One More Thing(s)

Send us Fan Mail No doubt we all have a moment when we ask ourselves why we continue to make things. What's the point? Who cares? The world is shit. Still, we keep going, we keep making. I wanted to sit down and talk to a variety of artists to ask them how they go about their process in these contemporary/turbulent times. All art is political. But what can, or what should, art do?  First up i...

Send us Fan Mail On today's show, some thoughts on Sam Munson's new novel The Sofa . From the publisher: "Mr. Montessori and his family return home from a trip to the beach to discover that their sofa is different. Once dark and contemporary, it’s now antique, green and yellow, and smelling faintly of damp. Its appearance and origins are a mystery. A joke? An inverted theft? A break...

Send us Fan Mail (from New Directions): LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he’s become Antonio and undertaken monumental adventures: he has been a cabin boy, mule driver, shop...

Send us Fan Mail Today: Vol. 2 of The Coolest Songs in the World. This time, an end of summer edition. Summer is a metaphor, and here are some songs that remind me of summer--or make me think about summer (or a summer past). Some of the songs will seem obvious, while others won't; some of the songs are happy (ish), and others are down right sad. But that's how memory works. A link to the...

Send us Fan Mail On today's podcast, a review of Issa Quincy's novel 'Absence' (Two Dollar Radio) .  From the publisher: "A child is beguiled by a poem read to him by his mother. The poem follows this elusive narrator like a whisper throughout his life, echoing across the years in the stories and lives of others as they are recounted to him: an enigmatic and beloved school...

Send us Fan Mail Occasionally a book comes along that takes me way too long to finish. The reason it takes me too, long is that I continue to turn the pages back--I reread sections, passages, phrases. I roll ideas around my head that I've already considered. The books that take me too long are the books that I don't want to finish because they are so good. So good, that when I do finish...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode of One More Thing(s), a brief essay on the painting  Beta Mu  (1961) by Morris Louis. Support the show Follow along and keep in touch at @onemorethingspod Support One More Things:  https://buymeacoffee.com/onemorethings

Send us Fan Mail Something a little bit different: on today's episode...songs we think are cool, songs from Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Soccer Mommy, Dilly Dally, Bleached, and Courtney Love.  Support the show Follow along and keep in touch at @onemorethingspod Support One More Things:  https://buymeacoffee.com/onemorethings

Send us Fan Mail As someone who is over 17 years clean and sober, I’m always on the lookout for how addiction and recovery are portrayed in art and popular culture. When I came across Nick Gardner’s collection of linked stories, “Delinquents And Other Escape Attempts,” I thought this was as good a portrait of addiction and recovery as I have read.  On today's show: A conversation with Nick Ga...

Send us Fan Mail We're back (finally) with an episode on Rebecca Manson's solo exhibition, Barbecue , at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Over 45,000 handcrafted ceramic leaves all piled up in the ellipse galleri--It's a real stunner, and it's on view until August 25th. Rebecca Manson was born in 1989 in New York, where she currently lives and works. She received her BFA in...

Send us Fan Mail  Vernon Fisher (1943–2023) was a multimedia artist born in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned a BA in English literature from Hardin–Simmons University in 1967 and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1969. He moved back to Texas and taught at Austin College and later at University of North Texas. Best known for his paintings that resemble chalk on a school blac...

Send us Fan Mail I’m Brock Kingsley and welcome to One More Thing(s)—a bit-sized arts and culture podcast that knows you’re busy—we’re all busy—but still wants you to find time to think about one more thing. Listen with us and we’ll explore a documentary on the artist Vernon Fisher, a novel about foundation work dedicated to Taylor Swift, the works of David Wojnarowicz, and much more. Episodes sta...