About this podcast
Formally inventive.
Episode music by Josh Sherman/Charm Reduction
Episodes
The newest 20 of 28 episodes
- No agenda Part 1: With Durban Moffer · 1 h 18 min · Episode 28I am really excited to have found my way back into this. It's just a rambling conversation with a friend.
- Milk Your Time with Holly Pelesky · 58 min · Episode 27I admit I didn’t really feel drawn to Holly’s book and waited till I had finished the other Autofocus books before I got to hers. There was something in me, probably inherently…
- The Smell of a Clogged Sink with Caleb Caudell · 1 h 49 min · Episode 26Caleb Caudell released his first book of autofiction, Hardly Working (Bonfire Press, 2024) detailing his daily struggles as a low-wage worker, and how the drudgery of that grind…
- Transformed by Poetry & Basketball with Shane Anderson · 1 h 24 min · Episode 25Shane Anderson's book appeared in my store. I don't know how it came to me but as I was restacking on a glum June day, I found it, After the Oracle Or: How the Golden State…
- Some people should not do Psychoanalysis (with Forrest Muelrath) · 1 h 52 min · Episode 24Forrest Muelrath is having a moment with the release of his first book, a slim novella called The Valeries (Expat Press 2024). I read the interview Forrest did with Expat's…
- Catching up with Josh Sherman · 1 h 6 min · Episode 23Josh documents the recent reading at the KGB bar in NYC, organized by Pig Roast Publishing. We talk about meeting writers like Jesse Hilsson and Derek Maine IRL, about tone deaf…
- Striving for Optimism with Brad Listi · 1 h 45 min · Episode 22Brad Listi, best known as the host of the otherppl podcast, tried to write a few different books before he settled on the unique form of Be Brief and Tell Them Everything (Ig…
- Documenting Uncertainty with Kat Giordano · 1 h 21 min · Episode 21You'll either find this episode juicy or uncomfortable, probably both. At one point, a mother and her adult son come into my store while Kat and I are recording and, while…
- Filthy Headphones and Dead Air with Tyler Dempsey and Tyler of LoFi Lit · 1 h 52 min · Episode 20I reached out to Tyler Dempsey of Another Fucking Writing Podcast and Tyler of LoFi Lit. We were moving in such similar circles and I wanted to officially give us a chat space to…
- Graham Irvin Deftly Handled Being Called Grant in this Episode · 1 h 2 min · Episode 19It felt good to talk to Graham about his second book, I Have A Gun. It was lovely to have Derek there. The conversation went in weird directions. We talked about our racist…
- The Tenacious Uzodinma Okehi (also featuring Josh Sherman) · 1 h 32 min · Episode 18If you've only encountered Uzodinma Okehi through his recent Twitter persona, you might characterize him as a pest. He's a frequent poster, but he's known more for his replies…
- Up in Smoke: On being a parent & writer who openly smokes weed (with Michael Wheaton) · 1 h 8 min · Episode 17Michael Wheaton and I talk about weed. We talk about using it as a tool for our writing and our parenting, and moreover, we talk about featuring this part of ourselves in our…
- ZH Gill’s Cry For Help to (Either) Bud or Zac Smith · 1 h 48 min · Episode 16It’s remarkable ZH Gill is among us at all, let alone producing heartfelt and hilarious prose about his, shall we say, misadventures. ZH goes into depth about his struggles with…
- I Owe Jesse Hilson Big-Time · 1 h 17 min · Episode 15Jesse is back to talk more in depth about our connection to one another. Jesse edited my forthcoming book from Pig Roast Publishing, The Bottomfeeder, and we talk about that…
- A Little Cumbucket For Ourselves with Kat Giordano · 1 h 13 min · Episode 14If you're listening to this episode, it's likely not the first time you've heard an interview with Kat Giordano. About to release their 4th book (a collection of poems called…
- The History and Future of Autofiction with Josh Sherman · 1 h 27 min · Episode 13Josh and I have our first 1 on 1 conversation and it could not have gone better. We talk about the genre of autofiction from a lot of different perspectives. Josh is an obsessive…
- Death and Memory with Derek Maine · 52 min · Episode 12This is an important episode. Derek sings a heartbreaking Jawbreaker song at the top. We talk about Blake Butler and his book, Molly. We talk about memory and how hard it is to…
- Haldol, Stimpy, Oppenheimer, and Spotify with Rudy Johnson · 1 h 11 min · Episode 11This episode can be played as a drinking game. Every time Rudy and I find a pop culture intersection, you drink. I would never play it because I think all games are pointless. I…
- Nathaniel Duggan's Black Friday Death Egg and the return of Josh Sherman · 1 h 15 min · Episode 10Early on in this conversation, I noticed I was breathing like an athlete and wondered, in some remote part of my mind, why the adrenaline and ragged nerves? Possibly it was the…
- Ric Royer: The Prodigal Son of Niagara Falls · 1 h 35 min · Episode 9The best food novel I've read this year is Ric Royer's Niagara Falls, NY. It's much more than that. It's also a novel about coming home to a desolate place during the pandemic…
