Wednesday, January 31, 2024Episode #82 - Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey of COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES
COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES is the brainchild of authors Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey, whose combined years working in the publishing industry has give...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024Episode #81 - Alyson Mosquera Dutemple: Four Flash Stories
New Jersey author Alyson Mosquera Dutemple began her professional career working in film production. The pressures of being on-set soon had her turnin...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024Episode #80 - Dustin M. Hoffman: "Smoke at the End of the World"
South Carolina author Dustin M. Hoffman spent ten years as a house painter - which might have something to do with his fondness for characters from th...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024Episode #79 - Bill Merklee: Four Flash Stories
New Jersey author Bill Merklee was playing in rock bands when he began working for a newspaper that had a tuition reimbursement program. It was his re...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023Episode #76 - Nishanth Injam: The Best Possible Experience
Nishanth Injam was raised in Telangana, India, and now makes his home in the US, in the Chicago area. His debut story collection, The Best Possible Ex...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023Episode #74 - Emma Brankin: "Eulogy for a Bastard," "The Second Miss Thompson." and "I Am a Trainwreck Actress's Vagina"
UK author Emma Brankin's debut story collection Attention Seekers features stories inspired by her former career as an entertainment columnist, w...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023Episode #73 - Leslie Kirk Campbell and Daniel A. Olivas: "City of Angels" and "Elizondo Returns Home"
California authors and fellow Stanford grads Leslie Kirk Campbell and Daniel A. Olivas reverse roles in this episode as interviewer and interviewee. T...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023Episode #72 - Jessie Ren Marshall: "After I Become a Ghost" and "Find Water Near Me"
Hawai'i author Jessie Ren Marshall began publishing her own writing at a very early age. And her confidence as a writer was evident even then, as...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023Episode #71 - John Fulton: "Stitches"
Massachusetts author John Fulton's fiction has the power to cast an unusual kind of spell upon its readers. He might, at times, deftly weave elem...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023Episode #69 - Julee Newberger: "Along the Sound"
Virginia author Julee Newberger's life was upended when she learned, at the age of forty, that she'd been adopted - information she received only afte...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023Episode #67 - Grant Faulkner: "The Passenger" and "Cold Hard Cash"
California author Grant Faulkner was born and raised in Oskaloosa, Iowa - an experience that helped shape his sensibilities as a writer of stories of ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023Episode #66 - Erica Plouffe Lazure: "The Shit Branch"
New Hampshire author Erica Plouffe Lazure was born and raised in Massachusetts, but she has a particular fondness for the South - and for story-tellin...
