The Pratfalls podcast

“Literature is not the same thing as publishing. We’re in the literature business and publishing is one thing that we do.”

Chris Fischbach talks about taking over leadership of an organization, the h…

“My gauge of success is how do I feel on Sunday nights and Monday mornings.”

In this episode, Chief Experience Officer at Clockwork Chuck Hermes talks about how he got started doing graphic design as…

"You can make better art when you listen to community voices."

Leah Cooper is Co-Artistic Director of Wonderlust Productions. She has been directing, producing, and performing in theater for thirty y…

“Anytime I want to feel better I just need a stage.”

On this episode, singer/songwriter Katy Vernon talks about depression, her fairly new relationship with sobriety, how she went from writing songs …

“By having a plan B, it weakens your plan A.”

Kory LaQuess Pullam was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. He earned his BFA at Stephen F. Austin State University in 2013. Leaving the collegiate…

"If you have an idea for a podcast, please make it."

On this episode of the podcast, Hans Buetow talks a lot about podcasting. He talks about the specifics of working in that medium and how it's diff…

“In India I think everyone is pretty much always dancing.”

Divya Maiya and Madhu Bangalore talk about their marriage, their work with Bollywood Dance Scene and how the two intersect.

Bollywood Dance …

“This has been a year of understanding resilience and how humor is part of processing something as dark and deep as suicide.”

Shannon Forney is working at the intersection of creativity, creative pla…

“I don’t have to be only about this rigid, tough-guy masculinity that was passed down in my neighborhood, I’m into poetry.”

Jake Virden learned anti-racism and a love for hip-hop music and culture at…

Nina Simon is inspiring speaker, writer and thinker who started changing the way museums and cultural institutions do and think about their work when she started her Museum 2.0 blog over a decade ago…

“If your son says you’re a bear, you’re a bear.”

Jon Ferguson talks about how his desire to move and imagine and create caused expulsion from school but its what propels his work as an artist in adul…

Raised by a professional dancer and a rock drummer, Rick Ausland has been performing percussion and tap dancing since he was a child. Rick is a tap dancer, teacher, choreographer, bucket drummer, aud…

 “I think people connected with me better… because I was honest.”

In this episode, Saymoukda Vongsay aka Mooks talks about being a refugee, nicknames, transitioning from being a poet to a playwright …

“I’m really writing about my experience of watching the thing.”

David Roth is a writer and editor living in New York City. He has written for many different things for many different outlets, from sp…

“The thing that scares me, that’s actually the direction that I need to pursue.”

Paul Riedner was a deep-sea diver in the U.S. Army who served in the Middle East. He's currently the Executive Directo…

 “If someone is going to think less of you for not knowing something, they can suck it.”

On this podcast Molly Mogren Katt talks about anxiety, getting out of one’s comfort zone. She talks about how …

“I wish there was one thing I could say ‘this is what I want to do with my life.”

Nathan Tylutki's new business cards actually say "Renaissance Man." This is as close as he can come to describing his…

“Although I fly the flag for ‘yes, and’ it’s okay to say no.”

Madde and Levi have known each other for a number of years. Which is part of why this episode is full of silly bits and goofy nonsense.…

Katie Sisneros is a founding editor of The Tangential, a PhD student in English literature at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, the voice of Totinos on the internet and a live event host. She …