J. Ryan Stradal is the New York Times best selling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest. His latest novel is The Lager Queen of Minnesota.

Stradal grew up in the midwest, and now he lives in Los Angeles. Also, he used to be a college radio DJ on WNUR. Hey, I used to be a college DJ, too. Great fun.

Check out jryanstradal.com for his book tour dates starting on July 23rd across the United States.

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Janet Fitch is the author of White Oleander, Paint It Black, The Revolution of Marina M., and her new novel Chimes of a Lost Cathedral.

White Oleander was an Oprah Book club selection and translated into 24 languages and adapted to a feature film. Paint It Black was also adapted to a feature film by author and filmmaker Amber Tamblyn.

Photo by Cat Gwynn. Enjoy the show.

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Rob Roberge is the author of Liar, a memoir, out now on paperback. His previous books include The Cost of Living, Ludlow, Drive, and More Than They Can Chew.

He’s a professor at UC Riverside’s Low Residency MFA program for creative writing and founding member of the band The Urinals.

Rob not only sings in the shower, he swings in the shower, and he’s a fantastic conversationalist.

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Duke Haney is the author of Banned For Life, Subversia, and Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland.

He’s also an actor and screenwriter, and, as you’ll hear on this episode, he had an early gig as a writer and actor was for Roger Corman and the film Daddy’s Boys.

Taped from the former Moonie capital of the world, and now, a fancy cafe called The Alcove. Enjoy the show.

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Maggie Rowe is the author of Sin Bravely: A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience. She also produces Sit ‘n’ Spin, the longest running spoken word show every third Thursday on at the Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles. Her TV writing credits include Arrested Development and Flaked.

Listen to us apostate heathens shoot the shit and giggle over lots of coffee.

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Dennis Cruz is the author of The Beast Is We, Moth Wing Tea, and No One: Poems.

During our conversation a wee accident happened on the street in front of us, which lead us down an amazing path of chatting about death, suicide, the bible, existence, and oh gawd, we even talked about God.

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Alex Espinoza is author of Cruising: An intimate History of a Radical Pastime coming out on June 4, 2019 on Unnamed Press.

He’s also the author of Still Water Saints and The Five Acts of Diego Leon.

We discussed his latest book near the bathrooms at The Alcove on Los Feliz, which, was oddly appropriate for the material.

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Liza Mandelup is a documentary filmmaker. Her film, Jawline, premiered at Sundance Film Festival and screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2019.

The film follows 16-year-old Austyn Tester, a rising star in the live-broadcast ecosystem who built his following on wide-eyed optimism and teen girl lust, as he tries to escape a dead-end life in rural Tennessee. It will be released on Hulu later this year.

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Christine Sneed is the author of Little Known Facts and Paris, He Said and the short story collections The Virginity of Famous Men and Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry.

We drank coffee and indulged in chocolate croissants, then we were jittery and at about 45 minutes into the taping, there was a drop in our blood sugar, so, it sounds like the audio switches to slo-mo speech, but, that’s just how we talk in that situation. Enjoy the show.

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Saskia Vogel is the author of the novel, Permission. She was born and raised in Los Angeles and now resides in Berlin.

Vogel worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and was an editor at AVN Media Network, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products.

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