Molly McGhee talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
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Jeff VanderMeer's ABSOLUTION
Jeff VanderMeer explores the failure of language, climate change, the fallibility of human institutions, ecstatic visions, and much more in this extensive interview about his new book, Absolution, the fourth installment from his celebrated Southern Reach series
Ledia Xhoga discusses MISINTERPRETATION
Author Ledia Xhoga talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her debut novel, Misinterpretation
Didi Jackson's MY INFINITY
Poet Didi Jackson talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her new collection My Infinity, an exploration of joy and sorrow ordered around the work of the Swedish visual artist Hilma af Klint
SACRED MONSTER ~ Chloë Cassens discusses JEAN COCTEAU
Chloë Cassens represents the Severin Wunderman Collection, the largest collection of works by iconoclastic French artist Jean Cocteau. In this podcast interview with Logan Royce Beitmen, Cassens discusses Cocteau’s massive cultural influence & her efforts to increase awareness about his life and legacy.
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Julia Hannafin
Author Julia Hannafin in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan about their debut novel Cascade
CINDY JUYOUNG OK on WARD TOWARD
Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her collection Ward Toward
Ben Shattuck discusses THE HISTORY OF SOUND: STORIES
Author Ben Shattuck talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about his new book The History of Sound: Stories, which features a fantastically unique structure: each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story
Memory, identity, & synchronicities: Elisa Gabbert's ANY PERSON IS THE ONLY SELF
Writer, poet, and essayist Elisa Gabbert talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about her new essay collection Any Person Is the Only Self
Pushing against the limits of possibility: R.O. KWON discusses EXHIBIT
In a perceptive and revelatory interview with Nirica Srinivasan, author R.O. Kwon explores the intricacies of her newly released novel, Exhibit
The tensions between drifting & survival in AMBER CARON'S stories
Amber Caron talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her striking new short story collection Call Up the Waters
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Lande Yoosuf
Lande Yoosuf is a writer, director, and producer. In this interview, she discusses her unusual approach of turning her short film, Second Generation Wedding, into a full-length screenplay, then adapting that screenplay into her novel, Ko-Foe: The Story of a Nigerian, Muslim Family in the New York Diaspora
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ discusses her literary life at the wheel
Prolific author Lynne Sharon Schwartz discusses her latest publication, My Life at the Wheel, a book of personal essays that she considers a memoir in collage form
The implications of AI & artmaking in DO YOU REMEMBER BEING BORN?
Author Sean Michaels discusses his new novel Do You Remember Being Born?, which explores the implications of AI-assisted co-authorship of creative works
The linguistic imageries of GABRIELLE BATES
Poet Gabrielle Bates discusses her new and well-regarded poetry collection Judas Goat
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Adele Bertei
A conversation with singer, songwriter, writer, & director Adele Bertei about Twist: An American Girl, her new memoir covering her troubled childhood in 1960s and 1970s Cleveland, and her often risky but also sometimes jubilant process of self-discovery and survival
Adele Bertei discusses TWIST: An American Girl, her wrenching & poignant new memoir
Singer, songwriter, writer, and director Adele Bertei talks about the decades-long journey of writing Twist, her new memoir covering her troubled childhood in 1960s and 1970s Cleveland, and her often risky but also sometimes jubilant process of self-discovery and survival
ALICE FULTON'S poetic coloraturas
An interview with poet Alice Fulton about her new collection Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems
LA CARMINA sheds some light on Lucifer
Alternative culture journalist and blogger La Carmina talks about her new work The Little Book of Satanism, which details the “mark of the beast” in cultural and historic movements over the centuries, along with the nonviolent and nontheistic nature of modern Satanists
CALLUM MINTZIS & PAT JAFFE seek sanctuaries of quietude
Melbourne, Australia-based musicians Callum Mintzis and Pat Jaffe discuss their recent collaborative composition live album A Sanctuary of Quietude