Lit!Pop!Bang!
34 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAnthony Moll and Cece discuss all things books, including awards, festivals and new trends in the publishing industry. They'll talk about the poetry, fiction and memoir on the their bookshelves. They'll also chat with fellow writers and lit educators from the local and national scene. And just like your Twitter feed, they will inject a dose of #popculture in every podcast. Think of it as a scholarly critique gumbo with a dash of ratchet. Tune in with a cup of coffee or some whiskey neat.
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Ep 4.3 How to Resist Amazon
August 26, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MBDanny’s Website: https://www.dannycaine.com Danny’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mistercaine Raven Bookstore: https://www.ravenbookstore.com/ How to Resist Amazon and Why: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/12043 Microcosm Publishing: https://microcosmpublishing.com/ Lina Khan: https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/lina-khan John Waters fan mail @ Atomic Books: https://atomicbooks.com/pages/john-waters-fan-mail Danny and The Raven bookstore in the New Yorker: https://ww...
Ep 4.2 You Don't Need to Invent Monsters
June 22, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBJustin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ghostmoan?lang=en The Horror is Us: http://masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/the-horror-is-us Marcus Burke: https://authorsunbound.com/marcus-burke Periplushttps://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3098 Lambda Literary 2021 finalists: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/ Issa Rae Inks Warner Media: dealhttps://variety.com/2021/tv/news/issa-rae-hbo-max-warnermedia-film-television-deal-1234935944/ Chrissy Te...
EP 4.1 We're Back!
April 06, 2021 10:00 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBMaryland Vaccine Rollout https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marylands-vaccine-rollout-is-failing-minorities-worse-than-almost-any-other-states/2021/03/08/21e20ca4-8051-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html AWPhttps://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/ Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Interviewhttps://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/watch-meghan-markle-prince-harry-interview-oprah-1136551/ WandaVisionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj9J2ecsSpo The Falcon and the Winter Soldierhttps://io9.giz...
Ep 3.7 Place Is Our First Poetics
October 14, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBLinks Steven’s website: https://stevenleyva.wordpress.com/ Steven on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sdleyva The Understudy’s Handbook: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54719190-the-understudy-s-handbook Best American Poetry 2020: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Best-American-Poetry-2020/David-Lehman/The-Best-American-Poetry-series/9781982106591 "Playing Levee" by Steven Leyva: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2017/04/playing-levee/ Billy Porter talking Kinky Boots audition: htt...
Ep 3.6 Tell the Truth—Artfully
September 14, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBLinks Raising King, Joseph’s latest book:https://aquariuspress.myshopify.com/products/raising-king-by-joseph-ross-pre-order Joseph’s Website:https://josephrossnet.wordpress.com/ Selma:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_(film) NBA Strike:https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/9/4/21420033/jacob-blake-nba-strike-2020-black-lives-matterWNBA Protest:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/ NFL:https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/266223514/nfl-j...
Ep 3.5 OutWrite 2020: A World of Community
August 21, 2020 10:00 - 51 minutes - 71.2 MBLinks OutWrite 2020 https://thedccenter.org/outwrite/ WATCH this month’s episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLgKV745FH8LyAXo1QoB9PKHndx5WDzMJz&v=Qbge_4WtI5I&feature=emb_title Saida’s Website https://www.saidaagostini.com/ Saida’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/princeandtherevolution/?hl=en STUNT https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/stunt-saida-agostini The Black Trans Prayer Books https://theblacktransprayerbook.org/ J Mase III https://jmaseiii.com/ And Then I Got Fired htt...
Ep 3.4 Walking the Distance Together
July 29, 2020 10:00 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MBLilly’s website https://www.lillydancyger.com/ Burn it Down https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43886164-burn-it-down Publishing during a catastrophe essayhttps://electricliterature.com/my-book-comes-out-next-year-do-i-even-still-believe-in-next-year/ Santa Fe Writers Project (SFWP) https://www.sfwp.com/ Kanye West & Chance The Rapper https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-chance-the-rapper-twitter-0713-20200713-tivko6dn6zgyrboiyvdrcs5cm4-story.html Jada & Will https://w...
Ep 3.3 Clean Oxygen for Intimate Gatherings
April 30, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBLinks Charm City Books: https://www.charmcitybooks.com/ CCB on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charmcitybooks/?hl=en CCB on YouTube (with Once Upon a Time: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_5sDm4f2-aWz8vFZPXwMg/featured Raven Bookstore : https://www.ravenbookstore.com/ Danny Caine: https://www.dannycaine.com/about.html Continental Breakfast: http://masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/continental-breakfast El Dorado Freddy’s: https://beltpublishing.com/products/el-dorado-freddys?varia...
Ep 3.2 We Are Made for Such Better Things
March 02, 2020 10:00 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBFoster’s website https://clairerudyfoster.com/ Kristen Arnett http://www.masonjarpress.xyz/litpopbang/2019/8/14/ep-27-the-gayest-thing-i-could-tell-you IPG https://www.ipgbook.com/ Jungian Archtype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes The Rumpus https://therumpus.net/ The BFG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BFG “Call me Harry” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-royals-harry-idUSKCN20K1AT Former Baltimore Mayor Sentenced to Jail https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...
Ep 3.1 Where’s My Bounceback?
February 07, 2020 10:00 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MBLinks: The Sims: https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims DewMore: https://www.dewmorebaltimore.org/programs Trippy Red: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trippie_Redd The Office: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386676/ Former Duke and Duchess of Sussex: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/8/21057103/meghan-harry-step-back-royal-duties Star Trek: Picard: https://www.cbs.com/shows/star-trek-picard/ “Won’t You Celebrate with Me:” https://poets.org/poem/wont-you-celebrate-me Tracy K. Smith, Life on...
Ep 2.11 2020 Vision
January 03, 2020 10:49 - 59 minutes - 81.7 MBLinks Big Familia by Tomas Monizhttp://www.acre-books.com/books/big-familia/?portfolioCats=32 …. And Other Disasters by Malka Olderhttp://www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/and-other-disasters Continental Breakfast by Danny Cainehttp://www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/continental-breakfast Out of Step: A Memoirhttps://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814254820.html Lambda Literary Awardshttps://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/ Broken Plate Pendantshttp://ibreakplates.com/welcome Amer...
Ep 2.10 The Stuff That We Inflict Upon Ourselves
November 26, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBMalka Older https://malkaolder.wordpress.com/publications/about/ …and Other Disasters http://www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/and-other-disasters Orphan Black: The Next Chapter https://www.serialbox.com/serials/orphan-black Clone club https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/business/media/orphan-black-cloneclub.html Daniel Jose Older on Twitter https://twitter.com/djolder The Centenal Cycle https://us.macmillan.com/series/thecentenalcycle/ NaNoWriMo https://www.nanowrimo.org/ Disney+ http...
Ep2.9 You Are In the Game
October 18, 2019 10:00 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBLinks Susan Muaddi Durraj https://susanmuaddidarraj.com/ “No Shame in Our Game” community college essay https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/05/31/people-higher-ed-should-stop-disdaining-those-who-attend-or-work-community Farrah Rocks Fifth Grade https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42283949-farah-rocks-fifth-grade Billy Porter on men wearing dresses https://twitter.com/channel4news/status/1147816260740235264?lang=en Halftime Performance https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/supe...
Ep 2.8 In the Mush
October 03, 2019 10:00 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MBLinks Shelter https://www.jungyun.info/shelter Lauren Groff http://laurengroff.com/about/ Smithsonian interview http://smithsonianapa.org/bookdragon/author-interview-jung-yun-in-bloom/ Rumpus interview https://therumpus.net/2016/03/shelter-by-jun-yung/ Meghan Markle and Prince Harry donate to a pool in Mozambique https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a29165360/meghan-markle-prince-harry-archie-donatation-mozambique-swimming-pool/ Meghan Markle and the Queen are friends https://www.w...
Ep. 2.7 The Gayest Thing I Could Tell You
August 14, 2019 09:00 - 49 minutes - 68 MBKristen Arnett http://kristenarnett.virb.com/ OutWrite 2019 http://thedccenter.org/outwrite/ Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett https://tinhouse.com/product/mostly-dead-things/ Kristen escapes apocalyptic Madison on Twitter https://twitter.com/Kristen_Arnett/status/1152254906545389570 Number Neighbor https://www.businessinsider.com/number-neighbors-texting-trend-why-its-going-viral-2019-8 Queer Eye new season https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/queer-eye-renewed-season-4-5-netflix-premie...
Ep. 2.6 A Drink for Every Season
July 18, 2019 09:00 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBCece and Anthony are joined this month by Tyler Mendelsohn , author of the new memoir Laurel (Ink Press Productions, 2019). The group discuss Tyler’s band, Cool Judy (2:30), themes in the new book (7:30), writing about family (12:30), how to name a book that is, in part, about names (16:30), and referencing other texts within a memoir (21:15). In the Pop! section, the group discuss the FX show Pose (30:15), Janet Mock (34:15), Joy Harjo (35:30), and what a potential remake of the movie, The ...
Ep. 2.5 No One Taught Me How to be a Person
June 26, 2019 09:00 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MBLinks: Horror Punk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_punk Richard Hell and the Voidoids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hell_and_the_Voidoids Glenn Danzig https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/glenn_danzig_calls_misfits_comeback_without_him_an_abomination_it_was_really_sad.html Lester Bangs’ Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung https://www.amazon.com/Psychotic-Reactions-Carburetor-Dung-Literature/dp/0679720456 Hanif Abdurraqib’s They Can't Kill Us Until The...
Ep. 2.4 Dispatches from AWP
April 23, 2019 09:00 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBLinks Pen 15 https://www.npr.org/2019/02/11/691694798/looking-at-middle-school-through-grown-up-glasses-in-pen15 Chen Chen's Twitter handle @chenchenwrites When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities at Bloodaxe Books https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-list-of-further-possibilities-1211 Philip Pullman's Golden Compass https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/136447/the-golden-compass-his-dark-materials-by-philip-pullman/97803758234...
Ep. 2.3 Hero of the Back Row
March 15, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 93 MBLinks How to Sit http://www.masonjarpress.xyz/tyrese-coleman/ 2019 PEN American Literary Award Finalists https://pen.org/2019finalists/ Superbowl Cheerleaders https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/us/super-bowl-male-cheerleaders-nfl-trnd/index.html NFL Cheerleader Salary http://money.com/money/5127457/nfl-cheerleaders-career-pay-salary/ Beyoncé and Jay say “go vegan” https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/go-vegan-get-beyonce-and-jay-z-tickets-for-life-deal-1832267220 The Greenprint Project https:...
Ep. 2.2 Birthday of Love
February 22, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBIn this fully-loaded episode, Anthony and Cece are joined by Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Hayes Davis, Nate Brown, and Thea Brown—two literary couples. The group discuss current projects (11:30), humor in poetry (43:00), and what it's like to be in a literary couple (0:48:15). In the Pop! section, the group do some quick pop culture roundups (00:59:15), then discuss in depth about Kamala Harris (1:04:00), and end the section with a discussion of Derry Girls (1:15:15). The group then spend the Bang...
Ep. 2.1 New Year, New Season
January 21, 2019 10:00 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBLinks: Tyrese Coleman's PEN Nomination https://pen.org/2019longlists/ Anthony's two panels at AWP https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/15007 https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/14373 CeCe's panel at AWP https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/16201 Erin Dorney's I Am Not Famous anymore http://www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/i-am-not-famous-anymore Tyrese Coleman's How to Sit http://www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/how-to-sit Baltimore...
Kinda Literary Famous
December 17, 2018 10:00 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MBLinks Tyler’s Website https://tylervile.wordpress.com/ Never Coming Home https://www.amazon.com/Never-Coming-Home-Tyler-Vile/dp/1627290141 Hasidic Witch Murder http://philome.la/TylerVile/hasidic-witch-murderer/play Shprintze and the Golem https://www.etsy.com/listing/637222482/shprintze-and-the-golem?fbclid=IwAR24dfUFAbHO6L5ZMKYrTOrTuof1q-nRaspsoDc9q3LagCtS_CsnpiMNiWM Tyler's collaboration with Avi Roberts: https://aviroberts.itch.io/golem Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer: https://www.y...
Ep. 1.11 Breaking the 4th Wall
November 19, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBValue Village Clothes shop https://www.valuevillage.com Lia's upcoming book "All the Fierce Tethers" http://www.sarabandebooks.org/titles-20192039/all-the-fierce-tethers-lia-purpura Ecotone definition https://www.britannica.com/science/ecotone Sacred 7 Erricka Bridgeford https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/95256322-132.html Meghan Markle Prince Harry tour https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a21273366/meghan-markle-prince-harry-first-royal-tour-2018/...
Ep. 1.10 Live from Baltimore Bookfest!
October 23, 2018 08:00 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBLinks FORCE Healing Hike fundraiser https://upsettingrapeculture.wedid.it/campaigns/4706/ Fiona Apple's Acceptance Speech at the 1997 Video Music Awards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42gNkySFycA Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1B9Fk_SgI0 Sinead O'Connor ripping Pope picture – “Fight the real enemy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKdBlKgquw Ego Nwodim – Baltimore Native a player on Saturday Night Live https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4945455/ Int...
The Ultimate Volta
September 12, 2018 09:00 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBLinks: Anagnorisis - http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/anagnorisis Ross Gay's "Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken for Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anything Like the Others": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/92015/within-two-weeks-the-african-american-poet-ross-gay-is-mistaken-for-both-the-african-american-poet-terrance-hayes-and-the-african-american-poet-kyle-dargan...
Ep 1.8 Our Lady of Almost Obscure Causes
September 05, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBIn this special episode of Lit!Pop!Bong!, hosts Anthony and Cece are on location at the OutWrite DC with Michelle Tea. First, we hear a reading from Michelle at a reading at OutWrite (5:30), and Michelle answers some questions from Anthony and Cece (31:00). Our hosts were then able to catch up with Michelle for the Pop! section (42:00) where the three discuss 23andMe, Black Girl Magic on fashion magazines (48:15), and the diversity of the new season trailer of Star Trek (50:45). Finally, in ...
Ep 1.7: Summertime Belongs to Queers!
July 05, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBDisquiet Residency: http://disquietinternational.org/ OutWrite DC http://thedccenter.org/events/outwrite2018 Broken Metropolis http://www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/broken-metropolis Elon Musk Story https://www.mhpbooks.com/elon-musk-millionairesplains-marxism-to-a-lefty-publishing-house-or-how-much-musk-would-an-elon-musk-if-an-elon-could-musk-musk/ Black Socialists of America https://twitter.com/blacksocialists Enoch Pratt Library: www.prattlibrary.org/ The Carters – Apesh*t: http...
Culture Comes From the Bottom Up
June 05, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBAnnie Finch's book Exaltation of Forms https://www.press.umich.edu/11681/exaltation_of_forms Girl by Jamaica Kincaid https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl Reviews of The Poet X https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/elizabeth-acevedo/the-poet-x/ https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-266280-4 Dominican musician Juan Luis Guerra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STDG00mc9zk Karamo's Engagement https://people.com/tv/queer-eye-karamo-brown-engaged/ Abby and Tom engaged ht...
I Can't Believe You've Never Seen The Movie Hook!
May 15, 2018 08:00 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBIn this months episode, Anthony and Cece are guest free. They discuss the panels they've been on lately (1:20), Anthony's new book (5:30), the Split This Rock Festival (15:50), and other going-ons (20:00). In the Pop section (26:15), Kanye West is examined as well as the White House Correspondents' Dinner (35:45). Finally, in the Bang section, Cece and Antony trade first celebrity crushes (42:15) and maybe even sing a little. Show Links: City Lit Project http://www.citylitproject.org/ Out ...
Ep 1.4 Scrooge McDuck of Poetry
April 03, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBCece and Anthony are joined by Dora Malech for our poetry month episode. In this episode, the group discuss Dora's background and what she's up to now (1:20), what Dora loves about poetry (6:50), and what she wishes she could change about it (12:30). Dora then speaks toward the sonic nature of her poetry (20:50) and what it was like publishing with a UK press (24:00). In the pop section, the group tackle the proposed cultural appropriation of Bruno Mars (28:35) and the issues with Cambridge ...
Ep 1.3 Thank God for Representation
March 06, 2018 16:30 - 1 hour - 88.6 MBRecorded before news broke about the closing of the Baltimore Beat, Anthony and Cece speak with the Editor-in-Chief of that publication, Lisa Snowden-McCray. In this episode, the group discuss Lisa's path to journalism (3:00), to the Beat (10:50), and the state of journalism as an institution and business (14:45). Later, in the Pop section, Anthony, Celeste, and Lisa talk Black Panther and black representation in media (28:30) and the reboot of Queer Eye on Netflix (41:45). In the Bang segme...
Ep 1.2 Bring Poetry to Your Meetings
February 06, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBCece and Anthony are joined by poet and "Split This Rock" co-founder, Sarah Browning, to discuss life, poetry, and politics (0:00). Later, Cece and Anthony talk Fire and Fury (36:30), Game of Thrones hiatus (41:50). and the Olympics (46:00). Sarah then rejoins the hosts to imagine their dream literary course to teach/take (53:10). Links Split This Rock http://www.splitthisrock.org/ The Quarry http://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database Killing Summer by Sarah Browning http://siblingrival...
Ep 1.1—No Apologies 2018
January 02, 2018 09:00 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MBCece and Anthony talk with current and previous Youth Poet Laureates of Baltimore, Mohammed Tall and Hannah Sawyerr (0:16) . Later, they discuss banned words at the CDC (21:15), Omarosa's resignation (29:31) and the people they want to see less of in the coming year (37:10). Links Mohammed's poem Do the Right Thing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-eVeHBsb1C4 Hannah's website and book For Girls Growing into Their Hips https://www.hannahsawyerr.com/ Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou http...
Ep 0.0—The Pilot
December 27, 2017 02:30 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBGet to know hosts Anthony Moll and Cece as they break down what to expect from Lit!Pop!Bang! In this introductory episode, Anthony and Cece discuss their current writing projects (1:05), try to define Lit!Pop!Bang (10:30), who they're reading right now (13:10), possible guests (17:30), and play Marry, Kill...Bang (20:00) to finish out the episode.