Past Forward

Today our podcast connects with Jordan A. Rothacker, author of And the Wind Will Wash Away (Deeds Publishing) and The Pit; and No Other Stories (1888). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jordan A. Rothacker

Today our podcast connects with R. Dean Johnson, Associate Professor at Eastern Kentucky University and author of Californium: A Novel of Punk Rock, Growing Up, and Other Dangerous Things (Plume Books) and Delicate Men: Stories (Alternative Book Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: R. Dean Johnson

Today our podcast connects with Chris Staros, publisher and editor of Top Shelf Productions, former president of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and author of Yearbook Stories, 1976–1978 (Top Shelf). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Christ Staros Photo: Jenni Girtman

Today our podcast connects with Libby Flores, writer and program manager at PEN Center USA's Emerging Voices Fellowship and Craft Sessions. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Libby Flores

Today our podcast connects with Karen Cushman, author of children's historical fiction novels such as the Newbery Award winner The Midwife's Apprentice (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), the Newbery Honor book Catherine, Called Birdy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the recently-released fantasy novel Grayling's Song (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Karen Cushman

Today our podcast connects with Krys Lee, author of the short story collection Drifting House (Viking, Penguin Random House) and the forthcoming novel How I Became a North Korean (Viking, Penguin Random House). She is a recipient of the Rome Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association, and a finalist for the BBC International Story Prize. Her fiction, journalism, and literary translations have appeared in Granta, The Kenyon Review, Narrative, San Francisco Chronicle, Corriere della Sera, and The Guardian, among others. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Yonsei University, Underwood International College, in South Korea. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Krys Lee

Today our podcast connects with Aimee Bender. Aimee is the author of five books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010) which won the SCIBA award for best fiction, and an Alex Award, and The Color Master, a NY Times Notable book for 2013. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, Tin House, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and more, as well as heard on PRI’s “This American Life”and “Selected Shorts”. She lives in Los Angeles with her family, and teaches creative writing at USC. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Aimee Bender

Today our podcast connects with Joe Pan, poet, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Brooklyn Arts Press, Fiction Editor for the arts magazine Hyperallergic, Small Press Editor for Boog City, author of books such as Hiccups (Augury Books) and Autobiomythography & Gallery (BAP), and founder of the services-oriented activist group Brooklyn Artists Helping. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Joe Pan

Today our podcast is live at Azusa Pacific University with Ryan Gattis and host Michael Dean Clark. His most recent book, All Involved: A Novel of the 1992 L.A. Riots, is grounded in 2.5 years of research & background spent with former Latino gang members, firefighters, nurses, & other L.A. citizens who lived through it. The novel has won the American Library Association’s Alex Award & the Lire Award for Noir of the Year in France. Set to be translated into 11 languages, it has been called “a high-octane speedball of a read” by The New York Times & its film rights have been acquired by HBO. Recorded on Thursday, April 14. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Michael Dean Clark Guest: Ryan Gattis Photo: Jamie Roebuck-Joseph

Today our podcast connects with D.T. Max–a graduate of Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His book, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, published in 2012, was a New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, their two young children, and a rescued beagle who came to them named Max. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: D.T. Max

Connecting with your community using effective media tools and developing meaningful relationships with strategic partners with Jenny Feldon, Marisa Reichardt, and Holly Watson. Recorded live on Saturday, July 16 at the Chapman University, Leatherby Libraries in Orange, California. Throughout the month of July, during the Summer Writing Project, 1888 and JukePop present a series of free educational essays, lectures, and podcast episodes produced for the community and available to support our Top 25 with advancing their stories. We have branded July the Summer Writing Project: Workshop Session. For more information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For more details on our free Summer Writing Project events please visit 1888.center/swp16-events. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jenny Feldon, Marisa Reichardt, and Holly Watson

Establishing your creative identity while balancing essential elements of emotion and style with William M. Brandon III, Rachel Howzell Hall, and Yi Shun Lai. Recorded live on Saturday, July 9 at the Orange Public Library & History Center in Orange, California. Throughout the month of July, during the Summer Writing Project, 1888 and JukePop present a series of free educational essays, lectures, and podcast episodes produced for the community and available to support our Top 25 with advancing their stories. We have branded July the Summer Writing Project: Workshop Session. For more information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For more details on our free Summer Writing Project events please visit 1888.center/swp16-events. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: William M. Brandon III, Rachel Howzell Hall, and Yi Shun Lai

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with S.T. Rucker author of Oracle. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: S.T. Rucker

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Laura Morrison author of Come Back to the Swamp, Pam Jones author of Happy Birthday, Dear Bitsy, and Phil Keeling author of Drunken Vampire Hunting For Beginners. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Laura Morrison, Pam Jones, and Phil Keeling

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Corin Reyburn author of Subterran. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Corin Reyburn

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Kevin Boyer author of Bunker 14C and Ryan Dunlap author of The Goldfish. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Kevin Boyer and Ryan Dunlap

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Carrie Golden author of Tomorrow Falls. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Carrie Golden

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Kathy Joy author of Karma and Ryan Hash author of Static Age. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Kathy Joy and Ryan Hash

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Jonelle Strickland author of 29 BBQs. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Jonelle Strickland

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Ela Leo author of Maleficent Rocks and Bill White author of Cry. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Ela Leo and Bill White

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Eden Maxwell author of The Man with the Dog. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Eden Maxwell

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Devon Tarantino author of Beautiful to Me. 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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Devon Tarantino

Understanding your role in modern publishing and finding your path to print or pixel with Jeff Garvin, Jennie Nash, and Jonathan Yanez. Recorded live on Saturday, July 23 at Barnes & Noble in Orange, California. Throughout the month of July, during the Summer Writing Project, 1888 and JukePop present a series of free educational essays, lectures, and podcast episodes produced for the community and available to support our Top 25 with advancing their stories. We have branded July the Summer Writing Project: Workshop Session. For more information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For more details on our free Summer Writing Project events please visit 1888.center/swp16-events. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jeff Garvin, Jennie Nash, and Jonathan Yanez

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 Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Celinda Bickner

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-session. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Maxwell Coviello and Dave McLaughlin

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 Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Andre Clemons and J.A. Waters

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-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Alex Clark-McGlenn and M. Howalt

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: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others (Atomic Book Company) and coeditor of Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities (PM Press), and is a cofounder of Kidz City, a radical childcare collective in Baltimore. Mai'a Williams is the creator and director of Water Studio, which supports and co-creates with underground community artists and revolutionaries in Cairo, Egypt, and her essays, short stories and poetry have appeared in publications such as make/shift, Mamaphiles, Tenacious, Popshot, Woman's Work, Lilith Devotional, and Colored Girls. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'a Williams

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 in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Ploughshares and selected by O Magazine as one of “16 Books to Start 2016 off Right.” Eichler Sessions are a series of conversations with creative pioneers hosted in historic Eichler homes. During the early 1950s, award-winning homebuilder Joseph Eichler influenced the face of American architecture by developing distinctive residential subdivisions of Mid-Century modern style tract housing. The City of Orange is the site of 350 of the 600 Southern California Eichlers. Produced in conjunction with Jeffrey Crussell Fine Properties and Creative Noodle. Click here to view photos from the program. For information on upcoming Eichler Sessions click here. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Samantha Dunn Guest: Garth Greenwell and Mary Rakow

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-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Rachel Howzell Hall

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 William Touponce of Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State University Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jonathan Eller

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 Books, Faultline, Ecotone and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Andrew Tonkavich

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 Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lilliam Rivera

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 collection Dispatch from the Future (Melville House), and the forthcoming memoir Land of Enchantment (Blue Rider Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lux Alptraum and Leigh Stein

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 appeared in anthologies such as Desilicious (Arsenal Press), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India), and Breaking the Bow: Speculative Stories Inspired by the Ramayana (Zubaan Books), as well as in numerous magazines and journals such as PANK Magazine, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and Asian Pacific American Journal. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Neelanjana Banerjee

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. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Kevin Smokler

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 the Ground with Paul Kolsby (Unnamed Press); and 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge. Photo by Heather Conley. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: David Ulin

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 (HarperCollins). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Amy Stolls

Today our podcast connects with Esther Patterson and Natasha Dennerstein of Fourteen Hills and San Francisco State University's Creative Writing Program. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Esther Patterson and Natasha Dennerstein

Today our podcast connects with Robert B. Wallace, Co-founder of Asahina & Wallace, Treasurer of PEN Center USA, and Emmy-winning editor who has previously held positions at St. Martin's Press, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, ESPN, and Primetime Live. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Robert B. Wallace