Podcast appearances and mentions of kristen radtke

Paula has a big family, lots of friends, and a girlfriend she adores. For most of her life, however, she has experienced an underlying and unshakeable sense of loneliness. On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin brings on Kristen Radtke, the writer and illustrator behind Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, to talk with Paula about an emotion that's hard to talk about—and even harder to confront. If you liked this episode, check out How To Find Your People and How To Survive a Silent Retreat.  Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To! is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. Derek John is our executive producer.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paula has a big family, lots of friends, and a girlfriend she adores. For most of her life, however, she has experienced an underlying and unshakeable sense of loneliness. On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin brings on Kristen Radtke, the writer and illustrator behind Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, to talk with Paula about an emotion that's hard to talk about—and even harder to confront. If you liked this episode, check out How To Find Your People and How To Survive a Silent Retreat.  Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To! is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. Derek John is our executive producer.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paula has a big family, lots of friends, and a girlfriend she adores. For most of her life, however, she has experienced an underlying and unshakeable sense of loneliness. On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin brings on Kristen Radtke, the writer and illustrator behind Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, to talk with Paula about an emotion that's hard to talk about—and even harder to confront. If you liked this episode, check out How To Find Your People and How To Survive a Silent Retreat.  Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To! is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. Derek John is our executive producer.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paula has a big family, lots of friends, and a girlfriend she adores. For most of her life, however, she has experienced an underlying and unshakeable sense of loneliness. On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin brings on Kristen Radtke, the writer and illustrator behind Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, to talk with Paula about an emotion that's hard to talk about—and even harder to confront. If you liked this episode, check out How To Find Your People and How To Survive a Silent Retreat.  Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To! is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. Derek John is our executive producer.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paula has a big family, lots of friends, and a girlfriend she adores. For most of her life, however, she has experienced an underlying and unshakeable sense of loneliness. On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin brings on Kristen Radtke, the writer and illustrator behind Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, to talk with Paula about an emotion that's hard to talk about—and even harder to confront. If you liked this episode, check out How To Find Your People and How To Survive a Silent Retreat.  Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To! is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. Derek John is our executive producer.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn more about Kristen here!   Clear Path Counseling and Wellness: https://www.clearpathmadison.com/   Mental Edge Racing: https://www.mentaledgeracing.com/   Kristen Radtke is a Licensed Professional Counselor, High Performance Coach, and competitive triathlete dedicated to holistic, body-centered psychotherapy and high performance for sport, work, and life. Kristen owns and directs two practices in Madison, Wisconsin: Clear Path Counseling and Wellness and Mental Edge Racing. In both practices, she focuses on helping people optimize their mind-body connection to promote healing and personal change. As a therapist at Clear Path, Kristen specializes in treating trauma, attachment disturbance, mood disorders, and relationship dynamic issues. In her work with endurance sport athletes at Mental Edge Racing, Kristen trains individuals, groups, and teams in psychophysical techniques to optimize performance. In both her clinical practice and her athletic coaching, Kristen frequently employs meditation and mindfulness techniques to help clients accept and skillfully work with whatever arises in their minds, bodies, and lives.   Trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Zen Meditation, and Athletic Performance Enhancement, Kristen's passion lies in helping people develop insight into the complex interplay of their psychological, emotional, and physical systems. Kristen believes the development of embodied insight to be a crucial aspect of any discipline or craft.   Both Clear Path Counseling and Wellness and Mental Edge Racing frequently host workshops, training clinics and retreats in the United States and Europe.    In addition to private sessions for individuals, couples and families, Kristen offers therapeutic movement classes, group psychotherapy, and meditation retreats. She works with public and private organizations, community agencies, colleges, and universities to deliver customized wellness programs, and seminars. As a consultant for mental health providers, Kristen conducts supervision, intake evaluation research, level of care assessments, and program efficacy research. 

This month, the Surgeon General has warned that the effects of loneliness can be worse on our health than smoking cigarettes. Many Americans seem lonelier than ever, but why? And what can we do about it? For our final installment of Mental Health Mondays, we discuss loneliness with Kristen Radtke, author of the graphic book, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness.  

Kristen Radtke's graphic novel Seek You builds connections between the rugged individualism embedded in American culture and the loneliness that we see around us in post-pandemic America. We often idealize the self-reliance, independence, and personal responsibility rooted in American history but at what cost? This faculty panel will explore this idea using literature, philosophy, and other disciplines as lenses through which to view this aspect of our culture. This event is part of our One Book program.

During this panel discussion, 3 faculty members from different parts of the world: Nickolas Shizas, Anni Rasmussen and Shanya Gray will discuss American loneliness from their global perspectives. These faculty members will share their own lived experiences with loneliness as either a first generation American or an immigrant to the United States. They will also discuss some cultural value differences between their country of origin and the USA, and in turn how those differences impacted their experiences of loneliness. During this discussion, they will also facilitate an interactive discussion with the audience about how we individually and collectively can begin to address loneliness, what Kristen Radtke calls “A silent epidemic in America”.

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Today on the flagship podcast of the difference between CMYK and RGB colors: David talks about the future of Photoshop with Adobe's Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky. Verge senior reporter James Vincent joins the show to discuss generative AI art and all its possibilities and complications. The Verge's Kristen Radtke and Jess Weatherbed chat with David about Pantone's new subscription service and what it means for artists and designers. Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you. We are conducting a short audience survey to help plan for our future and hear from you. To participate, head to vox.com/podsurvey, and thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Panel of faculty and students discuss Kristen Radtke's graphic novel, Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness.

Join Jessica Warpula Schultz, LMFT, and Kristen Radtke, LPC, as they discuss society's obsession with high performers and why we can't stop watching them.  They explore the choices people make to reach this level of success and the potential loneliness felt on top.  Kristen asks her clients, and the listener, "When you're on your deathbed, looking back, will you be happy that you cranked the dial on performance? Or will it involve so much sacrifice that you're going to be in a lot of emotional pain?" Kristen believes the development of embodied insight to be a crucial step in the process of self-transformation.  "I want to liberate people to be able to crank that dial up if they want to and crank it down, if they want to, according to their stage of life and circumstances...my goal is always to help people move in the direction that is most authentic to their inner majority, with a full understanding that that can change over time."Kristen trains individuals, groups, and teams in psychophysical techniques to optimize performance. In both her clinical practice and in her athletic coaching, Kristen frequently employs meditation and mindfulness techniques to help clients accept and skillfully work with whatever arises in their minds, bodies, and lives.Continue LearningKristen Radtke, LPCClear Path Counseling & WellnessMental Edge Racing Produced by Jessica Warpula SchultzMusic by Jason A. SchultzInsight Counseling and Wellness, LLC

A silent killer lives among us and is everywhere. I've met him. So have you. So has everyone you know. Still, we prefer to pretend he doesn't exist. Hello, Loneliness, my old friend. This is your story. SEEK YOU brings to light the shameful parts of the human experience, namely our relatable need to touch, converse with, and receive recognition from the people around us. From the birth of the laugh track to what we choose to post on social media, she breaks down how we pacify ourselves when this need is not fulfilled and asks what is necessary to form the connections that feed us. This week's book is a graphic novel, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke. LET'S GET LIT!  Find Alexis and Kari online: Instagram — www.instagram.com/litsocietypod/; Twitter — twitter.com/litsocietypod; Facebook — www.facebook.com/LitSocietyPod/; and our website www.LitSocietyPod.com. Get in on the conversation by using #booksanddrama.

Something you can readily find in the largest urban cities as well as the smallest rural towns- is loneliness. Writer and illustrator Kristen Radtke looks at the silent epidemic and the friction between people's inner lives and public selves. It's in her new book, “Seek You”.

Katie joins me for the first time from the far north to discuss her own reading, plus one very creative solution for reading short stories with a book club. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 239: Gross but Subtle Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:Salt Slow by Julia ArmfieldThe Sentence by Louise ErdrichSufferance by Thomas KingSeek You: A Journey through American Loneliness by Kristen RadtkeGutter Child by Jael RichardsonOther mentions: Well-Read BooksColes Books"The Great Awake" by Julia ArmfieldWayward Children series by Seanan McGuireTournament of BooksLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichThe Night Watchman by Louise ErdrichGreen Grass, Running Water by Thomas KingIndian Horse by Richard WagameseThe Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineThe Break by Katherena VermetteThe Strangers by Katherena Vermette (forthcoming, hopefully)Drawing Loneliness with Kristen Radtke (video)Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories by Kathleen CollinsHalf-Blood Blues by Esi EdugyanIn Concrete by Anne Garrétta, translated by Emma RamadanRelated episodes: Episode 077 - No One Messes With a Wolf with Shawn MooneyEpisode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira RamirezEpisode 190 - The Good Life with AlexEpisode 202 - Jacket Flap with Chris and EmilyStalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Katie is @katie_sikkes on InstagramAll links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Kristen Radkte is the author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, a work of graphic nonfiction that uses prose and images to explore the experience and portrayal of loneliness. It is spectacular. Kristen talks to us about the ways the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our collective understanding of loneliness, what she wishes more people knew about graphic books, and how to connect with the lonely in our lives.You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/12/15/ep-194-kristen-radtkeThe Stacks Book Club selection for December is A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib, we will discuss the book on December 29th with Andrew Ti.Connect with Kristen: Twitter | Instagram | WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreongetAbstract: Use code THESTACKS to get a free month of nonfiction books and article summaries from getAbstact, or head to getab.li/THESTACKS.Bombas: Get 20% off your first purchase by going to bombas.com/THESTACKS or use the code THESTACKS at checkout.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Shannon Fisher welcomes The Verge art director Kristen Radtke for a fascinating conversation about Radtke's newest graphic nonfiction book, SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS, which explores the epidemic of loneliness in America today on both a micro and macro level. Radtke is participating in the Miami Book Fair 2021, the nation's largest gathering of writers and readers of all ages from around the globe. Visit miamibookfaironline.com for more information on live and virtual events. You can also follow MBF on social media: miamibookfair. Our Lives with Shannon Fisher explores personal, political, and societal perspectives of the American experience. The show delves deeply into the worlds of writers, artists, celebrities, and community leaders and offers listeners food for thought about the world in which they live. Follow Shannon on Twitter: MsShannonFisher. Copyrighted podcast solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network, LLC. #KristenRadtke #Loneliness #AmericanSociety #SocialIsolation #SeekYou #GraphicNonfiction #Comics #AuthorInterviews #Authors #Writers #Writing #Books #AuthorsOnTheAir #Radio #Podcast #ShannonFisher #MsShannonFisher #OurLives

David chats with author Kristen Radtke about her new book Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness.Support me on Patreon!Links:Buy Kristen's bookLearn more about Kristen's workWeekly RecommendationsER on HuluWhat Bobby McIlvaine Left BehindThis podcast is powered by Simplecast. Check them out at simplecast.com for a great podcast management and analytics solution.Let me know your feedback for the podcast by emailing culturallyrelevantshow(AT)gmail(DOT)com.Follow the show on Twitter.Find every episode of the show at CulturallyRelevantShow.com.

Renaissance man Ishmael Reed reflects on his prolific career. Also, crime maestro Megan Abbott gets to the "pointe" about her novel, "The Turnout," which is set in the competitive world of ballet. And author/artist Kristen Radtke on the deep impacts of loneliness in America.

A new graphic book explores the phenomenon of American loneliness, something many experienced acutely during the months of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Author Kristen Radtke joins us to discuss her acclaimed book, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness. Radtke also takes calls from listeners.

In her new book, 'Seek You,' author Kristen Radtke examines a uniquely American brand of loneliness, including how we combat its onset.

Surf's up, listeners! Join us for one hell of a party as we discuss "Malibu Rising" by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Special guest RJ Sorrento joins us to talk about the structure of the story, the characters and their motivations, TJR's writing style, and—you guessed it—a little bit of "Weekend at Bernies." After the party ends, stick around for Mary's interview with Kristen Radtke, author of "Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness." Tune in on August 23rd for our next Othersode on "The Green Knight" with guests Mac and Zoe from The Maniculum Podcast. Then read along with us for our next Bookpisode on September 6, where we'll cover "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro with special guest Wizzy from @sailormoonwisdom on IG. Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe so you never miss an episode!TOC:30–Welcome RJ Sorrento!7:00–What celebrity party would you want to go to?14:49–Book intro18:35–Narrative structure32:50–Let's talk about the Rivas48:30–TJR's writing 1:01:09–Ratings1:09:20–Interview with Kristen Radtke1:38:48–Listener feedback 1:44:35–What's up next?Find Kristen at: http://kristenradtke.com Find RJ at: https://instagram.com/rjs.readingnook

Is there a difference between feeling alone and being lonely? This is one of the questions that propelled author Kristen Radtke to write "Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness." Evocative yet spare illustrations by Radtke propel her search to understand the biological underpinnings of loneliness, the research around it and the ways in which it is expressed and handled in American culture. A combination of graphic nonfiction and memoir, "Seek You" moves beyond Radtke's own story to look at loneliness through multiple lenses. We talk to Radtke to learn more about what it means to be lonely.

Kristen Radtke discusses her new graphic non-fiction book, "Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness."

KRISTEN RADTKE is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This. The recipient of a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, Radtke is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer. Her new graphic book is called Seek You. This episode's sponsor: This episode is sponsored by: Scribd. Go to try.scribd.com/maris for a 60-day free trial. HelloFresh. Go to HelloFresh.com/marisreview12 and use code marisreview12 for 12 free meals, including free shipping! Talkspace: Get $100 off your first month with Talkspace. Visit talkspace.com and use promo code MARISREVIEW. Literati. Redeem your free trial at literati.com/marisreview. Indeed: At Indeed.com/maris, get a $75 credit. Offer valid through JUNE 30TH. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kristen Radtke (@kristenradtke on Twitter, @kristenradtke_ on IG) is the author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness. Social media: @CNFPod on Twitter. Support: Patreon.com/cnfpod Thanks to sponsors West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing and HippoCamp 2021. Show notes: brendanomeara.com

Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction books Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (July 2021), for which she received a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Imagine Wanting Only This (2017) as well as the forthcoming graphic novel Terrible Men, all from Pantheon. She is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer magazine.  Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Elle, Vogue, NPR.org, and many other places. Find her on Twitter @kristenradtke and on Instagram @kristenradtke_. If you're enjoying Thresholds, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! If you're looking for more episodes, check out our backlist at www.thisisthresholds.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Rachel Yoder talks with author and artist Kristen Radtke about her evolution as a graphic essayist, the many foolish snobberies of grad school, and the connection between pathological liars and successful writers.

For this first episode of Season 3 of our podcast Holly Dunn interviews cover designer, graphic novelist, and Art Director, Kristen Radtke. The conversation includes Radtke’s process on design, writing Imagine Wanting Only This, and how she works with other artists for The Believer Magazine. View the covers discussed in the show notes on our website (www.spinemagazine.co.) You can read more about Radtke’s work at www.kristenradtke.com For more interviews with publishing industry creatives, visit www.spinemagazine.co. Music: Sweet Berry Wine, Blue Wednesday.

This episode is really something different. It’s a live show we did on April 21st in Green Bay Wisconsin, as part of Untitled Town Book and Author Festival, now in its second year. I’d never been to Green Bay before. Nice town! You may know about the cheese and the football, but did you know that the Red Hot Chili Peppers once fled from the police due to an unfortunate wardrobe malfunction at a concert and spent the night hanging out at a local fan’s house? I learned this and much, much more from the wonderful people I met there. What’s great about live shows is that anything can happen, and so to preserve that feeling in all its glory, we’re not editing this one too much. So grab your popcorn, sit back, and imagine yourself in sunny, snow-covered (yes, snow in late April) Green Bay, WI. Our guest is graphic novelist and Believer Magazine Art Director Kristen Radtke, author of IMAGINE WANTING ONLY THIS. Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Gene Luen Yang on art and empathy Chris Hadfield on information and authority Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live from UntitledTown 2018, Bryan moderates a panel with "Imagine Wanting Only This" author & art director and New York Editor for "The Believer" magazine Kristen Radtke and Milwaukee-based comics artist, educator, and hip-hop MC Mistaloo Meff (creator of "Angry Kat: Zombie Protocol"). It's all about comics, from the mechanics of sequential art to breaking into the industry to representation and beyond!

Join Brent Coughenour and Nicole Dugan, the graduate editors of UofL's online literary journal 'Miracle Monocle,' as they introduce a new series of episodes. Later, Brent is joined by Iva Moore and Shelby Brown, two of the undergraduate editors of 'Monocle,' and they recap the Kristen Radtke reading

Kristen Radtke reads at the University of Louisville as a part of the Axton Reading Series on February 11, 2018.

Imagine Wanting Only This (Pantheon Books) When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and, not long after his funeral, the sight of an abandoned mining town marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir, she leads us through deserted towns in the American Midwest, Italian villas, islands in the Philippines, New York City, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. At once narrative and factual, historical and personal, Radtke's stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: Why are we here, and what will we leave behind?  Praise for Imagine Wanting Only This: “Cities, ambitions, romances, and bodies come to ruin before our eyes, as Kristen Radtke invites us, in her beautifully understated way, to be disturbed, fascinated, and yes, even attracted to that ruin. A remarkable bildungsroman!” —Eula Biss, author of On Immunity “Kristen Radtke leads us through a bleak and beautifully crafted story of heart and heartbreak—creation, connection, decay, and loss. Imagine Wanting Only This is challenging and inspiring.” —Ellen Forney, New York Times bestselling author of Marbles  “Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This doesn’t tell a single story but a chorus of histories, personal and familial and historical, and invents its own marvelous language for their telling—a language forged from interior thought and visual imagination, bringing together words and illustration in continually surprising and moving ways. The voice in these pages is eloquent in so many ways at once, like a shape that exists in three dimensions rather than two, and it’s utterly singular: visually alive, attentive to details, self-questioning and tender as it surveys variously haunted terrains of heart and landscape. Radtke’s world is so immersive, and so sensitively conjured, that once I entered the sketched chamber of her pages, I didn’t want to leave again—or even pause for breath—until I reached the end.”  —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams "Riveting and glorious. A book of sorrow filtered through intellect. In Kristen Radtke's hands, nonfiction becomes poetry. A tremendous achievement.” —Tom Hart, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rosalie Lightning Kristen Radtke is a writer and illustrator based in Brooklyn. She is the managing editor of Sarabande Books and the film and video editor of TriQuarterly magazine. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. Jordan Crane is an American cartoonist.  He is best known for his graphic novella The Last Lonely Saturday (2000), his graphic novel The Clouds Above(2005) and his ongoing solo anthology comic book series Uptight (2006-present). His comics have received two Ignatz awards, a Xeric grant, an AIGA book design award, and have been included in the The Best American Comics 2012. As editor and publisher, Crane produced the influential comics anthology NON (1997-2000), and the anthology website What Things Do (2010-2016). His illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, McSweeney’s and elsewhere.  His large format screen printed editions hang in private collections across the world.  Crane lives in Los Angeles, where he currently nearing completion of the graphic novel Keeping Two, to be published in 2018.  Libby Flores is a 2008 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in Post Road Magazine, The Open Bar at Tin House, The Rattling Wall, Paper Darts, Bridge Eight, FLASH: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles, but will always be a Texan. Libby is the Director of Literary Programs at PEN Center USA. She can be found at libbyflores.com.

Time Codes: 00:01:26 - Introduction 00:03:38 - Thank you to Red Pegasus Comics! 00:08:36 - Outburst 00:32:32 - Steam Clean 00:44:57 - Resist! Vol. 2 01:24:37 - Wrap up 01:25:36 - Contact us "Smell my book. Feel bad." On this week's episode, the Two Guys with PhDs Talking about Comics look at there new releases...and even smell them. They begin with Pieter Coudyzer's Outburst (SelfMadeHero), a surreal meditation on creative expression and not fitting in. The narrative can even be called an example of magical realism (and the guys don't apply that term indiscriminately), where the natural world not only becomes a refuge from human interaction, but also literally infiltrates and consumes the marginalized. Next they discuss a recent release from one of their favorite publishers, Retrofit Comics/Big Planet Comics. Laura Ķeniņš's Steam Clean is a short yet poignant look at the challenges women and gender non-binary individuals face in their day-to-day lives. The story takes place at a women's sauna party in some Scandinavian country, and its varied attendees use this gathering to explore their relationships and "sweat out" their frustrations. Finally, Andy and Derek wrap up with an in-depth look at the second volume of the freebie newspaper Resist! Edited by Françoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman, this latest release is similar to the first -- which the guys reviewed earlier this year -- and includes contributions from well-established as well as younger and first-time artists. Familiar names that the guys discuss include Roz Chast, Cathy Malkasian, Miss Lasko-Gross, Carol Lay, Kristen Radtke, Pénélope Bagieu, and Glynnis Fawkes, but they are equally impressed with artists and cartoonists new to them. These include Palmer Frankel's "Dickface" series of paintings, Ana Christine's "Persistence," and a unique call-to-action from an anonymous contributor working for a Catholic hospital. A special thanks to Red Pegasus Comics in Dallas, TX, for providing the Two Guys with their copies of Resist! Vol. 2!

Time Codes: 00:00:24 - Introduction 00:02:20 - Setup of interview 00:04:29 - Interview with Kristen Radtke 00:59:16 - Wrap up 01:01:39 - Contact us Andy and Derek are pleased to have as their guest Kirsten Radtke. Her new work Imagine Wanting Only This has just been released from Pantheon Books, and it's a deeply personal speculation on impermanence, decay, and abandonment. Using as a springboard significant events from her own life -- such as the loss of a beloved uncle and a fortuitous creative discovery -- Radtke explores our sense of place in a culture that privileges newness and disposability. The book has been described as a memoir, but the guys feel that it's better framed as a meditation, a contemplative graphic essay tinged with introspection and self-analysis. Over the course of the conversation, Radtke discusses the genesis of the project, her experiences with comics journalism, and the challenges of defining the art that she creates.

In part 2 of their conversation, James and Mike Scalise, author of the memoir THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE, discuss an old wound, social media, and how winning the Center for Fiction's Christopher Doheny Award let to the incredible sequence of events surrounding the sale of Mike's book. Then, Sarabande Director of Marketing and Publicity/ Mike's editor/ excellent writer Ariel Lewiton joins James to discuss her many roles and how she got to where she is.    Mike Scalise: http://mikescalise.tumblr.com/bnc Mike and James Discuss:  THREE FEET HIGH AND RISING by De La Soul  Laura van den Berg  Urban Waite  The Dzanc Prize  "The Root" by Kim Deal  Grub Street  Christopher Castellani  Janet Silver Zachary Shuster Harmsworth WILD by Cheryl Strayed Emerson College Book Court Paul Dano Rachel Cantor Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Center for Fiction Christopher Doheny Award  Franz Kafka  Housing Works Brooklyn  David Tomas Martinez  Sarabande Books Ariel Lewiton Paul Yoon  - Ariel Lewiton: http://www.ariellewiton.com/new-page/  Ariel and James discuss:  Sarah Gorham  ON IMAGINATION by Mary Ruefle  Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction  Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry  The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature  Kristen Radtke  McGraw-Hill Education  CHINA DAILY The University of Iowa  GUERNICA  HIM, ME, MUHAMMAD ALI by Randa Jarrar  BUZZFEED BLUETS by Maggie Nelson  THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson  AUDIBLE  IN FULL VELVET by Jenny Johnson  ANIMALS STRIKE CURIOUS POSES by Elena Passarello  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/