F***ing Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Shorts: Alexis Kienlen, novelist Bloomsday Literary Move aside, poets! (But just for one second!) Here near the end of our Shakespeare’s Shorts season, we finally caught hold of another fiction aficionado! Alexis Kienlen’s first novel, Mad Cow, came out this April from Now Or Never Publishing, but she’s also a two-time published poet. (We told you, poets: just hold on for one second....

Shakespeare's Shorts: Ayokunle Falomo, poet Bloomsday Literary In this episode, we get to chat (and giggle and lose all sense of time) with an old friend, Ayokunle Falomo, whose first incendiary chapbook entitled African, American has been published. He has promised us that it will be available for purchase from New Delta Review as soon as COVID insanity ends! We talk with Ayo about the many steps...

Shakespeare's Shorts: Esther Lee, poet Bloomsday Literary Esther Lee is a poet (and letter-press artist!) who, along with her husband and cat Bowie, lives on a 35-foot sailboat called “Hope.” Currently, they’re living off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, where she writes poetry, blogs about her efforts at a zero-waste boat life, and occasionally takes phone calls from podcasters. Spit , her deb...

Matthew Lippman, poet Bloomsday Literary Matthew Lippman’s most recent collection, Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful , is the winner of the Levis prize from Four Way Books. He is the author of four other poetry collections— A Little Gut Magic , American Chew , Monkey Bars , and The New Year of Yellow . It was a delight to talk to Matthew about poetry, baseball, music, unfinished basements, and a world...

Juditha Dowd, Poet Bloomsday Literary “It is my belief that we would not know John James Audubon today if it weren’t for [Lucy].” For our third installment of F***ing Shakespeare Shorts, Juditha Dowd reads from her gorgeously soft-spoken collection, Audubon’s Sparrow . The collection is a biography-in-poems that lyrically imagines the interiority and emotions of Lucy Bakewell, the wife of the arti...

Shakespeare's Shorts: Jabari Asim, poet Bloomsday Literary Welcome to our second installment of Shakespeare’s Shorts, where your favorites from F***ing Shakespeare host the virtual book tour that no one would have wanted before COVID-19, but that is now giving us a literary lifeline as we’re locked inside! Join us as we keep our thumbs on the pulse of amazing new literature, so it doesn’t get lost...

Shakespeare's Shorts: Lee Matalone, novelist Bloomsday Literary HEY! We made a thing: it’s the Virtual Book Tour Quarantine edition of F***ing Shakespeare, we’re calling SHAKESPEARE’S SHORTS! We wanted to get out there and see what’s happening in the land of books — talk with authors who have books out now, right this second, when it’s very hard to be out in the world with a new book because you c...

Bonus #AWP20 with Bloomsday Literary—Chris Cander and Amy Hanson Bloomsday Literary We have one more bit of brightness to send your way with this interview of two writers in the AWP Writer 2 Writer Mentorship program, mentor Chris Cander and mentee Amy Hanson. Chris was unable to attend the conference, like so many, but we were able to catch up virtually with both of them just after the conference...

Official Podcast of #AWP20 LIVE with Bloomsday Literary—Day 3 Bloomsday Literary Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday Literary’s partnership with #AWP20 to bring you all the literary goings-on from this year’s conference. Here’s Day Three! Richard Z. Santos 1:22 Santos’ debut novel Trust Me...

Official podcast of #AWP20 with Bloomsday Literary—Day 2 Bloomsday Literary Anna Lena Phillips Bell 0:58 Anna Lena is the editor and art director for Ecotone * and an editor for Lookout Books at the University of North Carolina—Wilmington. She talks about Ecotone’s mission and aesthetic, how to balance the two for publication, and dishes about her absolute stunner of a craft book, A Pocket Book of...

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Official podcast of #AWP20 w/ Bloomsday Literary—Day 1 Bloomsday Literary Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday Literary’s partnership with #AWP20 to bring you all the literary goings-on from this year’s conference. Angela “AJ” Super 0:00 Angela Super is the author of Erebus Dawning , forthco...

Phong Nguyen, novelist Bloomsday Literary Today on the show, Phong Nguyen, an absolute treasure trove of Twain trivia, author of The Adventures of Joe Harper . We do talk lots about writing dialect and the editors that love/hate it, why three-quarters of your way into writing a manuscript is the absolute sweet spot, and how living in Missouri and not Brooklyn is actually a blessing for the working...

Abbigail Rosewood, novelist Bloomsday Literary On today’s show, we have novelist Abbigail Rosewood. Jessica, Phuc, Abbigail, and I discussed the virtues of buying hibiscus plants from people who unofficially sell them on the streets of Brooklyn. We bring you another arousing author-psycho-therapy session starring Your Past, and how maybe you shouldn’t always listen to workshops and/or the things p...

Jericho Brown, poet Bloomsday Literary Download On this episode of F***ing Shakespeare, our guest is the one and only Jericho Brown. Poets, lovers, and one who desires to hear beautiful language spoken by a beautiful voice, this episode is for you. We talk about Brown’s duplex, a poetic form he created for his new book “The Tradition,” his passion for his work and how he also doesn’t drive a Bentl...

Bryan Washington, novelist Bloomsday Literary In today’s episode we have the 100% on-fire novelist, Bryan Washington, penning effing beautiful and raw stories straight out of the streets of Houston for his story collection Lot . He shares his ridiculously envy-enducing publishing journey for you, adding another to the longitudinal study that proves the traditional path to publication is a mythical...

Mark Haber, novelist Bloomsday Literary In the studio today to open SEASON 4 of the show—that’s right y’all F***ing Shakespeare is on our 4th season! To celebrate we have Houston’s own lit genius, Mark Haber. He’s our first returning guest, so we must be doing something right. He’s definitely doing all the things right. He’s here to talk Tolstoy’s dog problem, melancholy, the fun-house mirror situ...

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Sarah Stankorb, journalist Bloomsday Literary Read all of Sarah’s work, but if we were forced to choose, here’s the place to start: Until We All Have Voices in Catapult Fabric of a Community, Gone Threadbare: A Tour of Ohio’s New Trump Country in Catapult The Crusading Bloggers Exposing Sexual Abuse in Protestant Churches in The Washington Post Magazine Teaching My Daughter That God Might Be a Gir...

PSA: Houston Writers Coalition Bloomsday Literary

Edan Lepucki, novelist Bloomsday Literary Novelist and genre shapeshifter Edan Lepucki is our guest on today’s show. Expert writing tips include: what to do when you realize you’ve spent four years writing two different novels that are actually the same, spoiler alert: Instagram poetry is probably not the answer. We talk about how having a baby is a great way to make you finish a project, and the...

Tillie Walden, graphic novelist Bloomsday Literary Photo by Wayne Alan Brenner Today we settle the great debate once and for all: drafting, or revising? Our guest, graphic novelist, Tillie Walden, weighs in. (Spoiler alert: write, write, write, and think about perfection later.) We also consider the value of the “traditional” story, how Tillie prioritized the truth of her emotions when drawing her...

Anna Meriano, middle-grade author Bloomsday Literary Photo credit: Rita Meriano Ever wondered what you should do if your professor thinks you should write literary fiction, but you know you’re going to write something else? Today’s guest, Anna Meriano, talks about how much she appreciated that prof and also why choosing to disregard his suggestion was the best decision she could have made. Also, w...

Jessica’s Writing We Discussed When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and Its Loss “From Essay to Book: On ‘Mirrorings’” in Essay Daily “On the Far Side of the Fire: Life, Death and Witchcraft in the Niger Delta” in Longreads Suggested Reads and Honorable Mentions from Jessica Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje Bluets by Maggie Nelson Cameron Dezen Hammon’s upcoming memoir, This is My Bo...