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Chavisa Woods in conversation with Bernard Meisler.

Chavisa Woods is a New York-based literary fiction author, and poet. She is the author of three books. The first, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, (2009) is both a short fiction collection and a novel. Woods’ second work of fiction, The Albino Album, a novel, (2013) is a queer epic and follows the life of a little girl who accidentally feeds her mother to an albino tiger and grows up to become a domestic terrorist. Her third, Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country (2017), is a collection of short stories focusing on the lives of people living in rural areas of the U.S., one of which,”How to Stop Smoking in Nineteen-thousand-two-hundred-and-eighty-seven Seconds, Usama,” was originally published by Sensitive Skin.

We spoke about her latest work, concerning the #MeToo movement, our mutual respect, admiration and love for our mentor-in-common John Farris, and Mystery Science Theater 3000. Around the 45-minute mark, Chavisa reads an excerpt from an as-of-yet (but probably not for too long) unpublished story, “Exit Stage.”

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Darius James in conversation with Bernard Meisler.

Darius James (aka Dr. Snakeskin) is the author of That’s Blaxploitation, a history of Black exploitation cinema, and the renowned cult classic Negrophobia, a raunchy and hilarious afrosurrealist satire, (“By far the best novel to emerge from New York’s Lower East Side literary scene.”—Kirkus) which will be re-released on February 19, 2019 by New York Review Books Classics. We talked about his childhood in New Haven, his move to Los Angeles where he heckled Richard Pryor (and got heckled right back), and his writing process and how it relates to magick. After the conversation Darius reads an excerpt from Negrophobia.

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In conversation with Bernard Meisler.

Patrick O’Neil began his career as a visual artist, before getting involved with the San Francisco punk rock scene of the ’70s and ’80s. He worked as a roadie and road manager for the Dead Kennedys, Flipper and the Ramones, among others. When the music career ended unceremoniously, due to some bad habits he’d picked up as an occupational hazard, he turned his talents to bank robbery. He told of his journey from incarceration to becoming a writer in his gripping memoir, Gun Needle Spoon. Patrick reads an excerpt from his latest work, a memoir of his road dog years, at about the 45-minute mark.

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Hosted by Bernard Meisler.

John S. Hall is a poet, musician and lawyer. He’s a fixture on the downtown NYC poetry scene, and achieved fame in the early ’90s with the band he co-founded, King Missile (Jesus Was Way Cool, Detachable Penis, etc.). John and I start off on a political digression, then we speak about how he became a writer and his process. Around the 47-minute mark, John sings a song, “Animal Liberation,” then we end up by talking about vegan diets vs. recycling.

Intro music, “Anti-Mother-In-Law Car,” by Timber.

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Greetings humans and welcome to the very first Sensitive Skin Magazine Podcast! Our format is simple – your host, Bernard Meisler, will have a 45-minute-or-so conversation with a guest, generally (but not necessarily) somebody who’s previously been published in Sensitive Skin, and afterwards, the guest will read a selection from their work.

For our premiere episode, we got together with famed crime novelist Peter Blauner, author of eight novels, a star journalist at New York Magazine, and a television writer for such shows as Law and Order: SVU and Blue Bloods. At the end of the episode, Pete reads the prologue for his latest novel, Proving Ground, which we had the pleasure to publish a couple of years ago as a standalone short story, “The Storm.” The reading begins at 49:40.

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