was Mr. Lish's editorial assistant in the early '90s.) I'll read three stories from the Spring 1987 first issue of the journal: "The Harvest" by Amy Hempel, "Sea Animals" by Tom Spanbauer, and "The Slit" by Yannick Murphy. Gordon Lish is an acclaimed author and editor. A former editor at Esquire and Alfred A. Knopf, he is celebrated for his notable work with authors including Raymond Carver, Denis Donoghue, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus, and Christine Schutt, among many others. His previous books include Dear Mr. Capote, What I Know So Far, Mourner at the Door, Extravaganza, White Plains, Peru, Zimzum, The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish, and more. He is married and lives in New York. He is 89 years old. Literary Guise Podcast: A Book Club for Modern MenA cocktail-infused book podcast, examining positive and toxic portrayals of masculinity.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showRead Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.comhttps://readmetosleepricky.com

paypal.me/LibroTobias Amy Hempel es una de las autoras americanas con más renombre en la actualidad. La editorial Seix Barral publicó en 2009 un libro con sus relatos, “Cuentos completos”, traducidos al castellano por Silvia Barbero Marchena, con prólogo de Rick Moody. Canciones: • “Born Free" de Matt Monro • “Here, There and Everywhere” de The Beatles Narración: Asier Menéndez Marín Diseño logo Podcast: albacanodesigns (Alba Cano) Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

In this new episode of Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker reads Christopher Coe's 1987 short debut novel I Look Divine, first published by Knopf and edited by Gordon Lish. Coe was a classmate at Columbia of Amy Hempel, David Leavitt, and Anderson Ferrell. His second and last book was the novel Such Times. He died of AIDS at 39 in 1994.  For the music, thanks to Magdalena Baczewska. Support the show

Episode 136 Notes and Links to Rachel Yoder's Work        On Episode 136 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Rachel Yoder, and the two discuss, among other topics, her Mennonite upbringing that was rich with books and libraries, her inspirations from her background and from college professors, and the myriad relatable and profound themes that populate her smash-hit Nightbitch, as Rachel shares the excitement that comes with the movie being adapted into a film. Rachel and Pete also discuss archetypes and double-standards and pressures both external and internal that come with motherhood and parenthood.        Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch (Doubleday), her debut novel released in July 2021, which has also been optioned for film by Annapurna Pictures with Amy Adams set to star. She is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. Her writing has been awarded with The Editors' Prize in Fiction by The Missouri Review and with notable distinctions in Best American Short Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is also a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. Rachel grew up in a Mennonite community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio. She now lives in Iowa City with her husband and son. Rachel Yoder's Website   Buy Rachel's Nightbitch   Review of Nightbitch-“a feral debut” in The Guardian    Information from Variety about Upcoming Movie Version of Nighbitch At about 1:50, Rachel talks about the exciting prospects for Nightbitch being made into a movie   At about 3:25, Rachel describes growing up in Ohio and her relationship with language and reading   At about 6:50, Rachel tells of the John Benton books she read as a child   At about 8:55, Rachel describes how writing was a “natural thing” and a hobby and how writing became essential during her time in Arizona   At about 11:00, Rachel cites Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, Lorrie Moore, Hemingway, Pam Houston, and others as “formative writers” for her   At about 12:30, Rachel talks about short stories that changed the way she viewed the medium; she cites Amy Hempel's “The Harvest”   At about 15:05, Rachel talks about contemporary writers who thrill and inspire her, include Miriam Toews, Ottessa Moshfegh   At about 16:55, Rachel gives background on her immediate post-college jobs and writing background   At about 18:05, Rachel responds to Pete's question about how visual art and the idea of the muse work in with her writing process and writing material   At about 21:10, Rachel reads from the beginning of the book and discusses the genesis of the book's title    At about 25:20, Pete and Rachel ruminate on the dog from the book as a literal thing   At about 26:30, Pete shares the book blurb from Carmen Maria Machado in citing comparisons to Kafka's work; Rachel then discusses the balance between writing allegory and straightforward prose   At about 29:55, Pete contributes to a possible future blurb with another comparison of the book to another   At about 30:30, Rachel explains her thought process in not giving a name to the titular character   At about 31:45, Pete cites a famous quote in pointing out Rachel's work and subject matter work so well as fiction   At about 32:20, Pete and Rachel discuss themes of the singular focus of motherhood and “before and after motherhood”   At about 36:55, Pete and Rachel highlight ideas of ambition and regret and burdens carried by women intergenerationally with regard to moving scenes from the book   At about 40:20, Pete wonders about ideas of blame and culpability for oppression targeting women, and Rachel analyzes Nightbitch's background and how it informed her later life   At about 43:35, Mommy groups (!) are discussed, along with the lasting image from the book   At about 44:50, The two discuss the role and importance of the “mystic, the iconoclast” who was Nightbitch's grandmother   At about 45:50, Rachel discusses the stylistic choice of italicizing certain lines in her book   At about 47:20, The two talk about Wanda White and her Field Guide and their importance in the book   At about 50:00, Rachel explains background on the needs for community and their    At about 51:30, The two discuss themes of art and performance and their myriad meanings in conjunction with the book   At about 55:15, Pete compliments Rachel's writing that serves as informational and affecting without becoming didactic; Pete reads a profound paragraph from page 237 that illustrates this   At about 1:10:00, Rachel outlines some future projects   At about 1:02:50, Rachel gives her social media info and recommends places to buy the book, including Prairie Lights Bookstore, where you can a signed copy     You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.  This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.     The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.     Please tune in for Episode 137 with Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and Tony-nominated producer. A leading voice for the human rights of immigrants, his best-selling memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, was published by HarperCollins in 2018. His second book, White Is Not a Country, will be published by Knopf in 2023.     The episode will air on August 12. 

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This week I spoke with Jennie Edgar, who has led (as she says) many lives, from starting a pie business to working as a freelance editorial and art director. Since 2018, Jennie has been writing and designing for thoughtful brands to refine their editorial voice and aesthetic expression. Additionally, she's a visual artist and the founder of So Textual, a platform that promotes community around reading, so we talk about her style of reading and how that varies from her husband's and mine, and how the way we read, as well as what we read, is unique to each of us. We also cover effect theory, book culture, and literary artists we love like Eve Babitz, Adrianne Lenker, her grandma, and Nora Ephron. She talks about looking at one's life like a project and answers a question from our mutual friend Maddie on what it means to be a narrative-led person. I loved this wide-ranging conversation and am eager to hear what you think of it and how you read. Show Notes:- Follow Jennie on the Web | Instagram- Check out So Textual on the Web | Instagram- I Love Dick by Chris Kraus- Amy Hempel's collected stories- Sign up for Maddie Coleman's newsletter- The Podcast Kit is 50% off through the end of July with code summer- Sign up for the waitlist for the re-imagined Creative Underdogs/In Process (coming soon)!- Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox- Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout Sponsors:First Person cognitive supplements: get 15% percent off your first order by going to getfirstperson.com and use code letitout

The queens ask Denise Duhamel's superhero poet origin story in Part One of their interview.Buy Denise's books at Loyalty Bookstore, a DC-area Black-owned bookstore.  Denise Duhamel was a sociology major in undergrad. Her most recent books of poetry are Second Story; Scald; and Blowout, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; The Star-Spangled Banner; and Kinky. She and Maureen Seaton have co-authored four poetry collections, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New). Her collaboration with Julie Marie Wade, The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, was published by Noctuary Press in 2019. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She served as the guest editor is for The Best American Poetry 2013.Dangerous Diane is also known as DANGEROUS DIANE SPODAREK. Her website is: http://dangerousdiane.blogspot.com. She also has an MFA, from Eastern Michigan in video & performance.Flanagan, Bob and David Trinidad published A TASTE OF HONE with Cold Calm Press, 1990.If you don't know what a gay bear is, think: dad bod-burly, hirsute, lumberjack vibes, though of course there are lots of different kind of bears, including femme bears, polar bears, and younger bears, called cubs. If you want to know more about gay taxonomy, visit my Instagram. You can listen to the pronunciation of Orchises Press here.Click here to read more about Bill Knott, and here to see a poem of his set to video and music (~1 min).Click here to read more about Michael Burkard.Click here to read Lyn Lifshin's poem "The Fathers." You can see her give a reading here (~2 min).Read more about Tom Lux. More about Jean Valentine can be found here. Jayne Anne Phillips's Sweethearts (illustrated by Yvonne Jacquette) can be found online and bought for like $120. You can see Phillips read with Amy Hempel for The Strand here (~60 min).Over the last 40 years, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe has served as a home for groundbreaking works of poetry, music, theater and visual arts. A multicultural and multi-arts institution, the Cafe gives voice to a diverse group of rising poets, actors, filmmakers and musicians. Visit them online at https://www.nuyorican.org

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Heavy Feather Review (heavyfeatherreview.org), Jason Teal is the author of We Were Called Specimens (KERNPUNKT Press, 2020), which was a finalist for Big Other's Reader's Choice and Best Fiction Book Awards. Amy Hempel selected his story “Inedible Human Food” as second-place winner of the Mikrokosmos 2020 Fiction Contest. Other writing appears in 3:AM Magazine, Quarterly West, SmokeLong Quarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Hobart, among other publications. If you're writing cool, strange, different literature, if you're publishing online, if you'd like more readers or if you know someone doing any of those things, send me some writing at leftthehoseonpod@gmail.com Thank you to Theo Teravainen for the intro music.

FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS presents the first of fifteen short stories entitled The Master of the Minimalist written by Amy Hempel. Longlisted for the Pen/Faulkner Award, one of Time's 100 Best Books of the Year, and one of NPR's Best Books of 2019, Hempel reveals writing at her most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces characters, lonely and adrift, and searching for connection. Ravishing, heartbreaking, and powerfully concise, Sing to It is an “exquisite collection” (The Wall Street Journal) and a “quiet masterpiece by a true American original” (NPR).

Guest host Meg Wolitzer presents three diverse stories that look at what gets left behind when life changes, gradually or suddenly.  Restless retirees try on the ultimate next step in Greg Ames'  funny “Funeral Platter,” performed by Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole.  The family in Julia Alvarez's “Liberty” are on their way to a new life in America, but it's difficult leaving the old one behind.  The reader is Laura Gomez.  And a trainer of guide dogs for the blind learns how to let go, in Amy Hempel's “The Dog of the Marriage,” performed by Joan Allen.   Join and give!: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/symphonyspacenyc?code=Splashpage See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Incontro con Amy Hempel. Presenta Antonio Riccardi ll nuovo e attesissimo libro di Amy Hempel, una delle voci più celebri e originali della narrativa di oggi, si apre con un proverbio arabo: “Quando il pericolo si avvicina, cantagli una canzone”. Queste quindici storie raffinate rivelano la parte più umana e vivace della leggendaria scrittrice, che ci presenta figure solitarie e alla deriva in cerca di una connessione. Edizione 2020 www.pordenonelegge.it

Kate and Medaya talk with poet, essayist, and critic Jackie Wang about her new collection of poetry The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void.  As an Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School, Wang also works on race, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police.  In her poetry, she uses dreams to get to very concrete historical and social issues; along with the apocalypse, survival, intimacy, speech, silence and of course, sunflowers. Jackie discusses the relationship between her poetry and academic work; and her exploration of dreams, psychoanalysis, and the work of the imagination “the work of creating openings where there were previously none.” Also, Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days, returns to recommend both Daniel Orozco's collection of stories Orientation; and also Amy Hempel's collection Sing To It.

Kate and Medaya talk with poet, essayist, and critic Jackie Wang about her new collection of poetry The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void.  As an Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School, Wang also works on race, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police.  In her poetry, she uses dreams to get to very concrete historical and social issues; along with the apocalypse, survival, intimacy, speech, silence and of course, sunflowers. Jackie discusses the relationship between her poetry and academic work; and her exploration of dreams, psychoanalysis, and the work of the imagination “the work of creating openings where there were previously none.” Also, Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days, returns to recommend both Daniel Orozco's collection of stories Orientation; and also Amy Hempel's collection Sing To It.

Meet Alfred Brown IV, educator and vocalist of the LA hardcore punk band Dangers. He’s into Amy Hempel. Like, really into Amy Hempel. Listen in for a deep conversation covering everything from the unintended emptiness of slogan-heavy lyrics to Hempel’s short story rhythm to questioning the need to categorize any type of writing — fiction, non-fiction, memoir, et al. — as anything other than just prose. Make sure you check out Alfred Brown IV as well as his work in Dangers and Cultural Materials. Oh, and grab a copy of that Hempel collection and signal to the world that you are most definitely on the correct wavelength.

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by #1 New York Times bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, Choke, Haunted, and many others.  His newest novel is The Invention of Sound, published by our friends at Grand Central Publishing.  Topics of conversation include the current situation in Portland, the world of Hollywood sound effects, the Fontaine Method, Amy Hempel, saving voicemails left by deceased friends and family members, and much more.  Copies of The Invention of Sound can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.

Untreue Männer, sinnsuchende Frauen - Amy Hempel erzählt in ihren Storys "Sing" vom alten Drama zwischen Mann und Frau. Jeder ihrer Sätze scheint klar und birgt doch ein Rätsel. Großartige Literatur von einer bei uns noch unbekannten Autorin. Von Manuela Reichart www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode writers and editors talk about anthologies and gender balance, and read from their very favourite short stories. Featuring Sinéad Gleeson, Alan Hayes, Rob Doyle, Eimear Ryan and Philip St John. Chaired by Lia Mills with music by Ciara Sidine, accompanied by Conor Brady. Ciara’s daughters Ava and Romy also feature. For rights reasons you will only hear clips from Ciara’s songs, to hear more visit www.ciarasidine.com Recorded at Farmleigh House on 6 April 2018 The Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson read by Philip St John The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Robbins read by Lia Mills San Francisco by Amy Hempel read by Eimear Ryan Zidane's Melancholy by Jean-Philippe Toussaint read by Rob Doyle People Like that are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk by Lorrie Moore read by Sinéad Gleeson Alan Hayes reads Butcher Bird by Geraldine Mills; The New Wife by Órfhlaith Foyle; Staying Thin for Daddy by Deirdre Brennan; I, Caroline by Nuala O'Connor Finest Flower, Watching the Dark, Trouble Come Find Me and Little Bird Song by Ciara Sidine Our theme tune is Dream of the forest (jazzy mix) by articom (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/articom/61177

TARA LASKOWSKI is the award-winning author of the debut suspense novel, One Night Gone, and two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders. She has had stories published in numerous magazines and anthologies such as Mid-American Review, Barcelona Review, and the Norton anthologies Flash Fiction International and New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, among others. Her Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine story, “The Case of the Vanishing Professor,” won the 2019 Agatha Award and her Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine story, “States of Matter,” was selected by Amy Hempel for the 2017 Best Small Fictions anthology. Tara was the winner of the 2010 Santa Fe Writers Project’s Literary Awards Prize, was the longtime editor of the popular online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly, and is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers. She and her husband, writer Art Taylor, write the column Long Story Short at the Washington Independent Review of Books. She earned a BA in English with a minor in writing from Susquehanna University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. She grew up in Pennsylvania and lives in Virginia. Follow her on Twitter, @TaraLWrites.Art Taylor is the author of the story collection The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense and of the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise, winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He won the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Short Story for “English 398: Fiction Workshop,” originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and he has won three additional Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, three Macavity Awards, and three consecutive Derringer Awards for his short fiction. His work has also appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, and he edited Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015, winner of the Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection. He is an associate professor of English at George Mason University, and he has contributed frequently to the Washington Post, the Washington Independent Review of Books, and Mystery Scene Magazine.

Beloved Brooklyn novelist and essayist Rick Moody discusses his memoir The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony in an emotional and moving conversation about writing and family with fellow fiction writer Amy Hempel. (Recorded at the Fort Greene store on August 15, 2019.)

We've spent this fall season looking at some of the best stories to teach in creative writing workshops. It's our last week, and we're talking flash fiction. Definitions of flash vary, but generally speaking the term seems to apply to short stories of fewer than 1,000 words. We discuss our approaches toward teaching flash fiction generally, and then we dive into a few specific pieces: "What Happened to the Phillips?" by Tyrese Coleman; Jacob Guajardo's "Good News Is Coming"; "When It's Human and When It's Dog" by Amy Hempel; and two short pieces by Joy Williams. If you like the show and would like more Book Fight in your life, consider subscribing to our Patreon. For $5/month, you'll get access to regular bonus episodes, including monthly episodes of Book Fight After Dark, where we read some of the world's weirdest--and steamiest!--novels. We've also recently begun a new series of Patreon-only mini-episodes called Reading the Room, in which we offer advice on how to navigate awkward, writing-related social situations.

Esta semana en nuestra “Sección principal” traigo a la genial escritora, periodista, médico forense… Amy Hempel. Reconocida autora del mítico relato “La cosecha” y que con menos de medio centenar de relatos breves compilados en 4 antologías es una de las mejores escritoras vivas. Os hablaré de ella y de su obra y os leeré su relato “El centro". Además en la sección “Rodajes malditos” viajamos a 1982 para volver a reunirnos con Werner Herzog y Klaus Kinski, y tras hablar hace una semanas de “Aguirre la cólera de Dios” os traigo esta vez “Fitzcarraldo” que nos narraba la historia real de un excéntrico y megalómano hombre de negocios y cuyo rodaje fue un auténtico infierno. Finalmente en la sección “¿Qué fue de?” os hablo de Betty Naomi Goldstein a la que conocemos por su apellido de casada, Friedan. En 1963 escribió “La mística de la feminidad” un libro clave en la historia del pensamiento feminista y considerado como uno de los libros de no ficción más influyentes del siglo XX. Tiempos: Sección principal: del 00:02:49 al 01:23:31 Sección “Rodajes malditos”: del 01:23:32 al 02:11:59 Sección “¿Qué fue de?”: del 02:12:00 al 02:56:49 Presentación, dirección, edición y montaje: Asier Menéndez Marín Diseño logo Podcast: albacanodesigns (Alba Cano) Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

This week on The Easy Chair, it's the iconic short story writer Amy Hempel's “The Cemetery When Al Jolson Is Buried.” This poignant story is about bearing witness to the final days of a best friend's life. Full disclosure: I had to record the end four times before I made it through without crying. Also note: there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING even remotely maudlin about Hempel's story. Like all of her work, it's brutally, beautifully honest. Tune in to hear this heartbreaking short story masterpiece. This week's sponsor is Rothy's. The holidays mean celebrations with friends and family. Why not feel comfortable and look stylish? Rothy's makes flats for women and kids out of plastic water bottles, so even better- they are sustainable, too! Go to www.Rothys.com/chair to get the flats you've been waiting for in time for the holidays. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It took Amanda Goldblatt eight years to write her debut novel, HARD MOUTH. The result is a brilliantly inventive work combining style with emotional impact and classic storytelling. She and James talk about their long friendship, cutting the apocalypse, summoning (or not) imaginary beings, making rules for novels, and remembering the books they read as kids. Plus, Amanda's agent from Frances Goldin Literary Agency, Caroline Eisenmann.  - Amanda Goldblatt: https://amandagoldblatt.com/ Buy HARD MOUTH: Buy HARD MOUTH from your local indie bookstore! Amanda and James discuss:  Washington University  THE CUPBOARD  Eugene Pallette  Caroline Eisenmann  Turner Classic Movies  POND by Claire-Louise Bennett  MY MAN GODFREY  HATCHET by Gary Paulsen  THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON by Johann David Wyss Harry Potter THE HUNGER GAMES  E.T.  J Dilla  VOX  Notorious B.I.G.  Andre 3000  MF Doom  Talib Kweli  Kerri Webster  Gordon Lish  Gary Lutz  Amy Hempel  Sam Lipsyte  Christine Schutt  "The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Gary Lutz  Jim Shepard  Mary Ruefle  Tim O'Brien  Marilynne Robinson Denis Johnson  Cormac McCarthy  - Caroline Eisenmann: https://goldinlit.com/agents/ Caroline and James discuss:  NOON  James Salyer  Mary Gaitskill  Annie Proulx  Ottessa Moshfegh  Halle Butler  Claire Messud  Nell Zink  Garth Greenwell  Jack Kerouac  Ernest Hemingway  I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM by Peter Kispert  ICM  GOING DUTCH by James Gregor  Simon & Schuster  THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P by Adelle Waldman  THE LONGING FOR LESS: LIVING WITH MINIMALILSM by Kyle Chayka - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Lynn Maleh comes back on to discuss Amy Hempel's first new book in over a decade, Sing To It. Spending too much time on social media, married men, abortion, murder, dating the same man with a different face, do writers even know what they mean? Wishing you didn't need attention, dog shelters, feeling seen. The girls read a few of the very short stories aloud.   @HeyLynnMolly @ComicsBookClub   https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vulnerability-a-comedy-show-tickets-65867801367

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls, Richard Russo is acclaimed for capturing the ''foolishness of this lonely world, but also the humor, friendship and love that abide'' (San Francisco Chronicle). His novel Nobody's Fool, starring the world-worn protagonist Sully and the irresistible residents of North Bath, New York, was adapted into a popular film starring Paul Newman and spawned a popular follow-up, Everybody's Fool. In Chances Are . . ., three 66-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard to reminisce about their college days and solve a mystery that has haunted them for decades. ''Among the strongest voices in American fiction'' (Los Angeles Times), writer's writer Amy Hempel is the author of the acclaimed short-story collections Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, she teaches in the creative writing programs at Bennington College and Stony Brook Southampton. In Sing to It, Hempel employs her singular style of prose to reveal characters in search of connection, compassion, and reckoning. (recorded 8/6/2019)

A random sign for free dogs inspired Mary Miller to drop a manuscript she'd been researching and create the character of Louis McDonald, Jr. for her hilarious and heartbreaking novel, BILOXI. She tells James about feeling indebted to her characters, teaching herself to write, looking in holes with her dog, needing to find joy, and reading with John Grisham. And bologna. And feet licking. Plus a chat with Bennet Johnson from Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI.  - Mary Miller: http://www.maryumiller.net/ BUY BILOXI: Buy BILOXI from an Indie Bookseller ALSO BY: BIG WORLD, THE LAST DAYS OF CALIFORNIA, ALWAYS HAPPY HOUR  Mary and James discuss:  Frederick Barthelme Jerry Seinfeld  THE MOTEL LIFE by Willy Vlautin  THE OFFICE  THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy  THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt  Books-A-Million ZOETROPE ON WRITING by Stephen King  BIRD BY BIRD by Anne Lamott  Elizabeth Ellen  Aaron Burch  Square Books  Lemuria Book Store  Bennet Johnson  Literati Bookstore Parnassus Books John Evans  Richard Howorth Lisa Howorth  Grisham Writers in Residence  John and Renee Grisham  Michener Center for Writers  Ann Patchett  Ole Miss  Mississippi State  Claudia Smith Chen Kevin Sampsell  REM  Elizabeth Spencer  Tom Franklin  Beth Ann Fennelly  W. W. Norton & Company  Charlie Day  IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA - Bennet Johnson  Literati Bookstore: https://www.literatibookstore.com/ Literati Cultura: https://www.literatibookstore.com/literati-cultura-collectors-club Bennet and James Discuss:  Mike & Hilary Gustafson  SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward  ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong  YOU KNOW YOU WANT THIS by Kristen Roupenian  OHIO by Stephen Markley  MIDWEST LITERARY WALK PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee  HAWKING by Jim Ottaviani  "Boys Town" by Jim Shepard  Calvin Trillin  Amy Hempel  Mary Ruefle  Kevin Wilson  Hannah Pittard  Lorrie Moore  Ernest Hemingway  Literati Book Store Presents  John U. Bacon  Randall Munroe Sister Helen Prejean  Salman Rushdie  Jonathan Safran Foer  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Kelda Martensen, born in Tacoma, Washington is a visual artist known for her work in printmaking, collage, book arts and murals. Awards include the Larry Sommers Fellowship, Bell Cramer Award in Printmaking and the Conceptual Visionary Award from Pratt Fine Art Center. Her teaching awards include the Dan Evans Innovation in Teaching Award, the John and Suanne Roueche Excellence Award and Association of Women Faculty Graduate Award. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France in 2011 and at Pratt Fine Art Center in Seattle in 2016. Her prints and artist books are in private and public collections including King County, the City of Tacoma, Google, Washington University in St. Louis Special Collections Library, Southern Graphics Council International Archive, Bokartas Contemporary Art Center, University of Missouri and Willamette University. Martensen is tenured faculty of art at North Seattle College where she teaches printmaking, drawing, book arts and mural art. Martensen earned a BA in Studio Art from Willamette University and an MFA in Visual Art with a focus in Printmaking and Book Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery. The books mentioned in the interview are Sista Tongue by Lisa Linn Kanae, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel and Becoming by Michelle Obama. Starting Again, 2019, Woodblock, Monotype, Solvent Transfer, Collage, 30 x 22 inches This Is Our Moment, 2019, Woodblock, Solvent Transfer, Digital Print Artist Book, 22 x 18 inches

For the 29th episode of Bookin', host Jason Jefferies is joined by Amy Hempel, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pen/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, to discuss her new book Sing To It: New Stories.  Signed copies of Sing To It can be purchased in-store at Quail Ridge Books, and online here (while supplies last).  

Emi takes the MDedge weekly quiz, she gives some advice for all the new interns out there, Nick suggests movies that could help interns and residents identify with the struggle, and Nick and Emi discuss the commentary "Better Words for Better Deaths" by this week's guest, Anna DeForest, MD. Show Outline: MDedge Quiz Emi answers questions from the #SoMeDocs Twitter chat. Nick's intern survival movie list: Miracle Whiplash Somm Nick and Emi discuss "Better Words for Better Deaths".  Interview: Interview with Anna DeForest, MD about her work in the New England Journal of Medicine. Reasons to Live (Short stories by Amy Hempel). Terror Management Theory   You can contact the show by emailing us at podcasts@mdedge.com and you can interact with Nick on Twitter @tribnic.

Amy Hempel, other bullshit.

This week on the pod, Dan and Eric discuss John Cassidy's piece on William Barr's letter; how they're both feeling about the release of the Mueller report; Elizabeth Kolbert's piece about the sinking bayou; James Wood's piece on Amy Hempel's newest collection; and Emily Nussbaum's second piece on "Billions."

 This week, Gayle and Nicole talk about the upcoming spring books that they are most excited about reading. There are a lot! And there's something for everyone on this list. We also reveal our upcoming book club schedule. Books mentioned in this episode: https://amzn.to/2Jt8yj5 (Woman 99) by Greer Macallister https://amzn.to/2OiJ1rE (Tin Man) by Sarah Winman https://amzn.to/2JqoX7H (Inheritance) by Dani Shapiro https://amzn.to/2YaLWqN (Elsey Come Home) by Susan Conley https://amzn.to/2ULCRmh (The Hunting Party) byLucy Foley https://amzn.to/2OilZ3Z (The Silent Patient) by Alex Michaelides https://amzn.to/2OfGnTk (Unraveling Oliver) by Liz Nugent https://amzn.to/2Jp7QTO (Here, Now and Then) by Mike Chen https://amzn.to/2Y9xO0O (Daisy Jones and the Six) by Taylor Jenkins Reid https://amzn.to/2JsMaq2 (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo) by Taylor Jenkins Reid https://amzn.to/2Ofw69K (One True Loves) by Taylor Jenkins Reid https://amzn.to/2Okotiw (After I Do) by Taylor Jenkins Reid https://amzn.to/2UOmwNI (The Wall) by John Lanchester https://amzn.to/2Y7H7hU (Sing To It) by Amy Hempel https://amzn.to/2Y7RSRv (White Elephant) by Julie Langsdorf https://amzn.to/2JG3F6r (Women Talking) by Miriam Toews https://amzn.to/2UKfSb2 ( The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters) by Balli Kaur Jaswal https://amzn.to/2Ydml0f (The Girl He Used To Know) by Tracy Garvis Graves   Support this podcast

In our final episode of our Sewanee Writers' Conference series recorded in the summer of 2018, James is joined by Christine Schutt, one of our greatest authors, to discuss her career from FLORIDA to her latest, PURE HOLLYWOOD. They cover a lot of books, and a lot of ground, from nerves about reading to insecurity about writing, in an honest and illuminating conversation. Plus, friend and (relatively) new PARIS REVIEW editor Emily Nemens.  -  Christine Schutt: https://www.christineschutt.com/  Christine and James discuss:  Christine's books: FLORIDA; A DAY, A NIGHT, ANOTHER DAY, SUMMER; NIGHTWORK; ALL SOULS; PROSPEROUS FRIENDS; PURE HOLLYWOOD: AND OTHER STORIES  Amy Hempel  Barry Hannah  Gordon Lish  Lucy Corin  UC Davis  Mary Jo Salter  John Casey Cheri Peters  William Gay  Wyatt Prunty  Jill McCorkle  AWP  Donald Justice  Elizabeth Bishop  BLUETS by Maggie Nelson  TRIQUARTERLY  National Book Award  Kathryn Davis  SLEEPLESS NIGHTS by Elizabeth Hardwick TRAIN DREAMS by Denis Johnson CHILD OF GOD by Cormac McCarthy  AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner  TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf  Diane Williams  NOON  Josh Weil  UC Irvine  The Nightingale-Bamford School  Wesleyan University  Mills College  Elizabeth Winthrop  GOSSIP GIRL by Cecily von Ziegesar Laura van den Berg  Elisabeth Schmitz   Margot Livesey  Alfred Hitchcock "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor  Alice Munro  Dan O'Brien  Maurice Manning  Clare Beams  - Emily Nemens: https://www.theparisreview.org/ Emily and James Discuss: THE PARIS REVIEW  THE SOUTHERN REVIEW  Diane Williams  WRITERS AT WORK  Pulitzer Prize  WOMEN AT WORK, INTERVIEWS FROM THE PARIS REVIEW  Francois Mauriac  Nadine Gordimer  Hernan Diaz  Kelli Jo Ford  Emily Bell  AWP  THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Tornano i Libri a Colacione, la rubrica di Tutto Esaurito su Radio 105! Questa settimana: Ragioni per vivere di Amy Hempel e Il Cigno nero di Nassin Nicholas Taleb.

Tornano i Libri a Colacione, la rubrica di Tutto Esaurito su Radio 105! Questa settimana: Ragioni per vivere di Amy Hempel e Il Cigno nero di Nassin Nicholas Taleb.

Tornano i Libri a Colacione, la rubrica di Tutto Esaurito su Radio 105! Questa settimana: Ragioni per vivere di Amy Hempel e Il Cigno nero di Nassin Nicholas Taleb.

Rebecca and comedian Lynn Maleh discuss the gorgeous book of short stories Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel. They talk earthquakes, how much we can give of ourselves,  going as far as the heart can go, having dead comics on the pod and also Jane Austen, and use Rebecca's pendulum to great success.   Follow: @HeyLynnMolly @ComicsBookClub @RebeccaRush639

One of James's favorite books of 2018 inspires one of his favorite conversations. Jon Pineda, author of LET'S NO ONE GET HURT, joins the show to talk about being worried for your characters, maintaining a sense of wonder, fooling yourself into writing, inventing the Voltron of fathers, becoming a cobbler (!) and living a life with fewer disclaimers. Plus, Miciah Bay Gault chats about HUNGER MOUNTAIN and the MFA in publishing and writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts.  - Jon Pineda: http://www.jonpineda.com/ Jon and James discuss: HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT dir by Kent Jones  HITCHCOCK by Francois Truffaut  NORTH BY NORTHWEST dir by Alfred Hitchcock Voltron  The Incredible Hulk  WE THE ANIMALS by Justin Torres  Marilynne Robinson  JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson  GIOVANNI'S ROOM by James Baldwin  IF THE SKY FALLS by Nicholas Montemarano THE LOVER by Marguerite Duras  Amy Hempel  ANGEL HEAD: A MEMOIR by Greg Bottoms  HELL AT THE BREECH by Tom Franklin  -  Miciah Bay Gault: https://vcfa.edu/ http://hungermtn.org/   Miciah and James discuss: Vermont College of Fine Arts Emerson College  Syracuse University  Melissa Febos  Donika Kelly  EPHEMERAL ARTERY  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Freak Weather (Massachusetts Press) From a nurse who sees a rattlesnake in the pediatric ICU to an animal control officer convinced she’s found her abducted daughter in the house of a dog hoarder, the thirteen stories in Freak Weather are as unpredictable as the atmospheric changes that give this collection its name. With dark and raucous humor, Mary Kuryla creates female characters who, at times, combine a violent urgency with lack of introspection as they struggle to get out from under the thumb of a perceived authority. The intricate language is inseparable from the narrator’s conviction; the characters lie with such bravado they’re soon tangled up in their own webs. This brand of romanticism in a female character is little tolerated, and Freak Weather’s mission—Kuryla’s artistic mission overall—is to scratch at the intolerable. Call it bad instructions for moralbehavior. Mary Kuryla has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Prize. Several of the stories in this collection have been adapted into award-winning films that premiered at the Sundance, London, Edinburgh, and Toronto International film festivals. Praise for Freak Weather “There is a feral quality to some of these stories, an attitude that is truly startling. The language is perfectly matched to the not-so- conflicted women living off venison, weed, and their husband’s paychecks. The territory here is sometimes disturbing; the treatment of these people who are in over their heads is always both tough and surprisingly moving. The ‘action’ resides as much in the brisk, fresh language as in what these people conjure in a crisis. Ultimately, the author delivers stories unlike anyone else’s.”—Amy Hempel, Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction judge and author of The Dog of the Marriage: Stories “This is what they mean by muscular prose, but with lithe muscles, quick and bright, and dueling senses of swagger and grimness. A striking and satisfying debut.”—Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master: Stories "What a memorable, witty, imaginative collection this is, beautifully modulated, extravagant yet precise. Each story is startling and expertly hewn, with a perfect balance of toughness and whimsy.”—Joanna Scott, author of De Potter’s Grand Tour “A powerful collection of stories about women who are unapologetically themselves—often struggling, sometimes drunk, sometimes irresponsible, but in all cases painfully human and alive. Each of these pieces opens a window onto a life and then, before we have time to explain to ourselves how we’re not like that, abruptly slams it shut, leaving us exquisitely off balance.”—Brian Evenson, author of The Warren “There is much beguiling strangeness in the pages of Freak Weather, but there are no strangers: you know all of these people. They're the slightly scary neighbors, the folks who talk a little too loudly in the convenience store, the children who act older than they should. You've wanted to know about their lives, and now  they're telling you everything. Simultaneously appalling and gorgeous.”—Pinckney Benedict, author of Miracle Boy & Other Stories Mary Kuryla’s collection Freak Weather: Stories was selected by Amy Hempel for the 2016 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. She has been the recipient of The Pushcart Prize, as well as the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared in Epoch, Shenandoah, Denver Quarterly, Witness, Greensboro Review, Pleiades, The New Orleans Review, The Normal School and Alaska Quarterly Review, among others. She is the author, with Eugene Yelchin, of The Heart of the Snowman, Ghost Files: The Haunting Truth, and The Next Door Bear for Harper Children’s Books. Her award-winning shorts and feature films have premiered at Sundance and Toronto. She has written screen adaptations for United Artists and MGM. She teaches screenwriting and media studies at Loyola Marymount University and Emerson, Los Angeles. Award-winning actress Brenda Wehle has appeared in film and TV (American Beauty, Woman Walks Ahead), and worked extensively in New York, most recently on Broadway in The Crucible. She is currently in Mary Jane at the New York Theatre Workshop. A member of the Guthrie Theater Acting Company, she appeared in over 35 productions. 

Afterglow (a dog memoir) (Grove Press) Prolific and widely renowned poet, novelist, and essayist Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work “set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match” (New York Review of Books). Afterglow (a dog memoir), Myles’ first foray into memoir, paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called Rosie. In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and work. During the course of their sixteen years together, Myles was madly devoted to the dog’s wellbeing, especially in her final days. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie’s death, Afterglow launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet-owner. Through this lens, we witness Myles’s experiences with intimacy and spirituality, celebrity and politics, alcoholism and recovery, fathers and family history, gender, romance, memory, as well as the fantastical myths we invent to get to the heart of grief. Afterglow joins a grand literary tradition of writers paying homage to a beloved dog—J. R. Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip, Virginia Woolf’s Flush, Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs, Amy Hempel’s stories, as well as Mark Doty’s Dog Years, and even Abigail Thomas’s A Three Dog Life—but as one might suspect, Myles’ entry in the canon subverts both genre and tradition and stands apart as resolutely its own thing. Combining screenplay, monologue, science fiction, and lucid memory, the text is animated with photos, diagrams, drawings, and poems to craft a mosaic of their life together. Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myles’s childhood puppet, to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull; from lyrical transcriptions of their walks, to Rosie’s enlightened narration from the afterlife, Afterglow illuminates the surreal and familiar aspects of what it means to dedicate your existence to a dog. Praise for Afterglow “A rare new breed of dog memoir; think Patti’s Smith’s Just Kids, not John Grogan’s Marley and Me, absinthe not saccharine” –Library Journal (starred review) “Myles’ work is a perfect example of what happens when you mix raw language with emotion, pets with loss, and sexuality with socioculturalism. . . A captivating look at a poet’s repeated attempt ‘to dig a hole in eternity’ through language.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “For more than 16 years, Myles was companioned by a pit bull named Rosie until Rosie did what dogs do and left the author to navigate a post-Rosie world, solo. In the after of Rosie, poet Myles . . . . writesthis unconventional, uncontainable, phantasmagoric memoir of dog and owner. . . . Poetic, heartrending, soothing, and funny, this is a mind-expanding contemplation of creation, the act and the noun, and the creatures whose deaths we presume will precede ours but whose lives make our own better beyond reason. To this, readers should bring tissues, pencil and paper, even their dogs.”–Annie Bostrom, Booklist (starred review) “Myles uses a pastiche approach to explore the bodily, cerebral, and esoteric/religious aspects of the grieving process, all of which is portrayed with meditative poignancy . . . Myles depicts the raw pathos of loss with keen insight.” –Publishers Weekly “A ravishingly strange and gorgeous book about a dog that’s really about life and everything there is, Eileen Myles’s Afterglow is a truly astonishing creation.”–Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk Eileen Myles—who prefers to use a gender-neutral pronoun—is the author of more than twenty books, including Chelsea Girls, Cool For You, and most recently, I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems 1975-2014. Their many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, four Lambda Literary Awards, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Art Writing, the Shelley Memorial Award from The Poetry Society of America, Creative Capital’s Literature Award as well as an Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers’ Grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. They live in Marfa, TX and New York City. Their poems were featured in seasons 2 and 3 of the Emmy-winning show Transparent.

WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency “Plot can be more unsettling than argument which can be answered.” In her summer lecture "What Is Light Without Dark?: Using Thematic Contrast to Build Narrative Tension and Character," Guest Fiction Faculty Mesha Maren quotes and discusses Eudora Welty's "Must the Novelist Crusade?" Other texts discussed in this lecture: Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian; Luis Alberto Urrea, The Devil’s Highway; Breece Pancake, “First Day of Winter”; Bonnie Jo Campbell, “The Trespasser”; Phil Klay, “Bodies”; Toni Morrison, Beloved; Amy Hempel, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried”

In 2004, Daniel Wallace led a workshop at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference that changed James's life. They reconnect to discuss Daniel's wonderful new book, EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES, and in the process touch on not trusting compliments, using word clouds, writing sex scenes, and why no one is named Crouton. Then, Kelly Luce joins the show to talk about working with Denis Johnson, who passed away on May 24.    Daniel Wallace: http://danielwallace.org James and Daniel Discuss: Hannah Tinti  Gordon Lish  Columbia University  Amy Hempel  ESQUIRE MAGAZINE Bread Loaf Writers' Conference  ONE STORY Thomas Edison  Leo Tolstoy  -  Kelly Luce: http://kellyluce.com/ Kelly and James Discuss: Denis Johnson works-  JESUS' SON  TRAIN DREAMS  TREE OF SMOKE  ANGELS  FISKADORO THE NAME OF THE WORLD  Thomas Pynchon  Joy Williams  "The Late Homecomer" by Mavis Gallant The Book of Jonah  "Gambling Hans" by the Grimm Brothers   - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Sing the Song (Future Tense Books) After steadily garnering attention and gaining fans with her appearances in various magazines and websites, Meredith Alling comes out with her debut collection of stories, Sing the Song. For fans of writers like Diane Williams, Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, Ben Marcus, and Amelia Gray, Alling’s debut will signal the arrival of a new unique voice in fiction. Featuring 27 stories in 100 pages, Alling’s collection is propulsive, dangerous, often funny, and powered by a language that wrestles with anxiety and the unexpected surrealism of modern life. With an ancient ham crawling out from a sewer to tell fortunes, a lone blonde at a party for redheads, and a mother outsmarting a masked criminal,Sing the Song bleeds and breathes with dreamlike surprise. Meredith Alling lives and works in Los Angeles. Her short fiction has appeared in Tin House, No Tokens, The Fanzine, Spork, The Guardian, and elsewhere.  Siel Ju's novel-in-stories, Cake Time, is the winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Manuscript Award and will be published in April 2017. Siel is also the author of two poetry chapbooks. Her stories and poems appear in ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review (Poem of the Week), The Los Angeles Review, Denver Quarterly, and other places.

Though it's long since faded, James confesses his grad school-era jealousy of Matt. Once they clear that up, they discuss how Matt arrived at his voice and how he learned to write his marvelous sentences. They celebrate writing as work and the spaces in their lives that stories occupy. Then, Stephanie Appell from Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, discusses the history of YA books and makes some recommendations.    Matt and James Discuss:  Aimee Bender  Kurt Vonnegut  Amy Hempel  Raymond Carver  JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson REEL by Tobias Carroll  "The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Gary Lutz   "The Geography of Sentences" by Emily Brisse  ARTFUL SENTENCES: SYNTAX AS STYLE by Virginia Tufte Gordon Lish Sam Lipsyte Christine Schutt Brian Evenson Michael Kimball Diane Williams "Human Behavior" by Bjork, dir by Michel Gondry  Kate Bernheimer  Joyelle McSweeney  Laird Hunt  FENCE  "Where's Iago?" by Susan Neville  Laura van den Berg    Stephanie and James Discuss:   LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott  THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK dir by Ron Howard THE OUTSIDERS by S.E. Hinton Horatio Alger   PREP by Curtis Sittenfeld  THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak  James Patterson  SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson  I'LL GIVE YOU THE SUN by Jandy Nelson THE ASTONISHING TALE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING by M.T. Anderson  A NORTHERN LIGHT by Jennifer Donnelly  Marcus Sedgwick Nova Ren Suma  Ashley Herring Blake  SEX AND VIOLENCE by Carrie Mesrobian Siobban Vivian  THE RAVEN CYCLE series by Maggie Stiefvater  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/  

After some negative pre-publication reviews, Jamie Quatro feared the worst. Then, critic James Wood and the NYTBR (among others) hailed her collection, I WANT TO SHOW YOU MORE, as a classic. Jamie and James talk about conflating writer and subject matter, depicting the female gaze and female sexuality, and writing novels vs short stories. Then, the agent Anna Stein joins the show to go over what an agent does, how to find one, and mistakes writers make along the way.      Jamie and James Discuss:  David Gates  Amy Hempel  Bennington College Low Residency MFA  Princeton University Pepperdine University  Sheila Kohler  E.M. Forster  Franz Kafka  Flannery O'Connor  Margot Livesey  Andre Dubus (II)  PROXIES: ESSAYS NEAR KNOWING by Brian Blanchfield  Sewanee Writers' Conference  RUNNER'S WORLD  INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace  QUACK THIS WAY by David Foster Wallace  BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN by David Foster Wallace  BLUETS by Maggie Nelson Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop  THE FUN STUFF: AND OTHER ESSAYS by James Wood  Claire Messud  Wyatt Prunty  Ann Patchett  Urban Waite  Lincoln Michel  George Saunders  Lydia Davis Alice Munro  INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout  P.J. Mark  Barry Hannah Steven Milhauser  A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS by Gabriel Garcia Marquez  LADIES AND GENTLEMEN by Adam Ross  Yaddo  Sylvia Plath  Ted Hughes Zadie Smith  The Old Testament  THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner  Grove Atlantic    Anna and James Discuss:  Hanya Yanagihara  Ben Lerner  Garth Greenwell  Maria Semple  NEVERHOME by Laird Hunt  THE MOTHER-IN-LAW CURE by Katherine Wilson  THE EVENING ROAD by Laird Hunt  THE STORY OF A BRIEF MARRIAGE by Anuk Aradpragasam  THE CLANCYS OF QUEENS by Tara Clancy  TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT by Maria Semple  THE PARIS REVIEW  Sewanee Writers' Conference  A LITTLE LIFE by Hanya Hanagihara  WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell    http://tkpod.com  /  tkwithjs@gmail.com  /  Twitter: @JamesScottTK https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/  /  Instagram: tkwithjs     

Jesse Donaldson tells James about the Oxycodone scourge, the effect it has had on his home state of Kentucky, and how it informed his debut novel, THE MORE THEY DISAPPEAR. He also recommends writing while gardening, and recalls the time he drove to New York with a tape-playing robot. Plus Lauren Cerand joins the show to discuss book publicity.    Jesse and James Discuss: FOURTH OF JULY CREEK by Smith Henderson  PHAIDON  ANDY WARHOL CATALOGUE RAISONNE Kenyon College  Lewis Hyde  P.F. Kluge Breece D'J Pancake  Denis Johnson ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD by Mark Richard  Amy Hempel  Raymond Carver  Graham Greene  Ernest Hemingway  Jorge Luis Borges  Becca Wadlinger George Saunders  Mary Karr  RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco  Samuel Beckett  ELBOW ROOM by James Alan McPherson "Trilobites" by Breece D'J Pancake  Raymond Chandler  DREAMLAND by Sam Quinones  ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren  THE QUIET AMERICAN by Graham Greene  Edith Wharton  Daniel Woodrell  FALCONER by John Cheever  Ross Macdonald  KC Constantine  Jamie Gordon  SPORT OF KINGS by C.E. Morgan  Michael Parker         

ASHLEY SANDERS writer, mastermind behind the legendary "discussion night," storyteller, activist and community organizer works at Move to Amend and Peaceful Uprising JAMES LYONS http://viewfromaboxcar.blogspot.com/, @xames Music: "Peace" by Asa, "Primavera" by Ludovico Einaudi and "Movin' On" by David Lynch The Books: Gary Lutz (Ashley reads a quote about story) "Reasons to Live" by Amy Hempel "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron "The Small Backs of Children" by Lydia Yuknavich "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbury "Harry Potter" by J. K. Rowling "Shocked" by Patricia Volk "Starting Sally J. Freedman as Herself" by Judy Blume "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett RIVER WRITING: Margaret Atwood's 10 Rules of Writing https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/05/margaret-atwood-10-rules-of-writing/ Robert Burrow's Trance Writing http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/5825-populism-isnt-dead-its-marching-what-19th-century-farmers-can-teach-occupiers-about-how-to-keep-going https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DLnhdnSUVs #riverwriting #activism #storytelling #writing #freelancing #handwriting #placenta #periods #jobs #writingclasses #imitatingauthors #write #bravado #showdonttell #flow #artistdates #creativity #inkandworm #rfb pic swiped from IG @theprincessbutch

Amy Hempel's first published story was a breakout success, and has gone on to be one of the most anthologized stories of the last few decades. We talk about her path to success, and why this story has resonated. We also discuss some of the mid-to-late 80s backlash to minimalist fiction, which Hempel got caught up in. In the second half of the show we talk about people who had early career success in writing and the arts, and how (or whether) they followed it up. For more, visit us online at bookfightpod.com.  

In this week's episode, I interview Cory Doctorow and Amy Hempel, plus Shawn McKee reads his personal essay, "A Confession." TEXTS DISCUSSED In Real Life" target="_blank"> Down & Out In The Magic Kingdom" target="_blank"> Information Doesnt Want to Be Free" target="_blank"> The Hand That Feeds You" target="_blank"> Collected Stories of Amy Hempel" target="_blank"> NOTES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9zW3ou0tM

Laura Lee Smith’s novel, Heart of Palm, is the story of the small town of Utina, Florida on the brink of change. But first, its oldest and most notorious family, the Bravos, must reckon with new developments and atone for past sins. Laura’s short fictions was selected by guest editor Amy Hempel for inclusion in New Stories from the South. Her work has also appeared in The Florida Review, Natural Bridge, Bayou and other journals. She has taught creative writing at Flagler College.

Laura Lee Smith's novel, Heart of Palm, is the story of the small town of Utina, Florida on the brink of change. But first, its oldest and most notorious family, the Bravos, must reckon with new developments and atone for past sins.Laura's short fictions was selected by guest editor Amy Hempel for inclusion in New Stories from the South. Her work has also appeared in The Florida Review, Natural Bridge, Bayou and other journals. She has taught creative writing at Flagler College.