Anna interviews Tom DeMarchi, author of Mobius Strips, professor of creative writing at Florida Gulf Coast University, and co-director of the Sanibel Island Writers Conference. They discuss the conference, writing what you teach, and Tom reads two flash fiction pieces from his book.

Show notes:

Mobius Strips by Tom DeMarchi

I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love by Mahogany Brown

All My Sins Remembered by Ron Cooper

The Low Desert: Gangster Stories by Tod Goldberg

All the Secrets of the World by Steve Almond

Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia

One More Beat: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality by Kevin Aho

Anna interviews Travis Cravey, author of Manifold, and a staple in the Twitter writing community. They discuss how Travis found his way to writing, the importance of connections and community, and grit lit influences. 

Show notes:

Manifold from ELJ Editions

The Holy Trinity of Modern Working Class Authors:

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Donald Ray Pollack

Larry Brown

Anna Karras speaks to Erin Almond, the author of the mesmerizing Witches' Dance. The talk about the intersection of classical music and heavy metal, revision and plotting, the positives of working with an indie publisher, and Erin reads from her novel.

Show notes

Belmont Books

Porter Square Books

Witches' Dance by Erin Eileen Almond

Out There by Kate Folk

Anna talks with Thurber Prize-winning author Julie Schumacher. 

Her favorite indie bookstore is Next Chapter Books in St. Paul, MN.

Books mentioned in the podcast:

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid

Room by Emma Donoghue

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen