Wednesday, February 21, 2024Episode 85 - Keith Hood: "Utility"
Michigan author Keith Hood can remember with clarity the day the riots of 1967 came right up to the front door of his childhood Detroit home. In his f...
Massachusetts author Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing psychiatrist in the Boston area who joins a long tradition of doctors who have written poetry a...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024Episode 83 - Doug Brown: "My Bohemian Baptism"
Pennsylvania author Doug Brown's debut story collection My Bohemian Baptism and Then Some (Serif Press) is a testament to his determination to ne...
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, January 3, 2024Episode 78 - Matthew Goldberg: "Bees Wings"
Philadelphia author Matthew Goldberg's fiction, as described on his website, "reimagines the mundane through the lens of the absurd." His speculative ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023Episode 77 - Alice Jolly: "All the Places That I Have Not Seen"
Award-winning UK author Alice Jolly had 5 novels to her credit prior to publishing her first story collection - but she'd been writing stories the who...
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 13, 2023Episode 75 - Mathieu Cailler: "A Little off the Top"
As an adolescent, Los Angeles author Mathieu Cailler accompanied his grandfather to LA comedy clubs - an experience that gave him the idea that writin...
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...