Podcast appearances and mentions of Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of a new memoir called Reading the Waves, available from Riverhead Books. Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Chil­dren, and Dora: A Headcase, and of the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfic­tion. She lives in Oregon. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jordan sits down to talk with Lidia Yuknavitch about menopause, where stories lodge in our bodies, having a creative process that takes the shape of an ocean wave, and more. Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of four novels: Thrust, The Book of Joan, Dora: A Headcase, and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the OBA Reader's Choice Award. She has also published a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). The Misfit's Manifesto, a book based on her recent TED Talk, was published by TED Books in 2017. Verge, a collection of short fiction, was released in 2020. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. Her newest memoir, Reading the Waves, was published by Riverhead books in 2025. She is a very good swimmer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lidia Yuknavitch discusses Reading the Waves: A Memoir (Riverhead, Feb. 4). Kirkus: “A noted writer and teacher explores the uses of memoir to recast and heal the wounds of the past…. Full of the messy, moving, in-your-face inspiration and storytelling for which Yuknavitch is beloved.” Then our editors share their top picks in books for the week.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence, and the short story collection Verge.  Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. Her new nonfiction book is Reading the Waves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of This Is the Author, meet poet Mia S. Willis, bestselling author Lidia Yuknavitch, and award-winning journalist Bonny Reichert. Hear Mia S. Willis on the spaces that language can – and cannot - traverse, Lidia Yuknavitch on the wetsuit that inspired a memoir, and Bonny Reichert on the one powerful word she would use to describe what it was like to record her audiobook. the space between men by Mia S. Willis: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738584/the-space-between-men-by-mia-s-willis/audio Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726930/reading-the-waves-by-lidia-yuknavitch/audio How to Share an Egg by Bonny Reichert: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717585/how-to-share-an-egg-by-bonny-reichert/audio

The difficult things we experience in our lives help create who we are. But how do the stories we tell ourselves - and others - about that trauma affect us? Lidia Yuknavitch, the celebrated Oregon writer of fiction, essays and memoirs, has written a new book about how reframing our stories can release us from what she calls “the tyranny of our mistakes, our traumas, and our confusions.” Yuknavitch joins us in the studio to talk about her latest book, “Reading the Waves.”    

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 370, my conversation with author Lidia Yuknavitch. It first aired on July 15, 2015. Yuknavitch is the bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, the story collection Verge, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.   *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this bonus episode, Leya shares some of her favorite books she read in 2023.She talks about:The importance of reading and why she's loved books and reading since childhoodWhy this year she stopped reading as many self-help books and started reading more fiction!How social media can be a window, but books can be a mirrorHow books connect us to the collective unconsciousnessSome of the books mentioned:Hidden Valley Road by Robert KolkerMother, Nature by Jedidiah JenkinsLetting Magic In by Maia TollA Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J MaasThe Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch+ tune into the episode to hear 10+ more!Connect with Leya:Instagram: @leyavandorenWebsite: www.leyavandoren.com

We are happy to revisit our show with Lidia Yuknavitch, author of nine books, including The Chronology of Water, The Small Backs of Children, The book of Joan, and the Misfits Manifesto. Lidia's Ted Talk, The Beauty of Being a Misfit has been viewed 2,862,000 times. We think she has something to share about how telling and retelling your story can help re-frame traumatic experience.

Our world is starved of people showing up as their true selves - with our awkwardness, playfulness and realness front and center. The fear of being too much, too loud and too messy drives a lot of people to shrink themselves, and walk around with an injured essence.   A powerful catalyst for realness is being in the presence of people who welcome all aspects of themselves, and live who they are out loud.   This doesn't just help us undo and unlearn the messaging that diminishes us. By osmosis, it allows who we truly are to surface effortlessly.   How do you invite your weirdest self to the table? What does embracing yourself completely feel like?   In this episode, we're excited to be joined by our very first guest - author, speaker and coach, Jennifer Pastilof. We have a delicious conversation about discovery, wonder and how to stop hiding ourselves in shame.   Surround yourself with people you want to be like, not people you want to be. -Jennifer Pastiloff   Three Things You'll Learn In This Episode    -You've got everyone, but remember to also have you When we set the intention to serve others, how do we make sure we're not leaving ourselves behind?   -Allowing vs. being allowed  What's the difference between being allowed by others, and allowing ourselves?    -How to find your place of authenticity Who we spend time with allows us to be our true selves, how do we find those people who pull out what makes us special?    Guest Bio  Jennifer Pastiloff travels the world with her unique workshop “On Being Human,” a hybrid of yoga related movement, writing, sharing out loud, letting the snot fly, and the occasional dance party. Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, calls Jen “a conduit of awakenings.” Jen has been featured on Good Morning America, New York Magazine, Health Magazine, CBS News and more for her unique style of teaching, which she has taught to thousands of women in sold-out workshops all over the world. She is also the founder of the online magazine The Manifest-Station. Jen leads annual retreats to Italy and France and she is the guest speaker at Canyon Ranch and Miraval Resorts a couple times each year. She also leads Writing and The Body workshops with author Lidia Yuknavitch. Jennifer has created a massive online following from her personal essays and teachings. Follow Jen on instagram at @jenpastiloff or Facebook . She is also the creator of @nobullshitmotherhood on Instagram. Her motto to live by is Don't Be An Asshole.

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Bentornati su Bookatini - il podcast per chi è ghiotto di libri. Nella puntata 61, parliamo dei libri che abbiamo letto di recente. Come al solito trovate tutti i riferimenti ai libri citati anche nella carrellata delle copertine della pagina Instagram bookatini_podcast.Nell'episodio di oggi abbiamo chiacchierato di questi libri: Splendi come vita, di Maria Grazia Calandrone, Ponte alle grazie editore La malnata, di Beatrice Salvioni, Einaudi editore Eternal war, di Livio Gambarini, Acheron books editore La cronologia dell'acqua, di Lidia Yuknavitch, nottetempo editore Potete contattarci, scrivere commenti, suggerimenti, domande e condividete con noi le vostre letture su questo tema contattandoci nella pagina Instagram Bookatini_podcast, dove potete trovare anche le nostre live, in onda a mercoledì alterniSe volete sostenerci e godere di contenuti aggiuntivi, potete unirvi a 4 possibili livelli di Patreon che trovate al link: https://www.patreon.com/bookatini La sigla di Bookatini è scritta e suonata

Jeannetta & Brittany discuss permission and possibility in Episode 2.   Questions 1. How do you steal while still being original? 2. Do you feel like you already have an inclination where you need to go, which form you need to use, do you experiment with different forms, or do you just start writing? What comes first? 3. How do you navigate when people say a poem is too abstract? My expectation is that a poem will always be somewhat abstract. Do you get what people are saying when they say it is? 4. How do you honor permission in your work? In what ways are you giving yourself permission? In what way are you noticing you are not? How do you address this in your writing?   Show Notes Writers, books, articles, ideas and questions mentioned in this episode Jericho Brown “Duplex” from his book The Tradition. Also available on the Poetry Foundation website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152729/duplex  Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon: https://austinkleon.com/steal/ Turns out this one was Hemingway…“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/30849-all-you-have-to-do-is-write-one-true-sentence  Spike Lee, School Daze: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096054/  Lidia Yuknavitch  and Corporeal Writing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pUjixyWI4 

We continue counting down to our top five favourite books of 2022. Books mentioned on this episode: Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff, Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi, translated by David Boyd and Lucy North, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz, How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis, Blue Period (Series) by Tsubasa Yamaguchi, Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk, The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez, Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler, Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada and translated by Margaret Mitsutani, Idol Burning by Rin Usami and translated by Asa Yoneda, Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch, Violeta by Isabel Allende and translated by Frances Riddle. Thank you so much for spending the last year with us, book lovers. Keep It Fictional will see you in 2023. Have a great holiday and a happy new year! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/keepitfictional/message

Today's conversation is about one of Ursula K. Le Guin's most iconic and influential essays: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, an essay that deserves an entire episode to itself. And who better to discuss it than Lidia Yuknavitch, whose latest novel Thrust follows a character who herself is a “carrier.” Because this essay has influenced […] The post Crafting with Ursula : Lidia Yuknavitch on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction appeared first on Tin House.

"Thrust" author Lidia Yuknavitch talks about her love of repetition, the changing nature of language, and more.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award, Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories of Violence. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. The Misfit's Manifesto, a book based on her recent TED Talk, was published by TED Books. Her short story collection is called Verge and her new novel is Thrust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of several bestselling books, including her latest 'Thrust' which the Los Angeles Times calls the "Best Book of the Summer."  Yuknavitch talks about the power of storytelling to make sense of the world we are living in and the one we might just be barreling toward. She describes how, after the death of her infant daughter, Yuknavitch pieced her life back together with small scraps of paper and threads of awareness.  Please share this episode with anyone who is suffering from a traumatic loss. Yuknavitch holds the listener with exquisite care and tenderness--a gift to anyone who currently can't see their way forward. 

Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, the story collection Verge, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Topics Discussed In This Episode: “One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are, and to live without belief—that is a fate more terrible than dying.” - The Book of Joan Having grit and an unwillingness to surrender as an artist False notions around the idea of transcendence Social conditioning Patriarchy The umbilical cord as a metaphoric symbol in Lidia's writing Objective correlatives Intergenerational trauma Her writing center “Corporeal Writing” How her newest book “Thrust” is a love letter dedicated to her son and mother “The edges of everything are always shimmering” - Lidia Enzo circles Having a competitive spirit as an athlete Lidia feeling comfort in the water The connection between colonization and the way we view the gender binary Lidia's process of researching while she is writing a book People / Artists Mentioned: VOWWS (Band) Jesse Draxler (Visual Artist) David Lynch (Filmmaker) Melissa Febos (Writer) Terese Marie Mailhot (Writer) Judith Butler (Philosopher) Danez Smith (Poet) David Cronenberg (Filmmaker) Viggo Mortensen (Actor) Kristen Stewart (Actor) Jane Campion (Director) Philip K. Dick (Writer) Brandon Cronenberg (Director) Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) Elizabeth Moss (Actor) Margaret Atwood (Writer) Books Mentioned: The Misfit's Manifesto Thrust The Book of Joan It Didn't Start With You Frankenstein Films / TV Shows Mentioned: eXistenZ (1999) Crimes of the Future (2022) Titane (2021) Blade Runner (1982) Dead Ringers (1988) Possessor (2020) Mary Shelley (2017) Shirley (2020) The Handmaid's Tale (2017) artistdecoded.com lidiayuknavitch.net instagram.com/lidiamiles twitter.com/LidiaYuknavitch

The new novel from Oregon author Lidia Yuknavitch is anything but straightforward. The story - or collection of stories - travels through time, exploring different moments on the edges of America's history. There is no main character, but a turtle and an aquatic young girl do play a role in guiding the reader from one scene to the next. The book is very much a response to the crises of the present moment - e.g., climate change, the rise of white supremacy - but is grounded in the injustices of the past. Lidia Yuknavitch joins us to talk about her new novel, “Thrust.”

As new generations increasingly have the knowledge and social acceptance to explore their identities, the number of openly transgender people in our world—especially transgender youth—is rapidly rising. Yet despite these recent spikes— the transgender community is still comparatively small: making up roughly 0.6% of the global population. As a result, many cisgender people (meaning those of us whose gender aligns with the one we were assigned at birth) have little to no lived experience interacting with transgender people. What we're exposed to instead is whatever our media, political, and social leaders choose to tell us about them, resulting in a perilous gap between actual transgender people and a series of cultural stereotypes. This gulf in our understanding not only endangers the trans population, it harms all of us, discouraging marginalized demographics from working together, making it even more difficult for us to dismantle oppressive structures, and denying cisgender people the chance to love their trans neighbors. Fortunately, some transgender people are stepping forward to help bridge this divide, sharing their personal stories, dispelling dangerous myths, and helping us envision a more egalitarian future for all. On today's episode I'm happy to say we'll be joined by two such voices: Sam Rose Preminger and Domi Shoemaker Sam Rose Preminger (they/them) is a trans-nonbinary, Jewish writer and publisher. They hold an MFA from Pacific University, serve as the Editor-in-Chief of NAILED Magazine, and are a contributing editor at Lightship Press and Write Bloody Publishing. Their poetry has appeared in numerous publications online and in print. Their debut collection of poems —'Cosmological Horizons' — is forthcoming from Kelsay Books (Summer 2022). They live in Portland, OR, where they've acquired too many house plants. www.sampreminger.com Domi J Shoemaker (they/them) is an Idaho-born gender flexer who founded the quarterly reading series, Burnt Tongue, after cutting teeth in Tom Spanbauer's Dangerous Writers workshop. While finishing an MFA in Writing in 2015, author Lidia Yuknavitch asked Domi to help her create the Corporeal Writing Seasonal Workshop Series. With a resounding yes, Domi is now the Corporeal Writing Seasonal Workshop Co-Facilitator. Domi has published at [PANK], Nailed Magazine, Unshod Quills, Gobshite Quarterly, and has a story in the anthology, The Night and The Rain and The River, from Forest Avenue Press. They were recently featured in the literary radio theatre podcast, Storytellers Telling Stories. www.domishoemaker.com

Torna Copertina dopo un'assenza più lunga del solito, ma niente panico, non vi abbiamo abbandonati.Il primo ospite di questa puntata è Giorgio Gizzi, librario della libreria Arcadia di Rovereto e anche autore del libro “Gli Introvabili” dedicato a titoli fuori catalogo ma che varrebbe la pena recuperare. Per la rubrica dedicata alla traduzione, Gaia Cenciarelli ci racconta il suo curioso esordio da traduttrice, mentre eccezionalmente il consiglio d'autore ci arriva da Bruno Tognolini, maestro della letteratura di infanzia, che ci suggerisce un libro perfetto ora che le vacanze estive sono alle porte.Libri consigliati nella puntata:IL SIGNOR SO TUTTO IO di John Waters, PlaygroundDELITTO SUL LAGO di Dario Sardelli, EinaudiLA CRONOLOGIA DELL'ACQUA di Lidia Yuknavitch, nottetempoIl libraio Giorgio Gizzi della libreria Arcadia di Rovereto ci consiglia:IL SUONO PERDUTO DELLA SIBERIA di Sophy Roberts, MondadoriMELMA ROSA di Fernanda Trías, SURL'insegnante e traduttrice Gaia Cenciarelli, tra i libri che ha tradotto ci suggerisce:IL CIELO DEI VIOLENTI di Flannery O'Connor, minimumfaxLo scrittore per l'infanzia Bruno Tognolini ci ha invitato a leggere (o rileggere):VACANZE ALL'ISOLA DEI GABBIANI di Astrid Lindgren, Salani

Lidia Yuknavitch reads her powerful short story “Street Walker," from her collection "Verge," with sound design and music composition from Whiston & Warmack. Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels "The Book of Joan" and "The Small Backs of Children," winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel "Dora: A Headcase," and a critical book on war and narrative, "Allegories Of Violence" (Routledge). Her widely acclaimed memoir "The Chronology of Water" was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. "The Misfit's Manifesto," a book based on her recent TED Talk, was published by TED Books, and her new collection of fiction, Verge, was released in 2020. Lidia's new novel, "Thrust," is forthcoming from Riverhead Books on June 28th, 2022. She has also had writing appear in publications including Guernica Magazine, Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, TANK, and in the anthologies "Life As We Show It (City Lights)," "Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil)," "Forms at War (FC2)," "Feminaissance (Les Figues Press)," and "Representing Bisexualities (SUNY)," as well as online at The Rumpus. Whinston & Warmack are a songwriting duo who perform in the Pacific Northwest. ​Support Storybound by supporting our sponsors: Norton: "Fencing with the King" and "The Family Chao" are available wherever books are sold. Acorn.tv is the largest commercial free British streaming service with hundreds of exclusive shows from around the world. Try acorn.tv for free for 30 days by going to acorn.tv and using promo code Storybound. Storyworth: Save $10 on your first purchase at Storyworth.com/Storybound Storybound is hosted by Jude Brewer and brought to you by The Podglomerate and Lit Hub Radio. Let us know what you think of the show on Instagram and Twitter @storyboundpod. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Storybound, you might enjoy reading, writing, and storytelling. We'd like to suggest you also try the History of Literature or Book Dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The novel “The Book of Joan,” by local author Lidia Yuknavitch, re-imagines the character of Joan of Arc in a post apocalyptic world where the earth has been consumed by war and the remaining humans have become sexless, genderless creatures whose main form of self-expression is scarring their own skin. We listen back to a conversation with Yuknavitch from 2017.

About the Book:An eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical, sprawling miniature city until a shocking discovery forces him to rethink his creation. A brazen child tells off a pack of schoolyard tormentors with the spirited invention of an eleventh commandment. A wounded man drives eastward, through tears and grief, toward an unexpected transcendence.About Lidia:Lidia Yuknavitch's writing spans expectations and genres. Her national bestselling novel, The Book of Joan was named as a 2017 top 100 notable books in the New York Times Book Review, and her national bestselling novel, The Small Backs of Children was the winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award. The Misfit's Manifesto, a book spawned from her Ted Talk The Beauty of Being A Misfit, is inspiring readers across the globe. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. She also wrote the novel Dora: A Headcase and and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence.Follow Lidia:https://www.facebook.com/Yuknavitch/https://www.instagram.com/lidiamiles/https://twitter.com/LidiaYuknavitchFollow TSatS:https://www.facebook.com/thesituationandthestorypodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/situationandstory/https://twitter.com/SituationStory--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/situationandstory/support Get full access to situation / story at situationstory.substack.com/subscribe

This is the third episode in the "Formidable Fridays" series where we explore the difficult topic of loneliness. Each of us will experience profound loneliness at some point in our lives. The weight of it can feel stifling and the shame of it, silencing. Historians, anthropologists, and scientists have studied loneliness and it's causes for thousands of years. It's a pain we all share, especially post-pandemic as we navigate new social structures and expectations. But is there a practical antidote in a world filled with impractical struggles?  As mentioned in the episode:“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” -Carl Jung“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.” -Charlotte Bronte“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” -Maya Angelou“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” -Kurt Vonnegut“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” -Mother Theresa“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.” -Audrey Hepburn“The History of Loneliness” by Jill Lepore published in The New Yorker (April 2020)“Where loneliness comes from” by Katy Waldman published in The New Yorker (July 2021)“The beauty of being a misfit” by Lidia Yuknavitch at TED2016“Structure and function of the human insula” by Lucina Q. Uddin, Jason S. Nomi, Benjamin Hebert-Seropian, Jimmy Ghaziri, and Olivier Boucher published on NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)You can follow me on Instagram @frylikefrenchfry. I love hearing from listeners and continuing the conversation. 

At first sight of Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, author Emily Rapp Black felt an instant connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs, and learned she had to hide her disability from the world. Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash and her own right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo's art, Rapp Black recognized her own life. In this astoundingly personal presentation, Rapp Black joined us with fellow author Lidia Yuknavitch to explore her own story and her attachment to Kahlo. With candor and vulnerability, she chronicled how Kahlo's art reflected her own, from numerous operations, to the compulsion to create, to silent pain. She told the story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs, giving birth to a daughter, and learning to accept her body.  Rapp Black examined how the experiences and art of another can help shape our own lives—and inspire us to find a way forward when all seems lost. Emily Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir, The Still Point of the Turning World, Sanctuary, and Frida Kalho and My Left Leg. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Vogue; The New York Times; Time; The Wall Street Journal; O, The Oprah Magazine; and the Los Angeles Times. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and is the nonfiction editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Rapp is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where she also teaches medical narratives in the university's School of Medicine. Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the bestselling novels The Book of Joan, a cli fi restorying of Joan of Arc, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase. Her memoir The Chronology of Water is currently being adapted for film by Kristen Stewart. Her book The Misfit's Manifesto is based on her TED Talk “On The Beauty of Being a Misfit.” Her book of short stories, Verge, was published in 2020, and her next novel, Thrust is forthcoming. She founded the creative lab Corporeal Writing in Portland, Oregon. Buy the Book: Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg (Hardcover) Elliott Bay Books  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation online click here.

James and Ashley interview Michelle Tom about her stunning memoir 'Ten Thousand Aftershocks.' In it, they discuss the captivating and highly original structure of Michelle's book, the strange parallels between childhood trauma and earthquakes, and the transformative power of owning your narrative.  Learn more about Michelle on her website, and buy a copy of Ten Thousand Aftershocks from your local bookshop, Booktopia or wherever else books are sold.  Join Ashley for a fun online creative workshop, Monday 6 Sept, 6:15pm AEST. Book here! Books and authors discussed in this episode: Memoir Writing For Dummies by Ryan Van Cleave; Trespasses: A Memoir by Lacy M Johnson; The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch; Lee Child's Jack Reacher series; To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf; The Return by Rachel Harrison; It by Stephen King; Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon (of course!) Get in touch! Ashley's Website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' Website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

To say Lidia Yuknavitch's newest novel "The Book of Joan" is a re-imagining of the Joan of Arc story in a dystopian science-fiction context would be accurate, but it's much more complicated than that. Yuknavitch is a national bestseller, an Oregon Book Award winner and a writing instructor in Portland. She spoke with Allison Frost in 2017.

Host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello discuss what listeners have learned about themselves recently; writer Lidia Yuknavitch describes her latest collection of stories, titled Verge, as a series of devotionals to the outcasts among us; comedian Atsuko Okatsuka admits to her insecurities around teenage skateboarders; and Seattle-based rock group The Black Tones shred with "Mama! There's A Spider In My Room!" from their album Cobain & Cornbread.

We get to chat and laugh with Amy Bond, owner of Pole & Dance Studios with studio locations in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. She is an author, competitive pole dancer, and pro bono attorney. In this episode we discuss her recent feature in the Netflix-original documentary Strip Down, Rise Up, the healing aspects of pole dance, and her and her husband's journey into polyamory. Amy Bond's Links: Website: amybondwrites.com Instagram: @amysunshine007 Twitter: @Amyrbond Pole & Dance Studios: poleanddancestudios.com Competitive Pole Video: youtube.com/watch?v=MSAYPVCupuc Things We Talk About: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MMXqjMe1WQ (Strip Down, Rise Up (Netflix-original documentary)) https://bookshop.org/books/the-chronology-of-water-a-memoir/9780979018831 (The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch) http://www.corporealwriting.com/corporeal-center (Corporeal Center) https://thorntreepress.com/polysecure/ (Poly Secure by Jessica Fern) https://brenebrown.com/podcast/introducing-unlocking-us/ (Unlocking Us podcast by Brene Brown) https://plumbainbridge.com/product/101-essays-that-will-change-the-way-you-think-by-brianna-wiest/ (101 Essays to Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh0MVq-FNyc (Bara Du (Musical Artist) )

Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. Her newest book Verge is a collection of short stories. She also has a TED Talk “The Beauty of Being a Misfit” that has been viewed by millions. She lives in Portland, Oregon.Lidia and I had a wide-ranging conversation about being a misfit, the in-between spaces of life, the blurry lines between fiction and nonfiction and the ways in which art can save us.This episode was audio produced by Aaron Moring. Music is by Madisen Ward.For episodes and more, visit MusingsoftheArtist.com

Heute hauen wir euch mal einen ziemlichen Brainfuck um die Ohren: Einen apokalyptischen Science-Fiction-Roman, der den Mythos von Jeanne D'Arc in das Jahr 2049 überführt. Es ist das erste ins Deutsche übersetze Buch der amerikanischen Autorin Lidia Yuknavitch, die in den Staaten schon lange als eine der wildesten und interessantesten Stimmen ihrer Generation gilt. Wird Zeit, dass man das auch hierzulande checkt. Das Buch dürfte jedenfalls allen gefallen, die Science Fiction mögen, auf Weltuntergänge stehen und gerne Bücher über große Heldinnen lesen.

 Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories of Violence. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. The Misfit's Manifesto, a book based on her recent TED Talk, was published by TED Books. Her new collection of short stories is called Verge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published on 19 Apr 2019. Original broadcast date: July 29, 2016. Failure can be devastating, but it can also make us stronger and smarter. This week, TED speakers explore how failure clears the way for success, in our everyday work, and our innermost lives. Guests include entrepreneur Astro Teller, economist Tim Harford, author Casey Gerald, and writer Lidia Yuknavitch.

Vanessa Veselka returns to Between the Covers, eight years after her first appearance, to discuss her new novel The Great Offshore Grounds. Longlisted for this year’s National Book Award in Fiction, Roxane Gay calls The Great Offshore Grounds epic, original, and “utterly engrossing.” Lidia Yuknavitch adds: “This novel is thrilling in its content, daring in […] The post Vanessa Veselka : The Great Offshore Grounds appeared first on Tin House.

The COVID-19 crisis has led to a moment of grief, isolation, and uncertainty that is nearly unprecedented in recent memory. How are we changing as a result, both as individuals and a society? In response to the pandemic, author and editor Jennifer Haupt rallied 90 authors, her publisher, and other business partners to explore the impact in Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19, all proceeds of which benefit the Book Industry Charitable Fund. Haupt joined us in conversation with three contributors to Alone Together: Lidia Yuknavitch, Claudia Castro Luna, and Amber Flame. They shared readings from the book, and engaged in a panel discussion moderated by KUOW’s Zaki Hamid to explore the importance of creativity and resistance in this moment. For anyone who has been feeling the isolation keenly, we invite you to this conversation as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this time. Jennifer Haupt is the editor/curator of Alone Together. Haupt’s essays and articles have been published in O: The Oprah Magazine, Parenting, The Rumpus,, and many other publications. She also curates the popular Psychology Today blog, “One True Thing,” a collection of essays and interviews for authors and readers. She is the author of In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills, and is currently working on her second novel and a creative nonfiction book. She lives in Seattle, and teaches at Hugo House and elsewhere. Amber Flame is a writer, composer, and performer, whose work has garnered artistic merit residencies with Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, and more. Flame served as the 2017-2019 poetry writer-in-residence at Hugo House, and is a queer Black single mama just one magic trick away from growing her unicorn horn. Claudia Castro Luna is the Washington State Poet Laureate (2018-2021), Seattle’s first Civic Poet (2015-2017), an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and author of This City; One River, A Thousand Voices; and Pushcart-nominated Killing Marias. Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the memoir The Chronology of Water and the novels The Small Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase, and The Book of Joan. Zaki Hamid (moderator) is Director of Community Engagement at KUOW. He is an Arab immigrant from Jordan, in the US since 1994 and in Seattle since 2003. Before KUOW, he was the program director at Humanities Washington. He teaches classes on film and mass media at Everett Community College. Buy the Book: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9781771682282  Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Washin Kai. To become a Town Hall Seattle member or make a donation click here. 

How far would you go to feel better? Karen speaks with Christie Tate, author of the memoir Group on writing about sex, listening to the body, and her quest for intimacy through an unconventional process of radical transparency. Group is the November 2020 selection for Reese Witherspoon's book club and a New York Times bestseller.Links:Christie Tate“Group” on BookshopAre you in our membership club? Starting Nov 1, sex experts will answer anonymous sex and relationship questions just for our Patreon members every month. Available at all levels. Got a sex question?Not ready to commit? You can also make a one-time donation to our ongoing sex-positive work on the pod and beyond.On Bookshop, you can buy books we mention on the show and support Wild & Sublime and independent booksellers at the same time! You can also check out the list on our website. What's true in sex is true in podcasting: feedback makes us better! Rate and review us on your podcast app and let us know what you think.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/wildandsublime)

Megan Stielstra (@meganstielstra) is the author of three collections: Everyone Remain Calm, Once I Was Cool, and The Wrong Way To Save Your Life, winner of the 2017 Book of the Year Award from the Chicago Review of Books. She is a 2020 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas. An Axe for the Frozen Sea - https://believermag.com/logger/an-axe-for-the-frozen-sea/ TRANSCRIPT: MEGAN: For the first 6-months of the lockdown, my son and I quarantined at my mother's house in rural Michigan which in some senses was really lovely because her home is in the middle of the woods and on the other side of the woods from her house is the Amtrak going from Ann Arbor to Chicago every single day at 6 o'clock. There were things that I was experiencing myself that I wasn't expressing cause I didn't want to worry my kid. I didn't want to worry my mom. I didn't understand what was happening in the world. I was trying to keep my kids safe. My mom is immune compromised so I was there to help her out as well too. So I was trying to keep her safe. So all these things are happening inside my head and heart and what the hell do I do with it? One of my favorite writers, Lidia Yuknavitch, talks about how our bodies can't possibly carry everything that we've been given to carry, so we have to get it out of our bodies so we can see it. So everyday at 5:50 my kid and I would go outside and we would walk, like down the road from my mom's house and then we would stand by the tracks and we would wait. You feel it first in your feet like you feel the train coming up through your shoes and up through your legs and then you can hear it and then you can see it and as it gets closer and closer it gets louder and louder and you can feel it more throughout your own body and as soon as the front of the train would cross right in-front of us we would start screaming. And for him it's just letting out the energy and for him it's letting out everything that I can't say, and I can't talk about and I can't express how scared I am and I don't know where to put out all of that fear so it's just a release through the body and sometimes we would throw rocks and sometimes we would like break sticks and just like this physical release of everything that we'd been carrying all day and I could feel the brambles in my back unwind and everything...and you try to do this stuff in yoga class or in running but it never works, right? But just kind of that primal screaming my face off for the 2-minutes it took for the train to pass, which sounds like such a short period of time, like 2-minutes but really it is a long time to scream without stopping. Like even if we just sit-here for 10-seconds.....................................like that's a long time of dead air space and that's a long time to open your mouth and just be truthful. ZAK: mmmm. What's a good way for each of us to find our own form of release, you think? MEGAN: Whatever you're doing right now, can you stop and roll your shoulders? Can you remember to breathe? I don't mean that in any yoga, magical, just let yourself breathe, I mean it just straight up, are you actually breathing? I mean that with edge and knives and whiskey but are you actually breathing because I haven't been. It's a thing that I have been forgetting to do. So just even this awareness that we live in a body and how are we getting whatever emotional response we're having to the world out of it. Can you break something? Cause if you don't put it out of ourselves in these possible bonkers but also maybe healthy ways, it's gonna come out of us in ways that aren't healthy. So maybe that means booze or drugs or sex or cruelty or violence. Domestic violence numbers are up right now...just trying to think of what people are doing to care for ourselves. ZAK: I'm gonna go scream. MEGAN: Please do. I hope everybody does. ZAK: Yes. Go scream listeners.

Brooke Warner has spent her life finding ways to help people share their stories. She had a successful career in the traditional publishing industry before co-founding She Writes Press, an independent publishing company that was honoured as the 2019 Independent Publisher of the Year. As an author, she's published several books including Write On, Sisters! and Green-light Your Book. She's also written books on the topic of memoir writing and helps people craft and shape their own stories to share with an audience.Brooke is among a unique group of people who have spent time as a Tumbleweed at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, France and in this conversation she shares about her experience living in this iconic bookstore.She's inspired many with her TEDx talk: “Green-Light Revolution: Your Creative Life on Your Terms”. And weekly, you can tune into her podcast called Write-Minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers which provides a blend of inspiration and real talk about the ups and downs of the writing life.On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Brooke about why she's inspired to bring important stories to the forefront, how she followed her heart to stay true to her professional and personal goals, and her belief that everyone has the ability to green-light their own creative projects.Say hi to Brooke:  Website: http://brookewarner.com   She Writes Press website  Magic of Memoir websiteShow mentions and people who inspire Brooke:     - People who inspire: Lidia Yuknavitch, Elizabeth Acevedo, Elizabeth Gilbert     - TEDx Talk Green-Light Revolution: Your Creative Life on Your Terms     - Being a Tumbleweed at Shakespeare and Company----Creative Pulse Podcast socials:  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/creativepulsepodcast  Twitter https://twitter.com/CreativePulseTWMusic credit: https://www.purple-planet.com

Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her collection of short stories, “Verge.” The author of novels, essays, a memoir and short stories, Lidia Yuknavitch details life of people on the margins of society. Her new collection is culled from several years of her work, and much of the book was rewritten or written for the publication. She is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky, recorded at KPFA, February 7, 2020.     The post Lidia Yuknavitch, “Verge” appeared first on KPFA.

Bookwaves. Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her collection of short stories, “Verge.” The author of novels, essays, a memoir and short stories, Lidia Yuknavitch details life of people on the margins of society. Her new collection is culled from several years of her work, and much of the book was rewritten or written for the publication. She is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky, recorded at KPFA, February 7, 2020.       Arts-Waves. Stephen Sondheim at 90. The legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim celebrates his ninetieth birthday on March 22, 2020. Lyricist for West Side Story; composer/llyricist for Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George and other shows, he has perhaps made the greatest mark on musical theater since the days of Rodgers and Hammerstein. In this interview recorded in November 2011 at his townhouse in New York City for “Look! I Made a Hat!: the second volume of his collection of essays, he discusses his later works and his career with host Richard Wolinsky.   Photo of Stephen Sondheim by Richard Wolinsky, copyright 2010.   The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – March 19, 2020: Lidia Yuknavitch – Sondheim at 90 appeared first on KPFA.

Best known for her TEDtalk on the beauty of being a Misfit, Lidia Yuknavitch, writer and teacher, speaks poignantly about her abusive childhood, experience with alcohol and drug abuse, homelessness, time in a psychiatric ward, multiple failed marriages, and finally, the loss of her first child, all leading her to feel like she failed to fit in. Lidia's storytelling of resilience is rich and inspiring, acting as a bridge to others. Her vulnerability, honesty and insight highlight how failure is actually a "portal" to reinvent oneself endlessly. Connect w/ Lidia: https://lidiayuknavitch.net Corporeal Writing site: http://www.corporealwriting.com TEDtalk: https://www.ted.com/speakers/lidia_yuknavitch www.theotherfwordpodcast.com  

Domi J. Shoemaker is the creator and curator of the legendary Burnt Tonguereading series in Portland, Oregon which features some of the best writers in the region and highlights Tom Spanbauer's Dangerous Writing groups. Domi recently received their MFA from Pacifica University and is also an integral part of the creative team for Lidia Yuknavitch's Corporeal Writing workshops. Domi is also a gender-fluid, differently-abled, ball of wonder and spark and bite. They do not fit easily into any one box. Domi forces us to look as much at ourselves as we do at them for the answers to who we are and who we can bein a world that is often obsessed with forcing us into categories it can easily understand, manipulate and control. Mostly, Domi loves to write. And Domi loves it when you write. As long as it is honest. And good. They celebrate the craft as much as they do the transparency. Domi believes that writing holds the power to help us reinvent ourselves in ways that give us the control, give us the dignity, give us the reigns of our own becoming. We are so proud to know them. In this conversation, we talk about pronouns, Lidia the badass, "throwing like a boy," and about how Joseph Campbell gave them a template for exploring their own emerging self.

Happy Valentine's Day. Put down the box of Russell Stover candies and listen up. It's time to talk about death. There's no better way to celebrate love than to honor the fact that we eventually lose the ones we love. Or do we? On the Block Radio is a show about transformation. More specifically, we are a show about how people face intense experiences in their lives and transform them into meaning, beauty and purpose. There is no bigger transformation than that of death. To confront our own deaths, the sages of every religion teach, is the key to unlocking the eternal aspects within our consciousness and our bodies. There are few more basic human issues than the ever-ticking clock of our own mortality. It is what makes life tragic and glorious at the same time. And to help someone prepare for a beautiful death is to help a person fulfill their deepest potential as a human being. There is literally no higher calling. This is the calling Mellisa Dodson heard, and answered, on March 25, 2014. Melissa Dodson is a California girl who found her home in the trees of Portland, OR. She's a wife and mom, a writer and a Death Midwife. She writes about being a motherless daughter, grief, depression, vulnerability and the beauty of a messy life. She is a dream catcher, a grief warrior, a survivor, a book whore. Studying writing with Lidia Yuknavitch woke up all the broken pieces of her heart, and reminded her that words save. She now studies Dangerous Writing under the tutelage of Tom Spanbauer and the magic makers in the basement. Her work has been featured on The Manifest-Station, Rebelle Society, The Tattooed Buddha, behind-the-ink, Some Talk of You & Me, Breathe In. Breathe Out. Live, among other online publications. Since the March 25, 2014 death of her mother, her passions lie with grief, compassionate end-of-life planning, conscious death and dying, home death/home vigil/home funeral and natural/green burial. In 2015, she founded Grief Rites, a Facebook community to safely and openly talk about death and grief (website coming soon). She also curates the Grief Rites Readers Series, a literary event in NE Portland, to bring people together to hold sacred space for each other in their grief. The Readers Series meets the first Monday of each month at American Legion Post 134, and is free to all. Her next chapter includes turning Grief Rites into a 501c(3) non-profit organization. Funds raised through the Grief Rites Foundation will take the Readers Series on the road to broaden the reach of the grief safety net that she's created, and bring in renowned speakers and authors in the realm of death and grief. Additionally, there will be a fund to assist people with covering funeral and burial costs for green/natural burials. She is also continually studying, and offering her services though her Portland based business, Into the Light, LLC. Her offerings include compassionate end-of-life planning and education, death midwifery services, home funeral guidance, caregiver support and grief support.

Lidia Yuknavitch writes about sex, violence and art. And she does so in a way that will undo you. She breaks language down to the level of the quantum to expose entangled flashes of violence and transformation. You will never be the same after reading her work. She's built a devoted fan base throughout the Pacific Northwest as an author and teacher. And the rest of the world is catching on. Finally. Her book The Chronology of Water changed the way memoir was written and sent shockwaves through the literary world. Her newest novel The Small Backs of Children begins with a photographer snapping a shot of a girl narrowly-escaping a bomb that kills her entire family. And then the book gets really intense.

We talk to one of Portland's most evocative and fearless writers about her new novel, The Small Backs of Children. Visit our show page for info on her July 8th reading.

Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer (Liveright Publishing) Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost, what begins as Moses s story becomes much more, as fellow squid-enthusiast Matthew Gavin Frank boldly winds his narrative tentacles around history, creative nonfiction, science, memoir, and meditations about the interrelated nature of them all. In a full-hearted, lyrical style reminiscent of Geoff Dyer, Frank weaves in playful forays about his research trip to Moses' Newfoundland home, Frank's own childhood and family history, and a catalog of bizarre facts and lists that recall Melville's story of obsession with another deep-sea dwelling leviathan. Though Frank is armed with impressive research, what he can't know about Harvey he fictionalizes, quite explicitly, as a way of both illuminating the scene and exploring his central theme: the big, beautiful human impulse to obsess. For tonight's reading, Matthew Gavin Frank will be joined by Los Angeles Times book critic (and author himself) David Ulin. Praise for Preparing the Ghost: "Preparing the Ghost is a triumph of obsession, a masterful weaving of myth and science, of exploration and mystery, of love and nature. Here Matthew Gavin Frank delivers my favorite book-length essay since John D'Agata'sAbout a Mountain, and with it he stakes a claim to his own share of the new territory being forged by such innovators of the lyric essay as Eula Biss and Ander Monson." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods "Matthew Gavin Frank has made a book into a curiosity cabinet, one dedicated to the storied giant squid. A mysterious but seductive mix of history, creative non-fiction, memoir, and poetry, Preparing the Ghost is written with contagious passion. In this original book, Frank weaves his imagination through history s gaps, and keeps the reader riveted with the lure of the unknown and dark, sultry prose." --Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise "Preparing the Ghost reads like a cross between Walt Whitman and a fever dream. Who would think squid and ice cream go together? I remained riveted to the very last word." --Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig "Matthew Gavin Frank has fashioned a book-length essay marked by unforeseen oneiric asides, and of real and imaginary escapades in search of one Newfoundlander s giant squid. Preparing the Ghost is a mash-up of a meditation on the nature of myth, the magnetic distance between preservation and perseverance, and the sympathetic cravings that undergird pain. In Frank's heart-thumping taxonomy, monstrous behemoths square nicely with butterflies and ice cream. Don t ask me how: read this book!" --Mary Cappello, author of Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor who Extracted Them "What a marvelous essay Matthew Gavin Frank has written. Preparing the Ghost is driven by narrative, by lyric association, by memoir, by lists, by research, by imagination. Frank delivers this story of Moses Harvey, the first person to photograph the giant squid, with a passion as supercharged as Harvey s own. Above all, this is an essay about obsession, mystery, mythmaking, and the colossal size of our lives. Take it all in. Revel in its majesty." --Lee Martin, author of Such a Life "Like the giant squid at the center of this enchanting inquiry, Mathew Gavin Frank's Preparing the Ghost is a multi-tentacled and entirely captivating saga of profound mystery and relentless pursuit." --Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire "Part history, part lyric poem, part detective novel Matthew Gavin Frank's Preparing the Ghost is just as intriguing and hard to classify as its subject. I never thought I'd care so much about the elusive giant squid, but thanks to this book, I can t help but see its shadow everywhere." --Brenda Miller, author of Season of the Body and Listening Against the Stone "A great essay takes us into the author's polymathic mind and out to the wondrous world, teaching us something we didn t know we wanted to know. In Preparing the Ghost's deliciously delirious layering of science, biography, history, mystery, linguistics, myth, philosophy, epistemology, adventure, travel Matthew Gavin Frank has given us a truly great essay." --Patrick Madden, author of Quotidiana The shortest distance between two people is a great story. This one is incredible. You will embrace Preparing the Ghost like a friend you won't want to leave." --Bob Dotson, New York Times bestselling author of American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things "Matthew Gavin Frank reinvents the art of research in extraordinarily imaginative ways. His meditation on the briefly known and the forever unknowable courts lore (both family and creaturely), invites the fantastical, heeds fact, and turns the human drive to notate and list into a gesture of lyrical beauty". --Lia Purpura, author of On Looking and Rough Likeness "Fans of Federico Fellini and, most especially, of Georges Perec, will adore Mr. Frank's infuriatingly baroque, charmingly eccentric and utterly unforgettable book. And with hand on heart I can truly say that I also loved every word of it." --Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded "Inventive, original, and endlessly interesting, Preparing the Ghost is a gorgeous exploration of myth, history, language, and imagination, all swirling around the mysterious and evocative figure of the giant squid. This book is a journey through passion, obsession, fear, and adventure, and the hunger to behold what lurks within the depths of the sea. "To look into a squid's eyes is like looking into infinity," one squid-obsessed character declares, as Matthew Gavin Frank leads us deeper and deeper into this dazzling account of strangeness, and danger, and the longing to see." --Catherine Chung, author of Forgotten Country "Preparing the Ghost is the most original book I have read in years. Opening with an arresting image that literally haunts him, Matthew Gavin Frank unstrings history and reweaves a narrative from its threads, from fiction and news reporting and his own life, to remind us that every experience is a story braid. To remind us that life and love and death all are beauty." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Dora: A Headcase Matthew Gavin Frank has previously written about everything from wine-making in a tent in Italy to the social hierarchies of a pot farm in California. He teaches creative writing and lives in Marquette, Michigan. 

On the eve of Los Angeles Pride, Skylight Books presents its third annual celebration of LGBT writing.  The work of James Baldwin, Eloise Klein Healy, Oscar Wilde, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Jerome Stueart will be explored by some of our favorite writers including Jervey Tervalon, Naomi Hirahara, Ali Liebegott and Wendy Ortiz.  Curated by Noel Alumit