Textual Healing with Mallory Smart
128 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDive into this lit podcast hosted by Mallory Smart, where authors explore the synergy between music and their writing. Brace yourself for offbeat interviews where writers discuss their individual styles, get lost in unpredictable anecdotes, and how music transforms their creative process. New episodes airing every Saturday.
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S2E3 - Divine With A Chainsaw: a wild talk with Caleb Bethea
January 28, 2023 09:06 - 1 hour - 50 MBCaleb Bethea is an MFA at UofSC, studying fiction by night. By day, he works as a copywriter. But, the best of his time is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. You can read his work in HAD, Maudlin House, Autofocus, Twin Pies, Bending Genres, hex, and elsewhere. He tweets at @caleb_bethea_ Check out his writing here: https://linktr.ee/caleb_bethea_ Opening beats by God'Aryan Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com...
S2E2 - Off the Record With Michael Paul Kozlowsky: At Least It's Not The End Of The World
January 21, 2023 08:59 - 6 minutes - 9.36 MBA former high school English teacher, Michael Paul Kozlowsky is the author of the upcoming literary novel SCARECROW HAS A GUN from Imbrifex Books. Writing as M.P. Kozlowsky, he is the author of the YA novel FROST, and three middle-grade books - JUNIPER BERRY, ROSE COFFIN, and THE DYERVILLE TALES. He lives in New York with his wife and two daughters. Represented by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory. Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips....
S2E1 - The Dreams That You Dare To Dream with Michael Paul Kozlowsky
January 14, 2023 07:49 - 1 hour - 114 MBMichael Paul Kozlowsky is the author of the literary thriller SCARECROW HAS A GUN. Writing as M.P. Kozlowsky, his children's novels include JUNIPER BERRY, FROST, ROSE COFFIN, and THE DYERVILLE TALES. He lives in New York with his wife, two daughters, and beagle Huxley. He can be reached on Instagram and Twitter @mpkozlowsky, or at his website mpkozlowsky.com. intro beats by God’Aryan Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/...
S1E68 - Off the Record With Caleb Bethea: Sad, Sad Little Shower Drain
December 31, 2022 11:30 - 3 minutes - 4.87 MBCaleb Bethea is a writer from the Southeast. He's an MFA at the University of South Carolina and works as a copywriter. The best of his time - by far - is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. Catch his work in Maudlin House, HAD, Bear Creek, Twin Pies, hex, Autofocus, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter at @caleb_bethea_ Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/textual-healing
S1E67 - Off the Record With Dmitry Samarov: Comfortably Blind
December 17, 2022 07:16 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MBDmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After a false start at Parsons School of Design in New York, he graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. Upon graduation he promptly began driving a cab—first in Boston, then after a time, in Chicago— which eventually led to th...
S1E64 - Off the Record With Dmitry Samarov: Comfortably Blind
December 17, 2022 07:16 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MBDmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After a false start at Parsons School of Design in New York, he graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. Upon graduation he promptly began driving a cab—first in Boston, then after a time, in Chicago— which eventually led to t...
S1E67 - Off the Record With THE Bobby Miller: Live Más
December 10, 2022 09:36 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MBBobby Miller is a writer and filmmaker from New Jersey who lives in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in Maudlin House, Expat Press, and Bending Genres. His films have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, and Fantasia. He's currently working on his first novel, and yes, has a Substack you should read: BobbyMiller.Substack.com Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/textual-healing
S1E66 - Off the Record With THE Bobby Miller: Live Más
December 10, 2022 09:36 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MBBobby Miller is a writer and filmmaker from New Jersey who lives in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in Maudlin House, Expat Press, and Bending Genres. His films have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, and Fantasia. He's currently working on his first novel, and yes, has a Substack you should read: BobbyMiller.Substack.com Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/textual-healing
S1E65 - She's Laughing Up At Us From Hell: a weird chat with Amy Long
December 03, 2022 10:17 - 1 hour - 112 MBAmy Long is the author of Codependence (2019), selected by Brian Blanchfield as the winner of CSU Poetry Center’s Essay Collection Prize. Her work has appeared in Diagram, Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review and elsewhere, including as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2019. Intro beats by God'Aryan Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/textual-healing
S1E66 - She's Laughing Up At Us From Hell: a weird chat with Amy Long
December 03, 2022 10:17 - 1 hour - 112 MBAmy Long is the author of Codependence (2019), selected by Brian Blanchfield as the winner of CSU Poetry Center’s Essay Collection Prize. Her work has appeared in Diagram, Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review and elsewhere, including as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2019. Intro beats by God'Aryan Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/textual-healing
S1E65 - Off the Record With J.D. O’Brien: Rock Bottom Again
November 19, 2022 10:30 - 4 minutes - 5.91 MBJ.D. O’Brien is the author of Zig Zag from_ _Schaffner Press. It comes out in January. Description: Capri Dall has a foolproof plan to knock over the marijuana dispensary where she works. But when her boyfriend botches the heist, the two of them end up in a stolen car with a trunkful of rare high-end weed--and an unhinged security guard on their trail. Harry Robatore is a burned-out rhinestone cowboy, barely scraping by as a bail bondsman. Agreeing to help out an old pal, and settle his ...
S1E64 - Off the Record With J.D. O’Brien: Rock Bottom Again
November 19, 2022 10:30 - 4 minutes - 5.91 MBJ.D. O’Brien is the author of Zig Zag from_ _Schaffner Press. It comes out in January. Description: Capri Dall has a foolproof plan to knock over the marijuana dispensary where she works. But when her boyfriend botches the heist, the two of them end up in a stolen car with a trunkful of rare high-end weed--and an unhinged security guard on their trail. Harry Robatore is a burned-out rhinestone cowboy, barely scraping by as a bail bondsman. Agreeing to help out an old pal, and settle his b...
S1E63 - A High-End and Neon-Lit interview with J.D. O'Brien
November 12, 2022 08:07 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBJ.D. O’Brien was educated by nuns and holds a degree from the Jack Dempsey Bartending School in New York City. He edited the comedy zine Flop Sweat and his writing has appeared in Arthur Magazine, Dazed and Confused, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. His essay on Chevy Chase was anthologized in The Lowbrow Reader Reader, published by Drag City Books. He has worked as a bartender, cold caller, dishwasher, and Strand Bookstore employee. After stints in New York City, Los Angeles, and Portland, Orego...
S1E62 - Off the Record With Joseph Fasano: The Bitter Dance Of Loneliness
November 05, 2022 05:51 - 3 minutes - 4.67 MBJoseph Fasano is an American poet, novelist, and songwriter. His novels include The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020). His books of poetry include The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). His debut album of original songs, The Wind that Knows the Way, is available wherever music is streamed or sold. Fasano's honors include the Rattle Poetry Prize, the Cider Press Review...
S1E61 - Off the Record With Lee Matthew Goldberg: Shadow in the City
October 29, 2022 10:30 - 3 minutes - 4.56 MBLee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE ANCESTOR, SLOW DOWN, THE MENTORfrom St. Martin’s Press, THE DESIRE CARD, ORANGE CITY, and the Young Adult series RUNAWAY TRAIN and GRENADE BOUQUET. In this episode, he'll be reading from his book, Immoral Origins. His books are in various stages of development for film/TV. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fictio...
S1E60 - Off the Record With Lee Matthew Goldberg: Shadow in the City
October 29, 2022 10:30 - 3 minutes - 4.56 MBLee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE ANCESTOR, SLOW DOWN, THE MENTORfrom St. Martin’s Press, THE DESIRE CARD, ORANGE CITY, and the Young Adult series RUNAWAY TRAIN and GRENADE BOUQUET. In this episode, he'll be reading from his book, Immoral Origins. His books are in various stages of development for film/TV. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing ficti...
S1E61 - Midnights with C.E. Hoffman
October 22, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 110 MBThis is a special edition episode where I am joined by C.E. Hoffman to talk about Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights. We geek out about our favorite tracks, dive deep into how Taylor has grown as an artist, admit that neither of us were "swifties", and attempt to figure out what kind of literature Taylor Swift might be into. For those who don't know C.E. Hoffman: C.E. Hoffman is a published writer from Canada. Sluts and Whores, their #OwnVoices Urban Fantasy debut, was released Feb 2021 ...
S1E60 - Midnights with C.E. Hoffman
October 22, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 110 MBThis is a special edition episode where I am joined by C.E. Hoffman to talk about Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights. We geek out about our favorite tracks, dive deep into how Taylor has grown as an artist, admit that neither of us were "swifties", and attempt to figure out what kind of literature Taylor Swift might be into. For those who don't know C.E. Hoffman: C.E. Hoffman is a published writer from Canada. Sluts and Whores, their #OwnVoices Urban Fantasy debut, was released Feb 2021 b...
S1E59 - Hillbilly Walden: an interview with Mason Parker
October 15, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBMason Parker is an Okie-born, Montana-based writer. He holds an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. His work has been featured in X-R-A-Y, Hobart, the International Journal of Wilderness, and BULL Men’s Fiction. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness with his partner and two dogs. He just released the collection, Until the Red Swallows It All, from Trident Press. You can find out more about him on his website: https://www.masonparker....
S1E58 - Off the Record With Hillary Leftwich: Wave After Wave After Wave
October 08, 2022 05:30 - 6.43 MBHillary Leftwich is the founder and owner of ☿ Alchemy Author Services & Writing Workshop and Community Coven, a community-based workshop. She lives in Denver where she hosts/organizes At the Inkwell Denver, a literary reading series focusing on providing a liberated space for writers. Hillary focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma, mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease. Her memoir, Aura, was just released by Future Tense ...
S1E57 - INTRODUCING DJ SWEET TREAT: Ravi Mangla
October 01, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBRavi Mangla is the author of The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil) and Understudies (Outpost19). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction, Tin House Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY. Intro beats by God’Aryan Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/j...
S1E56 - Off The Record with Ravi Mangla: I Wanna Go Home
September 23, 2022 18:50 - 3 minutes - 5.48 MBRavi Mangla is the author of The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil) and Understudies (Outpost19). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction, Tin House Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY. Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/textual-healing
S1E55 - Taylor Swift Did 9/11: an interview with Jack Moody
September 17, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 54 MBJack Moody is a novelist and short story writer from wherever he happens to be at the time. He is the author of the novel Crooked Smile, the short story collection Dancing to Broken Records, and the forthcoming novella The Monotony of Everlasting, out October 1st, 2022 with Anxiety Press. He is a former staff writer for the literary magazine and podcast Brick Moon Fiction, and his work has appeared in multiple publications including Misery Tourism, Maudlin House, Punk Noir Magazine, Scatter ...
S1E54 - Off The Record with Jack Moody: The Art Of Nonbeing
September 09, 2022 19:04 - 4 minutes - 5.92 MBJack Moody is a novelist and short story writer from wherever he happens to be at the time. He is the author of the novel Crooked Smile, the short story collection Dancing to Broken Records, and the forthcoming novella The Monotony of Everlasting, out October 1st, 2022 with Anxiety Press. He is a former staff writer for the literary magazine and podcast Brick Moon Fiction, and his work has appeared in multiple publications including Expat Press, Misery Tourism, Maudlin House, Punk Noir Magaz...
S1E53 - Witchcraft and Womanhood with Hillary Leftwich
September 02, 2022 17:16 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBHillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press/The Accomplices 2019). Her hybrid poetry and CNF collection, Saint Dymphna’s Playbook, is forthcoming from PANK Books in 2023. She is the founder and owner of Alchemy Author Services & Workshop, teaches at Lighthouse Writers, and is a creative writing professor at the University of Denver and an assistant creative writing professor at Colorado College. She focuses her writing on class struggle, singl...
S1E52 - Off The Record with C. E. Hoffman: Writing Our Own Stories
August 26, 2022 23:05 - 3 minutes - 5.04 MBC E Hoffman (they/them) was born, gave birth, and tried to die in Edmonton, AB (not necessarily in that order.) A grant recipient, Writer’s Union of Canada member, and winner of the 2022 Defunct May Day Chapbook contest, they’ve been published widely online and in print since 2010, and edited Punk Monk Magazine since 2012. Their #OwnVoices short story collection SLUTS AND WHORES is available via Thurston Howl Publications, their chapbook BLOOD, BOOZE, AND OTHER THINGS IN NATURE is out from...
S1E51 - ready for emotional internet party: an interview with Kevin Sampsell
August 19, 2022 17:18 - 1 hour - 122 MBKevin Sampsell is an American writer living in Portland, Oregon. He has worked at Powell's Book Store since 1998 as an events coordinator and the head of the small press section. His memoir, A Common Pornography, was published by Harper Perennial in January 2010. His latest book, I Made an Accident: Collages and Poems, just came out from Clash Books. If you want to know about Textual Healing or grab a "Textual Healer" t-shirt go to our site: https://textualpodcast.com/ OR If you want to ...
S1E50 - Off The Record With Scott Mitchel May: Mean Men Behind meets Goin' Down South
August 13, 2022 14:38 - 3 minutes - 4.39 MBScott Mitchel May is a writer living with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin. His work has appeared in Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, The Bear Creek Gazette, The Maryland Literary Review, Bending Genres, and many more. He was the winner of the 2019 Poem or Page Contest at the UW Writers' Conference in the category of Literary Fiction. His debut collection of short fiction, DeKalb, Illinois is a Paradise What Eats its Own, was published by Alien Buddha in 2022. He works as an administr...
S1E49 - RED (Austin's Version)
August 06, 2022 10:59 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBIn this episode, we do our best to just talk about Austin’s new book and how music plays into it! But in the classic Textual Healing style, we get into very weird tangents. Cover bands. Four Lokos. Painting Nails. Taylor Swift. Fun playlist ideas. Everything. Austin Davis is a poet and activist. He is the founder AZ Hugs For the Houseless. Austin is the author of LOTUS & THE APOCALYPSE, among other books. His writing has been widely published in dozens of literary journals and magazines in...
S1E48 - Off The Record with Austin Davis: Lotus & Fear meets Mac Miller
August 05, 2022 04:31 - 2 minutes - 2.99 MB"Off The Record" is a new micro-segment of Textual Healing. Authors on the show get to pair some of their writing with music that they think matches it best.
S1E47 - Reaching for Joy with Francis Daulerio
July 23, 2022 16:04 - 1 hour - 97.2 MBFrancis Daulerio is a poet and teacher from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University in 2014 before releasing If & When We Wake (Unsolicited Press 2015) and _Please Plant This Book_ (The Head & The Hand Press 2018), both with illustrations by Scottish artist, Scott Hutchison. Francis has also released All Is Not Lost, a collaborative vinyl EP of poetry-infused music to benefit the Tiny Changes charity organization, and With a Difference (Triden...
S1E46 - Whimsically Unhinged: an interview with Nada Alic
July 09, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 88 MBNada Alic is a writer in Los Angeles. Her debut story collection BAD THOUGHTS is out July 12, 2022 (Vintage). From 2014-2016 she collaborated with artist, Andrea Nakhla on an art and fiction book series called “Future You,” featured in Urban Outfitters, Cool Hunting, The Rumpus and elsewhere. In 2019, her short story, “The Intruder” was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. That summer, Nada attended the Banff Centre for the Arts writing residency. In 2020, She received a literary gr...
S1E45 - Bleakly Comedic Suspension of Disbelief: an interview with Bud Smith
June 25, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBBud Smith works heavy construction and lives in Jersey City, NJ. He is the author of Teenager (Vintage, 2022), Double Bird (Maudlin House, 2018), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press, 2017), among others. His wife Rae Buleri is behind the illustrations in Teenager. You can find her on Instagram @raewatch. intro beats by God'Aryan
S1E44 - A little more magic, a little more Liver Mush: an interview with Graham Irvin
June 11, 2022 17:26 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBGraham Irvin is a writer who lives in Philadelphia. He was born in North Carolina. He is the author of Liver Mush, from Back Patio Press. And he tweets weird things @grahamjirvin._ _ In this episode, we talk about his book, Liver Mush, the fact that it's a real thing that you eat, coffee, awkward social interactions, AWP, the last concerts we’ve gone to, and what our signs are. For those randomly interested, I'm a Virgo... intro beats by God’Aryan
S1E43 - New Jersey, Revisited: an interview with Tobias Carroll
May 28, 2022 05:09 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBTobias Carroll is the author of three books: one novel, one story collection, and one work of nonfiction. His most recent book, Political Sign, was published by Bloomsbury as part of the Object Lessonsseries in 2020. Prior to that came a collection of short stories, Transitory, and a novel, Reel, on Rare Bird Books. His second novel, Ex-Members, will be released by Astrophil Press on June 15, 2022. He also is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn and writes the Watchlist column for Words ...
S1E42 - Punk Rock Boi with the Tape Deck Heart: an interview with Scott Mitchel May
May 14, 2022 02:55 - 1 hour - 126 MBScott Mitchel May is a guy doing things like writing and skating and going to therapy and working and submitting and also too he enjoys reading and cooking and classic cars (but in a vague way where he's never owned a classic car) and punk rock and hardcore hip-hop. He loves his wife. In this episode, we talk about musical genres and all the different elements that make them what they are, weird things that are overrated and underrated, Scott’s writing, and how psyched I was to finally inte...
S1E41 - Punk Planet: an interview with Amy Klinger
April 22, 2022 14:23 - 59 minutes - 25.7 MBIn this episode, I got a chance to get to know first-time author, Amy Klinger. Amy just came out with the book, In Light Of Recent Events. It's a book about life, love, music, and work in the 1990s. In the 1990s American workplace, survival of the fittest is sometimes less about clawing your way to the top than developing good camouflage. And Audrey Rohmer is doing her very best to blend in as an undistinguished middle manager. Uninspired by her job and uneasy about her father's new marriag...
S1E40 - Milestones and the Spark of an Idea: an interview with Wilson Koewing
April 09, 2022 00:59 - 1 hour - 152 MBIn this episode, I got a chance to chat with one of my favorite writers: Wilson Koewing Wilson is a writer from South Carolina. His work is featured in publications like X-R-A-Y, New World Writing, Maudlin House, No Contact, Wigleaf, and Hobart. His memoir "Bridges" is forthcoming from Bull City Press. Listen to hear us talk about his crazy writing process, Foo Fighters, what music he liked in his formative years, the mystery of Weezer, presidential campaign songs and so many other ra...
S1E39 - That Always Lives Rent Free In My Head For The Rest Of My Life: an interview with Lee Matthew Goldberg
March 19, 2022 18:58 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBIn this episode we talk about Lee Matthew Goldberg’s new book, Vanish Me, 90’s grunge music, Heathers, Pete Davidson, SNL, public transit, his next projects, and what it's like to have your book optioned. Fun fact: this was recorded before the Russian/Ukraine War. Ignore our prediction that the extreme negative world events in our lifetime are slowly coming to an end and won't pop back up until global warming kills us all… Fun fact #2: this is the last podcast I recorded before I had sin...
S1E38 - Sean McCallum’s Excellent Adventure
March 05, 2022 07:12 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBIn this episode, I got a chance to catch up with Sean McCallum. Sean lives outside of Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children. He just came out with his debut novel, The Recalcitrant Stuff of Life. It's published by Outcast Press and is available to buy on Amazon. To find out more about Sean, check out his website: https://www.seanmccallum.com/. He is also on Twitter @Sean42McCallum. We talk about his book, traveling, obscure Canadian music, best concert experiences, and my favori...
S1E37 - Friday night and the lights are low: an interview with Mike Keren
February 12, 2022 00:09 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBMike Keren is a clinical psychologist with advanced training in psychoanalysis and family therapy. He currently maintains a private practice with adults and couples in central New Jersey, although in the past he has worked in a variety of community and correctional facilities. Although he has a general practice he has a particular interest in working with caregivers as well as helping families talk about end of life issues. Mike enjoys a challenge in his free time and has explored the world...
S1E36 - When You Were Young: pivoting with Bobby Miller
January 28, 2022 21:50 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBBobby Miller is a writer + filmmaker known for making genre-bending comedies. His short film TUB and feature debut THE CLEANSE add horror and fantasy to the mix. The films’ world premiered at Sundance and SXSW and have screened at film festivals worldwide. THE CLEANSE was released in theaters by Sony Pictures in 2018 and made RottenTomatoes Top 10 Best-reviewed horror films of 2018 list. It also earned several Fangoria award nominations including “Best First Feature”. He followed it up with...
S1E35 - Witchcore And Music Of The Occult: an interview with Christina Rosso
January 14, 2022 21:31 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBChristina Rosso-Schneider lives and writes outside of Philadelphia with her rescue pup, Atticus Finch, and bearded husband, Alex, where they run an independent bookstore and event space called A Novel Idea on Passyunk. In 2016, she received an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from Arcadia University in 2016. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE (Maudlin House) and SHE IS A BEAST (APEP Publications). Her fiction and nonfiction work centers around gender, sexuality, fairy tales, and th...
S1E34 - KKUURRTT: Sound Waves And Ramblings At The American Music Festival
December 30, 2021 19:25 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBIn this episode, I got a chance to speak with KKUURTT. KKUURRTT is a fiction/comedy writer who has once been described (by someone he dislikes) as having panache. His debut novel Good at Drugs is out now on Back Patio Press. It, like most(?) of his writing, delves into music subculture, which is what made him a perfect (in his opinion) podcast guest for Textual Healing. We kind of get into everything in this episode. Raves, jam bands, fake names, and so much more... You can find KKUURRTT...
S1E33 - Everybody’s Famous: an interview with Duncan Birmingham
December 11, 2021 18:07 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBIn this episode, I got a chance to speak with Duncan Birmingham. Duncan Birmingham is a writer living in Los Angeles. He has worked on Maron on IFC. He also wrote and was co-executive producer for Blunt Talk. In 2021, he released a short story collection, The Cult in My Garage from Maudlin House. We talk about his latest projects, LA, jam bands, the music he’d put on a playlist for The Cult In My Garage, and first concerts.
S1E32 - Sad In A Good Way: an Interview with Jessie Lynn McMains
November 26, 2021 20:13 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBIn this episode, I got a chance to speak with Jessie Lynn McMains. Jessie is a cross-genre writer, punk poet, small press publisher, and spoken word performer. Their latest work includes Self-Portrait With Ghost And Trains from Hello America Stereo Cassette and Wisconsin Death Trip from Bone and Ink Press. We talk about books, riot grrl music, the new Matrix movie, what the difference is between folk and country music, payphones and so much more. Find out more info about Jessie at reck...
S1E31 - Mami Miami: an interview with Emilly Prado
November 13, 2021 07:06 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBEmilly Giselle Prado is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. As an award-winning multimedia journalist, Emilly spent half a decade independently reporting on a wide range of topics, most often centered on amplifying the voices and experiences of people from historically marginalized communities. Her writing and photographs have appeared or are forthcoming in more than 30 publications including NPR, Marie Claire,...
S1E30 - A Podcast About Nothing: a dorky talk with Spencer Fleury
October 16, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBOriginally I wanted to name this episode Strongbox but realized that few people would get the reference. Luckily, Spencer did as I explained getting almost shut out of my building by a neighbor as I was rushing inside to make it in time to do the interview because I gambled that I grab coffee and be back within 10 minutes (I made it). After we laughed about that for a while we got into some pretty random but fun conversation about what kind of music he's into, Gen X, his new book, and how he...
S1E29 - Therapist Gone Wild: an interview with Jeff Schneider
September 04, 2021 13:47 - 2 hours - 118 MBIn this wildly fun episode, I interview Jeff Schnieder. Jeff is a writer, founder of Pig Roast Publishing, and the former guitarist and songwriter of the noise-rock bands Arab On Radar and Made in Mexico. We get pretty into 90’s music and talking about the major genres of the time, different generations, weird stories about his old band Arab On Radar, and how he went from a badass musician to a badass writer.
S1E28 - Millennial Anxiety: an interview with Blake Wallin
August 21, 2021 16:32 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBThis is a pretty chill episode. Blake Wallin comes on and about his latest book, Papal Glow, amongst other things. We get into religion, politics, music, and how anxiety-inducing it is to be a millennial. But of course, we do our best to stick to music and what the book is about. Papal Glow is the time between centuries, that little dust mote trailing in the sun's glare between folds of the partition that separates the public from true knowledge. It is the preventative strain keeping the p...