Nick Rossi, cofounder and editor of Sobotka Literary Magazine and Ursus Americanus Press, joins us to talk about why we write, the way art shapes community, and even those words we're never sure how to pronounce.

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.

Episode artwork: Berenice Abbott, Two children at the Harlem Community Arts Center in 1939 (cropped). Public doman image courtesy New York Public Library and Wikimedia Commons.

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Eric Benick CM Burroughs "Dear Incubator" Italo Calvino Emily Capers In Between My Bodies Fyodor Dostoevsky Forvo Christopher Gilbert Across the Mutual Landscape Christopher Gilbert "Listening to Monk's Misterioso" Featured in Roger Reeves, "The Uses of Memory" Nikolai Gogol Roy Jacobsen Borders Franz Kafka The Trial Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis Rupi Kaur Chris Kraus Long Day Press Plato Phaedrus Plato Symposium Daniel Pujol Sobotka Literary Magazine Sherry Turkle Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Ursus Americanus Press Kurt Vonnegut William Carlos Williams