Lunch Box Podcast

John and Ed return after a week off due to travel and illness with a new episode addressing the problem of the restaurant pancake, what the deal is with sports, bumping into Dave in New York, the comma splice and its oily pleasures, and what no child's birthday party in Phillipsburg, New Jersey could go without. Also, Ed reads a short story, and John tells a long, depressing anecdote.

This week, Ed and John welcome fiction writer Sharma Shields, and the three talk about hot salad, library masturbators, fast food franchise partnerships, growing up on a lamb ranch, and horse poetry.

This week, Ed and John welcome fiction writer Sharma Shields, and the three talk about hot salad, library masturbators, fast food franchise partnerships, growing up on a lamb ranch, and horse poetry.

Ed's got a cough, John is all bent out of shape about colonialism, and everyone agrees that stoners don't like Ashbery. This week we celebrate the life of Evan S. Connell, issue warnings about small and independent grocers, hold forth on the bushmeat crisis, puncture Doctor Joe's pill piñata, and take a flight of fancy on a plastic plane.

Ed's got a cough, John is all bent out of shape about colonialism, and everyone agrees that stoners don't like Ashbery. This week we celebrate the life of Evan S. Connell, issue warnings about small and independent grocers, hold forth on the bushmeat crisis, puncture Doctor Joe's pill piñata, and take a flight of fancy on a plastic plane.

In this rather ruminative, which is to say slow, episode, Ed contemplates the nature of madness from his lonely cottage in Marfa, Texas, while John holds forth about what one's writing career is supposed to consist of. And somewhere in between they utter the titles of a lot of books, and discuss snow shoveling, the relative popularity of certain greens, John's inseam, Ed's facial hair, and fake live albums. Follow links to the Marfa Chamber of Commerce, Frampton Comes Alive!, and Paul Metcalf. Also, here is Rhian's kale soup recipe: sautee some onions and garlic in a saucepan. Add chopped potatoes and carrots, then vegetable stock. When things are about two thirds done, add some chickpeas, and then chopped kale, leaving only enough time to cook the kale lightly ("so it still has some tooth," says Rhian). Season with salt or soy sauce, chipotle chili powder, italian seasoning, and lime juice.

In this rather ruminative, which is to say slow, episode, Ed contemplates the nature of madness from his lonely cottage in Marfa, Texas, while John holds forth about what one's writing career is supposed to consist of. And somewhere in between they utter the titles of a lot of books, and discuss snow shoveling, the relative popularity of certain greens, John's inseam, Ed's facial hair, and fake live albums. Follow links to the Marfa Chamber of Commerce, Frampton Comes Alive!, and Paul Metcalf. Also, here is Rhian's kale soup recipe: sautee some onions and garlic in a saucepan. Add chopped potatoes and carrots, then vegetable stock. When things are about two thirds done, add some chickpeas, and then chopped kale, leaving only enough time to cook the kale lightly ("so it still has some tooth," says Rhian). Season with salt or soy sauce, chipotle chili powder, italian seasoning, and lime juice.

Ed and John welcome multidisciplinary scribbler Alice Bolin to the podcast, and the three of them riff for an hour on pop music criticism, what does and doesn't belong in a book, food service cultism, the nature of boredom, and the dangers of poetry workshop.

Ed and John welcome multidisciplinary scribbler Alice Bolin to the podcast, and the three of them riff for an hour on pop music criticism, what does and doesn't belong in a book, food service cultism, the nature of boredom, and the dangers of poetry workshop.

Ed and John return after a week of holiday exertions with this pre-Christmas episode, in which they discuss lunching habits with a couple of young persons, then address donkey cheese, therapy, teen madness, the wellspring(s) of creativity, and relearning how to read.