The Lives of Writers

Michael talks with Danny Caine about living in two places at once, the story of the Raven Book Store, making a life as a bookseller, his book HOW TO RESIST AMAZON AND WHY, becoming a poet by accident…

Michael talks with Kevin Maloney about getting married to the same person a few times, working as a web developer for about fifteen years, looking to dead writers for a way to live, interest in Easte…

Michael talks with Amy Fusselman about releasing a book, harboring a secret in childhood that created a belief in writing, becoming comfortable sharing personal work, the story of Ohio Edit and other…

Michael talks with Chelsea Martin about putting together books as a kid, going to art school, becoming a writer in the small press community, essay as therapy, her essay collection CACA DOLCE, her no…

Michael talks with Nuar Alsadir about remote psychoanalysis, finding a path as a thinker and writer, her two collections of poetry, her book-length essay Animal Joy (Graywolf Press), spontaneous outb…

Michael talks with Erin Langner about working in museums, getting into art and writing and museology, her essay collection Souvenirs from Paradise (Zone 3 Press), the space between reality and fantas…

Michael talks with Adrienne Marie Barrios about working from home, becoming a writer and editor, starting Reservoir Road Literary Magazine and CLOVES Literary, getting diagnosed with autism later in …

Michael talks with Sarah Fawn Montgomery about blue collar roots, a teacher who fostered a passion for literature, writing poetry while procrastinating, previous books including QUITE MAD: An America…

Michael talks with Andrew Bomback about writing on the morning train, life as an academic doctor, his path to reading and writing literature, specializing in kidneys, the influence of David Shields a…

Guest host Sara Rauch talks with Kristine Langley Mahler about space-out time, her work with Split/Lip Press, discovering creative non-fiction, finding a writing community online, submitting to lit m…

Michael talks with Ryan Rivas about the story of Burrow Press, finding his way as a writer, the Orlando literary community, the making of the mixed media book NEXTDOOR IN COLONIALTOWN (Autofocus Book…

Michael talks with Ashley Farmer about getting into the arts and writing, previous books in fiction and poetry, her essay collection DEAR DAMAGE, a life changing act in the family involving a gun aft…

Michael talks with Jody Keisner about coming to creative non-fiction from academic writing, her collection UNDER MY BED AND OTHER ESSAYS, writing and researching about personal fears and anxieties, a…

Michael talks with Elisa Gabbert about writing time, her poetry column for NYT, reading and writing about classics, an ongoing interest in language and thinking, life before her first book, tricking …

Michael talks with Ander Monson about his many literary projects, a love of machines, integrating the web into early books, image/text, his path to nonfiction, the process of writing PREDATOR: A MEMO…

Michael talks with Jackson Bliss about language as consolation, time in the Peace Corps, writing three books in different genres about mixed-race identity, the choose-your-own-adventure memoir DREAM …

Michael talks with Janelle Cordero about painting, the library, poetry with a sense of return, her newest collection IMPOSSIBLE YEARS, a poem working or not, poetry as portraiture, fear of death, the…

Michael talks with Holly Pelesky about reading aloud, becoming honest, co-founding Vast Chasm, editing other writers, writing direct address, the making of CLEAVE, slim volumes, revision as self exam…

Michael talks with Meg Tuite about growing up in a family of readers, A Confederacy of Dunces, the beginnings of writing and publishing, early books, risk, sentences as worlds unto themselves, her ne…

Guest host Ryan Skaryd talks with Laurie Uttich about running workshops in a maximum-security correctional center for men, reaching for a pen to figure stuff out, loving teaching after not wanting to…