Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

In this episode, I got a chance to speak with Jessie Lynn McMains. 

Jessie is a cross-genre writer, punk poet, small press publisher, and spoken word performer. Their latest work includes Self-Portra…

Emilly Giselle Prado is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. As an award-winning multimedia journalist, Emilly spent h…

Originally I wanted to name this episode Strongbox but realized that few people would get the reference. Luckily, Spencer did as I explained getting almost shut out of my building by a neighbor as I …

In this wildly fun episode, I interview Jeff Schnieder. Jeff is a writer, founder of Pig Roast Publishing, and the former guitarist and songwriter of the noise-rock bands Arab On Radar and Made in Me…

This is a pretty chill episode. Blake Wallin comes on and about his latest book, Papal Glow, amongst other things. We get into religion, politics, music, and how anxiety-inducing it is to be a millen…

In this episode, I interview Nicole Morning. We talk about Tinder, punk music, what's behind her writing, and how weird it is to be an adult.

She is the author of Selftitled* from Trident Press and _…

On today’s podcast, I’ll be interviewing Steve Gergely. 

Steve Gergley is a writer and runner from Warwick, New York. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, Cleaver Magazine, H…

In this episode, I'll be interviewing Joseph Fasano.

Fasano is the author of the novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the "20 Best Small Press Books…

Check out Bart's books from Trident Press

Take a look at his website for more information: https://bartschaneman.com/

In this week's episode, I interviewed literary icon, Aaron Burch. 

Aaron Burch is the author of the memoir/literary analysis Stephen King’s The Body; the short story collection, Backswing; and the no…

BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Press and is the author of several books, including Sad Laughter (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018). His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Heavy F…

In this episode, I'll be interviewing C E Hoffman. C E Hoffman was born, gave birth, and tried to die in Edmonton, AB (not necessarily in that order.) They wrote their first novel at 11 yrs old, and …

On today’s podcast, I’ll be interviewing Adam Gnade about basically everything but focusing mostly on his record label,  Hello America Stereo Cassette, where he releases audio recordings of writers' …

In this episode, I get a chance to chat with Lee Matthew Goldberg about a wide array of things, but mostly 90's music and culture since that's at the heart of his newest book, Runaway Train.

Lee Mat…

In this episode, I interview Gauraa Shekhar. Gauraa Shekhar is a Founding Editor of No Contact, the Interviews Editor at Maudlin House, and an Assistant Editor at X-R-A-Y. Her debut short story “Othe…

In this episode, I interview Andrew Wilt from 11:11 Press. He is not just a publisher. Andrew has also been working professionally in writing for over a decade. He is the author of Age of Agility: Th…

In a very strange and wild episode of Textual Healing, I got a chance to interview Leza Cantoral who is one of my favorite people in the lit world today! It gets weird, it gets dark, and it actually …

This week on Textual Healing, we go off the record with Dmitry Samorov where he tells it as it is when it comes to the 80's.

Not just Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and music still on MTV...

Support Tex…

In this episode of Textual Healing, Dmitry Samarov talks about what it's like to be Gen X in a Gen Z world. We joke around about what the right sayings are and whether our taste in music even matters…

In this episode, Mallory Smart and Andy Tran get into all of the weird small talk with Taylor Johnson. We dish about our new favorite bands, the kind of poetry we're all into, and sadly even the weat…