Past Forward

Today our podcast connects with Janine Vangool, Publisher, Editor, and Designer of UPPERCASE Magazine , and author of The Typewriter: A Graphic History of the Beloved Machine (UPPERCASE Publishing). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Janine Vangool

[gallery size="full" link="none" ids="31865,31864,31863"] A live recording of our educational podcast The How The Why  with Ryan Gattis. Ryan Gattis is a writer & educator. His most recent novel, Safe , is a heist thriller about a DEA safecracker gone rogue, ripping off gang-owned drug safes in order to help citizens hurt during the market crash of 2008. It’s esse...

Samantha Dunn is an editor at Coast Magazine . Sam’s work is widely anthologized, including the short story collection, Women on the Edge: Writing from Los Angeles , which she co-edited. Her essays have appeared in numerous national publications such as O (Oprah) Magazine , Ms. , and Salon . Her debut novel, Failing Paris , was a finalist for the PEN Center Fiction Award. Her memoir, Not By Accide...

Today our podcast connects with Jon Davis, Director of the Institute of American Indian Arts Low Residency MFA program in Creative Writing , Santa Fe Poet Laureate , author of books such as Preliminary Report ( Copper Canyon Press ) and Scrimmage of Appetite ( University Of Akron Press ), and co-translator, with the author, of Dayplaces by Iraqi poet Naseer Hassan ( Tebot Bach Press ). Producer: J...

Today our podcast connects with Ruta Sepetys, author of internationally acclaimed historical fiction novels such as Between Shades of Gray (Philomel Books) and Out of the Easy (Philomel Books), and the recent Carnegie Medal winning novel Salt to the Sea (Philomel Books). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Ruta Sepetys

Today our podcast connects with Nate Ragolia, Co-Founder of Spaceboy Books, author of the novella There You Fee Free ( 1888 ) and the novel The Rectroactivist ( Spaceboy ), Editor-In-Chief of Boned: A Collection of Skeletal Writings , author of the webcomics The Illiterate Badger and The Right Corking Adventures of Cecil Larkbunting & Alastair Wakerobin , and Social Media Manager of 1888. Prod...

Today our podcast connects with Christopher Monks, editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency and author of The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life (Tow Books). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Christopher Monks

Today our podcast connects with Jonathan Sun, author (under the pen name jomny sun) of the graphic book everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too ( HarperPerennial ); author behind the Twitter projects @jonnysun, @tinycarebot, and @tinydotblot; Ph. D. candidate and co-creator of The Online Humor Conversation Series at MIT ; former editor-in-chief of the Yale School of Architecture journal, Retrospe...

Today our podcast connects with Sarah Ladipo Manyika, author of novels such as Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun ( Cassava Republic Press ) and In Dependence ( Legend Press ), board member of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) , Juror of the California Book Awards , Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature , and host of OZY’s video series “ Write .” Producer: Jon-B...

Today our podcast connects with Kurt Heinzelman, Founder and Editor-at-Large of Bat City Review , Co-Founder of The Poetry Miscellany , Pushcart Prize nominee, translator, professor at the University of Texas at Austin , and author of books of poetry such as The Names They Found There ( Pecan Grove Press ), and Intimacies & Other Devices ( Pinyon Publishing ). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and...

Today our podcast connects with Jeffery Ryan Long, Editor-in-Chief of Hawaiʻi Review , the literary journal published by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jeffery Ryan Long

Today our podcast connects with Lee Gutkind, founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction , founder of the ThinkWritePublish program and Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, and the author and editor of more than 30 books, including titles such as You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction ( Da Capo Lifelong...

Today our podcast connects with Lance Olsen, the Chair of the Board of Directors for the author-run publisher Fiction Collective 2 , professor at the University of Utah , and author of novels such as Dreamlives of Debris ( Dzanc Books ), short fiction collections such as How to Unfeel the Dead ( Teksteditions ), and the anti-textbook Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing ( Guide D...

Today our podcast connects with Chris Lafave, curator at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Chris Lafave

Today our podcast connects with Ryan Rivas, Publisher at Burrow Press , which focuses on contemporary literature by Floridians and about Florida, as well as fostering a literary community in and around Orlando, Florida. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Ryan Rivas Photo: Delila Smalley

Today our podcast connects with Bill Pierce, author and senior editor of AGNI , the literary journal of Boston University . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Bill Pierce

Today our podcast connects with Seth Greenland, author of novels such as I Regret Everything: A Love Story and The Angry Buddhist ( Europa Editions ), screenwriter for television shows such as HBO 's Big Love, author of plays including Jungle Rot and Red Memories , and co-host of the Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host:...

Today our podcast connects with Karen Tei Yamashita, author of novels such as Tropic of Orange , I Hotel , and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest ( Coffee House Press ), and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Karen Tei Yamashita

Today our podcast connects with Jennifer Volland and Wendy Thomas Russell, co-founders of Brown Paper Press . Jennifer Volland is the co-author of Edward A. Killingsworth: An Architect’s Life ( Hennessey + Ingalls ) and Long Beach Architecture: The Unexpected Metropolis (Hennessey + Ingalls), as well as co-curator of the exhibition and publication Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life for the Vanco...

Joel Arquillos is the Executive Director of 826LA , a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Joel Arquillos

Today we connect with Laurie Sheck. She is the author of, most recently, Island of the Mad ( Counterpoint Press ), and A Monster’s Notes ( Knopf ), a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 Best Fictions of the Year (2009), and long-listed for the Dublin Impac International Fiction Prize . A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The...

Today our podcast connects with Matt Rouse, Torrin Greathouse and Nicole Connolly of Black Napkin Press . Black Napkin Press is a non-profit organization that supports emerging artists from across the spectrum of cultures, races, religions, ethnicities, and gender/sexual identities. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Matt Rouse, Tor...

Today our podcast connects with David Galef, author of novels such as How to Cope with Suburban Stress ( The Permanent Press ), short story collections including My Date with Neanderthal Woman ( Dzanc Books ), poetry collections such as Kanji Poems ( Word Poetry ), and most recently Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook ( Columbia University Press ). He is also a professor at Montclair State Universit...

Today our podcast connects with Cati Porter, Executive Director of the Inlandia Institute , poet, and founder of the literary journal Poemeleon . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Cati Porter

Today our podcast connects with Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Editor-in-Chief of HOOT Review , editor for Lunch Ticket , and contributing writer at SSG Music . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella