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
S1E12 -Collapsing into Music with Kevin Bigley
Kevin Bigley joins us to talk about his intense love of music, his new book Comaville, and his character Luke in Amazon's Upload.
Kevin is an actor and writer living in Los Angeles. He plays Luke in …
S1E11 -Two Million Hours with Zac and Giac: a show about nothing
In this lit episode, I am joined by Zac Smith and Giacomo Pope where we talk about nothing and everything. Music genres, literary genres, and even how a genre's name comes into being is discussed in …
S1E10 -Las Vegas Bootlegger: Noah Cicero and The Idea of Authenticity
In this episode, we talk to Noah Cicero about his latest book: Las Vegas Bootlegger: Empire of Self-Importance from Trident Press. We also get into lit topics like the way Bruce Springsteen makes us …
S1E9 -Florida Man: What's on the Menu with Chase Griffin
In today's episode, we have an hour-long conversation full of zany non-sequiturs with Chase Griffin. My co-host, Andy Tran, joins me while we talk with our favorite Florida Man about things like Kany…
S1E8 -Live from IKEA: D.T. Robbins, Meatballs, and Tampons
In today's episode, Mallory and Andy hit up D.T. Robbins. They talk about folk music, punk rock, Phoebe Bridgers, Bright Eyes, Elton John, and David Lynch. All of which influence his mood and writing…
S1E7 -It’s My Sniffle Party And I’ll Yacht Rock If I Want To: an interview with Claire Hopple
In this episode, Mallory and Andy get a chance to interview Claire Hopple about her love of dreamy indie music like Goth Babe, Sniffle Party, and then whatever the hell Yacht Rock is.
Claire Hopple l…
S1E6 -We Can All Be Sad Bois: a random conversation with Giacomo Pope
Giacomo Pope is the author of Chainsaw Poems & Other Poems and the founder of Neutral Spaces.
Much like his writing, this episode is all about passion and obsession. We go further and deeper than we'…
S1E5 -Lo-Fi Stories with Joshua Bohnsack
Joshua Bohnsack is the author of Shift Drink (Spork Press, forthcoming 2020) and Burnt Sienna: Cocktails & Stories (Throwback Books, 2017) and his work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hobart, SAND, LitHu…
S1E4 -Who’s Greta Gerwig: an interview with Kat Giordano
We get a chance to chat with Kat Giordano. Kat wrote The Poet Confronts Bukowski's Ghost, which is a book of poetry you can still buy on Amazon.
She also wrote the novel The Fountain, which is forthc…
S1E3 -"the more things you like, the more fun you have" an interview with Nathaniel Kennon Perkins
S1E2 -Very Online: Shoegazing with Mallory Smart and Andy Tran
Hosts Mallory Smart and Andy Tran finally take the time to introduce themselves to the Textual Healing listeners by discussing all things weird. We quiz each other on new writing, Boogie Nights, chil…
S1E1 -Unbridled Enthusiasm: A Conversation With Nick Gregorio
Nick Gregorio comes on as our special guest where we talk about all things Punk, COVID, and the release of his new book, With A Difference , from Trident Press.
He lives, writes, and teaches just ou…