Letters Off Paper

Greg Tate became one of the most notorious voices in American journalism in the late eighties. We speak about his early years in DC as a budding music critic, look back at his creative influences and laugh at the days when I'd joust with him in the letter section of New York's hippest newspaper.

Award winning writer Ananda Devi and I explore the complex themes in her immersive novel about four teens in Mauritius.

Writer and translator Lindsay Lerman expounds on why she chose to make a topic as taboo as death the subject of her last novel and offers a sneak peak at her next one. 

Writer and performer Beth Lisick and I look back at the spoken word scenes in San Francisco and NY in the late nineties and the novel as archive of sub-cultures vulnerable to erasure.

Felice Rosser, lead vocalist and bass player for the band Faith NYC, who has played venues around the U.S. England and Europe, revisits the period during the late seventies when she was under contract with Simon & Schuster to write an edgy coming of age story.

Correction: I mistakenly say that Felice and I met in 1980 during this interview, but we met in 1978.

Maisy Card and I talk around and around her recent novel described as "a fluid blend of patois and erudite descriptions of Jamaica" by the New York Times Book Review.

Nora Hikari expounds on the rewards and challenges of being a young trans lesbian poet in the Internet age.

Visual artist and writer Emma Bolland, whose book "Over, In and Under" published by Dostoevsky Wannabe Press in 2019, is described as a work "between fiction, prose-poem, script and essay" riffs on writing as ritual.

Tim and I riff on his shadowy novel, Queer metaphysics, desire as cannibalism and other thoughtful and compelling stuff.

Alvin and I look back at the anti-status quo behaviors of the eras he records in his memoir and discuss the transition from non-stop partying to book writing.