Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

In this episode, I interview Gauraa Shekhar. Gauraa Shekhar is a Founding Editor of No Contact, the Interviews Editor at Maudlin House, and an Assistant Editor at X-R-A-Y. Her debut short story “Other Significant Others: A Glossary” was a finalist for the Francine Ringold Awards for Emerging Writers and earned a nomination for the PEN/ Robert J. Dau Award. Gauraa’s work has appeared in Nimrod, Con...

In this episode, I interview Andrew Wilt from 11:11 Press. He is not just a publisher. Andrew has also been working professionally in writing for over a decade. He is the author of Age of Agility: The New Tools for Career Success, which is currently being used as a textbook in universities, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies. Timestamps 00:00 -- Intro 01:42 -- The Midwest Hello 04:26 -- Nonconf...

In a very strange and wild episode of Textual Healing, I got a chance to interview Leza Cantoral who is one of my favorite people in the lit world today! It gets weird, it gets dark, and it actually gets pretty damn hysterical. It's lit. Leza is a Xicana writer & Editor-in-Chief at CLASH Books . She is also the host of Get Lit With Leza . As a result of her being a megafan of Lana Del Rey &amp...

This week on Textual Healing, we go off the record with Dmitry Samorov where he tells it as it is when it comes to the 80's. Not just Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and music still on MTV... Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/textual-healing

In this episode of Textual Healing, Dmitry Samarov talks about what it's like to be Gen X in a Gen Z world. We joke around about what the right sayings are and whether our taste in music even matters anymore. We hit music from all angles. The Pixies, Billie Eilish, Nirvana, Kelly Hogan, and even Taylor Swift are discussed. We disagree about the awesomeness of grunge music but we do agree that Mr....

In this episode, Mallory Smart and Andy Tran get into all of the weird small talk with Taylor Johnson. We dish about our new favorite bands, the kind of poetry we're all into, and sadly even the weather... Lena Dunham and the Armenian Genocide is also somehow discussed as well. No spoilers, so if you wish to connect those wild dots listen to the entire show. Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC....

Kevin Bigley joins us to talk about his intense love of music, his new book Comaville , and his character Luke in Amazon's Upload . Kevin is an actor and writer living in Los Angeles. He plays Luke in his latest TV role on Amazon's Upload and Reed Hollingsworth on another Amazon show called Undone . Most central to this show, though, Kevin just debuted a novel called Comaville from Clash Books . H...

In this lit episode, I am joined by Zac Smith and Giacomo Pope where we talk about nothing and everything. Music genres, literary genres, and even how a genre's name comes into being is discussed in this 2hr long round table. Zac Smith flexes his knowledge of linguistics and genre. Giacomo Pope goes off on small presses along with an insane grasp on what shoegaze-y indie rock actually is and was....

In this episode, we talk to Noah Cicero about his latest book: Las Vegas Bootlegger: Empire of Self-Importance from Trident Press . We also get into lit topics like the way Bruce Springsteen makes us feel, Smokey and the Bandit, and driving in the desert. Noah Cicero is 40-years-old, grew up in a small town near Youngstown, Ohio. He has lived in Eugene, Oregon, Grand Canyon, Arizona, Seoul, South...

In today's episode, we have an hour-long conversation full of zany non-sequiturs with Chase Griffin . My co-host, Andy Tran , joins me while we talk with our favorite Florida Man about things like Kanye, SNL, polar vortexes, and Chase's latest novel: _ What's On the Menu?_ Chase Griffin lives in Tampa, Florida. His work has been featured in The Oyez Review, Breadcrumbs Mag, Funny Looking Dog Quart...

In today's episode, Mallory and Andy hit up D.T. Robbins. They talk about folk music, punk rock, Phoebe Bridgers, Bright Eyes, Elton John, and David Lynch. All of which influence his mood and writing. Accents, shoes, IKEA, and so much more are also brought up in this extremely odd podcast. D.T. Robbins lives in Southern California with his wife and two kids. He’s the founding editor of Rejection L...

In this episode, Mallory and Andy get a chance to interview Claire Hopple about her love of dreamy indie music like Goth Babe, Sniffle Party, and then whatever the hell Yacht Rock is. Claire Hopple lives in Asheville, NC, though she is quick to claim her Western Pennsylvania roots. She is the author of Tell Me How You Really Feel (Maudlin House, 2020 Tired People Seeing America (Dostoevsky Wannabe...

Giacomo Pope is the author of Chainsaw Poems & Other Poems and the founder of Neutral Spaces. Much like his writing, this episode is all about passion and obsession. We go further and deeper than we've gone before in this Special Extended Episode of Textual Healing where we discuss not just music and how it relates to an author's specific writing, but ALL writing. Weird cultural habits, philos...

Joshua Bohnsack is the author of Shift Drink (Spork Press, forthcoming 2020) and Burnt Sienna: Cocktails & Stories (Throwback Books, 2017) and his work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hobart, SAND, LitHub, Five:2:One, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and others. He is the founding editor of Long Day Press , a hand-bound chapbook publisher, an MFA graduate in creative writing at Northwestern University, the a...

We get a chance to chat with Kat Giordano. Kat wrote The Poet Confronts Bukowski's Ghost , which is a book of poetry you can still buy on Amazon. She also wrote the novel The Fountain , which is forthcoming from Thirty West Publishing House in November 2020. Today we got a chance to talk to her about all things relating to indie culture, her forthcoming novel, and a Spotify playlist she made for i...

Today I get to interview Nathaniel Kennon Perkinsfrom Trident Press. We talk about garages, punk rock, DIY ethic, and the best music to write to. He is the author of the novel Wallop (House of Vlad, 2020). the short story collection, The Way Cities Feel to Us Now (Maudlin House, 2019), the short novel, Cactus (Trident Press, 2018), and the ongoing literary zine series, Ultimate Gospel.

Hosts Mallory Smart and Andy Tran finally take the time to introduce themselves to the Textual Healing listeners by discussing all things weird. We quiz each other on new writing, Boogie Nights, chill music, and everything else rad going on in our lives. the title of the film Andy and I couldn't remember was Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Hit us up on Twitter @malsmart or @AndyT187 for any q...

Nick Gregorio comes on as our special guest where we talk about all things Punk, COVID, and the release of his new book, With A Difference , from Trident Press. He lives, writes, and teaches just outside of Philadelphia. Nick is the author of three books of fiction and is also in the Philadelphia-area punk rock band Grayson. You can check him on his monthly podcast book.record.beer. or buy any of...