Latest Apostrophe Podcast Episodes
Sasha Fletcher
Apostrophe Cast - September 02, 2010 07:28 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we bring you a reading from Sasha Fletcher's novella, When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill the Streets & We Will Not Hear Them Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds, available from Mud Luscious Press. In antiquity, Apocalypses were a...
David Peak
Apostrophe Cast - August 19, 2010 10:24 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we bring you a reading from David Peak's unpublished novel, The River Through the Trees. Good fiction makes strange places seem familiar and familiar places seem strange; it forces us to empathize with enemies, and reexamine our friends; it allows us to co...
D.W. Lichtenberg
Apostrophe Cast - July 30, 2010 06:55 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode Apostrophe Cast is pleased to give you a peak at D.W. Lichtenberg's germinating novel, Time Flies in Ways. In this excerpt, D.W. Lichtenberg is a kind of reluctant hypnotist -- reluctant because he is just trying to tell you the truth, and he can't help that it is so easy to hypnotiz...
Heather Cousins
Apostrophe Cast - July 09, 2010 06:50 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode Heather Cousins opens the cellar door and ushers us down into the potato room. With a deceptive clarity, Cousins' voice leads us deeper and deeper into the darkness with meticulous details, like "practical, good girl underwear." But soon, we are lost under...
Erika Moya
Apostrophe Cast - June 03, 2010 06:34 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode we bring you the melancholy music of Erika Moya. Painted in breaths measured out like brushstrokes, Moya's images build rich and lonely dwellings in a landscape where it often rains, beautiful lovers are drowning in the distance, and there is more moonlight than sunlight. The listene...
Adam Mansbach
Apostrophe Cast - May 21, 2010 06:02 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode we bring you the magical mind of Adam Mansbach, reading from his new novel Rage is Back. Mansbach's sleight of hand is invisible whether he is conjuring forth the voice of Dondi, the drug-dealing scion of a high art graffiti writing dynasty, or bending time to put him, and us with hi...
David Goodwillie
Apostrophe Cast - May 06, 2010 09:18 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode David Goodwillie takes us underground with domestic terrorists in Manhattan, reading an excerpt of his novel American Subversive, out now from Scribner. Infiltrating the Mall of Manhattan through the eyes of a young woman radicalized by her brother's death in Iraq, the glossy surface...
Lily Hoang
Apostrophe Cast - April 22, 2010 14:59 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we are pleased to present the triumphant mutations excerpted from Lily Hoang's forthcoming novel Evolutionary Revolution, out this July from Les Figues Press. From brothers who can wear the same shirt at the same time to asexual mermen, from sideshow freak...
Bryan Furuness
Apostrophe Cast - April 08, 2010 10:38 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we bring you the brand-spanking new bible stories of Bryan Furuness, in which Lucifer is a precocious little boy and Jesus is his accident-prone buddy. The suburban children of this unholy scripture effortlessly humiliate their mortal parents, who lock the...
Danielle Sellers
Apostrophe Cast - March 25, 2010 06:47 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we invite you to explore the world of poet Danielle Sellers reading from her collection, Bone Key Elegies available from Main Street Rag. Inhabited by tribes of beautiful, semi-wild children destined to suffer and become wise, its beaches and cities shine ...
Joseph Young and Adam Robinson
Apostrophe Cast - March 11, 2010 10:01 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode we bring you Joseph Young reading from Adam Robinson's collection, Adam Robison and Other Poems available from Narrow House, and Adam Robinson reading from Joseph Young's collection of microfiction, Easter Rabbit, available from Publishing Genius. Are they two ventriloquists using ea...
Carol Novack
Apostrophe Cast - February 26, 2010 06:28 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we are proud to bring you Carol Novack, Publisher and Editor of Mad Hatter's Review. Her multimedia, musical concoctions seem to spring directly from her mind, and their array of sensations and provocations will make an indelible impression on yours. Pleas...
Aase Berg and Johannes Goransson read for Apostrophecast
Apostrophe Cast - February 11, 2010 17:15 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode Swedish Poet and Critic Aase Berg reads her surrealist poetry, and Johannes Goransson, editor of Action Books, translates. In this way we hear the ancient sing song lilting of a cousin language reminding us that poetry is sound first, and recieve the chall...
Joanna Ruocco
Apostrophe Cast - January 28, 2010 05:08 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. In The Mothering Coven, Joanna Ruocco builds us a vacation cottage in a mad village inhabited by brilliant kooks such as Mrs. Borage, who mixes metaphysics with the chores, and ace reporter, Duncan Michaels, whose articles are never read. When it is time for you to lea...
Kristina Marie Darling
Apostrophe Cast - January 14, 2010 07:30 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe are pleased to commence the New Year with a reading from Kristina Marie Darling. Ms. Darling effortlessly spins philosophy into poetry, weaving high concept with flights of lyricism that both delight and challenge. Please enjoy Kristina Marie Darling.
Scott McClanahan
Apostrophe Cast - December 17, 2009 09:18 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode we give you Scott McClanahan reading "This is a Story with a Phone Number in It" from his collection, Stories II. Shining a bright beam of wry intelligence into the darkest corners of the down economy, Mr. McClanahan gives the people you might hang up on a voice. You will never answe...
Caitlin Doyle
Apostrophe Cast - December 03, 2009 07:14 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode we bring you the voice of Caitlin Doyle. In Caitlin Doyle's world Siegfried and Roy never met, Hegel and Breugel discuss obscure bagel-like breakfast options, and Paris is more likely a Hilton than the capital of France. Caitlin Doyle’s poetry moves effortlessly from wit to profundit...
Weston Cutter
Apostrophe Cast - November 19, 2009 06:00 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we bring you poetry from Weston Cutter. Listening to Weston Cutter read is like enjoying driving alone. The muse speaks to him from posters above the urinals and she awakens him from the roadside as a little boy with visible dreams. Mr. Cutter sometimes ha...
J. A. Tyler
Apostrophe Cast - November 05, 2009 10:07 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode we bring you excerpts from J. A. Tyler's novella, A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed, forthcoming from fugue state press in 2011. In these passages Tyler moves from meditations on comforting a lover fretting over lost luggage into the cosmically signifcant love and longing ...
Davis Schneiderman
Apostrophe Cast - October 22, 2009 06:36 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we hear Davis Schneiderman recording in collaboration with Don Meyer, reading from his forthcoming novel, Drain. In Drain, we are taken down into the wasted basin once home to Lake Michigan, now the subject of a turf war between worm-worshiping outlaw noma...
Claire Hero
Apostrophe Cast - October 01, 2009 05:16 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode Claire Hero reads from her first full-length collection of poetry, Sing, Mongrel, available from Noemi Press. In Sing, Mongrel, as she walks us like little children through a dark forest, Hero draws the inner beast out from hiding to serve as her muse, con...
Molly Gaudry
Apostrophe Cast - September 17, 2009 04:50 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we bring you an excerpt from a novella of prose poetry by Molly Gaudry, due out from Mud Luscious Press this December. In We Take Me Apart, Gaudry draws on Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons and familiar fairy tales to create a jagged modernist narrative as b...
Nate Pritts
Apostrophe Cast - September 03, 2009 07:33 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we are pleased to bring you two seasons from a shepherd's calendar by poet Nate Pritts. Pritts's third collection, The Wonderfull Yeare, will see print in 2010, but its timeless quality speaks to every date. Just as the summer dies, it is right that we bri...
The Collagist
Apostrophe Cast - August 20, 2009 06:44 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe have all heard rumors that literature is dying, but every so often one reads a new journal that renews one's faith in the future. The Collagist is just such a journal, and the contributors Charles Jensen, reading five poems from Nanopedia, Kevin Wilson, reading from the Big Book of Forgotten L...
Allison Titus
Apostrophe Cast - August 06, 2009 02:43 ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we bring you the subversive pastorals of Allison Titus. In the tradition, pastorals refer to the edenic tranquility of shepherds with nothing better to do than compose lyrics. But Allison Titus's shepherdess sees ruined factories on the horizon, lame stock...
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