In this episode, Mallory Smart and Andy Tran get into all of the weird small talk with Taylor Johnson. We dish about our new favorite bands, the kind of poetry we're all into, and sadly even the weather... Lena Dunham and the Armenian Genocide is also somehow discussed as well.

No spoilers, so if you wish to connect those wild dots listen to the entire show.

Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. They are the author of Inheritance_ (Alice James Books, 2020), and their work appears in _The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. They live in New Orleans where they listen.

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