NYC — Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else (2018) and the chapbook Pity the Animal (2014). She teaches at the Bennington MFA program and at the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Italy and also does private writing consultations. We met at a reading back in December in Bushwick. I read her book a couple times over the past couple months.

Her book: https://www.amazon.com/Tonight-Im-Someone-Else-Essays/dp/1250170192

Pod Contents:

3 min - pod start

5 min - Work

7 min - never defining oneself as a single thing / multiplicity

10 min - presentation / performance / moon stuff

14 min - rewriting over years

15 min - the moon looks different depending on how the light hits it

17 min - Jo Ann Beard “sometimes you gotta just live longer”

20 min - “writing is gross”

22 min - narcissism / self-concern / autonomy

29 min - Longing / By Grand Central Station I Laid Down And Wept (1945) by Elizabeth Smart

33 min - planetary / animal stuff

35 min - on embarrassment

36 min - when Pity the Animal (2014) dropped

40 min - on workshopping

41 min - taking what you need out of “negative” experiences

44 min - on clarity

47 min - write to change fate’s course

52 min - on doubling down

58 min - what Chelsea workin on now

1 hr - McClanahan

Intro song: "Thank You" by Yamz - https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-master

Sean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe twitter.com/stconroe

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