Podcast appearances and mentions of David Means

David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and six story collections, including “Instructions for a Funeral” and “Two Nurses Smoking,” which was published in 2022.

David Means joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Face Time,” by Lorrie Moore, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Means is the author of a novel and six story collections, including “Instructions for a Funeral” and “Two Nurses, Smoking,” which came out in 2022.

Ottessa Moshfegh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,” by David Means, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Moshfegh is the author of four novels, including “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” and “Lapvona.”

On this episode, Apology editor and founder Jesse Pearson speaks with the writer David Means about his process; his new collection Two Nurses, Smoking; reading while watching football, the best story in James Joyce's Dubliners; and more.

Georgia Stephens was active as a Dance Theater choreographer, director, writer andsound designer from 1975 through 2009. She moved to the Twin Cities in 1980 toparticipate in the newly formed Independent Choreographer's Alliance (MICA). Throughthis organization, she received numerous performance opportunities and financialsupport for her work from the McKnight, Jerome and Northwest Area Foundations, twoawards from the National Endowment for The Arts, Metropolitan Council for the Arts andthe Minnesota State Arts Board. Georgia was commissioned in 1993 to create anoriginal piece for the New Dance Ensemble and in 1986 for the Zenon Dance Company.She was one of five choreographers invited to create an original dance/video piece withvideographer James Byrne, in his project SOLO!.Although Georgia delighted in the process of interweaving original text and soundscores into her work, she also frequently collaborated with musician David Means.In 1986, Georgia was awarded a Bush Foundation Fellowship for Choreography. Withthese funds, she prepared an evening of new and old work titled Crosstalk, presented atDance Theater Workshop (NYC) in 1987. Performers included Laurie Van Wieren, TomCarlson, Alan Lindblad, Mary Beth Elchert and Mary Abrams. After a brief hiatus toassimilate her journey, she immerged with several evening-length Dance Theatercreations: World Without End Amen, produced by the MN Dance Alliance with JeromeFoundation funds in Extended Play; Omoomofamaliamenia, a collaborationcommissioned by The Southern Theater with the music group Zeitgeist; and severalself-produced theater events for a variety of venues.In 1990, Georgia incorporated as Georgia Stephens Contemporary Dance Theater. Thisgathering of dance performers included John Munger, Wendy Ansley, Diane Aldis,Ethan Emanual Balcos, Jill Haeberlin, and many other guest appearances (Mary Easter,Linda Shapiro, Lisa Carlson, Marilyn Habermas-Scher, Wendy Morris, Marty Winkler,Rebecca Katz). Around this same time, she joined with fellow dance artists Paula Mannand Shawn McConneloug to create SpaceSpace, an informal rehearsal andperformance studio. Georgia created work for this venue almost exclusively until its endin 1999. Georgia then began creating original work for David Means' Nobels eXperimental interMedia Group. They presented several full-length pieces between 1999 and 2005 at Metro State University's Nobels Performance Space, Intermedia Arts, The Walker choreographers' Evening, Patrick's Cabaret, Bryant Lake Bowl Theater and Edison Theater in St. Lous MO. Between 2005 and 2008, Georgia created a series of showings at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. Georgia's final premiere, Alibi Simile, featuring Jon Spayde, was created for Red Eye Collaboration's 2008 New Work series.During her career she taught classes and workshops at Webster College andWashington University of St. Louis, Ozone Dance, Carlton and St. Olaf Colleges.Georgia still pops up now and again to participate in various ways, as a participant inDavid Means' performances, as a stage arts consultant, and as an advocate for up-and-coming performing artists who push boundaries and challenge perceptual norms. Herwork was always based on the adage, “I move when I speak. I speak when I move.”This realization came to life out of the physical frustration of growing up as a stutterer. Itproduced a fascinating lifetime of liberating words “stuck inside” via breath andkinesthetic release. This, and her background of figure skating, provided Georgia with afoundation for her technique and unique movement style.And finally… THANK YOUA quick read of this biography caused me to realize that a mere mention of who didwhat and when, seems profoundly inadequate. I could not have brought to life my

David Means reads his story “The Depletion Prompts,” from the November 1, 2021, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and five story collections, including “The Spot” and “Instructions for a Funeral,” which was published in 2019. 

Tom Kanthak served as an Instructor of Dance Composition and Improvisation, Music for Dance, Arts Improvisation, the New Music Ensemble, and Music Director and Dance Musician for the Perpich Center for Arts Education, Arts High School Dance Program from 1988 to 2012. He holds a B.A. in Performing Arts from Metropolitan State University and an M.A. in Music from Ohio State University. Tom has been involved with music for dance for over 40 years as a composer, dance musician, choreographer, dancer and performer. He began his classical music training at the age of six with piano and today plays a variety of instruments. He is also a trained modern dancer having studied with Hanya Holm, Nancy Hauser, Claudia Gitelman, Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis and more. He is a member of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance and the MN based Dance Educators Coalition. Tom is the originator of SoniCoMotion, the overriding name for many collaborations with many composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, and dance musicians. Some of his collaborators include choreographers Chris Aiken, Cathy Young, Patrick Scully, Georgia Stephens, composers/improvisors Michelle Kinney, Manjunan Gnanaratnam, Jonathan Bayley, David Means, Steve Goldstein, Brent Michael Davids, dancers Jane Schockley, Mary Harding, and students from the Arts High School at the Perpich Center for Arts Education.

This week, the Boozers discuss the death of George Floyd, specifically about the racism of his autopsy and how it should urge white people to learn more about the oppression of black Americans. And during the yet-to-be-named New Yorker segment, Brett and Darryl discuss “Two Nurses, Smoking,” by David Means, available here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/01/two-nurses-smoking

David Means reads his short story from the June 1, 2020, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and five story collections, including “The Spot” and “Instructions for a Funeral,” which was published last year.

In this episode, acclaimed fiction writer David Means and Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell share their experiences with solitude and sociability in quarantine. Means, author of the recent short story collection Instructions for a Funeral, talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about how writers use solitude to their advantage. Bushnell discusses the crucial role social life and friendship plays in Sex and the City and in the lives of New Yorkers. She also speaks about her new novel Rules for Being a Girl. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel. This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope.  Guests: David Means Candace Bushnell Selected readings for the episode: David Means Instructions for a Funeral Assorted Fire Events The Secret Goldfish The Spot Hystopia “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother” Candace Bushnell Rules for Being a Girl (co-written with Katie Cotugno) Is There Still Sex in the City? Sex and the City Summer and the City The Carrie Diaries Lipstick Jungle   Others I See the World by Jamaica Kincaid, Paris Review Daily On Isolation and Literature, The Millions William Carlos Williams Katie Cotugno Anna Karenina Edith Wharton Jane Austen Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Means reads his story “Are You Experienced?” from the October 21, 2019, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and five story collections, including “The Spot” and “Instructions for a Funeral,” which was published earlier this year.

First Draft interview with David Means, author of Instructions for a Funeral.

David Means is the author of several short story collections including Instructions for a Funeral, The Secret Goldfish, and The Spot and the novel, Hystopia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scrub python master, David Means joins us to keep us in the loop about how he keeps his Scrubs and we also dive into reptile legislation and how we can all do our part. SUBSCRIBE & enjoy! Follow David and Chris https://www.facebook.com/ScrubPythons/ Thanks again to our sponsor Fishhead Diagnostics check em out below! https://www.facebook.com/FishheadDiagnostics/ SUPPORT THE SHOW, BUY A SHIRT https://teespring.com/stores/scaled-apparel

David Means reads his story “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,” from the May 1, 2017, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of four story collections, including “The Secret Goldfish” and “The Spot,” and the novel “Hystopia,” which was published last year.

 In this episode we will be talking with David Means about scrub pythons. David has successfully bred scrubs and we will be talking all about his approach as well as his thoughts on scrubs in the Réptile hobby

David Means joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Sherman Alexie’s “The Toughest Indian in the World,” from a 1999 issue of the magazine.  

Liner notes: Tumbleweed (2009) [46:22] Saturday, June 20, 2009 @ 8:30 p.m.. 20 Greene Street between Canal and Grand Streets, SoHo, New York, NY. Tumbleweed A collaborative performance installation for prepared electric guitars, theremin and projections by David Means with Cyrus Pireh and Anthony Ptak. Tumbleweed combines archival images from the American dust bowl with interactions and improvisations of musicians and live electronics. Sound as a carrier of information. -AJ Ptak

We talk about memory loss and addiction with Man Booker longlisted author David Means and neuroscientist Marc Lewis.

After four acclaimed short story collections, Means' first novel takes on the Vietnam War.

Jonathan Franzen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss David Means's "The Spot," from a 2006 issue of the magazine.

Thomas McGuane joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss David Means’s “The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934,” from a 2010 issue of the magazine.

Peter Orner is the guest. His new story collection, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, is now available from Little, Brown.  Tom Bissell says “Peter Orner is a true writers’ writer, which is to say a writer writers complain to writers about readers not reading. His novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (a title, one senses, Orner had to fight hard to retain) ranks high among the best works of fiction about Africa ever written by an American, and his collection Esther Stories contains work to rival that of David Means and Tobias Wolff. Orner’s latest collection, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, is bundled into four sections and includes more than fifty pieces of fiction…Imagine Brief Interviews with Hideous Men written by Alice Munro.” And Booklist says "Orner is an undisputed master of the short short story." Monologue topics: feedback, Max Millwood, Gregory Sherl, the show's format, my dullness and incompetence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lorin Stein is the guest.  He is the editor of The Paris Review and the co-editor (with Sadie Stein) of a new anthology called Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story, now available from Picador Paperback Originals.  From the Editors' Note: Some chose classics. Some chose stories that were new even to us. Our hope is that this collection will be useful to young writers, and to others interested in literary technique. Most of all, it is intended for readers who are not (or are no longer) in the habit of reading short stories. We hope these object lessons will remind them how varied the form can be, how vital it remains, and how much pleasure it can give. And Publishers Weekly says: A selection of fiction culled from the influential journal’s archive with a twist: writers often featured in the journal’s pages—Lorrie Moore, David Means, Ann Beattie, Wells Tower, Ali Smith, among others— offer brief critical analyses of their selections, elevating this book from a greatest hits anthology to a kind of mini-M.F.A. Sam Lipsyte’s take on Mary Robison’s “Likely Lake” is as much a demonstration of the economy of powerful writing as the story itself and Ben Marcus’s tribute to Donald Barthelme’s “magician... language” in “Several Garlic Tales” illustrates how learning can occur when one writer inhabits another writer’s mind to geek out over what they both love. Monologue topics:  certainty, uncertainty, strong thinkers, certainty about uncertainty, uncertainty about certainty, the articulation of confusion, a posture of cosmic ambivalence. Please remember to subscribe to the show over at iTunes, or at Stitcher. It's free. Or just push PLAY below. Like the podcast? Please take a moment to rate and review it on iTunes. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Means reads Raymond Carver's "Chef's House."

David Means, the young winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award discusses his interest in redemption, an impulse that transforms his tightly calibrated realistic fiction into a moral tightrope-walk.