Lo Fi Lit

What would've been a lost episode is now not . Back in the day poet Alexandra Naughton hosted a series of podcasts with her friends called 'That Lit Podcast' in 2014. On this episode she chats with a previous guest of the show - Ctch They speak on magazines, disorganization and ghosts! Enjoy

Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan, Gion Davis, Julianne Neely, Joshua Thermidor, Tim Livingston, and Spencer Williams all read today on a reading to celebrate Hell Yeah. Several of us including Rachelle Toarmino were pregnant and we held a brunch to celebrate her new poetry book, Hell Yeah by Third Man Books. Hell Yeah , Rachelle Toarmino’s fourth poetry collection might also be Rachelle's sixth book...

Rudy Johnson returns to show for a third time, to promote and discuss his new book, Kill Rudy Johnson. Pig Roast Publishing is putting it out. Or has. You can pick it up on their website. Check it out!

Zac Smith and Cav return to the show; however, Cav never showed up. Zac Smith and I recorded a show by ourselves. It was a fine lackadaisical back and forth. We ended up with a two hour heavy and intense back and forth thing. Everything Is Totally Fine was published by Muumuu house. We speak about Fresh, Green Life by Sebastian Castillo. We spoke about Cav's girlfriend. No edits. Raw analog audio....

On episode 108. I present the audio from the reading held on November 4th - Jillian Luft, Jennifer Ostopovich, Kirstie Mackenzie, Claire Hopple. Alexandra Naughton, J.L. Moultrie and Z.H. Gill read this evening. Everyone read shorter pieces than usual and I asked everyone to come in with a couple questions for each other.

Poet J.L. Moultrie joined the show today. He lives in Detroit, MI. J.L, has been published in Hobart, Post-Pop Lit, Bruiser Mag,

Jennifer Ostopovich interviews Elizabeth Ellen. The two are writers. Elizabeth Ellen is the author of Person/a, American Thighs and many other stories and things. She's the head honcho editor person over at Hobart.

Conor Hultman is a writer and critic and bookseller out of New York. He's from Mississippi. He lives with Minki from Expat. He's read John Padula's book, too. Another time he reviewed a book from Tyrant Books, once. Is a fan of Marie Calloway's book, What Purpose Did I Serve In Your Life

Kat Giordano is a writer out of Philly. They used to edit Philosophical Idiot. Recently they published their third book, Thumbsucker.

Walter Mackey is a seriously awesome writer out of Newfoundland Canada . Met him in one of Lucy K Shaw's workshops. He talks about the early alt lit scene.

Got a call from a past guest, Austin Islam.

Alexandra Naughton is a well known and notable alt - lit poet . She knows all the famous alt-lit kiddos like Paul Hanson Clark and even ctch! Wow. She operates "Be About It Press" and came onto the podcast to promote her latest book 'Sick of Being Inside Myself' published by House of Vlad.

Carmen E Brady, August Smith and Eleanor Eli Moss joined in for the 100th episode of the show. We celebrate and discuss many topics including anime and things like that. Like ctchfest 2017.

Juliet Escoria is the author of "You Are The Snake", "Juliet the Maniac", "Black Cloud" and "Witch Hunt" She's from San Diego. And she's the founder of Zona Motel along with Mesha Maren.

Mike Topp is an iconic writer, humorist, and poetry guy . There's so much to say. I found him through twitter and Chelsea Martin's Universal Error podcast. From Mcsweeney's to X-Ray Lit and beyond. Find his tweets at @miketopp Here are some of his books i unearthed in an interview he did on X-RAY Lit. Shout to the former "Self-Exposure" podcast people. Otherwise I wouldn't have reached out to Mike...

Check out my first episode with Ashely Obscura from a few years ago in the archive. She still operates and runs the amazing Metatron Press. She currently runs a substack called 'Codex Obscura' and under that venue(?) posts an ongoing / continuous poem called 'Drinking From The Same Dream.' It's one of my favorite things on the internet right now. I think everyone ought to go over there and check i...

Linden operates and hosts response_pod over on youtube and spotify. Linden is David's husband. Linden is a writer and has been published on Burial Magazine. Check this out!

Lake is the author of Lo Siento. He's going on a book tour soon . Check out Lake Markham dot net for more info.

On this episode of Lo Fi Lit, I invited Mesha Maren onto the show to discuss her involvement with Zona Motel - a literary brotherhood on substack. For people who adore, admire and are all about talking about cool ass books. So okay, she's written three novels - Shae, Perpetual West and Sugar Run. We discuss her background and coming up from a small town, activism and entering into a wrestling ring...

Ivan Genc is a digital designer for Zona Motel over on substack. He's lives in Petrinja , Croatia . We discuss his poetry on Specta poems and how sink holes hit his town. Sink holes are cool but also not cool at all.

The mysterious user behind the twitter profile of @Moonandmouth, who wishes to remain anonymous - came on the show under the risk of assassination and ruin to discuss their latest book "Cataclysm Moves Me : I regret to Say" We hung out in Austin, Texas after this episode was recorded - so yeah. Check out the show

Shelby Hartness is a badass poet I met through Ben Fama's workshop, Cool Memories. She's been published by people like Spectra, Bending Genres, and Moody Magazine

D.T. Robbins is the author of Leasing (House of Vlad 2024) and a number of other short stories one can read at x-ray lit mag, Maudlin House and HAD and a slew of other places. He runs and operates Rejection Letters. That's the very short of it. Check out his website for the full gambit of his works.

On this episode of lo fi lit, I interviewed Naomi Falk - author of The Surrender of Man. Out now from Inside the Castle Press. We talk for around two hours on everything from video games, furries, punching holes in walls and of course, art. Also discuss Archway and other things. Erin Taylor, Elle Nash, Chris Molnar and recent published books from Archway, Here's more about the book from the websit...

Autumn Christian is the author of Girl Like A Bomb with Clash Books and The Crooked God Machine. She lives out of Kingfisher, Oklahoma. She also operates a cheese farm close to where she lives now. She now also writes on substack on the Teach Robots Love newsletter. Super cool she came on the show.