Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– JP Gritton’s novel Wyoming

– Another good story by JP

– My earlier interview with JP (in transcript form)

– FBoy Island

– Alice McDermott’s book What About the Baby?

– LitHub’s interview with Mat Johnson, All Fiction Is Crime Fiction

– Edgar Allan Poe’s story Murders in the Rue Morgue

– David Yezzi’s essay These are the poems, folks

– Oedipus the King

– Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem Sunday Afternoons

– Walter Mosley’s novel Devil in a Blue Dress

– Chinatown

– Billy Collins’ poem Hangover

– The story of Ugolino in the Inferno

– Jorie Graham’s book Sea Change

– Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith