52: Chelsea Hodson

NYC — Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else (2018) and the chapbook Pity the Animal (2014). She teaches at the Bennington MFA program and at the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Italy and also does private writing consultations. We met at a reading back in December in Bushwick. I read her book a couple times over the past couple months.

Her book: https://www.amazon.com/Tonight-Im-Someone-Else-Essays/dp/1250170192

Pod Contents:

3 min - pod start
5 min - Work
7 min - never defining oneself as a single thing / multiplicity
10 min - presentation / performance / moon stuff
14 min - rewriting over years
15 min - the moon looks different depending on how the light hits it
17 min - Jo Ann Beard “sometimes you gotta just live longer”
20 min - “writing is gross”
22 min - narcissism / self-concern / autonomy
29 min - Longing / By Grand Central Station I Laid Down And Wept (1945) by Elizabeth Smart
33 min - planetary / animal stuff
35 min - on embarrassment
36 min - when Pity the Animal (2014) dropped
40 min - on workshopping
41 min - taking what you need out of “negative” experiences
44 min - on clarity
47 min - write to change fate’s course
52 min - on doubling down
58 min - what Chelsea workin on now
1 hr - McClanahan

Intro song: "Thank You" by Yamz - https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-master

Sean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe twitter.com/stconroe

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