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  Gothic Spaces, Familial Secrets, & Diasporic Perspectives w/ Dania Idriss 04.09.2026 1godz 8min

  In this interview, we chat with Dania Idriss about representing human cruelty, finding creative nourishment in academic conferences, spending time in "writing jail", and so much more.  Dania Idriss (she/her) is a Lebanese-Canadian author and a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. She (currently) gratefully lives and works on the traditional territory of Treaty 7, with her writing focusing on global literatures, particularly Arabic speculative fiction. Her first book, a collection of horror stories titled Tales of the Mountains and the Sea, was released by Freehand Books in May 2026. Dania teaches speculative fiction and global literatures at the Alberta University of the Arts and the University of Calgary. She enjoys all things spooky, warm sweaters, and spending time with her bunny, Arlo.  Books and stories mentioned in this episode: Human Sacrifices — María Fernanda Ampuero  American War; One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This — Omar El Akkad The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins David Copperfield; Great Expectations; The Old Curiosity Shop — Charles Dickens The Haunting of Hill House; The Sundial; We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson The Monk — Matthew Gregory Lewis Forgotten Journey; Thus Were Their Faces — Silvina Ocampo "Brokeback Mountain" — Annie Proulx Harry Potter series — J. K. Rowling Frankenstein — Mary Shelley Dracula — Bram Stoker "Hair" — Mike Thorn The Castle of Otranto — Horace Walpole Lolly Willowes — Sylvia Townsend Warner 
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  Shakespearean Themes, Wang WPS Mishaps, & Stephen King's Revisions w/ Caroline Bicks 01.06.2026 1godz 27min

  In this interview, we chat with Caroline Bicks about combatting AI in the classroom, words clanging on readers' ears, the uniquely portable magic of fiction, and so much more. Caroline Bicks is the author of several academic books, including Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World and Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England. After she was named the University of Maine’s inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, she became the first scholar to be granted extended access by Stephen King to his private archive. In her most recent book, Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King, Bicks documents her exploration of King’s early drafts and hand-written revisions, and her conversations with King about those changes. Her popular writing has appeared in the Modern Love column of the New York Times and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. She is the co-host of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast.Books, plays, stories, and poems mentioned in this episode:The Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum  I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours — Nat Cassidy "Cherrylog Road" — James Dickey  "The Boogeyman"; Carrie; Cell; "Children of the Corn"; Christine; Cujo; Danse Macabre; "The Dark Man"; The Dead Zone; Insomnia; It; "Jerusalem's Lot"; Lisey's Story; The Long Walk; Misery; Night Shift;  "Night Surf"; On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft; Pet Sematary; Rage; 'Salem's Lot; The Shining; The Stand; "Strawberry Spring" — Stephen King Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life — Anne Lamott Edward II — Christopher Marlowe North Woods — Daniel Mason A Swim in the Pond in the Rain — George Saunders Hamlet; Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV; Part II; Henry V; Henry VI, Part I; Henry VI, Part II; Henry VI, Part III; Macbeth; Richard II; Richard III; Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare Charlotte's Web — E. B. White Our Town — Thornton Wilder How Fiction Works — James Wood 
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  Ghostwriting, Cold War Propaganda, & Coming Back from a Five-Week Coma w/ Luke Francis Beirne 17.05.2026 54min

  In this interview, we chat with Luke Francis Beirne about literature versus entertainment, Atlantic Canadian textures, a literary marriage proposal, and so much more.     Luke Francis Beirne was born in Ireland in 1995 and now lives on Wolastoqey land in Saint John, New Brunswick. Beirne has published three novels with Baraka Books, Foxhunt, Blacklion and Saints Rest. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in outlets such as Counterpunch, NB Media Co-op, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Honest Ulsterman, and CrimeReads. Books mentioned in this episode: Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King — Caroline Bicks The Last Thing He Wanted — Joan Didion The Quiet American — Graham Greene The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett The Outsiders — S. E. Hinton The Bamboo Blonde; In a Lonely Place — Dorothy B. Hughes Hatchet — Gary Paulsen How Fiction Works — James Wood 
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  Gut Feelings, Sonic Recursion, & Raspberry Cordial w/ Cassidy McFadzean 08.04.2026 1godz 5min

  In this interview, we chat with Cassidy McFadzean about skewing prepositions, trusting the reader, opting for vibes over plot, and so much more.   Cassidy McFadzean is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, The Walrus, Hazlitt, and Dead Writers (Invisible Publishing, 2025). Cassidy was born in Regina, earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, and now lives in Toronto. She was the 2024-2025 Writer-in-Residence at Sheridan College, and is the 2025-2026 Poet-in-Residence at Arc Poetry Magazine.Books mentioned in this episode:   The Weak Spot — Lucie Elven Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott Slows: Twice — T. Liem Anne of Green Gables; Chronicles of Avonlea; Emily of New Moon; The Story Girl — Lucy Maud Montgomery Fever Dream — Samanta Schweblin Rock Crystal — Adalbert Stifter The Ice Palace — Tarjei Vesaas
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  Earthy Language, Scary Cupids, & Lunar Portrayals w/ Michael Wehunt 17.03.2026 1godz 31min

  In this interview, we chat with Michael Wehunt about the administrative side of professional writing, the unanticipated weirdness of public selfhood, the "moment before the moment", and so much more.   Michael Wehunt has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, multiple Shirley Jackson Awards, and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts' Crawford Award. In Spain, his translated works have garnered nominations for the Premio Ignotus and Premio Amaltea, winning the latter. He haunts the woods of Decatur, Georgia, with his partner and their dog. Together, they hold the horrors at bay. Most recently, he is the author of the novels The October Film Haunt and Nightjars.  Books and poems mentioned in this episode:   Ancient Images; The Grin of the Dark; Incarnate — Ramsey Campbell Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture — Douglas Coupland Poems 1962-2020 — Louise Glück Carrie — Stephen King Beings — Ilana Masad The God of the Woods; Long Bright River — Liz Moore Ghost Wall; Ripeness — Sarah Moss The Violent Bear it Away — Flannery O'Connor "Archaic Torso of Apollo" — Rainer Maria RilkeCoffin Moon — Keith Rosson 
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  Indie Publishing, Intentional Ambiguity, & the Tyranny of Structure w/ Daniel Braum 23.02.2026 54min

  In this interview, we chat with Daniel Braum about exploring the ecology of the supernatural, finding inspiration in liminal spaces, cultivating a sense of awe, and so much more.  Daniel Braum writes short stories that explore the tension between the psychological and the supernatural. He intentionally adopts the term “strange tales” for his “Twilight Zone-like stories in homage to author Robert Aickman and the intentional ambiguities of his work. His latest collection is Phantom Constellations: Strange Tales and Ghost Stories from Cemetery Dance Publications (2025). His stories appear in places ranging from The Best Horror of the Year Volume 12, edited by Ellen Datlow, and Shivers 8, edited by Richard Chizmar.Books and stories mentioned in this episode:  Cold Hand in Mine — Robert Aickman  The Artist's Way — Julia Cameron Ancient Images; The Hungry Moon  — Ramsey Campbell "Plunged in the Years" — Jeffrey Ford "Children of the Corn" — Stephen King The Ceremonies — T. E. D. Klein Beginnings, Middles & Ends — Nancy Kress Dreams of Dark and Light — Tanith Lee Rosemary's Baby; The Stepford Wives — Ira Levin Story — Robert McKee Conjunctions 83: The Ghost Issue — Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow, eds.The Jaguar Hunter — Lucius Shepard Shadowland — Peter Straub Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists — Peter Straub, ed.Harvest Home — Thomas Tryon The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers — Chris Vogler 
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  Sculpture, Anaphora, & Writing by Hourglass w/ Hajer Mirwali 19.01.2026 1godz 4min

  In this interview, we chat with Hajer Mirwali about cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs,  and so much more.  Hajer Mirwali is a Palestinian and Iraqi writer living in Toronto. Her first book, Revolutions (Talonbooks, 2025), is a collection of poetry on shame, pleasure, and Arab Muslim girlhood. Two poems from the collection also appear in an anthology of Palestinian poetry called Heaven Looks Like Us (Haymarket Books, 2025). Hajer’s work has been published in The Ex-Puritan, Brick Magazine, Room Magazine, and Joyland. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, and a BA in Creative Writing from York University.Books mentioned in this episode:  Trust Exercise — Susan Choi The Butterfly's Burden — Mahmoud Darwish Junie B. Jones series — Barbara Park Who by Fire; Who by Water — Greg Rhyno Harry Potter series — J. K. Rowling 
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  Braided Essays, Collective Solitude, & the Objective Correlative w/ Kasia Van Schaik 24.11.2025 1godz 7min

  In this interview, we chat with Kasia Van Schaik about reverse outlining, asking "what if", sublimating emotion through landscape, and so much more.  Kasia Van Schaik is the author of the Giller Prize-nominated story collection We Have Never Lived on Earth and the forthcoming book of memoir and cultural criticism, Women Among Monuments. With Myra Bloom, she is the co-editor of the essay collection, Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge. Kasia’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature, the LA Review of Books, Room, The Rumpus, the Best Canadian Poetry, and the CBC. Kasia holds a PhD in literature from McGill University and is assistant professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Wolastoqiyik territory. Books mentioned in this episode:  Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett  Autobiography of Red — Anne Carson Boyhood; Youth; Summertime — J. M. Coetzee Outline; Transit; Kudos — Rachel Cusk The Days of Abandonment; the Neapolitan Quartet — Elena Ferrante "The Robber Bridegroom" — Brothers Grimm Sweet Days of Discipline — Fleur Jaeggy Lucy — Jamaica Kincaid Her Body and Other Parties — Carmen Maria Machado Housekeeping — Marilynne Robinson Rings of Saturn — W. G. Sebald Flights — Olga Tokarczuk 
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  Building Communities, Finding Guardrails, & Reading the Comments Section w/ Jean Marc Ah-Sen 03.11.2025 57min

  In this interview, we chat with Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, literary scenes, flipping the script on what a book can be, and so much more. Jean Marc Ah-Sen is the author of Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, and Kilworthy Tanner. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Comics Journal, Maclean's, The Walrus, and elsewhere. Books mentioned in this episode: The Fall – Albert Camus I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp – Richard Hell The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi Biography of X – Catherine Lacey Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle – Vladimir Nabokov  Anti-Woo: The Lifeman's Improved Primer for Non-Lovers; The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship: Or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating – Stephen Potter Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones – Dee Dee Ramone Endling – Maria Reva The Dying Animal – Philip Roth Striptease – Georges Simenon The Handyman Method – Andrew Sullivan Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Time Machine – H. G. Wells 
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  Dreaming in Fire, Working in Clay, & Reaching for Awe w/ Ramsey Campbell 19.10.2025 1godz 11min

  In this interview, we chat with Ramsey Campbell about the importance of tapping into creative instincts, the pleasure of happy accidents, the lingering impact of eerie children's tales, and so much more.The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”, and the Washington Post sums up his work as “one of the monumental accomplishments of modern popular fiction”. His awards include the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. His latest novels are Fellstones, The Lonely Lands, The Incubations and An Echo of Children. His Brichester Mythos trilogy consists of The Searching Dead, Born to the Dark and The Way of the Worm. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, Just Behind You, Holes for Faces, By the Light of My Skull, Fearful Implications, and a two-volume retrospective roundup (Phantasmagorical Stories) as well as The Village Killings and Other Novellas. His non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably and Ramsey Campbell, Certainly, while Ramsey’s Rambles collects his video reviews, and Six Stooges and Counting is a book-length study of the Three Stooges. Limericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal is a history of horror fiction in the form of fifty limericks.Books and stories mentioned in this episode:The Atrocity Exhibition – J. G. Ballard Great Short Stories of the World – Barrett H. Clark & Maxim Lieber, eds. "A Dark-Brown Dog"; The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane The Man Within – Graham Greene "The Residence at Whitminster" – M. R. James Rosemary's Baby; The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin Tales of Mean Streets – Arthur Morrison Lolita; Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov "The Telltale Heart" – Edgar Allan Poe At the Foot of the Story Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub – Bill SheehanGhost Story – Peter StraubThe Rupert Bear series – Herbert Tourtel & Mary Tourtel"Afterward" – Edith Wharton At Night, White Bracken; To Those from Below – Gareth Wood 
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  Tonal Registers, Byzantine Journeys, & Repurposing Research w/ Michael LaPointe 22.09.2025 1godz 8min

  In this interview, we chat with Michael LaPointe about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, finding liberation in failure, and so much more.Michael LaPointe is the author of The Creep, a novel published by Random House Canada. He has written for The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and he was a columnist with The Paris Review. His work has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Essays, and he lives in Toronto.Books mentioned in this episode:Affliction; Continental Drift; Rule of the Bone; The Sweet Hereafter – Russell Banks Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs The Adventures of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi Bleak House – Charles Dickens Play it as it Lays – Joan Didion The Lover – Marguerite Duras Middlemarch – George Eliot American Psycho; Less Than Zero; The Shards – Bret Easton Ellis Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert Bad Behavior; Two Girls, Fat and Thin – Mary Gaitskill In a Lonely Place – Dorothy B. Hughes Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination; Sula – Toni Morrison The Sorrow of War – Bảo Ninh Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque Voyage in the Dark – Jean Rhys Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger Last Exit to Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr.  Alice James: A Biography – Jean Strouse The Invisible Woman: The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens – Claire Tomalin Rejection – Tony Tulathimutte Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton 
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  Myth, Fetishism, & the Horror of Living in an Allistic World w/ Gemma Files 04.09.2025 1godz 20min

  In this interview, we chat with Gemma Files about horny monsters, Lovecraftian Airbnbs, the female gaze, and so much more. Previously a film critic, journalist and teacher, Gemma Files has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She's best-known for her novel Experimental Film (Open Road Media) and her collections of short fiction, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning In That Endlessness, Our End and Blood From the Air (both from Grimscribe). Her next book, Little Horn: Stories, will be out in October from Shortwave. She is the autistic mother of an autistic son. For fun she sings, and doodles pretty monsters.Books mentioned in this episode: Empire of the Sun – J. G. Ballard D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths; Norse Gods and Giants – Edgar Parin d'Aulaire and Ingri Parin d'Aulaire Black Flame – Gretchen Felker-Martin The Rotting Room – Viggy Parr Hampton Barrowbeck; The Loney; Starve Acre – Andrew Michael Hurley Bright Dead Star; Zoetrope Bizarre – Caitlín R. Kiernan The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling The Magician's Nephew – C. S. Lewis The Reddening – Adam Nevill Metamorphoses – Ovid Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand Frankenstein – Mary Shelley Dracula – Bram Stoker A Dark Matter – Peter Straub The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole 
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  Girlhood, Defamiliarization, & Poetic Excavation w/ Emily Banks 04.08.2025 58min

  In this interview, we chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more. Emily Banks is the author of Mother Water (Lynx House Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Plume, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, The Rumpus, CutBank, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She publishes scholarship on American gothic literature, runs The Shirley Jackson Society, and is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from Emory University. She lives in Indianapolis and teaches at Franklin College. Books, poems, and stories mentioned in this episode:"Filling Station"; "In the Waiting Room" – Elizabeth BishopAlice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis CarrollTurn Up the Ocean – Tony Hoagland"Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors"; Hangsaman; The Haunting of Hill House; "The Lottery"; We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley JacksonBliss Montage; Severance – Ling MaHow to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy – Jenny OdellMiddle Distance – Stanley PlumlyPamela – Samuel RichardsonModern Poetry – Diane Seuss
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  Ghost Stories, Market Pressures, & Tapping into the Subconscious w/ Naben Ruthnum 11.07.2025 1godz 2min

  In this interview, we chat with Naben Ruthnum about character development, avoiding TV-brained writing, making sense of first-reader notes, and so much more. Naben Ruthnum is a Toronto-based writer of fiction, cultural criticism, film and TV. His novel A Hero of Our Time was released by Penguin Random House and was optioned for development by The Littlefield Company. His books include the YA novel The Grimmer, the World Fantasy Award-nominated horror novella Helpmeet and two thrillers penned as Nathan Ripley, both of which have been optioned for development and were published internationally. He has written for Canadian television series including Murdoch Mysteries and Cardinal. As a feature screenwriter, he’s collaborated with Kris Bertin for feature and TV projects in development at Oddfellows, BoulderLight Pictures, Automatik, Skybound, and Blink49. Kris and Naben's script Road Test made the 2024 Black List.Books mentioned in this episode:A Clockwork Orange – Anthony BurgessThe Sorceress in Stained Glass & Other Ghost Stories – Richard Dalby, ed.The Name of the Rose – Umberto EcoThe Black Dahlia; Killer on the Road; L.A. Confidential; My Dark Places – James Ellroy Black Flame – Gretchen Felker-MartinThe James Bond series – Ian FlemingThe Collector; The Magus – John FowlesThe Green Carnation – Robert HichensThe Americans; The Tragic Muse; The Turn of the Screw – Henry JamesThe Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre; Supernatural Horror in Literature – H. P. LovecraftThe Beckoning Fair One – Oliver OnionsA Fatal Inversion; Master of the Moor – Ruth RendellFlicker – Theodore RoszakThe Tempest – William ShakespeareGhost Story; If You Could See Me Now; In the Night Room; Koko; The Throat – Peter StraubThe Secret History – Donna TarttA Dark-Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs – Barbara VineThe October Film Haunt – Michael Wehunt
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  Ekphrasis, Sinuous Sentences, & the Logic of Sound w/ Sarah Bernstein 03.05.2025 52min

  In this interview, we chat with Sarah Bernstein about contemplation, finding time for writing, capturing the rush of language, and so much more. Sarah Bernstein is the author of two novels, The Coming Bad Days and Study for Obedience, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is from Montreal and lives in the Scottish Highlands. Books and stories mentioned in this episode:Hysteric; Whore – Nelly ArcanGiovanni’s Room – James BaldwinThe Moonstone; The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins“A Mown Lawn” – Lydia DavisShirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth FranklinThe Book of Questions – Edmond JabèsThe Haunting of Hill House; “The Lottery”; The Sundial; We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley JacksonThe Melancholy of Resistance – László KrasznahorkaiThe Place of Shells - Mai IshizawaIn the Wake: On Blackness and Being – Christina SharpeThe House Next Door – Anne Rivers SiddonsThe Door – Magda SzabóClean – Alia Trabucco Zerán
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  Worldbuilding, Aha Moments, & Writing for the Stage w/ S. P. Miskowski 08.03.2025 1godz 18min

  In this interview, we chat with S. P. Miskowski about Asian horror cinema, the power of grief, the relentless desire to shape the self, and so much more. S. P. Miskowski is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, for literature and for drama. Her books have been recognized with four Shirley Jackson Award nominations and two Bram Stoker Award nominations. Her stories have appeared in many anthologies including Haunted Nights, Human Monsters, Looming Low I and II, The Madness of Dr. Caligari, Uncertainties III, October Dreams 2, The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 10, and Darker Companions: 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell, and in magazines including Identity Theory, Black Static, Vastarien, Supernatural Tales, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Her grunge noir novel I Wish I Was Like You was named This Is Horror Novel of the Year 2017 and is available via Audible. An omnibus of her books set in the weird fictional town of Skillute, WA is forthcoming from Broken Eye Books in 2025.Books and stories mentioned in this episode:The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales – Alfred A. Knopf, pub.The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 – S. A. Cosby, ed.D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths – Ingrid & Edgar Parin d’AulaireGo, Dog. Go! – P. D. EastmanRock Paper Scissors – Alice FeeneyThe Haunting of Hill House; "Maybe it Was the Car"; “The Summer People”; We Have Always Lived in the Castle; “The Witch” – Shirley JacksonNone of This is True – Lisa JewellAudition – Ryū Murakami“Bluebeard”; “Cinderella” – Charles Perrault“The Black Cat”; “The Cask of Amontillado” – Edgar Allan PoeThe Last Party – A. R. TorreThe Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 – Lisa Unger, ed.
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  Dream Journals, Imaginary Conversations, & Work-Life Balance w/ Fawn Parker 08.02.2025 1godz 3min

  In this interview, we chat with Fawn Parker about showing the reader around the room, finding the right tense, protecting your writing time, and so much more.Fawn Parker is the author of five books including novels What We Both Know (M&S), nominated for the Giller Prize and Hi, It's Me (M&S), nominated for the Writer's Trust Atwood Gibson Prize, and the poetry collection Soft Inheritance, which was awarded the JM Abraham Atlantic Book Award and the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize. Her work has been published in The Walrus, Hazlitt, Literary Review of Canada, and elsewhere. Fawn is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick and the Poet Laureate of Fredericton.Books and stories mentioned in this episode:The Edible Woman – Margaret AtwoodThe Mountain and the Valley – Ernest BucklerLibra – Don DeLilloThe Guest – Emma ClineAttack of the Copula Spiders and Other Essays on Writing – Douglas Glover"Experience" – Tessa HadleyUlysses – James JoyceRejection – Tony TulathimutteThis All Happened – Michael WinterHow Fiction Works – James WoodMrs. Dalloway – Virginia WoolfFawn's featured author photo is by Steph Martyniuk.
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  Character Case Files, Consecution, & the Acoustics of Language w/ Rod Moody-Corbett 11.01.2025 1godz 4min

  In this interview, we chat with Rod Moody-Corbett about tonal dissonance, sponging up influences, writing from memory, and so much more. Rod Moody-Corbett is an award-winning writer from Newfoundland. His writing has appeared in Socrates on the Beach, The Drift, The Paris Review Daily, and Fiddlehead, among other publications. He is the recipient of the 2022 Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story, a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Short Fiction, the University of Calgary’s Kaleidoscope Prize, and the CBC Canada Writes Short Story Prize (People’s Choice Award). He serves as a contributing editor for Canadian Notes and Queries. Books mentioned in this episode: Experience – Martin Amis Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World; The Hundred Brothers; The Verificationist – Donald Antrim Last Evenings on Earth – Roberto Bolaño Save the Cat! Writes a Novel – Jessica Brody My Education – Susan Choi Underworld – Don DeLillo Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt Erasure – Percival Everett Bad Behavior; Because They Wanted To; Don’t Cry – Mary Gaitskill A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me; Jernigan – David Gates Airships – Barry Hannah The Road Through the Wall – Shirley Jackson Get Shorty; Rum Punch – Elmore Leonard Last Resort – Andrew Lipstein The Sentence is a Lonely Place – Garielle Lutz Moby Dick – Herman Melville The Ice Storm – Rick Moody Lectures on Literature – Vladimir Nabokov A House for Mr. Biswas – V. S. Naipaul Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas; Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family – Nicholas Pileggi Monkey Beach – Eden Robinson The Life of the Mind – Christine Smallwood The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne The Visiting Privilege – Joy Williams To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf Sour Heart – Jenny Zhang
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  Debauchery, Plotless Fiction, & the Paranoiac-Critical Method w/ Nour Abi-Nakhoul 22.12.2024 50min

  In this interview, we chat with Nour Abi-Nakhoul about copy editing, creative nonfiction, feverish creations, and so much more. Nour Abi-Nakhoul is a writer and editor based in Montreal. She is the editor-in-chief of the award-winning quarterly Maisonneuve Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Hazlitt and The Walrus. Her debut novel, Supplication, was released by Penguin Random House in 2024. Books mentioned in this episode:  Kilworthy Tanner – Jean Marc Ah-Sen We Are Here to Hurt Each Other – Paula D. Ashe Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin The Guest – Emma Cline The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky Autobiography of X; Pew – Catherine Lacey The Apple in the Dark – Clarice Lispector Fever Dream – Samanta Schweblin The Adventures of Ratman – Ellen Weiss
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  Ecstasy, Ruin, & the Talent of the Room w/ Kathe Koja 23.10.2024 1godz 18min

  In this interview, we chat with Kathe Koja about balancing simultaneous projects, resisting online distractions, raising the literary dead, and so much more. Kathe Koja writes novels and short fiction, and creates and produces live and virtual events. Her award-winning books include The Cipher, Skin, Buddha Boy, Under The Poppy and Velocities, and she is currently at work on the Dark Factory immersive fiction project including Dark Factory, Dark Park and Dark Matter. Catherine the Ghost is her newest novel. You can find her at kathekoja.com and on Instagram, Facebook and Threads. Books and plays mentioned in this episode:  Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Mouse and His Child; Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban The Default World – Naomi Kanakia A Place of Greater Safety; Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett – James Knowlson Rimbaud: A Biography – Graham Robb Frankenstein; The Last Man – Mary Shelley Lost Boy Lost Girl – Peter Straub The Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of Self and Society through Musical Energy – David Tame