Podcast appearances and mentions of Kevin Brockmeier

The Antidote by Karen Russell is a transportive story about history, American ideology, and community. Russell joins us to talk about creating her cast of characters, her research process and historical inspiration, writing short stories vs. novels and more with cohost Jenna Seery.  This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.                      New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.  Featured Books (Episode):  The Antidote by Karen Russell  Swamplandia! by Karen Russell  Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar  The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich  Stag Dance by Torrey Peters  Dust Bowls of Empire by Hannah Holleman  Canon by Paige Lewis  The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino  Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski  The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier 

Last week, we welcomed to the pod Evan Friss, author of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore. This week, we visit with his wife, Amanda Friss, owner of Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, Virginia.Books We Talk About: The works of Kevin Brockmeier, West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman and Once More Upon a Time by Roshani Chokshi

Four great short stories performed by Philip Baker Hall penned by Mark Halliday, Ron Carlson, Joyce Carol Oates and Kevin Brockmeier, produced and directed by Cedering Fox exclusively for WORDTheatre. ★ Support this podcast ★

Hi!!! Welcome to our interview with Liz Michalski, the author of Darling Girl. Featured on May's Book of the Month picks, we dive deep into the dark world of fairytales and writing a retelling. We hope you enjoy this episode and make sure to check out Darling Girl wherever books are sold. You can follow Liz on instagram @lizmichalskiauthor and on her website here and you can snag a copy of Darling Girl from Book of the Month for $5! Favorite Standalone: The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Favorite Series: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, The Crystal Cave series by Mary Stewart, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bargudo Book Boyfriend: Jamie Fraser from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Book Girlfriend: Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen This episode is sponsored by Audible by Amazon, click here to try Audible for free! We are currently reading Dark Skies by Danielle Jensen for the April Book Club read, click here to join in: The Bookish Banter Book Club. Please subscribe and leave us a 5 star review and follow along on Instagram and Tiktok @TheBookishBanterPodcast. If you want to check out our Patreon, click here for behind the scenes content and bonus episodes!!! Message us with any episode requests or if you just want to say hi! Follow Tatyana on Instagram @TheLiteratureLlama2.0 and Tiktok and follow Kearsten on Instagram @KearstenKeepsReading and Tiktok. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebookishbanterpodcast/support

There are all different kinds of ghost stories and types of ghosts. Maybe the ghost is a malicious spirit out for revenge, or a marshmallow man parade float come to life, or maybe it's truly a friendly ghost — Casper, here to be pals. In today's first featured interview, Here & Now's Robin Young talks with Louise Erdrich about her novel The Sentence which is set in a haunted bookstore in Minneapolis. Then NPR's Ailsa Chang interviews Kevin Brockmeier about his book of short spooky stories The Ghost Variations.

In this episode, Gabi and Megan chat with Linzi, @abookishendeavor on Instagram. We chat about her freelance graphic design work, moving to a different state, and the bookstore she is opening in 2022: Reading in Public Books!Books Discussed:The Last Book You Enjoyed:Linzi's pick: The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier, Spirits Abroad: Stories by Zen ChoMegan's pick: Still Life by Louise PennyGabi's pick: Payback's A Witch by Lana HarperA New Release You're Looking Forward To: Linzi's pick: The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMegan's pick: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Gabi's pick: The Bright Side Running Club by Josie LloydA Book You Always Recommend:Linzi's pick: Heartstopper Volume I: A Graphic Novel by Alice OsemanMegan's pick: Passing by Nella LarsenGabi's pick: One Day in December by Josie SilverFollow Along:Linzi: @abookishendeavorLinzi's Bookstore: Reading in Public BooksReading in Public Books: Go Fund MeReading in Public Books: Merch ShopAnd Her Books Instagram

(Note: This interview first aired back in March.) Our guest is Kevin Brockmeier, an imaginative and acclaimed writer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. His many books include the novels "The Illumination" and "The Brief History of the Dead" as well as the story collections "Things That Fall from the Sky" and "The View from the Seventh Layer." He joins us to discuss his latest book, a collection of very short stories called "The Ghost Variations." Per a critic writing for Booklist: "Brockmeier's 100 extremely short ghost stories present a range in tone from unsettling to terrifying, and pack a fearful punch with an economy of language, even for readers primed to feel uneasy.... The tales themselves are gems: modern, haunted treasures to be discovered."

In this episode Michelle and Katherine angree about sad dogs, the Real Housewives franchise, Armadillos, Eurovision, and so much more! “All the Sad, Lonely Pandemic Puppies” by Sarah Zhang The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/05/pandemic-puppies-will-be-alone-first-time/619024/ “Science Versus” Podcast “A Seedy, Late Night Adventure” https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/emhxgkd/a-seedy-latenight-adventure ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” by V.E. Schwab https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50623864-the-invisible-life-of-addie-larue “No One is Talking About This” by Patricia Lockwood https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53733106-no-one-is-talking-about-this?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=6OJOHThwh6&rank=1 “A Brief History of the Dead” by Kevin Brockmeier https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30072.The_Brief_History_of_the_Dead?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=3C9ai5QIbh&rank=1 This American Wife by Fake Friends https://www.thisamericanwife.live “Armadillos Feeling Stress Can Delay Births For 2 Years” by Boyce Rensberger, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/05/23/armadillos-feeling-stress-can-delay-births-for-2-years/fbbc84b2-9304-430a-bf08-ff7a19c952c6/ “This Melbourne Art Historian Used Her Degree to Prove Eurovision's Italy Didn't Do Coke” https://hobartonlinenews.com.au/this-melb-art-historian-used-her-degree-to-prove-eurovisions-italy-captain-didnt-do-coke-pedestrian-tv/ Fat Bear Competition: https://www.katmaiconservancy.org/fat-bear-week-2020/

Our guest is Kevin Brockmeier, an imaginative and acclaimed writer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. His many books include the novels "The Illumination" and "The Brief History of the Dead" as well as the story collections "Things That Fall from the Sky" and "The View from the Seventh Layer." He joins us to discuss his new book, a collection of very short stories called "The Ghost Variations." As per a critic writing for Booklist: "Brockmeier's 100 extremely short ghost stories present a range in tone from unsettling to terrifying, and pack a fearful punch with an economy of language, even for readers primed to feel uneasy.... The tales themselves are gems: modern, haunted treasures to be discovered." Please note that Brockmeier take part in a virtual author event this coming Friday (the 12th) at 7pm on the Zoom platform; the event is being presented by Magic City Books and more info is posted here .

Preview award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier’s upcoming release, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. On this episode of Arts & Letters, Brockmeier shares three stories from his latest project, available in the spring of 2021 and published by Penguin Random House. This episode airs Friday, Oct. 23 at 7:00 pm and Sunday Oct. 25 at 9:00 pm. A certain Russian philosopher maintained that people are not born with their souls but must labor to create them. Anyone who fails to do so, he insisted, will dissolve upon dying into nonexistance. In addition to his latest book, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories , Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Illumination , The Brief History of the Dead , and The Truth About Celia ; the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer ; the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery ; and a memoir of his seventh-grade year called A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip . His work

Preview award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier's latest release, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories.

We are in the midst of a global shattering, and improv director/teacher/actor David Razowsky is here to help us through it.  You may recall a few episodes ago when I was talking with Kim Farris-Luke about the global grieving process that I mentioned feeling the feelings we're feeling the moment we feel the feelings. That was channeled directly from David.  From his time on stage at The Second City in Chicago with the likes of Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert to his time as artistic director of The Second City Hollywood, David has developed an improv style of elegant simplicity, where the only thing you need is the person on stage with you.  In this week's podcast, we talk about getting comfortable with the unknown, how much of the big picture we (as mission-driven leaders) are actually responsible for, and how to reconnect with the things that make us who we are (among many other helpful topics). We also dive into personal growth and acceptance, the difference between having an emotion and being the emotion, and how to ground yourself when you feel un-tethered.  David offers rich insight into how to BE right now in the middle of a pandemic, which will help you become the leader that your team and your business needs.  Resources and links: David's website: https://www.davidrazowsky.com/ David's TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/Jp2EcuMbAmY Jill Bolte Tayler's TED talk, "My Stroke of Insight": https://youtu.be/UyyjU8fzEYU "A Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier: https://amzn.to/2W8FyBk Email Becky@virtualexecutivedirector.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckybrettcaldwell/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BeckyBrett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/virtual_exec/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VirtualExecDirector

Two years ago, Carmen Maria Machado pushed the weird and gothic into the mainstream with her debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and made her a Guggenheim Fellow. Now she’s back with In the Dream House, a memoir of a harrowing relationship told in a splintered, fractured style. The list of chapters reads like an introduction to literary tropes 101: dream house as an exercise in point of view, as a memory palace, as a stranger comes to town, as a plot twist. Ultimately it is, as one title puts it, an exercise in style, but one in which Machado considers all the territory surrounding the dream house: stereotypes about lesbian relationships as safe or as hysterical, her religious adolescence, the insufficiency of the law, and the absence in the archives of stories that don’t fit traditional demographics of abuse.Go beyond the episode:Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House (and read the prologue)Read the collection that inspired the devious chapter, “Dream House as Choose Your Own Adventure,” Kevin Brockmeier’s The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg DeviceRead about the 1940s thriller that gave us the phrase “gaslighting” in J. Hoberman’s essay, “Why ‘Gaslight’ Hasn’t Lost Its Glow”Two essays Machado cites in her afterword, both about intimate partner violence: Conner Habib’s “If You Ever Did Write Anything About Me, I’d Want It to Be About Love” and Jane Eaton Hamilton’s “Never Say I Didn’t Bring You Flowers”Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Two years ago, Carmen Maria Machado pushed the weird and gothic into the mainstream with her debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and made her a Guggenheim Fellow. Now she’s back with In the Dream House, a memoir of a harrowing relationship told in a splintered, fractured style. The list of chapters reads like an introduction to literary tropes 101: dream house as an exercise in point of view, as a memory palace, as a stranger comes to town, as a plot twist. Ultimately it is, as one title puts it, an exercise in style, but one in which Machado considers all the territory surrounding the dream house: stereotypes about lesbian relationships as safe or as hysterical, her religious adolescence, the insufficiency of the law, and the absence in the archives of stories that don’t fit traditional demographics of abuse.Go beyond the episode:Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House (and read the prologue)Read the collection that inspired the devious chapter, “Dream House as Choose Your Own Adventure,” Kevin Brockmeier’s The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg DeviceRead about the 1940s thriller that gave us the phrase “gaslighting” in J. Hoberman’s essay, “Why ‘Gaslight’ Hasn’t Lost Its Glow”Two essays Machado cites in her afterword, both about intimate partner violence: Conner Habib’s “If You Ever Did Write Anything About Me, I’d Want It to Be About Love” and Jane Eaton Hamilton’s “Never Say I Didn’t Bring You Flowers”Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In which we discuss "Sweet on the Tongue" by Roxane Gay and "Parakeets" by Kevin Brockmeier, along with, among other things: love, trauma, companionship, and the plural of abyss.

Poppet, corn dolly, voodoo doll, all cultures have these items used in effigy for good and bad intent. A poppet is a doll made in the likeness of a person. The doll is then used in casting spells to help, hurt or direct the person it represents. We will discuss some history of these dolls, how to make them and use them. Remember, you can use magick to help yourself. Geode recommends a book, “The Brief History of the Dead” by Kevin Brockmeier. The corn dolls in the picture were hand crafted by Jessie and Brian Ross. Their local business can be found at fb.me/nightwitchtreasures. Check them out. Stay spooky and take care when making Poppets. Don’t make poppets of Debbie and Geode, unless your are making them for D&G’s success. In that case, have at it! You can find us at:  The Podbean app- The Secret Lives Of Geode And Debbie Podcast  Facebook, ITunes, IHeart Radio, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Google Play Music-The Secret Lives Of     Geode And Debbie Podcast          Twitter- TSLOGADPodcast@TSLOGAD           YouTube- The Secret Lives of Geode and Debbie Email- TheSecretLivesOfGeodeAndDebbie@gmail.com Snail Mail: 6001 NW 63rd St, PO Box 23651, Warr Acres. OK 73123  You can support us at Patreon- The Secret Lives Of Geode And Debbie Podcast                        URL- patreon.com/TSLOGADPodcast  

Tommy helps a listener through a disturbing case of Neesonitis while Pete struggles to hide from academics bearing heavy books. • This week's tune: So Clear by Eyal Raz Sponsor: This week's show is brought to you by Audible. Get a free audiobook to spice up your morning shower at AudibleTrial.com/ScentofaPodcast. From there, search for Tommy’s recommended book for the week: A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade by Kevin Brockmeier

An ordinary man finds himself unexpectedly in possession of an extraordinary power. This story appears in Kevin Brockmeier's collection THE VIEW FROM THE SEVENTH LAYER. Thanks to our presenting sponsor Audible. Start your free trial and get a free audiobook at audible.com/levar.

Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella "Especially Heinous," Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction. Praise for Her Body and Other Parties “The stories in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange. Her voracious imagination and extraordinary voice beautifully bind these stories about fading women and the end of the world and men who want more when they’ve been given everything and bodies, so many human bodies taking up space and straining the seams of skin in impossible, imperfect, unforgettable ways.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger “Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties tells ancient fables of eros and female metamorphosis in fantastically new ways. She draws the secret world of the body into visibility, and illuminates the dark woods of the psyche. In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! “Those of us who knew have been waiting for a Carmen Maria Machado collection for years. Her stories show us what we really love and fear.”—Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night “Carmen Maria Machado writes a new kind of fiction: brilliant, blindingly weird, and precisely attuned to the perils and sorrows of the times.”—Ben Marcus, author of Leaving the Sea “Carmen Maria Machado has a vital, visceral, umbilical connection to the places deep within the soul from where stories emanate. With a tenderness that is both touching and terrifying, Her Body and Other Parties gives insight into a cluster of worlds linked by their depth of feeling and penetrating strangeness.”—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine “Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart, these stories have the life-and-death stakes of nightmares and fairy tales; they’re full of urgent, almost unbearable reality. Carmen Machado is an extraordinary writer, an essential voice.”—Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You “Her Body and Other Parties will delight you, hurt you, and astonish you as only the smartest literature can. In this collection Machado blends horror, fairy tale, pop culture and myth in mesmerizing ways that feel utterly new. These stories are peerless and brilliant.”—Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love and Tampa “Carmen Maria Machado shuffles together fantastic, realistic, popular, and literary genres and then deals winning hand after winning hand. Whether it is reworking fairy tales, rewriting the entire run of Law and Order into a grim fantasy, or diving into unchartered territory entirely Machado's own, Her Body and Other Parties is a deft and thoughtful reclaiming of both literature and genre.”—Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses “Her Body and Other Parties is genius: part punk rock and part classical, with stories that are raw and devastating but also exquisitely plotted and full of delight. This is a strong, dangerous, and blisteringly honest book—it’s hard to think of it as a ‘debut,’ it's that good.”—Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne “What Carmen Maria Machado has done with this collection is nothing less than stunning. Just when you think you’ve figured her out, she unveils another layer of story, so unexpected, so profound, it leaves you gasping.”—Lesley Nneka Arimah, author of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky “With her lush, generative imagination, shimmering language, and utter fearlessness, Carmen Maria Machado is surely one of most ferociously gifted young writers working today. . . . Hilariously inventive, emotionally explosive, wonderfully sexy, Machado’s stories will carry you far from home, upend your reality, and sew themselves to your soul.”—Michelle Huneven, author of Blame and Off Course “Carmen Maria Machado is the way forward. Her fiction is fearlessly inventive, socially astute, sometimes pointed, sometimes elliptical, and never quite what you’re expecting—yet behind it you can always hear that ancient tale-teller’s voice, bartering for your attention with its dangers and its mysteries, its foolhardy characters pulled this way and that by the ropes of their emotions. . . . There is at once the breath of the new about these stories and the breath of the timeless.”—Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead “A form-bending fabulist in the tradition of Kevin Brockmeier, Kelly Link, and Karen Russell, she gleefully seeks out weird shapes and subjects for every story. . . . She writes uncanny, creepy, sexy, funny, feminist, magical-realist, metafictional, pop-cultural, and all-of-the-above stories, and she seems determined never to write the same story twice. Yet for all of its wildly inventive variety, Her Body and Other Parties is unified by the one story it keeps finding new ways to tell: how women can survive in worlds that want them to disappear, whether into marriage, motherhood, death, or (literally) prom dresses.”—Bennett Sims, author of A Questionable Shape  Carmen Maria Machado’s work has appeared in Granta, the New Yorker, NPR, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the Calvino Prize. She lives in Philadelphia. You can visit her website at: www.carmenmachado.com  

HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES, the dazzling debut by Carmen Maria Machado has garnered tremendous acclaim, including being named a finalist for the National Book Award. Carmen and James discuss never being done editing, her enviable file of images, and being thrown out of a plane. Plus, Editorial Director at Graywolf Press, Ethan Nosowsky.  - Carmen Maria Machado: https://carmenmariamachado.com/ Carmen and James discuss:  Ethan Nosowsky  FIVE CHAPTERS  GRAYWOLF PRESS  THE NEW YORKER  I WANT TO SHOW YOU MORE by Jamie Quatro  Kelly Link  Kevin Brockmeier  Shuchi Saraswat  Kimberly Glyder Aimee Bender Karen Russell  Laura van den Berg  Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop ANNIHILATION by Jeff Vander Meer  SMALL BEER PRESS A STRANGER IN OLONDRIA Sofia Samatar  THE WINGED HISTORIES by Sofia Samatar TENDER by Sofia Samatar Sam J. Miller  Alyssa Wong  Alice Kim  TIN HOUSE  McSWEENEY'S Yaddo   WOODCUTTERS by Thomas Bernhard NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro Ted Chiang  STRANGE HORIZONS  THE AMERICAN READER  - Graywolf Press: https://www.graywolfpress.org/ Ethan and James Discuss: National Book Award IndieNext Pick  Page-Turner Blog Kent Wolf  Graywolf Press  McSweeney's  FSG  Oxford University Press  Fiona McCrae (Graywolf) CLMP  Jeff Seroy (FSG) Josh Glusman (Norton)  Robert Giroux  Alan Williams  Stephen King  Nadine Gordimer  John Steinbeck  MacMillan Publishing  Bruce Machart  Houghton-Mifflin  David Vann  TOMB SONG by Julian Herbert   Christina MacSweeney  Tracy K. Smith  A LUCKY MAN by Jamel Brinkley  THE CONVERT by Deborah Baker  THE LAST ENGLISHMAN by Deborah Baker  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Hoopty Time Machines: fairy tales for grown ups (Atticus Books) Who Knew Godzilla Had a Poetic Side? Hoopty Time Machines. It’s fun to say, isn’t it? Fanciful. Downright playful. Go ahead, try it. Say it out loud. Let it tumble off your tongue: “Hoopty Time Machines.” Just mouthing the words takes you to another time, a time when everything still seems possible, a time when you can stay up late with a flashlight under your sheets and disappear into the adventures of a good book. Christopher DeWan’s Hoopty Time Machines: fairy tales for grown ups is a permission slip to adventure, an escape from the staid, workaday world, a passport to wistful, fabulist places, each one filled with peculiar dreams and wild awakenings. The stories include fairy tale heroines, introspective superheroes, and a whole menagerie of myths and monsters, but at their heart, each one is deeply human, and at least a little bit heartbreaking. DeWan’s debut collection is “one of the most anticipated small press books of 2016” (John Madera, Big Other) and is coming in September from Atticus Books. Praise for Hoopty Time Machines:“Funny, sharp, playful zingers of stories that reach right out to grab a reader."– Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake "Hoopty Time Machines is much like a bag of M&M's, in that it's nearly impossible, once you've opened it, not to consume it down to the last morsel, and fast. It is less like a bag of M&M's in that you never know what you'll find beneath the candy coating: a peanut or an amphetamine, a rosary bead or a thumbtack."– Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Illumination "Reading the book is like staring into a spiderwebbed mirror, the perfect vessel by which to understand our fractured, absurdist world. There are hints of Barthelme, Vonnegut, and Calvino to be found here, but make no mistake: DeWan is something gloriously new."– Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters "An absolute delight from the first page to the last: it's like that scene in Singin' in the Rain, only with ideas instead of puddles."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day “That rare story collection that is both a total blast to read and a complete philosophical package. These abrupt, funny, vigorous stories—involving urban legends, minotaurs, little mermaids, chupacabras, and changelings—contain in their brevity vast depth and import. These are stories to read, reread, and perennially enjoy."– Sharma Shields, author of The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac Christopher DeWan has published more than forty short stories in journals including Hobart, Necessary Fiction, Passages North, and wigleaf. His collection of domestic fabulism, Hoopty Time Machines, is one of the "most anticipated small press books of 2016." Christopher has had TV projects with the Chernin Group and Indomitable Entertainment and collaborated on transmedia properties for Bad Robot, Paramount, Universal, and the Walt Disney Company. His screenwriting has been recognized by CineStory, Final Draft, the PAGE Awards, and Slamdance, and he is recipient of a fellowship from the International Screenwriters' Association (ISA). He teaches with Writing Workshops Los Angeles and the California State Summer School for the Arts, where he is currently chair of creative writing.

An interview with Kevin Brockmeier, an author featured in the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016, conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; Selections from an interview with Dr. Ann Tice, a retired dermatologist who talks about growing up in a family of physicians and her non-traditional path to medical school; Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Vivienne Lie Schiffer, who has written a book and produced a film about the experiences of Japanese Americans who were held in internment camps in Arkansas during World War II; Chewing the Fat with Rex and Paul, who talk about Cherokee Village, the sales force at the Village and their sometimes-shady techniques involving Elvis and Jesus, an outstanding collection of shag carpet, the emergence of retirement communities, Paul's viewing of the moon landing in July 1969, John Cooper and his other developments at Bella Vista and Hot Springs Village, messing with salesmen, Horseshoe Bend, Holiday Island, the ferry at Norfork, the beginnings of tourism in North Arkansas, Imboden (a new record: Paul took seven minutes to mention his hometown), the great rivers and streams of Arkansas, fishing for smallmouth bass, the Eleven Point River, the Spring, the Strawberry, the Current, trout fishing in the cold water from Mammoth Spring to Hardy, Black Rock, the South Fork of the Spring, drum, perch, catfish, spring break on the Spring River, jon boats, the Many Islands, the use of hammers and electricity in catching and preparing fish, W.O. Prince's place on the Cache River, Murray's at De Valls Bluff, the Caddo River, Caddo Gap, how a longnose gar frightened a fellow from Virginia who thought it was a dinosaur, the Little Red River, and Lindsey's trout resort near Heber Springs; Bizarre Arkansas, with a story about reports of mysterious flying objects seen in the Ouachita Mountains in 1897; An interview with Gabrielle Simone, a very young published author who will be featured at the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016 -- interview conducted by Amy Bradley-Hole, moderator chair of the Arkansas Literary Festival; An interview with Sofia Gonzales, who will teach an upcoming CALS Community Learning course on embroidery; interview conducted by Kristen Cooke, CALS staff member; Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Ed Bethune; Selections from an Arkansas Sounds concert featuring Charley Sandage and Harmony, who present original music in a traditional Arkansas folk style.

Once, not so long ago but before our time, all people were the same person. That's not to say that they weren't immersed in their own lives; they were, of course, as people always have been—millions of fish in their millions of bowls. It's just that they were equally immersed in everyone else's. | Copyright 2014 by Kevin Brockmeier. Originally published in UNSTUCK 3. Reprinted by permission of the author. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Bookrageous Episode 78; Our Favorite Books of 2014 Intro Music; Swagger by Flogging Molly What We're Reading Jenn [1:15] Captain Marvel 1: Higher Further Faster More, Kelly Sue DeConnick, David Lopez (Bitch Planet) [2:00] The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin [3:20] If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan [3:45] Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson Rebecca [5:00] Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, Sara Farizan [6:20] Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, Nina MacLaughlin (carpentrix), March 16 2015 [8:55] What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Laura Van Den Berg [9:20] Blindness, Jose Saramago Josh [10:45] Let Me Tell You, Shirley Jackson, July 21 2015 --- Intermission; Intermission by Typhoon --- Our Favorite Books of 2014 [14:45] Josh: Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter [16:25] Rebecca: Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique; Mermaids in Paradise, Lydia Millet [20:10] Ghost Lights, Lydia Millet (mystery book: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart) [21:15] Jenn: Red or Dead, David Peace [23:00] Josh: The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman [26:00] Rebecca: A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, Kevin Brockmeier [28:10] Jenn: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride [29:30] Josh: Sisters, Raina Telgemeier [31:05] Rebecca: The Republic of Imagination, Azar Nafisi [33:15] Jenn: Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine [35:00] Josh: The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner [36:55] Rebecca: Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng [39:40] Jenn: Poisoned Apples, Christine Heppermann [41:20] Josh: Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay [44:30] Rebecca: An Untamed State, Roxane Gay; Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, A.S. King [46:55] Jenn: Ms. Marvel: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona [46:45] Josh: The Historical Atlas of Maine [49:35] Rebecca: Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood [51:15] Rebecca: Sleep Donation, Karen Russell [52:25] Josh: Spoiled Brats, Simon Rich; The Noble Hustle, Colson Whitehead [53:05] Jenn's “literary genre” favorites: Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer; Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes; Tigerman, Nick Harkaway; Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel [54:25] Josh: Euphoria, Lily King --- Outdo; Swagger by Flogging Molly --- Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Next book club pick: Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine. Use coupon code BOOKRAGEOUS to get 10% off from WORD Bookstores! Find Us Online: Jenn, Josh, Rebecca Order Josh's books! Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.

Bookrageous Episode 69; 2014 Favorites (so far) Intro Music; "Talk Dirty" by Jason Derulo What We're Reading Josh [1:15] The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner (May 27 2014) [5:40] The Keillor Reader, Garrison Keillor [6:45] The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman (August 5 2014) Rebecca [6:50] The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman (August 5 2014) [12:20] The Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique (July 10 2014) [14:50] The Duke and I, Julia Quinn Preeti [17:10] If I Stay, Gayle Forman [19:45] All My Friends are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman [21:30] Coach House Books [22:20] The Serpent of Venice, Christopher Moore [23:00] Lamb, Christopher Moore --- Intermission; "You're the Best Around" by Joe Esposito --- 2014 Favorites (so far) [25:35] Sex Criminals Vol. 1, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky [26:55] The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley [28:45] Parnassus on Wheels, Christopher Morley [29:40] An Untamed State, Roxane Gay [31:55] Red or Dead, David Peace (May 27 2014) [33:50] The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner (May 27 2014) [34:25] A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade, Kevin Brockmeier [37:00] Ms. Marvel Issue 1, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona [38:30] Amazing X-Men Issue 5, Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness [39:30] Earthbound, Ken Baumann [41:15] The Martian, Andy Weir [43:20] Sleep Donation, Karen Russell [44:00] Side Effects May Vary, Julie Murphy [45:45] Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter [48:00] Delancey, Molly Wizenberg [13:55] Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith [52:45] Little Failure, Gary Shteyngart [56:10] Boy Snow Bird, Helen Oyeyemi [57:35] The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison [59:00] Salvage, Alexandra Duncan [1:02:15] If This Isn't Nice, What Is?, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield --- Outro Music; "Talk Dirty" by Jason Derulo --- Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Come to the BOOKRAGEOUS BASH at BEA on May 28th in New York City Find Us Online: Josh, Preeti, Rebecca Order Josh's book! Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.