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Episode 620: A Discussion of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, with Jared Silvia!
In this week’s show, John talks with Jared Silvia about the 2023 film, Asteroid City, and look at how Wes Anderson and co-writer Roman Coppola counterbalances surges of emotion with layers of artifice, which is a mixed metaphor, we know. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Join Jared Silvia and other members of Energy Wheel in this upcoming writer’s… Continue reading
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Episode 619: Jessie Ren Marshall!
In this week’s show, John talks with Jessie Red Marshall about her extraordinary short story collection, Women! In! Peril! The topics discussed include how story collections are like mixtapes, how thematic unity occurs brilliantly by accident, and how the interesting questions to ask ourselves in writing fiction is often what about ourselves, as writers, is… Continue reading
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Episode 618: A Book Discussion of Kenneth Patchen’s Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, with Nick Georgoudiou!
In this week’s show, John and Nick Georgoudiou discuss Kenneth Patchen’s surreal postmodern novel, Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, before a small crowd gathered at the Kerouac Project of Orlando. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES The Kerouac House is re-opening its writers residency after taking a 1-year hiatus. We have also expanded the number of residencies from… Continue reading
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Episode 617: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
In this week’s show, John talks to Marie Mutsuki Mockett about her exquisite new novel, The Tree Doctor, which leads us to the topics of Japanese literature, The Tale of Genji, and how the ancient world is surprisingly like our own. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES The Kerouac House is re-opening its writers residency after taking a… Continue reading
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Episode 616: A Discussion of George Saunders’s A Swim in A Pond in the Rain, with Rachael Tillman!
On today’s show, Rachael and I discuss George Saunders’s discussion of seven short stories by Russian authors. Since Saunders’s book is the result of teaching these stories in MFA craft courses over multiple decades, this book and today’s discussion simulate an important part of the MFA experience, for those who wonder what that might be… Continue reading
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Episode 615: Diane Seuss!
In this week’s show, John talks to Diane Seuss about her latest collection, Modern Poetry. With bursts of internal rhyme about thorny subjects, Modern Poetry awaits the reader with a spirit of mourning and loss and self-creation, which is, for this reader anyway, joyous. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES The Kerouac House is re-opening its writers residency… Continue reading
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Replay: Episode 570 with Kathleen Rooney!
On this replay episode, I talk to Kathleen Rooney about finding the fun despite the end of The Great Enlightenment, the joys of mixing wit and earnestness in verse, the fun of exploring the landscapes of AWP locations despite mentally frying beneath fluorescent lights, the tactile pleasures of typewriters, and other important matters. TEXT DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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Episode 614: Celeste Ng & Ben Fountain!
On today’s show, Samantha Nickerson interviews the fiction writers Celeste Ng and Ben Fountain! TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about Miami Book Fair. The Kerouac House is re-opening its writers residency after taking a 1-year hiatus. We have also expanded the number of residencies from four to SIX per year. If you’re interested, visit our Submittable page and… Continue reading
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Episode 613: Jamel Brinkley & M. Evelina Galang!
On today’s show, Chelsea Alice interviews the short story writer Jame Brinkley and John King interviews short story writer M. Evelina Galang. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about Miami Book Fair. The Kerouac House is re-opening its writers residency after taking a 1-year hiatus. We have also expanded the number of residencies from four to SIX… Continue reading
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Episode 612: A Discussion of Anaïs Nin’s Little Birds!
Samantha Nickerson and I delve into Anaïs Nin’s posthumously published slender volume of erotica, Little Birds. NOTES The Kerouac House is re-opening its writers residency after taking a 1-year hiatus. We have also expanded the number of residencies from four to SIX per year. If you’re interested, visit our Submittable page and send us your… Continue reading
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