Podcast appearances and mentions of sam pink

Lords: * Jenni * Chris Topics: * Are corporate mascots in US culture age-locked to a generation? I have done no research about this * The continuation of our species depends on balls being able to taste soy sauce * BB-8 changed my tire * The Woodchuck, by Sam Pink * https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/wg09x5/poemthewoodchuckbysam_pink/ Microtopics: * Too much dick content for one show. * What kind of fetus dong shot engagement you're looking for. * When they smear the goo on your belly. * Throwing a gender reveal party and the uncle nobody wants around is like "I don't believe you" and you get to whip out the photo of the kid's dick. * Shipping a person in Q4. * Automating the Omelas kid. * The Disney suffering animatronic child asking passers by to walk away from Omelas. * Gen Z no longer needing to read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas because they live in modern society. * Gardening in one of the hardest places in the world to garden. * What's the grass for? * An office park spending millions of gallons of water to maintain a lawn nobody ever walks on or looks at. * What if the Omelas kid is a dick? What if they're treating him really well and he just has impossibly high standards and hates everything. * An electrical problem that's very pronounced when Jenni turns on the blender. * The Golden Age of Corporate Mascots. * Undead Corporate Mascots. * Trying to find a picture of the Toucan Sam redesign and ending up on Deviant Art. * Howard and Nester. * Whether American kids will tolerate anime. * President of the Nintendo No Fun Club. * Spending $200 on the Nintendo hint line trying to solve the last screen in Solstice. * An adventure game that's also a platformer where if your toe touches a candle flame it's an instant game over. * Inventing terrible camera angles in a 2D game. * It's 3D, but on your Speccy! * Trusting a YouTube documentary more the longer the video is. * Are Domo Kun and Hello Kitty free agents? * Cap'n Crunch guest starring in the Star Wars Holiday Special. * A Roma who was once helpful. * Eating a sandwich and getting the sandwich tattooed on your bicep because. * A baby name that Boomer moms love. * Remington Steel On At 7PM After Matlock Jones. * Getting into a thing with people on Metafilter. * POV: when your girlfriend gets you Swedish meatballs at Ikea. * Whether Frosthaven is important to the testicles tasting umami story. * Vanilloid receptors. * Why you can shock your tongue with a 9 volt battery but you can't shock your forearm even if it's wet. * The chef with the tiny spoon in your testicles making sure to get the exact right MSG level in your semen. * Peppers hacking mammal biology. * Seeds who enjoy being digested by birds. * The cardioprotective benefit of spicy food. * The Ones Who Bring it Back to Omelas. * Broccoli evolving into crabs. * This is canon: BB-8 drives a 2016 Corolla. * Pretending that you are talking to a Youtube audience while you make s sandwich. * Just a li'l guy who rolls around on a ball. * R2D2: a mean mean man. * The floor falling out of the Pinto while you're driving it. * A rubber pad with friction stripes on it. * Turning it until it feels like you broke it, but you didn't and you have to keep going. * After the cake comes out of the oven the recipe stops having steps. * How to get help from Linux users. * The entire wheel snapping off the axle as you're parking at Camerica Bank. * Different car, same maintenance strategy. * Driving a car until it can no longer be ontologically be classified as a car. * Churchill's Irregulars. * Waiting for Peter Jackson to mansplain to you the sound a car makes when the wheel snaps off. * Delving too deeply into the Cars cinematic universe. * A Mastodon setting that hides all of Jim's BB-8 toots. * How to find people to follow on Nectarine. * The dying MUD you joined in 1997. * Radioactive names such as Hitler and Sheldon. * Joining a social media service and it tells you there are no posts. * Sam Pink strikes again. * The emotional arc of putting a tiny hat on a woodchuck. * A woodchuck you would definitely do a murder to. * Ampersand at the beginning of the line. * The Furniture That Rolled Away From Omelas. * Why the computer is mad in I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream. * Looking for sentient life in the universe when you have dolphins at home.

Read the final draft: https://seanthorconroe.substack.com/p/on-sam-pink-scheming-and-slander

This is the complete audiobook for The Event by Sam Pink. Music and narration by Zero Point Fiction.  

This is the complete audiobook for The Event by Sam Pink. Music and narration by Zero Point Fiction. 

This is the complete audiobook for The Event by Sam Pink. Music and narration by Zero Point Fiction. 

This is the complete audiobook for The Event by Sam Pink. Music and narration by Zero Point Fiction. 

This is the complete audiobook for The Event by Sam Pink. Music and narration by Zero Point Fiction. 

Lords: * Chris * Alex Topics: * Living without software updates * I like Cyberpunk 2077 * I had a friend who would argue with the people collecting signatures in support of a proposed law. Not about the proposal itself, but the methodology behind it. * PIECE A SHIT, possibly by Sam Pink * https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/Kl_AeoXl.jpg Microtopics: * Lords of Topics. * Asking your mom if this Thanksgiving turkey is Frog Fractions 3. * Haiku Hero. * How to talk to the press. * An email from the guy who sent me the quirky thing from before. * The Last Biceps. * Filling your house with electronics that continuously ask you to do things. * How to interact with the Internet on an old un-updated computer. * Snap craft something or other. * Turning off Windows updates for over a year and nothing bad happens because security best practices are bullshit. * Visiting twinbeard.com to find out about the beads in Jim's ears. * Searching Google for the little balls in your ears. * Your phone popping up a window saying "you're a year and a half out of date, would you like to update?" and hitting the back button as fast as you can. * Windows updates adding AI functionality to MS Paint. * Making uneducated guesses about how someone else's code works. * Searching for a program on your computer and Windows gives you Bing results for that program's name. * A sneaky hacker man doing non lethal takedowns. * Making a complicated video game and then patching it into a completely different complicated video game after the guides have all been written. * Trying to explain to someone why the story of Half-Life is cool and realizing halfway through your explanation that it's not that cool actually. * Cool things that build immersion. * A guy saying "have a seat" and a contextual actionicon appearing over a chair. * Voluminous closets full of costumes for virtual dress-up. * Delivering exposition in cars. * All the weird things people will put on their body in the cyber future. * A fictional city halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. * Recovering a stolen painting by showing a satellite. * A city with lots of neat stuff to do. * Querulous Friend's Advocate. * The Everyone Gets a Pony Initiative of 2023. * Filibustering people collecting signatures in front of the grocery store. * How much do you believe in the political causes you're promoting? * Watching your friend play games in a little window on your second monitor. * Mr. Feeny recording car AI voices. * Getting into World of Warcraft because you are stressed about starting a new job. * Level 1 Superman killing rats to collect 10 rat pelts. * Fun ways to fight crowds of mooks. * The things you see on your limbs when you see your limbs. * Replacing all the mirrors with cyber mirrors. * The doctor pulling out your cyber eyes and putting them in a drawer and all you can see is the inside of the drawer. * Lost games dev techniques such as palette swaps. * A screenshot of a book. * A poem painting a picture of a time and place. * Maybe Sam Pink. * Writing a bunch of messages to someone and making their phone vibrate every five seconds for a full minute. * Notification throttling. * Fanciful technological panaceas. * Ultra poetry where each line has animation and timing. * Making a word wiggle in a sine wave to indicate that it's a spooky ghost noise. * Poem Lords. * Seven poems on the itinerary. (But we'll only have time for three of them.)

The great Sam Pink is a visual artist & a writer with lots of insight into the creative process. In this episode we talk about his productive attitude towards making work as well as nicotine, tantra & life in the midwest. He's an excellent guest and I hope you all enjoy. Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sampinkisalive Sam's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sam_pink_art/

A talk with writer and artist Sam Pink. Before we talk, I read Pink's story. “Move in With Me”. Follow Pink on Twitter and Instagram. Episode art by Sam Pink. Theme music forever by Bill MacKay.

Listen to excerpts from COMMAND AND CONTROL, a new story by Sam Pink, forthcoming in the Southwest Review. Check out the author's work in the links below: https://thetalkingbook.org/audiobooks https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=Sam+Pink https://www.instagram.com/sam_pink_art/

Troy James Weaver is today's guest! Troy is the author of Witchita Stories, Temporal, Marigold, Visions, and Selected Stories. His work has appeared in NY Tyrant, Hobart, The Southwest Review, and many others. He lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife and dogs. We discuss absurdism, humor, Beckett, first person narrative, working and writing, workshopping, Sam Pink, and more. Enjoy!

Sam Pink returns to talk about his new book Ketchup, rerelases of old books, painting, and more! Contact for Sam Pink Books Neutral Spaces Instagram Twitter Contact for Joe bielecki Twitter and Instagram: @noisemakerjoe Website One time donation Patreon Tired Art photo by Arielle Tipa

Sam Pink is the author of several novels and poetry collections, including Witch Piss, Person, and Garbage Times, as well as a painter and multimedia artist. We chopped it up over the phone about doing things just to do them, the spirit of art, being honest, and also being whatever. You can find him on Twitter @sampinkisalive and IG @sam_pink_art. Books and paintings are available directly from him. The essay discussed at one point in the episode can be found on Neutral Spaces.

On this episode, Kelby and I talk about the recent piece by Sam Pink, and how his whole style got lifted by the author of Fuccboi. We link that to Miike's 2002 masterpiece Agitator, in which low-level yakuza get caught up in the schemes of their bosses. We go over the movie in depth, discussing the pacing, the plot, and choices in depicting violence. Is there a future for working-class writers? What does making art actually mean? Should it mean something at all? Why care about any of this? Enjoy. Read "FUCK, BOY!" by Sam Pink here. Watch the full 200-minute cut of Agitator for free here.

In this episode Alan and Diane talk to playwright and director Monica Cross about the uniqueness of SFF theater, staging SFF plays, and where to find them. Alan also reviews Witch Piss by Sam Pink published by Thumbs Down Press 2020. We also make a big announcement.

Big Bruiser Dope Boy is today's guest. BBDB's books include Something Gross (Apocalypse Party), Foghorn Leghorn (Clash Books), Your First Real Boyfriend & Other Poems, and After Denver (11:11 Press). Today's topics include: Garielle Lutz (as usual), zoom funerals, Sam Pink, editing while you write, Gay Death Trance, power, and finding your own writing style. Hope you enjoy this episode. If you like the podcast, please consider supporting on Patreon and/or subscribing and reviewing Selected Prose on Apple Podcasts. Until next time... Music credit to Tom Laplaige (@sighpilot)

Sam Pink is an American author, novelist, artist, and poet. Pink has authored books such as Person, The Ice Cream Man & Other Stories, The No Hellos Diet, Hurt Others, Rontel, Witch Piss, and The Garbage Times/White Ibis. His writing has been published widely in print and on the Internet and translated into other languages. He currently lives in Michigan and sells paintings from Instagram under `sam_pink_art`, and also I guess doing Podcasts called "Yung Flamingo Club." In this episode we talk about people living in the forest for decades to only leave behind a mysterious photo, FedEx-Kinkos, and how Sam Pink would eliminate Tom Clancy completely. We also talk about what Sam Pink would suggest someone who walked into a bookstore for the first time and asked Pink for a recommendation. This episode catches a lot of heat the second half, so you'll want to listen to it in its entirety. Sam Pink was one of our most interesting and funny guests yet. If you're interested or whatever: www.yungflamingo.club

You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive​​​​​ Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com​ I talk to Delicious Tacos about women writers and the XO Jane confessional essay, the changing face of the pick-up artist community, dealing with feds, prostitutes, the demon of alcoholism, masochism, and God. Definitely the most raunchy, no-filter episode I've done, also the funniest. Subversive is generally not for small kids, but - this one - is radioactive for anyone under 16. Delicious Tacos is a pseudonymous writer, he is the author of "The Pussy", "Finally some Good News" and "Savage Spear of the Unicorn." His recommendation is "The Last Temptation of Christ" by Nikos Kazantzakis and "The Ice Cream Man" by Sam Pink. You can find him on Twitter at @delicious_tacos --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aksubversive/message

In this episode, I chat with Delicious Tacos (delicioustacos.com / twitter: @delicious_tacos). He's the author of the outstanding novel Finally, Some Good News, as well as story collections The Pussy, Savage Spear of the Unicorn, and Hot Naked Kittens. He's also working on his second novel, titled True Love, which we discuss in the episode.  Other topics include: translating from Greek and Latin the gospels, Sappho, and some Catullus, Bumble and Hinge during COVID and otherwise, writing/existing in quarantine, Yukio Mishima, Sam Pink, self-publishing, alt-birdwatching, writers from New York who write about New York, attempting to enter ISIS-held territory, God, clearing Gavin Newsom's name, Michel Houllebecq, Bukowski, Joan Didion,  Kurt Vonnegut, and a hell of a lot more.  If you enjoy the episode, please buy some Delicious Tacos books from his Amazon store (Holiday Sale! 60% off!) and leave us a review on iTunes.  Happy holidays everyone. 

Jon and Liz sit down with Sam Pink to discuss his new book Ice Cream Man and Other Stories, and his other books, which are all awesome. We also discuss how everyone needs some rat in them, character development and finding the singular quality in others, the pros and cons of self publishing, working in restaurants, Mary Robison's Why Did I Ever, comedy and how to write funny, writers who complain about writing, Sam's approach to revision, why calling books nihilistic is dumb, and a hell of a lot more.  

COLLEGE PARK–HARLEM — Jordan Castro is the editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and PETS: An Anthology, recently out from Tyrant Books https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets . I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Writers included are Patty Yumi Cottrell, Tao Lin, Ann Beattie, Sarah Manguso, Scott McClanahan, Kathryn Scanlan, Nicolette Polek, Chelsea Hodson, Blake Butler, Precious Okoyomon, Mark Leidner, Sam Pink, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, David Nutt, Reagan Bird, Michael W. Clune, Christine Schutt and Mallory Whitten. I recommend it for anyone who has or had or wants pets. Cop PETS now !! – https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets http://1storyhaus.com

NYC-MICHIGAN — Sam Pink is the author of the novels Person (2010), The No Hellos Diet (2011), Rontel (2013), Witch Piss (2014), Garbage Times / White Ibis (Soft Skull, 2018), and the collections Ice Cream Man and Other Stories (Soft Skull, 2020), Early Stuff (11:11, 2020)—which includes his 2009 debut I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It—and 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You or Create the Problems You Need (Clash, 2019), among others. He slangs his paintings and early books via IG dm @sam_pink_art, holler at him. I first encountered Sam Pink’s writing in 2017, when the homie Tren aka Based MTN recommended Witch Piss, which we immediate-react podded on. I’ve since read all his shit. I contacted him earlier this month about getting at one of his paintings, and our subsequent correspondence led to this pod. V psyched and grateful to Sam for being such a G, and for continuing to slang this fire art. # CONTENTS 3 min - pod start 4 min - We out here. In the world 6 min - on how so prolific 9 min - You can’t say everything (anything) say one thing 11 min - on concision / chopping up 14 min - on talking through your stories 19 min - SP a journal writer / journalist / confederacy of dunces 21 min - mythical stories are all mish reports / Rontel as an Odyssey 22 min - swording / shielding up ⚔️ 25 min - BBDB / McFlurries / hashing shit out is generative 29 min - writer vs. word-scratcher Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau / humility 31 min - Being a writer not bein a mystical god its being a plumber 32 min - obligatory Bolaño rant 36 min - Animals / empathy / Levinas 39 min - reliance on / detachment from the ecosystem 41 min - Animals as symbols 44 min - Thoth / Ibis / pea head 48 min - current work 50 min - evolution of online lit since aughts 59 min - sharing art is shooting out sonar signals 1 hr 2 min - Early Stuff 1 hr 7 min - Humor 1 hr 8 min - McClanahan 1 hr 12 min - ‘you gotta wanna be good but you also are only whatever you are’ 1 hr 13 min - important to indulge the asshole in you 1 hr 19 min - bravado underrated when you need it 1 hr 23 min - Keith! 1 hr 34 min - pod end # Sean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe https://twitter.com/stconroe http://1storyhaus.com/index.html

Sam Pink is the author of several books of fiction and poetry, including the No Hello's Diet, The Garbage Times/White Ibis The Icecream Man and Other Stories and many more. I find his writing to be funny, direct, and wholly compassionate. There is a quality to his work that makes him, in my opinion, one of the greatest American writers working today. Our talk rages from talking about editing, community, his visual art and more, but I think what comes across most strongly is that his writing is exactly that, his writing.You can contact the show at noisemakerjoe@gmail.com - Just put WTR in the subject line.Contact for Sam PinkBooksNeutral SpacesInstagramTwitterContact for Joe bieleckiTwitter and Instagram: @noisemakerjoeWebsiteOne time donationPatreonArt photo by Arielle Tipa

NYC-WISCONSIN — Big Bruiser Dope Boy is the author of Your First Real Boyfriend & Other Poems and Foghorn Leghorn (2018) from Clash Books and After Denver (2020) forthcoming from 11:11 Press later this year. Bruiser and I started corresponding in advance of the trip he was planning to make out to New York City with Sam Pink for the release of Pink's new book, Ice Cream Man and Other Stories (Soft Skull), before that shit got postponed due to the rona. Cop Bruiser's book: https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/big-bruiser-dope-boy-foghorn-leghorn Big Bruiser's writing: https://neutralspaces.co/bigbruiserdopeboy/ 'The Goonifesto' by BBDB: http://gaydeathtrance.net/BBDB/7.html 'Pick-Up Artist in the Animal Kingdom' (Muumuu House) by BBDB: http://muumuuhouse.com/bbdb.07feb2020.html Recent Gay Death Trance piece: http://gaydeathtrance.net/conroe/1.html 3 min Easter rant start 6 min *23K US rona deaths (not cases) (as of 04.14.20) 10 min pod start 15 min on Friends 16 min on The Loser by Thomas Bernhard 18 min on Tiger King 20 min on compounds 21 min on Ryan Trecartin 23 min on the seasonal mish 25 min on pair migration 28 min aeration / harvest time 29 min Fuck it mask on/off 30 min bandanas / Hanky code 32 min Only on the left side yeah that’s the crip side 34 min mask riff 37 min floor-painting gig story 43 min connecting with the homies # Sean Thor Conroe lives in New York City. http://twitter.com/stconroe http://instagram.com/seanthorconroe http://1storyhaus.com

In this episode Sam Pink reads a story from his book Ice Cream Man and Other Stories, which is available now from Soft Skull Press. Music by Michael Kilcullen. 

HARLEM / ORLANDO — Cavin Bryce Gonzalez is a storywriter and editor and curator from Orlando, Florida. He is the editor-in-chief of Back Patio Press. He got mad quick hitters available online here: https://neutralspaces.co/cavinbryce/ Cop his recent flash fiction collection, I COULD BE YOUR NEIGHBOR, ISN'T THAT HORRIFYING (2020): https://backpatiopress.bigcartel.com/product/i-could-be-your-neighbor-isn-t-that-horrifying Sam Pink is the author of many many fire books including Garbage Time/White Ibis (2018), Witch Piss (2014), Rontel (2013), The No Hellos Diet (2011), Person (2010), and Ice Cream Man And Other Stories (forthcoming Soft Skull 2020)(https://softskull.com/dd-product/the-ice-cream-man-and-other-stories/) I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It (2009) is an early collection consisting of collected writings from 2007-2009. His early hitters are available here: https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Pink/e/B007IDUP5M%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Or via dm: https://www.instagram.com/sam_pink_art/ Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem. http://1storyhaus.com

This episode is a collage of stories and poems written and narrated by Sam Pink. Music by Michael Kilcullen. 

NYC — Al Jacobs, 30, is an NYC-based writer from Toledo, Ohio. He read the copy of Jesus' Son (1992) I lent him over the past few months. I reread the Picador Modern Classics pocket version i copped after lending him my old version over the same period. Jesus' Son (1992) is a series of interconnected short stories narrated by a guy, "Fuckhead," and follows several recurring characters, all addicts, who engage in drug use, petty crime, and murder. Denis Johnson (1949–2017) published Jesus' Son at the age of 43. CONTENTS 5m pod start 8m the infantilized artist boi dream / baby stuff 10m my sus “The Other Man” take 13m you gotta be OUT HERE 15m when they do that lowkey B & E 16m on “autofiction” 21m writing about work/survival/out-here-ness 24m Edmund Wilson v. Nabokov beef as Meek v. Drake beef I’m on Wilson-Meek’s side bro On male isolation/coal miners 26m having empathy for mfkrs more important than everything 31m mommy stuff 33m Jesus God’s son who Jesus’s son tho?? 34m idc abt ur art unless self-snitch in it 36m Sam Pink bizarro absurdism 40m writing abt the outcasts the fuckups the deformed 42m should characters be redeemed 43m dwell in the ambiguity bro 1h 7m Japanese love poems 1h 20m pod end Most recent hitter "Another Way To Stay Calm": https://backpatio.press/2019/11/06/another-way-to-stay-calm-by-sean-thor-conroe/ http://twitter.com/stconroe http://instagram.com/seanthorconroe http://1storyhaus.com

In this episode, Sam Pink stops by to read a short story from a collection of flash fiction called 'Gerald McClellen vs Nigel Benn' which will be published in a collection this spring called 'Early Stuff' on 11:11 Press. Music by Michael Kilcullen. 

In this episode, author Sam Pink reads poems from his new collection of poetry 99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong with You Or Create the Problems You Need, which is out now from Clash Books. Music in this episode is by Michael Kilcullen.  

Sam Pink's Guide to the Stars is a monthly horoscope show hosted by author/poet/painter Sam Pink. Find him on Instagram at @sam_pink_art. Music in this episode is by Michael Kilcullen. 

The Zero Point Fiction podcast presents Artist Profile, a new series that focuses on artists that I believe deserve more attention. The first episode focuses on author Sam Pink, who I've been a fan of since reading Rontel in 2014. In this episode I talk about the current state of literature and art, and the direction I believe it should be heading. Then I talk about Sam Pink as an artist and read excerpts from his new book Garbage Times/White Ibis. All music in this episode was created by Michael Kilcullen. You can find Sam Pink on Instagram @sam_pink_art and you can find Michael Kilcullen @m.kilcullen. 

Sam Pink is an artist & writer & pretty cool/weird dude that you can find on Twitter @sampinkisalive & Instagram @sam_pink_art  garbage times/white ibis' out in may 2018 from soft skull press

SYDNEY — Tren, 31, is a reader and writer Redfern, an inner-city suburb on Sydney's outskirts. He reread Witch Piss (Lazy Fascist Press) over the past week, though first discovered Sam Pink's books five years ago. I first read Witch Piss over the past week. Sam Pink lives in Chicago and plays in the band Depressed Woman. He tweets at @sampinkisalaive. - 1storyhaus.com

Talking with indie writer Ben DeVos. It was chill. He likes to listen to rap & smoke weed while he writes. We talk writing, alt lit controversies, Taylor Swift/Kanye West rap battles, our mutual love for Sam Pink and much more! Ben is the author of Lord of the Game & lives in Philadelphia.

Jacob The Mutant (Phoneme Media)  Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Mario Bellatin's Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation--a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and the owner of a roadside tavern. But when reality shifts, so does Jacob, mutating into another person entirely, while the novella mutates into another story. Cleverly translated by Jacob Steinberg, this Phoneme Media edition of a new novel by one of Mexico's most notorious and celebrated writers includes a translator's afterword and explanatory maps by illustrator Zsu Szkurka. Praise for Mario Bellatin: "Everyone talks about inventing their own language, but Mario Bellatin actually does it." --Francisco Goldman Mexican writer Mario Bellatin has published dozens of novels with major and minor publishing houses throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction, published in 2014 by Phoneme Media. A Practicing Sufi, Bellatin has won many international prizes, including, most recently, Cuba's 2015 José María Arguedas Prize. David Shook has translated Mario Bellatin's Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction, and The Large Glass: Three Autobiographies, forthcoming from Phoneme Media in December. He and Bellatin have collaborated to make films on three continents. Shook's own poetry has been nominated for the Forward Prize and long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize.  Jacob Steinberg was born in Stony Brook, New York, in 1989. A poet, translator, and critic, his publications includeMagulladón and Ante ti se arrodilla mi silencio. As a translator he has worked with Sam Pink, Luna Miguel, and Mario Bellatin, among others. Scrambler Books released his first English-language collection, Before You Kneels My Silence, as well as the first volume of his translations of contemporary Argentine poet Cecilia Pavón. He currently lives in New York.

Ana Carrete is the guest. Her poetry collection Baby Babe is now available from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Sam Pink says “The first time I heard Ana’s writing was 2 years ago. In November of 2010, I read at the ‘Ear Eater’ reading series in Chicago. Ana was another reader. She was reading via Skype. There were a lot of people at the reading. After I read, I walked out of the room and stood in a hallway, staring at the floor. After a few difficult conversations with people in the hallway, I heard the host of the reading talking to someone on the computer. It was Ana. Ana started reading. I laughed a lot and enjoyed her reading. Seemed like other people weren’t enjoying it as much as me but I was enjoying it a lot. I stood in the hallway laughing and shaking my head ‘Yes’ and people looked at me. I kept thinking, ‘I want to go into the room and watch her face reading’ but then I would think, ‘No, don’t do that, just listen.’ Not sure why I kept telling myself not to go into the room where she was reading but I stood in the hallway and listened and enjoyed it a lot. Two years later, Ana emailed me Baby Babe. I opened the PDF just to skim a few poems but then I read the whole book. When I was done reading the book, I thought, ‘I’ll be glad to have this book so I can look at it whenever I want.’” Monologue topics: foreign languages, bilingualism, power dynamics, ego, inferiority, anger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Karen Engelmann is the guest.  Her debut novel, The Stockholm Octavo, is now available from Ecco.  Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says "Neatly mixing revolutionary politics with the erotic tension and cutthroat rivalry of the female conspirators...Engelmann has crafted a magnificent, suspenseful story set against the vibrant society of Sweden’s zenith, with a cast of colorful characters balanced at a crux of history.” And Library Journal, in a starred review, calls it “Fantastic . . . This rollicking adventure story reads at times like a fairy tale, with Good Guys and Bad Guys and obstacles to be recognized and overcome. It’s all quite fun. As either historical novel or adventure story, this clever first novel should appeal to a broad range of readers." Monologue topics:  mail, Sam Pink, Disneyland, Thanksgiving, exhaustion, The TNB Book Club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam Pink is the guest.  He is the author of several books, including the novel Person.  And his latest novel, Rontel, is due out from Lazy Fascist Press in February 2013.  Electric Literature raves "Reading Sam Pink may make you a danger to society. The voice here in Rontel, as it was in Pink’s previous novel Person, is invasive. It will burrow its way deep into your brain and then echo through your gray matter. You will find yourself thinking the way his narrators think, and will then wonder if those fucked up thoughts tunneled in recently or if they were always there just waiting to be dug up." Monologue topics:  email from a listener, elevator theater, reality television, Board.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices