Cabana Chats

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Cabana Chats is a podcast about writing and community, hosted by Catherine LaSota, founder of The Resort writing community.... more

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The podcast currently has 51 episodes available.

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June 14, 2022 Cabana Chats: On Motherhood & Writing, with Molly Caro May & Meaghan O'Connell
This episode of Cabana Chats is a throwback to 2018, when Resort founder Catherine LaSota had a Skype conversation with writers Molly Caro May and Meaghan O'Connell to discuss the intersection of motherhood and writing. This conversation was recorded for a special episode of the LIC Reading Series podcast that never aired, and this is the first time it is reaching an audience!

Molly Caro May is an author of two books, a teacher, and a holder of space. For 12+ years, she has facilitated personal story workshops for more than hundreds of people across the globe. She is trained in Somatic Experiencing and focuses on where language/voice and the animal body meet each other. Her mission is to democratize expression and explore, in good company, the healing alchemy between story and nervous system. In this conversation, we discuss her book Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood.

Meaghan O’Connell is currently the features editor at Romper, where she works on stories about being, becoming, or wanting to be a parent (or not). Before that she was a freelance writer for publications such as New York Magazine’s The Cut, as well as co-editor of the personal finance website The Billfold. In this conversation, we discuss her book And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready.

Find out more about Molly here: https://www.mollycaromay.com
Find out more about Meaghan here: http://www.meaghano.com

Purchase Body Full of Stars here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9781640092075
Purchase And Now We Have Everything here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9780316393850

Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/

You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcast
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
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52min
June 07, 2022 Cabana Chats: Greg Mania
In this episode, writer and comedian Greg Mania talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about how the growth of those closest to us can inspire our own growth, and also about how soothing Coca-Cola can be. We also trip on several words in the English language, including accountability, palatability, and more! And: how does a person pronounce LaCroix? Listen and find out!

Greg Mania is a writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, HuffPost, Oprah Daily, and PAPER, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir, Born to Be Public, is out now from CLASH Books, and he publishes a newsletter called Save Our Serotonin (S.O.S.), which you can subscribe to here: https://saveourserotonin.bulletin.com

Find out more about Greg Mania here: http://www.greg-mania.com

Purchase Born to Be Public here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9781944866877
Invest in one month of one-on-one writing support with Resort founder Catherine LaSota: https://www.theresortlic.com/letsdivein
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/

You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcast
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
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42min
May 31, 2022 Cabana Chats: K-Ming Chang
In this episode, writer K-Ming Chang talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about birding, writing's relationship to oral storytelling, and the audience she's writing for. We also hear a story of magic and dog poop. This episode is amazing, trust.

K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel BESTIARY(One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2021, her chapbook BONE HOUSE was published by Bull City Press. Her short story collection, GODS OF WANT, is forthcoming from One World, as well as a novel titled ORGAN MEATS. She lives in California.

Find out more about K-Ming Chang here: https://www.kmingchang.com
Pre-order/purchase Gods of Want here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9780593241585
Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/

You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcast
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
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33min
May 24, 2022 Cabana Chats: One Story live event w/Hannah Tinti & Maribeth Batcha
In this special live event episode, One Story co-founders Hannah Tinti and Maribeth Batcha talk with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about the first twenty years of One Story, its community-based mission, and the most fun party of the year, the One Story Deb Ball (coming up on June 3, 2022!).
Maribeth Batcha is the publisher and Co-Founder of One Story. She has worked in magazine circulation for over 25 years for titles including Diabetes Self-Management, Lingua Franca, University Business, the New York Review of Books, Working Mother, and The Progressive. In addition to circulation consulting, she currently does marketing and development copywriting for not-for-profits, including the 92nd Street Y and the National Academy Foundation. She has a BA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University.

Hannah Tinti is the co-founder and executive editor of One Story magazine. She is the author of the bestselling novel The Good Thief, which won The Center for Fiction’s first novel prize, and the story collection Animal Crackers, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her most recent novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, is a national bestseller and is in development for television with Netflix. She co-founded the Sirenland Writers Conference in Italy and has taught writing at New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, Columbia University’s MFA program, CUNY, and at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. For more information please visit hannahtinti.com.

Find out more about One Story here: https://one-story.com
Get tickets for the June 3, 2022 One Story Literary Debutante Ball here: https://one-story.com/connect/the-one-story-literary-debutante-ball/
Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
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44min
May 17, 2022 Cabana Chats: Sarah Perry
In this episode, writer Sarah Perry talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about her identity as a writer, our needs to prove things to ourselves as writers, and the benefits of learning to observe across different media.
Sarah Perry (she/they) is a memoirist and essayist who writes about love, trauma, gender-based violence, queerness, and the power dynamics that influence those concerns. She is the author of the memoir After the Eclipse, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Poets & Writers Notable Nonfiction Debut, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Perry is the recipient of a 2020-2022 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the 2018 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, and fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, VCCA, Playa, and The Studios of Key West. She holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University.

Find out more about Sarah here: https://www.sarahperryauthor.net
Purchase After the Eclipse here: https://bookshop.org/books/after-the-eclipse/9781328511911
Find out more about our personalized, one-month writing coaching program, called LET'S DIVE IN, here: https://www.theresortlic.com/letsdivein
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers
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31min
May 10, 2022 Cabana Chats: Cinelle Barnes
In this episode, writer and teacher Cinelle Barnes talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about her background as a visual artist, her allegiances to particular NBA teams, and the through lines in her creative work.
Cinelle Barnes is a formerly undocumented memoirist, essayist, and educator from Manila, Philippines, and is the author of MONSOON MANSION: A MEMOIR (Little A, 2018, Booklist starred review) and MALAYA: ESSAYS ON FREEDOM (Little A, 2019), and the editor of the New York Times New & Noteworthy book, A MEASURE OF BELONGING: 21 WRITERS OF COLOR ON THE NEW AMERICAN SOUTH (Hub City Press, 2020).
Cinelle is a wonderful writing teacher, and we are so grateful to have hosted a conversation and class with her at the Resort. Her course The Multitudes, about putting together an essay collection, is available for purchase in our online Resort network. It’s a self-paced course that includes bonus content that is exclusive to the Resort.
Sign up for Cinelle's self-paced The Multitudes class at The Resort here!
Find out more about Cinelle Barnes here: https://www.cinellebarnes.com
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers
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34min
May 03, 2022 Cabana Chats: Rachel Khong
In this episode, writer Rachel Khong talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about the joy of a good San Francisco walk, the community of the Ruby, and Rachel's awesome system for marking progress in her writing (it involves a ruler and coloring inside the lines).
Rachel Khong is a writer living in San Francisco. Her debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. With Lucky Peach, she also edited a cookbook about eggs, called All About Eggs. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission district. Rachel retired from the Ruby at the end of 2021 and is currently at work on a novel, called Real Americans.

Find out more about Rachel here: http://www.rachelkhong.com
Purchase Goodbye, Vitamin here: https://bookshop.org/books/goodbye-vitamin/9781250182555
Find out more about our personalized, one-month writing coaching program, called LET'S DIVE IN, here: https://www.theresortlic.com/letsdivein
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers
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40min
April 26, 2022 Cabana Chats: Matt Ortile
In this episode, writer and editor Matt Ortile talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about cooking, video games, and the pressure to monetize anything you are good at. They also talk about how Matt’s knowledge of the publishing process via his work as an editor is both a privilege and a challenge in his own writing process.
Matt Ortile is the author of the essay collection The Groom Will Keep His Name. He is also the executive editor of Catapult magazine, and writes regularly for Condé Nast Traveler. Previously, he was the founding editor of BuzzFeed Philippines. He is a MacDowell Fellow and has written for Vogue, Self, Out, Into, and BuzzFeed News, among others. He is a graduate of Vassar College, which means he now lives in Brooklyn.

Find out more about Matt here: https://www.mattortile.com
Purchase The Groom Will Keep His Name here: https://bookshop.org/books/the-groom-will-keep-his-name-and-other-vows-i-ve-made-about-race-resistance-and-romance/9781541762794
Join the Cabana Club and check out our live, Club-exclusive AMA with Matt Ortile on May 5, 2022 (or watch the recording later, as a Cabana Club member!): bit.ly/3fsCVDg
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
...more
42min
April 19, 2022 Cabana Chats: Emily Stone
In this episode, writer and teacher Emily Stone talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about her life in Los Angeles, the ways her teaching practice has grown and developed during the pandemic, and how there are some things we simply cannot do alone as writers. Emily and Catherine also talk about astrology, aging, and raccoons.
Born in New Orleans and raised in Brooklyn, Emily Stone is a writer, teacher, and content alchemist with over 25 years of experience working with authors of all ages to distill the power and impact of every story. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Emily is also known as the College Essay Whisperer, and she’s taught Latin at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights, fiction writing at Hunter College, where she got her MFA, and drama at Stern College.
Emily has taught many wonderful classes at the Resort, on topics like dialogue, plot, scene structure, and more. Her Fiction is Friction course, about writing amazing dialogue, is available for purchase in our online Resort network. It’s a self-paced course that includes bonus content on outlining your book.
Sign up for Emily's self-paced Fiction is Friction class at The Resort here!
Find out more about Emily Stone here: https://www.emilybstone.com
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
...more
42min
April 12, 2022 Cabana Chats: Jason Tougaw
On episode four of our second season, we bring you a conversation with writer and professor Jason Tougaw.
In this episode, Jason Tougaw, author of The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism, and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College, CUNY, talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about his journey from California to New York, the unexpected encounters that follow writing a memoir, and his approach to balancing a writing and academic life.
Jason Tougaw’s memoir The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism (Dzanc) is the winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. His book The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in The Age of Neuroscience (Yale University Press) was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 by Choice magazine. He is also the author of Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (Routledge). He is also editor, with Nancy K. Miller, of Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community(University of Illinois Press). His essays have appeared in OUT magazine, DV8, Largehearted Boy, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature. He writes a monthly column for Psychology Today.
Follow Jason Tougaw on Twitter here: @JasonTougaw
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/
Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.

FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
...more
35min

FAQs about Cabana Chats:

How many episodes does Cabana Chats have?

The podcast currently has 51 episodes available.