Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan.

Welcome to an all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. This week Chiwan welcomes award winning writer Jami Attenberg. Find out about the transformative encounter that turned Jami from a non-believer into full-on ghost-curious. From seeing ghosts in New Hampshire to  the state of hauntedness in New Orleans to her dog Sidney. A show so fun, it will scare the lit out of you! 

#HauntedNewOrleans #GhostEncounter #HauntedNewHampshire #GhostLIt

So much going on this week’s episode of Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan. Meet poet Luke Johnson and does he have a story to share that he simply can’t explain away. Spoiler alert: It’s name is ‘Furia” and it’s a demon speaking from a belly button? WTF? You tell us, crazy story! #DemonicEncounter #LukeJohnson #Exorcism #ChurchGroup #Kobe #GoLakers

From real ghosts to fashion ghosts, join Chiwan Choi and his special guest Pushcart-nominated Sokunthary Svay on this week’s episode of Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan. Sokunthary Svay was born in a refugee camp in Thailand shortly after her parents fled Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. She is currently poetry editor for Newtown Literary, the only literary journal for the borough of Queens.  In addition to publishing a poetry collection, Apsara in New York (Willow Books, 2017), Svay’s first opera, Woman of Letters, set by composer Liliya Ugay, received its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in January 2020 as part of the American Opera Initiative. She teaches English at Queens College, CUNY. Today we’re talking ghosts. 

#SokuntharySvay #Paranormal #Apsara #LiteraryGhostStories

What does K-Pop, Shinee, and the Ghost of Bumpy Johnson have in common? Find out in this extraordinary episode of Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan. This week’s guest is Porochista Khakpour who’s book SICK  (HarperCollins) was “a memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery, chronicling the long, arduous discovery of her late-stage Lyme Disease.” Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic, 2007) was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice.”

#Kpop #Shinee #BumpyJohnson #Jonghyun #Haunted #Ghosts #PorochistaKhakpour

What's it like to levitate? We're going to find out together on this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. In this episode, Chiwan and his "extra special" guest, poet Amanda Choo Quan discuss her extraordinary life. Amanda Choo Quan is a Trinidadian-Jamaican writer and literary organizer. She won the 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize—one of the region's most significant for emerging writers. Focusing on race, displacement and her homeland, her work appears in Harper’s Bazaar, NYLON, HuffPost, Caribbean Beat, Callaloo, and others. 

#Levitation #Chiwan #AmandaChooQuan #paranormal #Trinidad #Jamaican

Who is the Snoring Ghost? Why should you bribe future ghosts with a Starbucks card during "Ghost Month"? And why was Chiwan's parents worried the cat was going to kill him? Welcome to an all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan. Join Chiwan and writer Ed Lin as we find the answers out together. Ed Lin, a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards and is an all-around standup kinda guy. His books include Waylaid, and a mystery trilogy set in New York’s Chinatown in the ‘70s: This Is a Bust, Snakes Can’t Run and One Red Bastard. Ghost Month, published by Soho Crime, is a Taipei-based mystery, and Incensed and 99 Ways to Die continue that series. David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, his first YA novel, is published by Kaya Press in October 2020.

#GhostsMonth #EdLin #TaiwaneseGhosts #Haunted

Can a knife cut through time and space and free a haunted spirit? Ask Melora Walters. Join Chiwan Choi on an all new Are You There, Ghost It’s Me, Chiwan. You may know poet, filmmaker, actress Melora Walters from films like Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Dead Poets Society or from the Hulu series PEN15, but today we break through to a different side.

#MeloraWalters #Magnolia #HauntedLaurelCanyon

Mat Johnson was just trying to research for a new novel. Then he fell down the UFO Twitter rabbit hole. Was that enough to make him a believer? Join Chiwan Choi and his special guest Mat Johnson, author of the novels Loving Day, Pym, Drop, and Hunting in Harlem, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot, and the comic books Incognegro and Dark Rain. He is a recipient of the American Book Award, the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He's got aliens on his mind.

#UFO #Paranormal #Sightings #internationalUFO #Pym

Is The Driskill Hotel really haunted? YES! Should you wait 24 hours before you share your dreams? MAYBE? And if you didn’t know about The Hat Thing, you’ll find out. Join Chiwan and his guest Tera Patrick and they discuss the supernatural side of living in Italy, starting at haunted hotels and weird superstitions on this all new episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me Chiwan.

#HatOnBed #DriskillHotel #Superstitions #ItalianGhosts #DrugstoreCowboy #HauntedDriskill #myParanormalNetwork #myPN

In this week’s episode of Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan, our host sits down to chat with award-winning novelist and Etch-A-Sketch wizard Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat and Water & Power. And questions are asked, such as: Why would you live an old Klan House? Um, is that a handprint inside your closet? And who in the world is HANNAH? 

 

#Hannah #Haunted #TarpaulinSky #WhitingAward #PottedMeat #StrangerThanFiction