Podcast Episodes
Back to Search639: An Introduction without an Interview, Plus Fred Lambert with the Booze News Roundup!
On today's show, John talks about NaNoRiMo's new AI policy, the lameness of relatability as a value, and Elmore Leonard's 10 rules for writing, plus …
1 year, 9 months ago
638: Jennifer Maonocherian!
On this episode, John speaks with the screenwriter and novelist Jennifer Manocherian about building characters, planning stories, and the discoverie…
1 year, 9 months ago
637: Tiffany Midge!
On this episode, John speaks with the poet Tiffany Midge about the vibrant, often overlooked roles of humor and entertainment in poetry. They also ta…
1 year, 9 months ago
636: Jeff Alessandrelli
On #636, John talks to Jeff Alessandrelli about his new novel, And Yet. They discusse the existentital torment of desire, the problem of overthinking…
1 year, 9 months ago
635: Michael Wheaton!
On this week's show, John talks to his friend Michael Wheaton about how to live in think in a media-saturated American life, which is the subject of …
1 year, 10 months ago
634: A Discussion of Jewel's A Night Without Armor (with Rachael Tillman & Samantha Nickerson)
On this week's episode, Rachel Tillman, Samantha Nickerson, and John King join the nocturnal jousting in a conversation about Jewel's A Night Without…
1 year, 10 months ago
633: Todd James Pierce!
On this week's show John speaks with Todd James Pierce about Larry Watkin and his history with Walt Disney as a novelist, screenwriter, and producer.…
1 year, 10 months ago
632: A Discussion of Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist with Rachael Tillman!
In this week's episode, Rachael Tillman and I break some standards of academia as we discuss the poetry insights of Paul Chowder, the narrator of Nic…
1 year, 10 months ago
Replay: Episode 295 with Charles Simic & Richard Blanco!
On this replay episode, I talk to the late Charles Simic about James Tate, Kansas surrealism, humor in poetry, and embracing the unconscious, plus I …
1 year, 11 months ago
631: Blake Sanz!
On this week's show John talks to Blake Sanz, author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, about the intertwining short stories within the book and th…
1 year, 11 months ago