Textual Healing with Mallory Smart
Dive into this lit podcast hosted by Mallory Smart, where authors explore the synergy between music and their writing. Brace yourself for offbeat interviews where writers discuss their individual styles, get lost in unpredictable anecdotes, and how music transforms their creative process. New episodes airing every Saturday.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 172
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
S4E21 -Ben Niespodziany: Neon Pajamas Lore
Benjamin Niespodziany is a Chicago-based writer, editor, curator, and folklorist. The author of two books, his writing has appeared in HAD, Fence, Bennington Review, Wigleaf Top 50, X-R-A-Y, and else…
S4E20 -Off The Record Ben Niespodziany: Like Attending The Circus
Benjamin Niespodziany is a Chicago-based writer, editor, curator, and folklorist. The author of two books, his writing has appeared in HAD, Fence, Bennington Review, Wigleaf Top 50, X-R-A-Y, and else…
S4E19 -Josh Denslow: Not Everyone Is Special
Josh Denslow is the author of the collectionNot Everyone Is Special (7.13 Books), the novel Super Normal (Stillhouse Press), and the collection Magic Can't Save Us (UNO Press). His most recent short …
S4E18 -Off The Record Josh Denslow: Pretend That You Owe Me Nothing
Josh Denslow is the author of the collectionNot Everyone Is Special (7.13 Books), the novel Super Normal (Stillhouse Press), and the collection Magic Can't Save Us (UNO Press). His most recent short …
S4E17 -John Patrick Higgins: Moving Into The Midnight
John Patrick Higgins is a writer, illustrator, and filmmaker.
His short fiction has appeared in The Black Dreams, The BHF Book of Horror Stories, Fears: An Anthology of Psychological Terror, and Weir…
S4E16 -Off The Record With John Patrick Higgins: Back On My Feet Again
John Patrick Higgins is a writer, illustrator, and filmmaker.
His short fiction has appeared in The Black Dreams, The BHF Book of Horror Stories, Fears: An Anthology of Psychological Terror, and Weir…
S4E15 - Kurt Baumeister: Doomlord
Kurt Baumeister’s writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Electric Literature, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and other outlets. An …
S4E14 -Off The Record With Kurt Baumeister: Keep On, Keep On, Keep On
Kurt Baumeister’s writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Electric Literature, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and other outlets. An …
S4E13 -Jack Skelley: Does This Make Me Weird
Jack Skelley is the author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (on Semiotexte), Myth Lab (Far West Press), Interstellar Theme Park (BlazeVox press), Monsters (Little Caesar Press) and Dennis Wilson a…
S4E12 -Off The Record With Jack Skelley: The Stages Are Burned
Jack Skelley is the author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (on Semiotexte), Myth Lab (Far West Press), Interstellar Theme Park (BlazeVox press), Monsters (Little Caesar Press) and Dennis Wilson a…
S4E11 - S. R. Schulz: I Was Just Along For The Ride
S. R. Schulz lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, three sons, and two dogs. He’s been traveling to visit family in Croatia since 2010. He currently works as a family physician just outside Portla…
S4E10 -Off The Record With S.R. Schulz: Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
S. R. Schulz lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, three sons, and two dogs. He’s been traveling to visit family in Croatia since 2010. He currently works as a family physician just outside Portla…
S4E9 -Diana Oropeza: Keep It Mysterioso
Diana Oropesa is a writer and performer based in Portland. Her debut book, An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance (Future Tense Books), is a hybrid collection of flash fiction and poetic nonfiction t…
S4E8 -Nick Rees Gardner: Writers, Delinquents, And The Twitter People
Nick Rees Gardner is the author of Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts (Madrona Books), a gritty, poetic collection of linked stories about addiction, recovery, and resilience in the fictional town…
S4E7 -Off The Record With Nick Rees Gardner: I Dreamt Of The Hell To Come
Nick Rees Gardner is the author of Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts (Madrona Books), a gritty, poetic collection of linked stories about addiction, recovery, and resilience in the fictional town…
S4E6 -Kristen Arnett: Keep Florida Weird
Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction writer, essayist, and former librarian based in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things, as well as With Teeth…
S4E5 -Off The Record With Kristen Arnett: I've Been Looking For The Magic
Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction writer, essayist, and former librarian based in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things, as well as With Teeth…
S4E4 -Victoria Brooks: Former Mistress
Victoria Brooks is a queer nonbinary author living in London, UK, and parent to an octopod (2 year old identical twins)—an identity-shifting experience they recently wrote about for W0rms. Their fir…
S4E3 -Off The Record With Victoria Brooks: There You Were, Wild And Free
Victoria Brooks is a queer nonbinary author living in London, UK, and parent to an octopod (2 year old identical twins)—an identity-shifting experience they recently wrote about for W0rms. Their firs…
S4E2 -Jaydra Johnson: This Needs To Be More Weird OR Less Weird
Jaydra Johnson (b. 1988 Springfield, Oregon) is a writer, visual artist, and educator who splits her time between Portland, OR and NYC. Her book Low: Notes on Art and Trash ](http:)[was selected for …