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We’re highlighting our  Summer Writing Project  2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Celinda Bickner author of Switch . For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit  1888.center/swp . For details about our July Workshop Session please visit  1888.center/swp2016-workshop-session . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Ar...

We’re highlighting our  Summer Writing Project  2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Maxwell Coviello author of Renaissance, 1997 and Dave McLaughlin author of Andy Crowley and the Grace of the Glass Grimoire . For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit  1888.center/swp . For details about our July Workshop Session please visit  1888.center/swp2016-workshop-sess...

We’re highlighting our  Summer Writing Project  2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Andre Clemons author of The Lake Giants and J.A. Waters author of When Things are a Little Off . For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit  1888.center/swp . For details about our July Workshop Session please visit  1888.center/swp2016-workshop-session . Producer: Jon-Barrett I...

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project  2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Alex Clark-McGlenn author of The Night Sputnik Flew and M. Howalt author of Blood, Sweat and Runes . For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit  1888.center/swp . For details about our July Workshop Session please visit  1888.center/swp2016-workshop-session . Producer: Jon-Barret...

Today our podcast connects with Constance Ann Fitzgerald, editor at Ladybox Books and author of Trashland A Go-Go ( Eraserhead Press ). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Constance Ann Fitzgerald

Today our podcast connects with Yi Shun Lai, writer, writing coach, editor, and author of the novel Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu ( Shade Mountain Press ). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Yi Shun Lai

Today our podcast connects with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'a Williams, editors of the anthology Revolutionary Mothering . Alexis Pauline Gumbs is also the author of the dissertation We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism and was named one of UTNE Reader’s 50 Visionaries Transforming the World . China Martens is the author of The Future Generation:...

Today our podcast connects with Erika Goldman, Publisher and Editorial Director of Bellevue Literary Press and Instructor at the New York University School of Medicine, Division of Medical Humanities . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Erika Goldman

Today our podcast connects with Jacob Denno, poet and Editor and Publisher of Popshot Magazine . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jacob Denno

Our third Eichler Session welcomes Garth Greenwell and Mary Rakow. Garth Greenwell is the author of  Mitko , which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Award. What Belongs to You  is his first novel.  This Is Why I Came  by Mary Rakow has been described as a “Blakean tour de force,” receiving strong reviews i...

Today our podcast connects with Dani Hedlund, CEO of the literary nonprofit Tethered by Letters , Editor-in-Chief of the journal F(r)iction , and author of the novel Threads of Deception . Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Dani Hedlund

Today our podcast connects with Rachel Howzell Hall, author of A Quiet Storm ( Scribner ), The View from Here , No One Knows You’re Here , and the Detective Elouise Norton series ( Forge Books ). She serves on the Board of Directors for the Mystery Writers of America , and has participated as a mentor in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs ’ Writer-to-Writer program. Producer: Jon-Ba...

Today our podcast connects with Jonathan Eller, Director of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies , Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis , Senior Textual Editor of the Institute for American Thought , editor of The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury , author of Becoming Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury Unbound ( University of Illinois Press ), and co-author with Will...

Today our podcast connects with Andrew Tonkovich, editor of the Santa Monica Review ; host of Bibliocracy Radio ; Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine ; co-editor alongside his wife, Lisa Alvarez, of the forthcoming The Barricades of Heaven: A Literary Field Guide to Orange County, California ( Heyday ); and writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles Review of B...

Today our podcast connects with Ben Loory, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge, instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program , and author of numerous books including Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day ( Penguin Books ) and The Baseball Player and the Walrus ( Dial Books ). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Ben Loory

Today our podcast connects with Lilliam Rivera, author of the forthcoming young adult novel The Education of Margot Sanchez ( Simon & Schuster ); host of the Radio Sombra show Literary Soundtrack; Pushcart Prize winner; editor of the 1888 novellas Harlem's Awakening , Bellies and Buffalos , and 116* Days with Dad ; and 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin...

Today our podcast connects with Lux Alptraum and Leigh Stein of BinderCon , a non-profit organization and convention devoted to advancing the careers of women and gender non-conforming writers. Lux is also a writer whose work has appeared in  Cosmopolitan ,   Salon.com , TheAtlantic.com ,  GOOD Magazine , and more. Leigh is author of the novel The Fallback Plan ( Melville House ), the poetry colle...

Today our podcast connects with Lisa Pearson, Publisher and Founder of Siglio Press , editor of It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & Writers , and LA Times Person to Watch.  Photo: Bob Chamberlin Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lisa Pearson

Today our podcast connects with Neelanjana Banerjee, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge; Managing Editor of Kaya Press ; assistant editor with the Los Angeles Review of Books ; instructor with artworxLA and Writing Workshops Los Angeles ; journalist; co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry ( University of Arkansas Press ); and writer whose works have app...

Today our podcast reconnects with Kevin Smokler, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge. Kevin is the author of “Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School” (2013) and a forthcoming book on 80s movies. His cultural essays and criticism have appeared in  Salon Vulture ,  Buzzfeed ,  The LA Times ,  Fast Company  and on  NPR . He lives in San Francisco. Prod...

Today our podcast connects with Alan Rifkin, journalist and author of books such as the short story collection Signal Hill ( City Lights Publishers ) and the upcoming Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir ( Brown Paper Press ). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Alan Rifkin

Today our podcast connects with David Ulin, book critic (formerly of the Los Angeles Times ; Guggenheim Fellow ; author of books such as Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles ( University of California Press ), The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time ( Sasquatch Books ), Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology ( Library of America ), and the upcoming novel Ear to t...

Today our podcast connects with William M. Brandon III, author of Silence (Black Hill Press) and A Selfish Man (Publish America); editor of the Black Hill Press novellas The Pit, and No Other Stories , Foster , and A Little Evil ; and Managing Editor of 1888. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: William M. Brandon III

Today our podcast connects with Jessica Joy Reveles, writer, USC alum, and editor of 1888's Small Towne Short Stories program—documenting the past, present, and future of historic buildings around Old Towne, Orange. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jessica Joy Reveles

Today our podcast connects with Amy Stolls, Literature Director for the National Endowment for the Arts , where she is involved in programs such as the National Book Festival and Big Read program; former environmental journalist; writer of a blog about the Old Post Office of the United States, and author of the novels Palms to the Ground ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux ) and The Ninth Wife ( HarperC...