Liz Asch

Recto/Verso: Conversations Beyond Art

Arts EN ↓ 4 episodes

Welcome to the Recto/Verso podcast where artists come together to talk about the unsaid and overlooked aspects of making art and crafting a life. We can think of the Recto as the aspect of artmaking that gets shared with the public, the finished product, and we can think of the Verso as all the other work that goes into it, including the shadow sides, the struggles, the personal journey and discoveries. Join me, your host Liz Asch, author of Your Salt on My Lips and creator and host of the meditation podcast, Body Land Metaphor Medicine, where you can find over fifty guided visualizations d...

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Liz Asch

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Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of Chronology of Water, on her book and the new film adaptation by Kristen Stewart 17.02.2026 1:14:27

Join me, your host Liz Asch, as I talk with Lidia Yuknavitch about her experience sharing her book, The Chronology of Water, with the world, and how it’s been for her seeing her memoir transformed into a film, starring Imogen Poots, directed by Kristen Stewart. Lidia is the fairy godmother to a myriad of writers here in Portland, Oregon, and all over the country and the world. She is brilliant and...

Episode 3: Lidia Yuknavitch on Reading the Waves and Riding the Currents: A Recto/Verso Artist Interview with Liz Asch 09.09.2025 1:19:51

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of 12 books including The Chronology of Water, Reading the Waves, which is her latest book, the Misfits Manifesto, Thrust, Verge, The Small Backs of Children, Joan of Dirt, and Dora: A Headcase. Lidia is the founder of Portland’s cherished school of Corporeal Writing. She has decades of experience teaching, has won awards up the wazoo, and is one of the most beloved...

Episode 2: Jon Raymond on God and Sex: A Recto/Verso Artist Interview with Liz Asch 02.09.2025 50:48

Jon Raymond's newest novel revolves around a love triangle and what happens when we ‘break the rules’ and bend our own morals. If we make a promise in a moment of duress, are we beholden to it? If it seems like there are consequences to our moral failures, is it all our own invention? and whatever outcome is just happenstance? or is it comeuppance? Who is to say?

Episode 1: Anna Diem on Songwriting, Singing, and Producing: A Recto/Verso Artist Interview with Liz Asch 28.08.2025 1:13:00

Anna Diem is a Portland, Oregon based singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Her album, hello Oregon, came out in 2022, Small Victories in 2019 and Gay Love Songs is her 2018 EP. Anna has a wide range of singles as well. You can find her music on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and BandCamp. Her lyrics are poetic and intimate and she sings about love and queerness culture, nostalgia and y...