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...
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...
