Podcast appearances and mentions of John Kessel

Our Great Coach on this episode is John Kessel. As a volleyball player, John participated in 16 U.S. Open Championships and played professionally in Europe. He started coaching at the Collegiate level in the USA in 1970 and led teams to National titles in 1986 and 1987. He was the Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women's Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal. He has had the most profound impact on the game, though, as a coach and administrator. He worked for over 30 years at Volleyball USA and 20+ years at World ParaVolley.He is the author of over 12 books, including the IMPACT coaching manual, which is now in its 33rd edition. In 2007, the Institute for International Sport named him a Sport Ethics Fellow, and in 2024, he was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com John consults with other Olympic Sports, well over 20 in fact, and travels around the world talking about coaching, particularly in the youth space.Our Great Coach on this episode is John Kessel. As a volleyball player, John participated in 16 U.S. Open Championships and played professionally in Europe. He started coaching at the Collegiate level in the USA in 1970 and led teams to National titles in 1986 and 1987. He was the Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women's Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal. He has had the most profound impact on the game, though, as a coach and administrator. He worked for over 30 years at Volleyball USA and 20+ years at World ParaVolley.He is the author of over 12 books, including the IMPACT coaching manual, which is now in its 33rd edition. In 2007, the Institute for International Sport named him a Sport Ethics Fellow, and in 2024, he was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame. John consults with other Olympic Sports, well over 20 in fact, and travels around the world talking about coaching, particularly in the youth space. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Main fiction: "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!" by John KesselBorn in Buffalo, NY, novelist and story writer John Kessel is emeritus professor of literature and creative writing at North Carolina State University, where he taught courses on literature and creative writing and helped found the MFA program in creative writing.His fiction has received the Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, James Tiptree Jr./Otherwise, Ignotus, and Shirley Jackson awards, and twice received the Nebula award. The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel, was published in 2022, and his The Presidential Papers appeared in PM Press's Outspoken Authors series in 2024. He lives with his wife, the novelist Therese Anne Fowler, in Raleigh.This story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept 1981.Narrated by: Will StaglWill Stagl lives in his adopted home of Tucson Arizona where he is a creative professional by day and proudly recruits talented voice actors for StarShipSofa whenever duty calls. He shares a birthday with Mark Twain, Billy Idol and Winston Churchill, who will all be raising a pint together at the end of this month in celebration. Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What webs we weave, indeed! This episode we attempt to unknot that cross-over of the century - the NINETEENTH century that is - PRIDE AND PROMETHEUS by JOHN KESSEL. Mary Bennet decides to take one last crack at life before resigning herself to spinsterhood and two people wind up dead. That's what happens when you pin your hopes to the saddest Swiss nerd at the ball. Especially when they have the kind of baggage that is super tall, speaks at least three languages, has committed murder in the name of loneliness, and is technically their child. Do the major differences of "Frankenstein" and "Pride and Prejudice" boil down to imagination vs. domesticity? Where is the fascination of sex to be found without love and affection? What can be made of men talking about women talking about men? Trigger warnings - we talk about anatomy, sterilization, murder, and miscarriages in this episode.

Lisa Yaszek, John Kessel, and Robby Soave join us to discuss Robert Heinlein's classic novel Stranger in a Strange Land, about a human being raised by Martians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For 35 years, John Kessel was the Director of Sport Development for USA Volleyball, but his impact on the game is not limited to just those accomplishments. His philosophy of coaching has affected just about every high school, club and university coach. Kessel has conducted coaching clinics in all 50 states and more than 80 countries, while also advocating for Para Volleyball and helping that sport grow.John joins Terry Pettit to discuss the many hats he has worn in promoting volleyball over the years, including his roles at several Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Making Camp Great, Evaluating Your Practice Plan, and John Kessel USA Volleyball 6 on 6 Games Skill: Making camps fun and effective Scenario: How to evaluate your practice The Art of Coaching Volleyball videos we focused on this week: https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/camp-warm-up-ship-to-shore/ https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/serving-games-for-youth-camp/ https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/bjerring-tournaments/ Resource: John Kessel's 166 Top Drills https://cdn1.sportngin.com/attachments/document/0096/9745/Top_166_Volleyball_Drills_from_Around_the_World__6.01.08.pdf

In season one of Our Connected Culture we explore how late science fiction author Terry Bisson's lifelong activism was central to how he imagined a better world in his 1988 novel Fire on the Mountain, using previously unreleased and archival audio of Bisson and as well as interviews with friends and comrades including Peter Coyote, Kim Stanley Robinson, Annalee Newitz, Paul Park, Mary Corey, John Kessel, Cory Doctorow, Jacob Weisman, Rina Weisman, and Karen Brenchley.The episode features commentary from Kim Stanley Robinson, Annalee Newitz, Paul Park, John Kessel, Jacob Weisman, Rena Weisman, Karen Brenchley, Cory Doctorow, and Ramsey Kanaan talking about the role Terry played in creating progressive science fiction community. This is also the final book club episode for Fire on the Mountain, covering through the end of this an alternative history centering around a socialist utopia emerging in the U.S. South a hundred years after the success of the Harpers Ferry raid led by John Brown sets off a self-emancipating revolution.We're going to talk about Terry for two more weeks here at Our Connected Culture before closing up this season: Next week, we'll be sharing audio of Terry narrating The Left Left Behind, Terry's own contribution to the PM Press Outspoken Authors series he edited, that was shared with us by the publisher. (Thank you again to Ramsey and everyone else over there.) Then at the end of the month will have one last episode of this season to go deeper on Tomorrowing, the collection of Locus columns we talked about briefly today and during our first episode. We're also going to keep our virtual book club going, so you can join us to talk about Tomorrowing in our Discord for a live discussion at 1pm eastern time on May 26th! Tomorrowing was released by Duke University Press and they have also graciously shared a discount code with us for this book club: use E24BSSON to save 30% off the book in their official store. Link to the Discord and more information about our release schedule at midmountain.org/ourconnectedcultureWe've also created a curated list of related works at bookshop.org/shop/MidMtn, (MidMountain is an affiliate of Bookshop.org and will get a small commission to support our work if you purchase from our links)MidMountain is a cooperative production of MidMountain, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, arts collective, and project in constant growth that believes in the power of people to reclaim space and caring for your neighbors — no matter how far away they are. This episode written, reported, and edited by Andy "River" Peterson. Original audio for this episode produced by QRAWN and Big 22 4 Lyfe Productions.You can support our work and get postcards of great art for as little as $5 a month by joining MidMountain by Mail. More info: midmountain.org/mail

In season one of Our Connected Culture we explore how late science fiction author Terry Bisson's lifelong activism was central to how he imagined a better world in his 1988 novel Fire on the Mountain, using previously unreleased and archival audio of Bisson and as well as interviews with friends and comrades including Peter Coyote, Kim Stanley Robinson, Annalee Newitz, Paul Park, Mary Corey, and John Kessel.The episode features commentary from Terry himself, Mary Corey, Peter Coyote, Cory Doctorow, Ramsey Kanaan and just a tiny preview of the Science Fiction in San Francisco crew who are going to be the focus of our next episode. We cover up through page 119 of the 2009 PM Press edition of the book and go deep into the revolutionary philosophies that inspired Fire on the Mountain, the work Terry did as part of the above ground radical movement by editing the Committee's newsletter “Death to the Klan,” and his stint in prison to defiance of a Grand Jury subpoena targeting underground activists connected to militant work with the May 19th Communist Movement.We'll also talk about the importance of imagining better futures and building inclusive communities through a virtual book club of Fire on the Mountain, an alternative history centering around a communist utopia emerging in the U.S. South a hundred years after the success of the Harpers Ferry raid led by John Brown sets off a self-emancipating revolution. Join the bookclub in the MidMountain Discord for a stream covering through the end of the book 1pm ET on May 12, 2024.Link to the Discord and more information about our release schedule at midmountain.org/ourconnectedcultureWe've also created a curated list of related works at bookshop.org/shop/MidMtn, (MidMountain is an affiliate of Bookshop.org and will get a small commission to support our work if you purchase from our links)MidMountain is a cooperative production of MidMountain, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, arts collective, and project in constant growth that believes in the power of people to reclaim space and caring for your neighbors — no matter how far away they are. This episode written, reported, and edited by Andy "River" Peterson. Original audio for this episode produced by QRAWN and Big 22 4 Lyfe Productions.You can support our work and get postcards of great art for as little as $5 a month by joining MidMountain by Mail. More info: midmountain.org/mail

In season one of Our Connected Culture we explore how late science fiction author Terry Bisson's lifelong activism was central to how he imagined a better world in his 1988 novel Fire on the Mountain, using previously unreleased and archival audio of Bisson and as well as interviews with friends and comrades including Peter Coyote, Kim Stanley Robinson, Annalee Newitz, Paul Park, Mary Corey, and John Kessel.We'll also talk about the importance of imagining better futures and building inclusive communities through a virtual book club of Fire on the Mountain, an alternative history centering around a communist utopia emerging in the U.S. South a hundred years after the success of the Harpers Ferry raid led by John Brown sets off a self-emancipating revolution. Join the bookclub in the MidMountain Discord for our first live stream covering the half of the book, through page 119 of the 2009 PM Press edition, at 1pm ET on May 5, 2024.Link to the Discord and more information about our release schedule at midmountain.org/ourconnectedcultureWe've also created a curated list of related works at bookshop.org/shop/MidMtn, (MidMountain is an affiliate of Bookshop.org and will get a small commission to support our work if you purchase from our links)MidMountain is a cooperative production of MidMountain, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, arts collective, and project in constant growth that believes in the power of people to reclaim space and caring for your neighbors — no matter how far away they are. This episode written, reported, and edited by Andy "River" Peterson. Original audio for this episode produced by QRAWN and Big 22 4 Lyfe Productions.You can support our work and get postcards of great art for as little as $5 a month by joining MidMountain by Mail. More info: midmountain.org/mail

In season one of Our Connected Culture we explore how late science fiction author Terry Bisson's lifelong activism was central to how he imagined a better world in his 1988 novel Fire on the Mountain, using previously unreleased and archival audio of Bisson and as well as interviews with friends and comrades including Peter Coyote, Kim Stanley Robinson, Annalee Newitz, Paul Park, Mary Corey, and John Kessel.We'll also talk about the importance of imagining better futures and building inclusive communities through a virtual book club of Fire on the Mountain, an alternative history centering around a communist utopia emerging in the U.S. South a hundred years after the success of the Harpers Ferry raid led by John Brown sets off a self-emancipating revolution. Join the bookclub in the MidMountain Discord for our first live stream covering the half of the book, through page 73 of the 2009 PM Press edition, at 1pm ET on April 28, 2024.Link to the Discord and more information about our release schedule at midmountain.org/ourconnectedcultureWe've also created a curated list of related works at bookshop.org/shop/MidMtn, (MidMountain is an affiliate of Bookshop.org and will get a small commission to support our work if you purchase from our links)MidMountain is a cooperative production of MidMountain, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, arts collective, and project in constant growth that believes in the power of people to reclaim space and caring for your neighbors — no matter how far away they are. This episode written, reported, and edited by Andy "River" Peterson with audio production assistance from Doug Kallmeyer. Original audio for this episode produced by QRAWN and Big 22 4 Lyfe Productions.You can support our work and get postcards of great art for as little as $5 a month by joining MidMountain by Mail. More info: midmountain.org/mail

In season one of Our Connected Culture we explore how late science fiction author Terry Bisson's lifelong activism was central to how he imagined a better world in his 1988 novel Fire on the Mountain, using previously unreleased and archival audio of Bisson and as well as interviews with friends and comrades including Peter Coyote, Kim Stanley Robinson, Annalee Newitz, Paul Park, Mary Corey, and John Kessel.We'll also talk about the importance of imagining better futures and building inclusive communities through a virtual book club of Fire on the Mountain, an alternative history centering around a communist utopia emerging in the U.S. South a hundred years after the success of the Harpers Ferry raid led by John Brown sets off a self-emancipating revolution. Join the bookclub in the MidMountain Discord for our first live stream covering the first quarter of the book at 1pm ET on April 21, 2024.Link to the Discord and more information about our release schedule at midmountain.org/ourconnectedcultureWe've also created a curated list of related works at bookshop.org/shop/MidMtn, (MidMountain is an affiliate of Bookshop.org and will get a small commission to support our work if you purchase from our links)MidMountain is a cooperative production of MidMountain, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, arts collective, and project in constant growth that believes in the power of people to reclaim space and caring for your neighbors — no matter how far away they are. This episode written, reported, and edited by Andy "River" Peterson with audio production assistance from Doug Kallmeyer. Original audio for this episode produced by QRAWN and Big 22 4 Lyfe Productions.You can support our work and get postcards of great art for as little as $5 a month by joining MidMountain by Mail. More info: midmountain.org/mail

In season one of Our Connected Culture we explore how late science fiction author Terry Bisson's lifelong activism was central to how he imagined a better world in his 1988 novel Fire on the Mountain, using previously unreleased and archival audio of Bisson and as well as interviews with friends and comrades including Peter Coyote, Kim Stanley Robinson, Annalee Newitz, Paul Park, Mary Corey, and John Kessel. We will also talk about the importance of imagining better futures and building inclusive communities through a virtual book club of Fire on the Mountain, an alternative history centering around a communist utopia emerging in the U.S. South a hundred years after the success of the Harpers Ferry raid led by John Brown sets off a self-emancipating revolution. Join the bookclub in the MidMountain Discord for our first live stream covering the first quarter of the book at 1pm ET on April 21, 2024. Link and more at midmountain.org/ourconnectedcultureYou can support our work and get postcards of great art for as little as $5 a month by joining MidMountain by Mail! More info: midmountain.org/mail

Our Great Coach on this episode is John Kessel. As a volleyball player John participated in 16 U.S. Open Championships and played professionally in Europe. He started coaching at the Collegiate level in the USA in 1971 and led teams to National titles in 1986 and 1987. He was Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women's Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal. It as a coach and administrator though where he has had the most profound impact on the game. He worked for over 30 years at Volleyball USA and 20+ years at World ParaVolley.He is an author of over 12 books, including the IMPACT coaching manual which is now in its 33rd edition. He has been inducted in the Volleyball Coaches Hall of Fame and in 2007 was named a Sport Ethics Fellow by the Institute for International Sport. John consults to other Olympic Sports, well over 20 in fact, and travels around the world talking about coaching and in particular in the youth space. This was one of those interviews which I would classify as a master class. Among the many highlights som that resonated with me were: His view that the player who knows why they are doing something will beat the player who knows how to do something. The power of praise as a coach, and looking for ways to catch people doing the right things and reinforcing those. How one part of a coaches job is to help each individual within the team show competency and this does not necessarily have to be connected to skills required within the team, and how this strengthens the group.And How he defines success as a coach as never being an athletes last coach.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Todd Rogers, Mark Fishman, John Kessel & Joe Rich are American volleyball coaches whose pedigree extends to the highest level of juniors, NCAA, professional indoor and beach volleyball, and the Olympic games (with Rogers winning a gold medal as a player). They are also the founders (and current board members) of "Beach Nation" - dedicated to teaching beach volleyball in a inclusive environment using their own curriculum, one developed by teachers, Olympians, US National Team coaches in a way where they prioritized teaching skill development and not just using drills to teach. 01:18 - The beauty of doubles on a global scale, logistically, strategically, more touches, size mattering less 09:52 - What does "Beach Nation" Bring to the table? 21:20 - developing a curriculum for best practices, process and technique 24:21 - the benefit of inclusiveness, and being open to new ideas 29:55 - Looking for more than just athletes: how does the player behave 38:00 - Interesting places traveled for clinics, and charitable function within the Beach Nation 49:49 - Sharing input with other coaches, player who will remember you years from now 52:27 - Never tell a kid what they can and can not do 59:05 - Not cutting corners on skill set, and the coaches responsibility 1:02:42 - Levels to this 1:07:23 - The skill that juniors learn the quickest, and the skill that is the most difficult 1:11:12 - Lightning rounds, and a fun story at the end NOTE: A little correction - Mark Fishman wanted to give credit and thanks to Trevor Regan (whom he called "Trevor Noah"). Easy fix. Also available on iTunes and Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0oBylM7eIxaz5GLRSMiO10?si=d0a260c0efb04fa7 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-178-todd-rogers-mark-fishman-john-kessel-joe-rich/id1472687787?i=1000616390103

John Kessel has long been a favourite of the podcast. We spoke to him in July about his major new retrospective short story collection, The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel, so it's no real surprise that he's part of our Advent Calendar.   Today Gary had the pleasure of calling John and chatting about what he's been reading, what he'd recommend, and what he's been working on. As always, we thank John for taking the time to talk to us and hope you enjoy the episode.

Thank you for helping us reach 300 episodes of the podcast! To celebrate we will go to one of our earliest guests, and great friend of our work John Kessel. John recently retired from USA Volleyball (USAV), where he had worked since 1985, most recently as the Director of Sport Development. He is one of the most sought after coach educators and speakers in the coach development space. John served as the staff liaison for Disabled Programs, USA Deaf Olympic Teams, Starlings USA, National Parks and Recreation Assoc., the YMCA and over 30 other Affiliated Organizations working with USAV. He was Secretary of the NORCECA Technical and Coaches Commission, and Director of Development for World ParaVolley. He was Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women's Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal. In 1995, Volleyball Magazine's special Centennial issue named him one of the 50 most important people in the sport in the past 100 years. In 2013 the American Volleyball Coaches Association inducted him as their 60th member of the AVCA Coaches Hall of Fame. Currently John and his wife Lily have opened a retreat center www.PumaHills.com where they host leadership and personal development events in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. In our talk today we discuss how many coaches practice in order to look good at practice, instead of to perform in competition. He also shares some great one liners such as "Fear can be a great motivator but a horrible compass" and our personal favorite when it comes to coaching, "First, do no harm!" BIG NEWS: Save the date, the 2023 Way of Champions Conference will be held August 4-6, 2023 at Colorado Academy in Denver, CO. Click here to learn more, registration will open January 1, and we will be announcing guest speakers and other conference related events soon. Its going to be amazing to be back in person in 2023!  This week's podcast is brought to you by our friends at Sprocket Sports.  Sprocket Sports is a new software platform for youth sports clubs.  There are a lot of these systems out there, but Sprocket provides the full enchilada. They give you all the cool front-end stuff to make your club look good– like websites and marketing tools – AND all the back-end transactions and services to run your business better so you can focus on what really matters – your players and your teams.  Sprocket is built for those clubs looking to thrive, not just survive, in the competitive world of youth sports clubs.  So if you've been looking for a true business partner – not just another app – check them out today at https://sprocketsports.me/CTG. Become a Podcast Champion! This weeks podcast is also sponsored by our Patreon Podcast Champions. Help Support the Podcast and get FREE access to our most popular online courses, a $300 value. If you love the podcast, we would love for you to become a Podcast Champion, (https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions) for as little as a cup of coffee per month (OK, its a Venti Mocha), to help us up the ante and provide even better interviews, better sound, and an overall enhanced experience. Plus, as a $10 per month Podcast Super-Champion, you will have access to never before released and bonus material, including: Downloadable transcripts of our best podcasts, so you don't have to crash your car trying to take notes! A code to get free access to our online course called “Coaching Mastery,” usually a $97 course, plus four other courses worth over $100, all yours for free for becoming a patron. Other special bonus opportunities that come up time to time Access to an online community of coaches like you who are dedicated listeners of the podcast, and will be able to answer your questions and share their coaching experiences. Thank you for all your support these past four years, and a special big thank you to all of you who become part of our inner circle, our patrons, who will enable us to take our podcast to the next level. https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions

In this episode, Clarence and Stephen catch up, talk growth with the podcast, how time moves so fast, and getting into the fall festivities with their Halloween plans. Then they sit down with former USA Volleyball director of sport development, the one and only John Kessel (9:02 - 1:30:22). John talks about his coaching philosophy, gives some real life example coaching tips, shares his ideas about the growth of the game, how he "coaches coaches" and so much more!

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Welcome to Bookin's 200th Episode!  Host Jason Jefferies is joined by legendary award-winning author John Kessel, who discusses his newest collection The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel, which is published by our friends at Subterranean Press.  Topics of discussion includes the literary scene in North Carolina, Kim Stanley Robinson, birth, education, genre writing vs. non-genre writing, the current state of science-fiction, gatekeeping in the sci-fi community, and much more.  Copies of The Dark Ride can be purchased here from Explore Booksellers.  

John Kessel (@JohnKesselUSAV) is the recently retired Director of Sport Development for USA Volleyball and one of the most sought after coach educators and sport developers in the world. John has been coaching since 1971 at the collegiate level or above, including Women's U.S. Open titles in 1986 & 1987, Disabled Programs, USA Deaf Olympic Teams, Starlings USA, National Parks and Recreation Assoc., the YMCA and over 30 other Affiliated Organizations working with USAV. He was Secretary of the NORCECA Technical and Coaches Commission, and Director of Development for World ParaVolley. He was Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women's Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal. In 1995, Volleyball Magazine's special Centennial issue named him one of the 50 most important people in the sport in the past 100 years. In 2013 the American Volleyball Coaches Association inducted him as their 60th member of the AVCA Coaches Hall of Fame.. A sought after international lecturer, he has conducted seminars in all 50 states, and in over 50 nations. In our discussion, first released in August 2017, John and John discuss the need for coaches to be vulnerable, adaptable, and always learning. As the opening quote of the podcast says, if your doctor practiced medicine the same way he or she did 5 years ago, it would be malpractice, yet why do so many coaches still coach the way they were coached 20-30 years ago? We discuss teaching through the game, why our parents did not hire a bike riding coach, and so much more. Get ready to take some notes! This week's podcast is brought to you by our friends at Sprocket Sports.  Sprocket Sports is a new software platform for youth sports clubs.  Yeah, there are a lot of these systems out there, but Sprocket provides the full enchilada. They give you all the cool front-end stuff to make your club look good– like websites and marketing tools – AND all the back-end transactions and services to run your business better so you can focus on what really matters – your players and your teams.  Sprocket is built for those clubs looking to thrive, not just survive, in the competitive world of youth sports clubs.  So if you've been looking for a true business partner – not just another app – check them out today at sprocketsports.com. Become a Podcast Champion! This weeks podcast is also sponsored by our Patreon Podcast Champions. Help Support the Podcast and get FREE access to our most popular online courses, a $300 value. If you love the podcast, we would love for you to become a Podcast Champion, (https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions) for as little as a cup of coffee per month (OK, its a Venti Mocha), to help us up the ante and provide even better interviews, better sound, and an overall enhanced experience. Plus, as a $10 per month Podcast Super-Champion, you will have access to never before released and bonus material, including: Downloadable transcripts of our best podcasts, so you don't have to crash your car trying to take notes! A code to get free access to our online course called “Coaching Mastery,” usually a $97 course, plus four other courses worth over $100, all yours for free for becoming a patron. Other special bonus opportunities that come up time to time Access to an online community of coaches like you who are dedicated listeners of the podcast, and will be able to answer your questions and share their coaching experiences. Thank you for all your support these past four years, and a special big thank you to all of you who become part of our inner circle, our patrons, who will enable us to take our podcast to the next level. https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions

This week we're joined by the distinguished, multiple award-winning John Kessel, whose collection The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel is recently out from Subterranean Press, representing John's four-decade career as an SF writer, teacher, editor, scholar, and workshop leader. We touch upon not only his short fiction, but novels like The Moon and the Other and Pride and Prometheus, his early studies under James Gunn, his thematic anthologies co-edited with James Patrick Kelly, and what really happened in SF during the 1980s. As always, we'd like to thank John for taking the time to talk to us and hope you'll enjoy the episode.

The Dark Ride collects John Kessel's best short fiction, beginning with 1981's “Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!” and ending with 2021's “The Dark Ride.” The stories range from flash pieces to novellas, from comedy to existential horror, from far future SF to Kafkaesque fantasy, including 40,000 words of never-before-collected fiction and extensive author's notes. "Completely strange and idiosyncratic. His stories are singular experiences. ...They burst out of their texts with news that is strange, mysterious, beyond reason or parsing--beyond Kessel himself, it seems, who must have been as startled as anyone to see such sentences appear on his page. They are uncanny." --Kim Stanley Robinson, from his Introduction The Dark Ride collects John Kessel's best short fiction, beginning with 1981's "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!" and ending with 2021's "The Dark Ride." The stories range from flash pieces to novellas, from comedy to existential horror, from far future SF to Kafkaesque fantasy, including 40,000 words of never-before-collected fiction and extensive author's notes. All his best are here, among them Nebula Award winners "Another Orphan" and "Pride and Prometheus," by the writer Sci-Fi Weekly called "quite possibly the best short story writer working in science fiction today." "...capable of the most artful and rigorous literary composition, but with a mischievious genius that inclines him toward speculative fiction... [Kessel] writes with subtlety and great wit...and his craftmanship is frequently absolutely brilliant. Plus, his sense of comedy is remarkable. --Publishers Weekly Buy the book here:  https://wellingtonsquarebooks.indiecommerce.com/book/9781645240587

In this episode, we explore reasons that coaches use punishment and consequences in their coaching. We are joined by Heidi Anderson, John Kessel, David Cordes and Loren Anderson, who share their thoughts, experiences and learnings.

Interview with special guest, John Kessel! New Quantum Leap, new James T. Kirk, Stacey Abrams is President of Earth, and a major Star Trek convention is coming up in Chicago. We talk at length about the "trolls and tribulations" of Patrick S. Tomlinson, and William Gibson gets poured a cold one.

 In this episode we sit down with Patrick Bringley (an author and expert on Jacob Hays) & Edward Conlon -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Conlon and listen to a reading of “The Importance of Trifles”. Originally published in EQMM, January 1969, as "The Man Who Killed Sailors" Reprinted in Best Detective Stories of the Year : 24th Annual Collection, Ed. Allen J. Hubin (Dutton, 1970) and The Investigations of Avram Davidson in 1999. For more information see www.avramdavidson.com 

In this episode we sit down with John Kessel and listen to a reading of  "Faed-Out".   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_KesselOriginally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1963 .For more information see www.avramdavidson.com    

Season 2 kicks off with a talk with Coach John Kessel. Coach John is an US Volleyball Hall of Fame inductee with over 50 years of coaching men's and women's volley ball at the collegiate, international and Olympic level.Coach Kessel is a strong advocate of specificity and authentic representative practice and empowering athletes through relationships and prioritizing a love for sport. John credits much of the success of US Volleyball to an era that embraced the science of learning and more specifically motor learning for sports. It was a privilege to have a coach I admire and one that influenced my thinking so much on the podcast to share his wisdom.For more of Coach John Interviews, this link provides a collection of many of his interactions over the years. https://www.owltail.com/people/FcUKJ-john-kessel/appearancesLastly, this episode had some sound quality issues due some lost connectivity during our conversation. 

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Episode #65 of The Coaches Network Podcast The guest for this episode is John Kessel. Since 1985 John has been working for the National Governing Body of the sport, USA Volleyball (USAV), now as Director of Sport Development. He currently serves as the staff liaison for Disabled Programs, USA Deaflympic Teams, Starlings USA, National Parks and Recreation Assoc., the YMCA and over 30 other Affiliated Organizations working with USAV. He is Secretary of the NORCECA Technical and Coaches Commission, and Director of Development for World ParaVolley. He was Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women's Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal. In 1995, Volleyball Magazine's special Centennial issue named him one of the 50 most important people in the sport in the past 100 years. In 2013 the American Volleyball Coaches Association inducted him as their 60th member of the AVCA Coaches Hall of Fame. John joins CoachYas to discuss a range of his experiences, what the ‘White Belt Menality' is and how we can use this to help us and our athletes develop. Enjoy! Why not become an official member or supporter of The Coaches Network? The Coaches Network is proud to formally reveal our very first Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/TheCoachesNetwork ) membership. This membership consists of monthly donations with a price worth as much as a cup of coffee! Only £3.50 per month! What benefits will there be you say? Click here ( https://www.patreon.com/TheCoachesNetwork ) to find out more. Click here ( https://www.thecoachesnetwork.co.uk/coach-education ) for more information on our upcoming Coach Education Webinars and Mentor Programmes. Enjoy and be sure to subscribe & connect with your host on social media to make your up to date with everything we're doing. Coach Yas ( https://www.thecoachesnetwork.co.uk/coach-yas ) - Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/thecoachesnetwork/ ) - Twitter ( https://twitter.com/thecoachesnet ) - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-coaches-network/ ) - Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/TheCoachesNetwork ) - Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/TheCoachesNetwork ) - Podcast ( https://instabio.cc/TheCoachesNetwork ) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-coaches-network-podcast/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Les habitudes c'est la base ! Met en place des bonnes habitudes pour devenir un super héros. John Kessel disait "Nous faisons d'abord nous habitudes, ensuite elles nous font " Tous est dit

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A new addition to the New York Legion roster for next weekend's VLA Kickoff Classic, outside hitter Cody Kessel (@codykessel) joins the show in anticipation of returning to volleyball in a week. He talks about growing up in Colorado where there's barely any boys' volleyball, having USAV legend John Kessel as a father, taking a gap year between high school and starting at Princeton, switching from opposite to outside hitter as a pro, and playing abroad with a record setting number of Americans on a team. We also get into his long standing connections with Team LVC and what a great opportunity being able to play next weekend is. Great chat with a big name in the USA Volleyball world.

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ANCORA IMPARO with John Kessel – Part 2 Soon to be former Director of Sport Development at USA Volleyball, John Kessel discusses lessons learned throughout his coaching career. In part two we talk more about coaching youth volleyball, how his coaching philosophy has evolved, and we hear from some of his students. Ancora Imparo “Yet, I am learning” spoken by 87-year-old Michelangelo. Gold Medal Squared At Your Fingertips Join GMS+ and gain complete access to the Gold Medal Squared library of Drills, Videos, Skill Courses, and GMS Stats to help you win more! Get started with GMS+ and invest in the success of your program. The post ANCORA IMPARO with John Kessel – Part 2 appeared first on Gold Medal Squared Blog.

ANCORA IMPARO with John Kessel – Part 1 Soon to be former Director of Sport Development at USA Volleyball, John Kessel discusses lessons learned throughout his coaching career including how his practices have changed, coaching kids, and being a life-long learner. He’s an example of the motto Ancora Imparo “Yet, I am learning” spoken by 87-year-old Michelangelo. Gold Medal Squared At Your Fingertips Join GMS+ and gain complete access to the Gold Medal Squared library of Drills, Videos, Skill Courses, and GMS Stats to help you win more! Get started with GMS+ and invest in the success of your program. The post ANCORA IMPARO with John Kessel – Part 1 appeared first on Gold Medal Squared Blog.

In this 60th episode of Bookin', Jason Jefferies and Chris Tonelli discuss all things related to the 2020 North Carolina Book Festival (February 21-23, 2020 in Raleigh, NC).  Authors featured in this episode include Belle Boggs, Tupelo Hassman, John Kessel, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mur Lafferty, Katya Apekina and Jeff Jackson.  This episode is part one of a three part series.  

John Kessel works for USA Volleyball, as Director of Sport Development. He currently serves as the staff liaison for Disabled Programs & USA Deaflympic Teams. His main goal is to help make all coaches more efficient, positive and creative, no matter what level - 7 year olds in an elementary school program or National team players and programs. He challenges old ways of thinking and help coaches create what they need, while having fun in the process. In this fascinating conversation we discuss...- 'Training in reality and the quest for faster, denser motor learning- Why drills don't work (because humans aren't robots)- The 'white belt mentality' - What coaches can learn from surgeonsIt is a great conversation...I hope you enjoy Links Get my 'visual show notes' at http://www.thetalentequation.co.uk/podcastsJohn's Blog - https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Features/2016/November/01/IWantYouToMakeMistakesAustin's Butterfly - https://youtu.be/hqh1MRWZjms

John Kessel works for USA Volleyball, as Director of Sport Development. He currently serves as the staff liaison for Disabled Programs & USA Deaflympic Teams. His main goal is to help make all coaches more efficient, positive and creative, no matter what level - 7 year olds in an elementary school program or National team players and programs. He challenges old ways of thinking and help coaches create what they need, while having fun in the process. In this fascinating conversation we discuss...- 'Training in reality and the quest for faster, denser motor learning- Why drills don't work (because humans aren't robots)- The 'white belt mentality' - What coaches can learn from surgeonsIt is a great conversation...I hope you enjoy Links Get my 'visual show notes' at http://www.thetalentequation.co.uk/podcastsJohn's Blog - https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Features/2016/November/01/IWantYouToMakeMistakesAustin's Butterfly - https://youtu.be/hqh1MRWZjms

Since 1985 John has been working for the National Governing Body of the sport, USA Volleyball (USAV), now as Director of Sport Development. He currently serves as the staff liaison for Disabled Programs, USA Deaflympic Teams, Starlings USA, National Parks and Recreation Assoc., the YMCA and over 30 other Affiliated Organizations working with USAV. He is Secretary of the NORCECA Technical and Coaches Commission, and Director of Development for World ParaVolley. He was Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal. In 1995, Volleyball Magazine’s special Centennial issue named him one of the 50 most important people in the sport in the past 100 years. In 2013 the American Volleyball Coaches Association inducted him as their 60th member of the AVCA Coaches Hall of Fame. Table of Contents 0:00 - Intro 3:30 - Mentorship 6:45 - Mistakes in games/Biomechanics of the game 12:40 - Different Approaches to Training 18:30 - Past vs Present John Kessel 21:50 - Two Most Important Skills In Volleyball 25:15 - How Coaches Can Handle Learning 30:00 - The Idea of “Needing” to Make Practice Look Good 36:00 - A Volleyball Club That Does it Right 38:31 - Monetization Model in Volleyball 42:30 - John’s Recommended Video “Backwards Bicycle” 45:45 - Jump Shoes and the mechanics of learning 47:40 - Top 3 Characteristics of Great Coaches 52:30 - When did you specialize into volleyball? 53:05 - Book Recommendations 53:50 - Definition of FUN 58:00 - Resources 1:01:45 - What Can Coaches Do To Shave 5 Years Off Their Learning Curve 1:04:44 - How do we get kids to love the game more after the season?

Heavy topics: Jack sucks for a million reasons and we're gonna talk about as many as we can Alcoholism and the mindset of the alcoholic Emotional and physical abuse Abusive men and patterns of abusive behavior What the fuck is in that playground tunnel The lighter side: Mean Girls and The Shining: two great tastes that taste VERY BAD together Wendy Torrance is a goddamned hero Stuart Ullman is GREAT at his job Jack is TERRIBLE at his job Horace Derwent is Howard Hughes, we dunno if you got that, it's kind of subtle Recommendations: Why Does He Do That by Lundy Bancroft, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Creating the Innocent Killer by John Kessel, and Alcoholics Anonymous. Follow us on Twitter: @Listen_Stephen Email us: listenstephenpod@gmail.com Support the show at: patreon.com/listenstephen Follow Margot on Twitter: @whattehfoxtrot Our intro song is by Lena Orsa

Legendary Nebula Award-winning author John Kessel joins host Jason Jefferies to talk about his latest book Pride and Prometheus and the state of contemporary literary science fiction.  Presented by Quail Ridge Books.  

In this guestless episode, Frank & Thierry discuss their highlights of the International Coaching Symposium that was delivered in conjunction with the VNL stop in Ottawa on June 8-10, 2018.   (1:00) - Preview on upcoming episodes recorded during the International Coaching Symposium   (1:50) - The Volleyball Nations League and the International Coaching Symposium attracted a large portion of the canadian coaching community   (3:40) - What was Thierry's biggest highlight of the symposium?   (4:58) - Take a moment to watch some of John Kessel's videos.  Motor Learning Principles with John Kessel The Championship Newsletter: Motor Learning Increasing Your Contacts Per Hour Growing the Game Webinar Series   (5:10) - Create a culture of play   (6:10) - Random drills enhance learning and transfer better to the game   (6:30) - Use of the court without use of the net is prohibited   (7:40) - What is the white ribbon trick? Grow the Game, John Kessel's blog   (8:30) - A few of John Kessel's favorite drills are explained   (11:25) - How do you provide feedback in a John Kessel drill?   (13:06) - What was Frank's biggest highlight of the symposium?   (13:42) - Why is John Speraw a great speaker?   (15:32) - What was Team USA's Rio experience and what can we learn from that experience?   (16:12) - Why does Speraw believe in intergrated sport psychology?   (17:12) - Kyle Paquette's resource, Trainwave, is a great solution to intergrated mental training.   (17:26) - What statistics are particularly important for coach Speraw?   (19:02) - Why Thierry really enjoyed Alix Krahn's session on Sport Culture?   (20:22) - What are the pillars of trust?   (22:02) - Why is focusing on relationship building so important?    (22:17) - Brené Brown is a great resource on this topic Which Brené Brown Books Should You Read First The Power of Vulnerability - TED talk   (22:39) - Why did many MVC coaches enjoyed LP Mainville's session?   (25:17) - Why Thierry enjoyed Larry McKay's session on in match adjustments?   (26:22) - Why in game management needs to be simple and based on facts like statistics?   (27:27) - What statistics are particularly important for coach McKay?   (29:42) - Who should gather the data?   (30:22) - Why Frank's favorite moment of the weekend revolved around Glenn Hoag and his session on match planning?   (32:02) - The OVA will attempt to transform every symposium session into a webinar and make them available on their website.   (32:11) - Why coach Hoag still does a personal pen and paper scouting method to prepare a game plan?   (33:41) - How Glenn Hoag simplifies the block defence relationship on court?   (34:24) - How did Frank's session on individual defence turn out?   (38:56) - What was the highlight of the MVC coaches who attended the symposium?    (43:21) - Any suggestions on how to improve the symposium if we were to host another one next year?   (48:16) - What would you like to hear about on the podcast?   (48:51) - What Mark Matheson would like to hear on future pods?   (51:31) - What Gerry DiGirolamo would like to hear on future pods?   (53:16) - Please provide feedback via FTFC@maverickvolleyball.ca

Dans cet épisode sans invité, François et Thierry élaborent au sujet de leurs faits saillants concernant le Symposium international d'entraîneurs qui a été présenté en conjonction avec l'étape de la LNV à Ottawa le 8 au 10 juin 2018.   (0:40) - Grand rassemblement de la communauté de volleyball canadien dans le cadre du Symposium international d'entraîneurs   (1:15) - Aperçu des prochains épisodes qui ont été enregistrés dans le cadre du symposium   (3:00) - Quel a été le plus gros coup de coeur de Thierry en relation aux sessions du symposium?   (4:02) - Il est fortement recommandé de visionner quelques vidéos de John Kessel.  Motor Learning Principles with John Kessel The Championship Newsletter: Motor Learning Increasing Your Contacts Per Hour Growing the Game Webinar Series   (4:10) - Il faut créer une culture de jeu en entraînement.   (5:45) - L'usage du terrain sans l'utilisation du filet est interdit   (6:56) - Il faut vraiment accentuer des situations aléatoires pour maximiser le transfert à la situation de jeu   (7:00) - Quels sont quelques les éducatifs pronés par John Kessel   (10:30) - Comment est-ce possible de donner de la rétroaction dans des éducatifs de style Kessel   (11:30) - L'OVA tentera de publier les sessions présentées sous forme de webinar en ligne.   (11:40) - Quel a été le plus gros coup de coeur de Frank en relation aux sessions du symposium? (12:24) - Pourquoi est-ce que John Speraw est un orateur phénoménal?   (13:50) - Quel a été l'expérience de l'équipe américaine lors des Olympiques de Rio et quelles sont les leçons à partager?   (14:45) - Pourquoi est-ce que coach Speraw promouvoit fortement la préparation mentale intégrée?   (15:35) - Quelles sont les statistiques que John Speraw priment davantage?   (18:32) - Pourquoi est-ce que Thierry a particulièrement apprécié l'atelier d'Alix Krahn au sujet de la culture sportive?    (19:40) - Pourquoi est-ce important de développer des relations saines avec les athlètes?   (20:00) - Quels sont les piliers de la confiance?   (22:15) - Pourquoi est-ce que Frank vous recommande d'apprécier pleinement l'atelier de LP Mainville au sujet de l'athlète en développement au contre?   (26:08) - Pourquoi est-ce que Thierry a trouvé la séance de Larry McKay au sujet d'ajustements en situation de partie particulièrement utile?   (27:30) - Pourquoi est-ce préférable de prôner une approche simpliste et de se baser sur des faits telles des statistiques?    (28:40) - Qui devrait faire la prise de données en partie?   (29:40) - Quelle statistique est-ce que coach McKay observe davantage?   (31:22) - Pourquoi est-ce que le moment fort de la fin de semaine pour Frank s'est produit lors de l'atelier en classe de Glenn Hoag?   (33:15) - Pourquoi est-ce que coach Hoag fait encore l'analyse d'un match avec l'approche papier et crayon pour préparer un plan de match?   (34:20) - Comment est-ce que Glenn Hoag, un expert de renommée mondiale au niveau de la défensive, a réussi à simplifier et vulgariser ses connaissances si efficacement pour les participants?   (35:00) - Comment est-ce que Frank a vécu son expérience d'animer une session sur terrain?   (37:45) - Comment est-ce que le symposium international peut offrir un meilleur produit la prochaine fois?   (42:26) - On aimerait énormément recevoir vos idées de thèmes pour des épisodes futures comme l'on fait Mark Matheson et Gerry DiGirolamo.   (45:55) - SVP nous fournir vos commentaires par courriel au FTFC@maverickvolleyball.ca

John Kessel is the Director of Sport Development for USA Volleyball. He also consults with many sports around the world including Major League Baseball teams.John is knowledgeable in motor learning and the neuroscience of learning. In this episode he will challenge your views on how to run a practice. He says to minimize drills (if not completely do away with them) and to keep people active, no more lining up people to wait their turn. He talks about how to make learning more efficient.Some notes:How we learn faster: it is not about being the right way or wrong way, but about being more efficient.Say what you mean, mean what you say, but do not be mean in saying it.Principles first, methods secondTrain game-likeEliminate the words "try", "don't" and "but".Put the player's name last when giving feedbackBelow are some links mentioned in the talk.John Kessel's Growing the Game blogGabriele Wulf OPTIMAL Learning work (full download available as of May 3, 2018)Atul Gawande is a physician who has written several books and been on the Freakonomics podcast several times.Train Ugly websiteBackwards Bicycle TED Talk

In this guestless episode, Frank & Thierry tackle three different topics: a skill is scrutinized, a shoutout to a successful practice from another club is shared and a coach wellness topic is recommended.   (1:30) - Special episode format, no guest, 3 topics, a skill, a shoutout & a wellness tip   (3:56) - Similar episode also available in French (see below)   (4:16) - Recommended resource: John Kessel, Grow the Game Together, podcast appearances (Technical Timeout, Coach Your Brains Out, The Apiros Podcast,  The Way of Champions - Changing the Game Podcast, Just Kickin' It)   (8:15) - John Kessel will be presenting at the Coaching Symposium as part of the Volleyball Nations League (June 8-10). Click here to register.   (8:50) - Follow John Kessel on Twitter @JohnKesselUSAV   (10:00) - Serving cliché: when to not miss a serve   (12:00) - Lesson learned on serving through tennis   (13:22) - Serving is a very important skill that merits much attention to very specific details such as gathering performance numbers both in practice and competition    (15:30) - Volleball 1 on 1 article on Using Science to Develop a Team Game Plan and a Volleyball Coaching Philosophy   (18:30) - More needs to be done on serving: more volume, more specific & purposeful practice   (20:20) - Block training with serve has its place and time   (21:50) - The need to focus on very specific details: starting point, toss, approach, reading of toss, quality of contact & affect on ball (trajectory, ball action, location, velocity   (23:33) - How to assess and use serving velocity   (26:50) - Make serving more purposeful in practice: serve & defend everytime, set very demanding success criteria, interval team serving late in season, create game like pressure   (33:30) - Blocked serving reps outside of practice on athlete's own time are very helpful   (35:12) - Thoughts on in game serve management   (40:05) - The most important club resource is the coaching group   (40:40) - Jos Nederveen, Mountain Volleyball Club, founded the MVCCP, an inhouse coaching program for their athletes   (45:09) - Coach wellness - how to avoid the OVA tournament traps and possible solutions   (46:10) - Make better decisions and lead by example   (47:45) - Bring your own meal to eat healthier, cheaper and save time   (49:12) - Use the down time on the road to be productive (catch up on work, prepping for tournament, discussing last training segment, gather information from all coaches, planning the next practices, updating each individual athlete file on strengths & things to improve)   (51:10) - Get a quick workout in upon arrival at hotel or in the morning before the tournament (i.e.: quick run on treadmill, a few laps in the pool, tabata workout in hotel room)   (53:38) - Avoid alcohol and go to bed earlier as requested with athletes   (54:20) - Take full advantage of the team food table to eat healthier, cheaper & faster   (55:52) - Read during breaks to relax, refresh your mind or perhaps to keep you on track by focusing on coaching topics such as leadership, motor learning, etc.  (i.e.: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leaf Babin, Talent Code & Culture Code, by Daniel Coyle)    (58:33) - Participate actively during team warm up by foam rolling, stretching or doing some core exercises   (59:40) - Provide feedback or propose topics by e-mailing at FTFC@maverickvolleyball.ca

Gary is back from the International Conference on the Fantastic in Orlando, where he chatted quite a bit with guests of honour John Kessel and Nike Sulway while managing to not attend some very interesting talks and panels. We touch upon the problems of identifying an SF audience in today's fluid environment, and the feeling of some older writers that their books may be no longer part of the overall discussion. But is there an overall discussion anymore? Has the SF readership atomized into so many different readerships, some more vertical than horizontal, that even when senior writers are still being read widely, it's difficult to find out who those readers are.  Have we gotten to the point of “everyone their own canon,” where only a handful of books each year make it into the general discussion of where SF is headed?

Volleyball Denmark have gathered three international top-level coaches – Doug Beal, John Kessel and Fred Sturm – for an outstanding and unprecedented event in Copenhagen, June 15-17, 2018. In this podcast, board member in Volleyball Denmark, Thomas Bro-Rasmussen, tells more about the Coaches Clinic of the Year taking place in Copenhagen, June 15-17, 2018.

Volleyball Danmark inviterer alle trænere/ledere/spillere mm. til et tre dages kursus med de tre store stjerner Doug Beal, John Kessel og Fred Sturm. Det bliver tre dage dage med en masse spændende foredrag både med fokus på teori og praksis. Læs mere om kurset her: http://volleyball.dk/index.php/udvikling/coachesclinic

       This week, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, we are joined by two authors whose own recent works celebrate that classic work.  John Kessel's Pride and Prometheus will be published in February, combining characters from Shelley's classic and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, while Theodora Goss's The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, featuring a number of classic characters from 19th century fantastic fiction—including Frankenstein's “daughter”--will be joined by its sequel European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman in July; both are part of her series "The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club.” We touch upon Shelley's work, the problems of writing narratives that exist within the spaces of earlier novels, whether or not Frankenstein was really the first science fiction novel, and—briefly—on the debt we all own to Ursula K. Le Guin after her passing earlier in the week. As always, our thanks to our guests, Dora and John. We hope you enjoy the episode. See you next week!

Normal service resumes with a rambly episode after last week's chat with Jane Yolen. Having decided what they were going to discuss beforehand, Gary and Jonathan immediately head off and start discussing something else altogether! It's a ramble, it's a chat, it's very much business as usual. Topics discussed this week include novellas, Kelly Robson's "Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach", the persistence of fairy tales in modern fantasy, and the new anthology Robots v. Fairies.  The frankly dodgy Western Australian internet connection didn't quite hold out until the end, so the chat ends a little short, though complete.   As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. Next week: John Kessel and Theodora Goss are scheduled to discuss their new novels and the fascination with Frankenstein.

Much to the disappointment of the listeners of Coach Your Brains Out and SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, there will be no Anchorman-esc battle between the two podcasts. We're now on the same team. That's right. VolleyballMag.com is now the distributor for both podcasts, which are as similar as they are different, both focusing on the same sport while diving into it in vastly dichotomous angles. Coach Your Brains Out began as many podcasts do: A few friends with a similar interest, an iPhone, and a bit of editing know-how. John Mayer, Billy Allen and Nils Nielsen put an iPhone on a table and just talked about whatever volleyball and coaching topics came to mind. Allen would edit, they'd post, and, as they joke frequently on the show, maybe a few people would even listen.    They enjoyed doing it. Soon, they realized more than a few actually enjoyed listening. The show expanded in every way a podcast could. The audience grew, the technology evolved from one iPhone to a few mics. Guests have been some of the top performers in their respective spaces, including the likes of volleyball legends Phil Dalhausser and Karch Kiraly, authors Joshua Medcalf and James Kerr, and coaches John Kessel and Tom Black, among dozens of others. It isn't just coaching they analyze, but traits and features of high performing individuals and teams, digging into the various recipes for greatness, both physiological and psychological. “Around the time we were starting it we were turned on to ideas like Train Ugly's website, a lot of ideas like motor learning and different ways to teach the game,” Allen said. “That was a lot of what sparked our first couple episode and we were fired up on that. Before we did the podcast it was fun to pick [John's] brain and just talk, that kind of stuff, and now we're still able to do that and get some great coaches from around the world too.” “We try to find people striving for mastery in whatever they do,” Mayer added. “Whatever ways we can find to be our best.” Coach Your Brains Out publishes on Thursdays, typically in 30-minute episodes. 

  We asked you all to share with us your favorite podcasts from 2017, and we had so many responses that we have decided to divide it up into multiple episodes. In this episode, we share your favorite podcasts from select coaches: UNC National Champion Lacrosse Coach Jenny Levy, USA Volleyball's John Kessel, World Cup and Olympic Champion Tony DiCicco, Unleash the Athlete's James Leath, and our interview with Dr. Wade Gilbert and Dr. Jerry Lynch. This is a bit longer than most of our podcasts, but it is full of pure gold. In future episodes, we will have advice from athletes, researchers, and some other coaching gems. Thanks all for your feedback and supporting our podcast this past year!   Subscribe to the Way of Champions Podcast on iTunes   Show Notes   John Kessel 5:30    John Kessel on the Need for Peer Mentoring in Sports 8:20    John Kessel on Training Ugly and Learning to Ride a Bike 10:50  John Kessel on Training to Perform in Games NOT Training to Perform in Practice 13:00  John Kessel on Why Some Coaches Should be Sued for Malpractice   Jenny Levy 15:10  Jenny Levy on Advice She Got From Roy Williams: “It may mean you may never win”. 17:30  Jenny Levy on Recruiting to Fit Your Culture 21:25  Jenny Levy on When Parents Should Intervene   Dr. Jerry Lynch and Wade Gilbert 24:50  Dr. Jerry Lynch and Wade Gilbert on the Cornerstone of John Wooden’s Coaching Success 27:50  Dr. Jerry Lynch Discusses The Impact Dean Smith had on His Career 31:30  Wade Gilbert on Karch Kiraly and the Magic of Ugly Practices   James Leath 35:25  James Leath on the Time He Made ESPN Top Ten 38:30  James Leath on Building Athletes of Character First 43:45  James Leath on Why He Coaches   Tony DiCicco 48:15    Tony DiCicco Discusses his 1990s Women’s National Team 51:55    Tony DiCicco on multi-sport athletes and what it takes to produce world class athletes 57:35    Tony DiCicco Explains Why Winning Does NOT Equate to Development 59:40    Tony DiCicco Recalls his Rule of One Moments from His Storied Career 1:04:50 Tony DiCicco Shares his Coaching Philosophy   If you are enjoying our podcast, please help us out and leave a review on iTunes. How to leave an iTunes rating or review for a podcast from your iPhone or iPad   Launch Apple’s Podcast app. Tap the Search tab. Enter the name Way of Champions. Tap the blue Search key at the bottom right. Tap the album art for the Way of Champions podcast. Tap the Reviews tab. Tap Write a Review at the bottom. Thanks so much, every review helps us to spread this message! Hosted by John O'Sullivan. Produced by Coach Reed Maltbie

Bienvenidos a un nuevo capítulo del podcast de los VerdHugos.En esa ocasión tenemos como invitado a Edmundo Paz Soldán, autor de obras tan interesantes como Iris y Las Visiones, con quien hablaremos de su obra, sus planes de futuro y el estado de la ciencia ficción en la actualidad. En la segunda parte del programa, repasaremos los libros que más nos han gustado en 2017(0h : 6m) : influencias en Iris(0h : 18m) : atisbo, en exclusiva, del nuevo proyecto de Edmundo(0h : 34m) : repaso a lo mejor del añoRecomendacionesJosep María OriolLincoln in the Bardo de George SaundersIce de Anna KavanArs Ludens : relatos para sobrevivir al enemigo de final de fase de Charles YuThe Regional Office is under Attack de Manuel GonzalesElías CombarroToo Like the Lightning y Seven Surrenders de Ada PalmerThe Moon and the Other de John KesselSpoonbenders de Daryl GregorySix Wakes de Mur LaffertyThe Legends of Luke Skywalker de Ken LiuThe Book of Swords de VV.AA.Steal the Stars (audiodrama) de Mac RogersArmando SaldañaSix Wakes de Mur LaffertyA Man of Shadows de Jeff NoonDevil's Day de Andrew Michael HurleyLeticia LaraRuin of Angels de Max Gladstone Mandelbrot the Magnificient de Liz ZiemskaAustral de Paul McAuleyAutonomous de Annalee NewitzBSOEpic Mountain Goat Related Music by Son of Robot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Bienvenidos a un nuevo capítulo del podcast de los VerdHugos.En esa ocasión tenemos a un invitado muy especial, Álvaro Zinos-Amaro, con quien hablaremos de su obra nominada a los Hugo y Locus, Traveler of Worlds, de su labor como reseñador y de sus próximos planes como escritor.(0h : 16m) : descubrimos el número de novelas eróticas escritas por Robert Silverberg. (0h : 34m) : nos acordamos del verdHugo ausente, Pedro Román.(0h : 41m) : realizamos la pregunta definitiva ¿cómo es la biblioteca de Robert Silverberg?(1h : 09m) : desvelamos la clave para leer mucho(1h : 12m) : Álvaro nos habla, en exclusiva, de su nuevo proyecto(1h : 39m) : recomendacionesRecomendacionesÁlvaro Zinos-AmaroThe Art of Starving de Sam J MillerPaperbacks from Hell de Hendrix GradyThe Moon and the Other de John KesselElías CombarroThe Moon and the Other de John KesselThe power de Naomi Alderman Miquel CodonyLas fuentes perdidas de José Antonio CotrinaLas tres muertes de Fermín Salvochea de Jesús Cañadas Leticia LaraDespertares de Felicidad MartínezFour Road Cross de Max Gladstone BSOEpic Mountain Goat Related Music by Son of Robot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Join award-winning science fiction writer John Kessel for a seafood feast as we discuss why he suddenly has two novels coming out within a year two decades after his last one, how attending the 1969 St. Louis Worldcon changed his life, the ways in which his objections to "The Cold Equations" and Ender's Game are at their heart the same, his early days attempting to emulate Thomas M. Disch, the time-travel short story he couldn't whip into shape for Damon Knight, which author broke his 26-year Nebula Awards record for the longest gap between wins, the secret behind the success of his many collaborations with James Patrick Kelly, and more.

Eavesdrop on Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer James Patrick Kelly as we discuss the reason he needed to attend the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop twice—and why the rules were then changed so no one could ever do it again, the suggestion Kate Wilhelm made that saved one of his short stories, why his reaction to comics as a kid was "Marvel, yes, DC, feh," how the science fiction field survived the Cyberpunk/Humanist wars of the ‘80s, why he takes an expansive view of fanfic, how Cory Doctorow inspired him to enter the world of podcasting early, what allows him and frequent collaborator John Kessel to work together so well, his advice for how writing 10 endings to a story in progress will help writers find the right ending, and more.

Neurosurgeons say if they practiced the way they did 18 months ago, they’d be sued for malpractice. Heart surgeons believe if they practiced the way they did 5 years ago, they’d be sued for malpractice. Yet, in youth sport coaching we still practice the way we did when we were kids. John Kessel believes we should all be sued for malpractice because we have not evolved the game to meet the times. Do you agree? Listen in on this thought provoking, information packed podcast as John shares an amazing amount of knowledge and has myriad quotable quotes in a short hour long podcast. Get your notebook out for this one! Bio Since 1985 John has been working for the National Governing Body of the sport, USA Volleyball (USAV), now as Director of Sport Development. He currently serves as the staff liaison for Disabled Programs, USA Deaflympic Teams, Starlings USA, National Parks and Recreation Assoc., the YMCA and over 30 other Affiliated Organizations working with USAV. He is Secretary of the NORCECA Technical and Coaches Commission, and Director of Development for World ParaVolley. He was Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team in Athens, which came home with the bronze medal. In 1995, Volleyball Magazine’s special Centennial issue named him one of the 50 most important people in the sport in the past 100 years. In 2013 the American Volleyball Coaches Association inducted him as their 60th member of the AVCA Coaches Hall of Fame. John has been coaching since 1971 at the collegiate level or above, including Women’s U.S. Open titles in 1986 & 1987. A sought after international lecturer, he has conducted seminars in all 50 states, and in over 50 nations, including China, Denmark, Bolivia, Thailand, Qatar, United Arab Emerits, Cook Islands, Barbados, France, Germany, Egypt, England, Italy, Argentina, Lithuania, Japan, Iceland, Puerto Rico, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Canada, Guatemala, Venezuela, Greece, Israel, Australia, Jamaica, New Zealand, Holland, England, Belize, Trinidad Tobago, Ireland, Tonga, Belgium, Haiti, Vanuatu, Costa Rica, Fiji, Poland, Nicaragua, British Virgin Islands, Vietnam, and El Salvador. He is also a busy author, with over half a dozen USAV books, including the IMPACT coaching manual, the Jr. Olympic Volleyball Program Guide, and most recently Minivolley 4 Youth, the Youth Coloring Book, and countless articles. His blog called “Growing the Game Together” is the second most popular blog of the hundreds found on the US Olympic Committee’s Team USA website and he promotes the “Grassroots” Button on the USAV website with material, videos, posters, and information for clubs, schools, coaches, parents, players, and officials. He has received many other awards, including USA Volleyball’s Honorable Mention in 1978 and 1986, the Harry Wilson Distinguished International Service in 2004, the George Fisher Leader in Volleyball in 2006 and in 2007 was named a Sport Ethics Fellow by the Institute for International Sport. Subscribe to the Way of Champions Podcast on iTunes Show Notes 2:45 “That which you teach, you learn” Why we should have more peer mentoring in sport 10:45 The game trains the brain – Kids need to play more 18:25 Did your parents hire a “bike riding coach”? How’d you learn to ride a bike? 21:00 If a surgeon practiced they way she did 5 years ago, she’d be sued… 27:00 For this to work, Coaches have to show their own failure, vulnerability, willingness to learn 35:00 To get in the best physical shape to play volleyball, you should play volleyball… 38:00 Every time these hands touch the ball, they are going in the end zone. That’s how I play. 46:00 Do we practice to look good in practice or do we practice to perform in games? 53:00 Don’t, Try, and But are words coaches should eliminate from their vocabulary 59:00 If you are always working on the personal “re”, you will be happy and succeed Get in Touch Twitter: @johnkesselUSAV Email: john.kessel@usav.org “The Backwards Bicycle”: Smarter Every Day Ep 133 Richard Schmidt’s Book: Motor Learning and Performance, From Principles to Practice Damian Farrow’s Book: Developing Sport Expertise If you are enjoying our podcast, please help us out and leave a review on iTunes. How to leave an iTunes rating or review for a podcast from your iPhone or iPad Launch Apple’s Podcast app. Tap the Search tab. Enter the name Way of Champions. Tap the blue Search key at the bottom right. Tap the album art for the Way of Champions podcast. Tap the Reviews tab. Tap Write a Review at the bottom. Thanks so much, every review helps us to spread this message!

John Kessel is the Director of Sport Development for USA Volleyball and World ParaVolley. John has been coaching since 1971 at the collegiate and professional level. He is an Internationall Acclaimed lecturer that has presented in all 50 states and over 50 countries. His blog, "Growing the Game Together", is the 2nd most popular blog available amongst over 100 organized though the US Olympic Committee's Team USA website. John shows us what motor learning science can teach us about training youth soccer players.

This week Gary is in Orlanda, Florida for the International Conference on the Fantastic Arts. Despite being thousands of miles away, across aligator-infested waters, he took the time to sit down with long-time friends of the podcast John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly to discuss John's new novel The Moon and the Other (Saga Press, April) and Jim's new novel, Mother Go, which will be out from Audible later this year. As always happens on Coode Street, the conversation started on new books, new publishers, and publishing methods, and wandered far and wide. As always, our sincere thanks to John and Jim for making the time to join us. We hope you enjoy the episode and will be back with more next week!

Our sixth podcast for January is “Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance” written by John Kessel and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in The New Space Opera 2, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan.

Our sixth podcast for January is “Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance” written by John Kessel and read by Kate Baker.   Originally published in The New Space Opera 2, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. Subscribe to our podcast.

John Kessel of USA Volleyball discusses how to be a better coach by letting kids make mistakes and not punishing them for the mistakes. Mistakes are an important part of learning and independence. We also discuss how training ugly and making mistakes in practice is a great idea. John mentions that coaches often control practice so much that athletes really are good at practice but that translating what is learned in practice to competition is sometimes not very good. We discuss how to keep kids in sports and how some kids develop late. Rather than "cutting" kids, find another avenue for them to practice. We also discuss how small-sided games can be used to improve skills. We go off on tangents about motor learning, John Wooden and guitar playing YouTube stars.

John Kessel is the director of sport development for USA Volleyball and joins us today to talk about the importance of learning and some of the most important learning principles they've implemented with the US Volleyball team.

Hi listeners! We hope you’ve enjoyed the first 6 months of podcasts with us “In the Margins.” We’ve had some inspiring conversations with editors like Jeff Shotts from Graywolf Press, Crystal Simone Smith of Backbone Press, and Kevin Larimer, editor in chief of Poets & Writers Magazine. We’ve learned what it takes to get into a prestigious program like NC State’s Masters of Fine Arts in Creative writing from professors in poetry and fiction, Dorianne Laux and John Kessel. We’ve spoken with several poets and writers about their work, including breaking news about Therese Anne Fowler’s bestseller Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald and its adaptation into an Amazon TV series. We’re so glad you’ve listened along with us, and we hope you will continue to share in our conversations as we forward with the show. In fact, we’d like to bring to you an exciting endeavor that Tate Street has been working on diligently for the past several months. As part of our monthly episodes, we are thrilled to be airing documentaries from our work with the Favorite Poem Project. For many of you, this might sound familiar. In Episode 6: Tate Street goes to AWP, we unveil the project, and then in Episode 9, we showcase Hayan Charara reading “Out, Out—“ by Robert Frost. These short, comfortable bursts of poetry are complemented by the reader’s personal connection to the poem. Some readers talk about the honesty of fear in parenthood, the watershed moment in which one realized that they could be a poet, the search for love across distance and boundaries of culture or space—these stories all take place in the Favorite Poem Project Documentaries that we will bring to you on “In the Margins.” Don’t worry, our in-depth interviews will alternate with our FPP segments. Most of all, though, we are happy to be able to share a broad range of voices, experiences, and viewpoints through this partnership. We invite you to gather and share this podcast with your fellow writers, family, and friends. Finally, Ray, the whole team of “In the Margins,” Tate Street, and I would like to thank you again for this incredible first six months! Keep writing!   ****   Sandra Beasley reading “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv9Jj4HIRh4 Oliver de la Paz reading “Bright Star” by John Keats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k12SencWfXQ Favorite Poem Project: http://www.favoritepoem.org/ Robert Pinsky’s interview with The Paris Review: http://tatestreet.org/2013/07/28/poetry-sounds-robert-pinsky-the-shirt/   Sonnets suggested by “In the Margins” Listeners: Beckie Dashiell: Kim Addonizio's "First Poem for You" Ross White: Donald Justice's "Mrs. Snow” L. Lamar Wilson: “The White House" by Claude McKay" Terry Kennedy: Southern Pastoral" by Natasha Trethewey Crystal Simone Smith: “Persephone, Falling” by Rita Dove Chelsea from Facebook: "Golden Retrievals" by Mark Doty John Mallard: Holy Sonnets 10 and 14 by Donne, “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley Miranda Propst‪: William Shakespeare's “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day‬” Julia Patt, @chidorme on twitter: Gwendolyn Brooks' "the sonnet-ballad” ‪Kristine Lee‪: “God's Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins ‪Sarah White‪: Christina Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio"‬ ‪Meghan McGuire:‪ Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Time does not bring relief; you all have lied"   Thank you to everyone who participated! For a full list, take a look at the show notes or visit the episode page at tatestreet.org. We hope you will share more of your favorite sonnets with us on twitter and facebook. Don’t forget, also, to share your “Self-love Sonnets” with us on this episode’s page, or send us an email at writeus@tatestreet.org. Next episode, we’ll be speaking with Jeffery Lependorf, Executive Director of America’s two national service organizations for independent literary publishing: the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and Small Press Distribution. We hope you’ll join us. Until then, thanks for listening, and as always, Keep Writing!

How does a writer improve? In this episode, two prominent writers and writing professors from North Carolina State University’s graduate program in creative writing share their insight into the creative process. With over 50 years of teaching experience between them, poet Dorianne Laux and fiction writer John Kessel offer advice to all levels of writers, reminding us to always try “once more, with feeling.”   Podcast Notes:   Writing allows people to open the mind and the heart. Encourages expression of things that are not encouraged in their social groups. Teaches people how to express themselves. We all have some capacity to write and to respond to it. Fans out in their lives beyond just writing. The teacher’s job… knows things that do and don’t work and why. Try to understand what the writer is trying to say and help them say it. Can’t break the rules until you know how to play the game. Help writer make it interesting to the reader (the “heat”).   North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) Creative Writing Master of the Fine Arts: http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/graduate/mfa Creative Writing Undergraduate Major: http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/undergraduate/   California Poets in the Schools Program (K-12): http://www.cpits.org/   Pablo Neruda: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/pablo-neruda  – Letter to Miguel: http://www.amazon.com/Letter-Miguel-Otero-Silva-Caracas/dp/B0006YN9O4   Ursula K. Le Guin: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/   Herman Melville: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/herman-melville   Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning: “Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?“: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173001   Sharon Olds: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sharon-olds Stag’s Leap: http://www.amazon.com/Stags-Leap-Poems-Sharon-Olds/dp/0375712259   Karen Joy Fowler: http://karenjoyfowler.com/ We are all Completely Beside Ourselves: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-All-Completely-Beside-Ourselves/dp/1846689651   E. M. Forester: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster Aspects of the Novel: http://www.amazon.com/ASPECTS-THE-NOVEL-E-M-Forster/dp/0156091801     Producers: Ray Crampton and Abigail Browning Produced by: tatestreet.org: http://tatestreet.org Music Provided by: Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexander: http://www.campusfive.com Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Email: mailto:writeus@tatestreet.org

There are many ways to learn the craft of writing. In the Margins, we take a close look at North Carolina State University’s graduate program specializing in the art of poetry and fiction. Program Director and poet, Dorianne Laux and John Kessell, a member of the fiction faculty, pull back the curtain to the admissions process for the MFA program at NC State and give us insight into the landscape of emerging writers today.   Podcast Notes:   The Master of Fine Arts, or MFA, in Creative Writing at NC State is a is a “two-year program of workshops, literature courses and electives, culminating in a final thesis of literary work worthy of publication.”   To give us more insight into the MFA at NC State, we are joined by two award-winning authors: the program’s current director, poet Dorianne Laux (who has published five collections of poetry including most recently: Facts about the Moon and The Book of Men), and two-time Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer John Kessel (who also helped found the MFA program).   North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) Creative Writing Master of the Fine Arts: http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/graduate/mfa Creative Writing Undergraduate Major: http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/undergraduate/   North Carolina State University Creative Writing Faculty: Dorianne Laux (Poetry): http://doriannelaux.net John Kessel (Fiction): http://johnjosephkessel.wix.com/kessel-website Wilton Barnhardt (Fiction): http://www.wiltonbarnhardt.com Jill McCorkle (Fiction):  http://jillmccorkle.com John Balaban (Poetry):  http://www.johnbalaban.com   Former Students/Visiting Writers Therese Anne Fowler: http://thereseannefowler.com   Visiting Writers Reading at NC State   Gibbons Ruark: http://www.faculty.english.udel.edu/ruark/ Eduardo Corral: http://eduardocorral.com Allan Gurganus: http://www.allangurganus.com   Producers: Ray Crampton and Abigail Browning Produced by: tatestreet.orghttp://tatestreet.org Music Provided by: Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexanderhttp://www.campusfive.com Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Email: mailto:writeus@tatestreet.org  

Heinlein Roundtable: Tony Daniel, John Kessel, and Hank Davis Discuss Baen's new edition of Robert A. Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon for which Daniel wrote an all-new afterword; and Part 33 of Hard Magic by Larry Correia as read by Bronson Pinchot.

Mark L. Van Name, John Kessel, Gray Rinehart, and Jim Minz, Live at Illogicon 3, Roundtable on the Future of the Book, and David Weber's Shadow of Freedom Part 44

Our fifth piece of audio fiction for December is “The Pure Product” written by John Kessel and read by Kate Baker. First published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1986. Subscribe to our podcast.

At the recent San Antonio WorldCon, Gary was joined by special guest co-host Kij Johnson and award-winning author John Kessel (both long time friends of the podcast) to discuss the works of the late, great Alfred Bester. Our sincere thanks to both Kij and John. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

John Speraw of UCLA, John Kessel of USAV and Kelli Sheffield of Wisconsin headline another TNL

We are getting very near the end of "The Wreck of the Godspeed" here with Part Six.     Not a lot happens for most of this episode until the end and then ... big doings!  Time:  23:40  File Size: 16.3mbSorry to keep harping on this, but I would love it if you could buy a really cool new anthology:  DIGITAL RAPTURE, THE SINGULARITY ANTHOLOGY  edited John Kessel and ... well ... me.  It features stories and essays about our potential post-human futures.  All hail our robot overlords!

Time marches on as summer slips away here while in outer space our starship forges deeper into mystery.  Here is Part Five  of The "Wreck of the Godspeed" which was first published in a Science Fiction Book Club anthology called BETWEEN WORLDS.  Time:  18:17  File Size: 12.6mbAnd here's another reminder that you could buy a really cool new anthology:  DIGITAL RAPTURE, THE SINGULARITY ANTHOLOGY  edited John Kessel and ... well ... me.  It features stories and essays about our potential post-human futures. All hail our robot overlords!

This time around we have a double-length episode and thank you for your patience.  You are about to hear Part Four of  "The Wreck of the Godspeed."  It was first published in a Science Fiction Book Club anthology called BETWEEN WORLDS.   Here is my favorite spacewalking scene (also my only spacewalking scene)  Time: 46:23  File Size: 31.9mbA reminder that DIGITAL RAPTURE, THE SINGULARITY ANTHOLOGY is out and available for your reading pleasure.  Edited my your narrator and his pal John Kessel, this anthology features stories and essays about our potential post-human futures.  Alas, it comes in a molecular edition only -- we couldn't clear the e-rights!  

Here's Part Two  of my 2004 novella "The Wreck Of The Godspeed" which was first published in a Science Fiction Book Club anthology called BETWEEN WORLDS.  Our hero starts to settle in for the long journey.  Time:  19:02  File Size: 13.2mb Please don't forget my for pay projects, which help keep this podcast going!  I'm on Audible with two novels new to audio Wildlife  and Look Into the Sun along with the venerable StoryPod collections 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 and over in Digital Printland, there are five issues of Strangeways on Kindle and Nook.   And brand new in fine bookstores (almost) everywhere DIGITAL RAPTURE: THE SINGULARITY ANTHOLOGY edited by yours truly and John Kessel, from Tachyon Publications.

This week award-winning authors and celebrated anthologists James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel join Gary and I to discuss their upcoming anthology Digital Rapture, their anthology work generally, and whether science fiction has a mission! As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast.

 Here's Part One of my 2004 novella "The Wreck Of The Godspeed" which was first published in a Science Fiction Book Club anthology called BETWEEN WORLDS, which is probably why you've never heard of it.  This is a long one!   Time:  21:59  File Size: 15.1mb Please don't forget my for pay projects, which help keep this podcast going!  I'm on Audible with two novels new to audio Wildlife  and Look Into the Sun along with the venerable StoryPod collections 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 and over in Digital Printland, there are five issues of Strangeways on Kindle and Nook.   And brand new in fine bookstores (almost) everywhere DIGITAL RAPTURE: THE SINGULARITY ANTHOLOGY edited by yours truly and John Kessel, from Tachyon Publications.

Here at the Small Beer Studios, it’s Kesselmania! Between the reading of “The Last American” in Episode Nine and this week’s interview of the man himself, right now it seems that we have Kessel and nothing but Kessel on our minds. And why not? He’s an interesting guy, an astute anthologist and a terrific writer. […]

I don’t know how many different people mentioned John Kessel to me before I ever read his work. Well, actually, that’s a lie. I know exactly how many people mentioned John Kessel: four. One of them was Gavin Grant and another was James Patrick Kelly. Mariel Morales and Taylor Preston, school friends of mine from […]

Editorial: We Are Nominated For A Hugo by Tony C Smith 02:33 Short Fiction: Hong’s Bluff by William F. Wu 27:00 Fact Article: Looking Back at SF History by Amy H. Sturgis 32:00 StarShipSofa Interrogations: John Kessel Main Fiction: Every Angel Is Terrifying by John Kessel 37:00 Fact Article: Transcriber Editorial by Diane Severson Narrators: Patrick Scott, Geoff Michelli See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeffrey Ford, John Kessel and Delia Sherman

Fair Warning: The self aggrandizement continues with Part Two of the Guest of Honor Interview between John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly from Readercon 19. This took place in July of 2008. Happily, this is the concluding segment. Time: 20:25 File Size: 20mb

Fair Warning: And now for something completely different for Free Reads. This is Part One of the Guest of Honor Interview between John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly from Readercon 19. It was recorded in July of 2008 and contains more information than anyone would ever want to know about the perpetrator of this podcast. Listen at your own peril! Time: 31:54 File Size: 15mb

Aural Delights No 29 Allen Steele Poetry: Time Travel Verb Tenses by Laurel Winter 02:11 Flash Fiction: Downtown by John Kessel 03:41 Fact: Science News by Jim Campanella 09:26 Main Fiction: The Last Science Fiction Writer by Allen Steele11:22 Narrators: Diane Severson, Grant Stone and Mark Nelson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Aural Delights No 12 John Kessel Main Fiction: Buffalo by John Kessel Narration: JJ Campanella See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.