Story Forward

This week Larry and Christian dive into the dog days of summer, talking baseball - major and minor league - BSU summer football, the sports market in Boise, and many other sports and sports adjacent happenings in summer with longstanding Idaho sports radio host on KTIK, and sports columnist with the Idaho Press, Mike Prater. A spirited and thoughtful conversation!

Then our special guest correspondent, writer, friend, and storyteller of the highest caliber, Carrie Seymour, brings us her remarkable essay on her thorough and unremitting love of baseball. Beautiful stuff! Enjoy and stay cool out there.

Be safe, smart, and well, and remember to keep moving the story forward, y'all!

Learn about all things Mike Prater at https://www.facebook.com/mike.prater.37.

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This week Larry and Christian sit down with Will Leitch, journalist, novelist, founding editor of Deadspin, father, blogger, and, among many other things, cohost of the wildly popular movie-centric podcast, Grierson and Leitch. We talk about the entity known as The Summer Movie, dig deep into what that moniker actually means, how it's carried out, who goes and sees summer blockbusters and who defers to the art house gems in the heat of the season. We examine a few tropes, favorites, bombs, and the simple joy of going to an air conditioned movie theater on a hot summer day or night.

Our amazing Correspondents this week are writers and storytellers Allison Maier and David McNeil, two movie aficionados and friends who talk growing up watching summer movies in Saudi Arabia, the necessity of bringing The Bourne Identity to a party and making everyone watch while you narrate, and the joy of browsing the aisles of any given Blockbuster (RIP). And more!

Be safe, smart, and well, and remember, keep moving the story forward, y'all!

Learn about all things Will Leitch at https://leitch.tumblr.com.

Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast!

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This week Larry and Christian get into a particularly memorable July 4th weekend that took place on San Juan Island in 1989. A dozen friends, all dudes. Far too much beer. Plenty of laughter, injuries, fuzzy antics, and stories that have lived on as pieces of the puzzle that was our lives back in our early twenties. We get into how we all remember and tell the story of that weekend from a unique vantage, and how memory has and continues to shape that years-gone narrative as time has marched on.

We managed to wrangle one old friend from that lost weekend to come on as our guest. Eirik Olsen joins us to tell and talk about how he adds up that Independence Day weekend in 1989.

Then, the amazing Kevin Smokler delivers our correspondent piece all about his family's tradition of counting flags every July 4th.

Be safe, smart, and well, and remember, keep moving the story forward, y'all!

Learn about all things Kevin Smokler at https://www.kevinsmokler.com/about-kevin/.

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We roll on with the Season One and Summer Stories with co-hosts Larry Rosen and Christian Winn continuing to explore the entity of the Summer Read, this episode through the lens of the bookseller, book buyer, and the very human joys of in-store experience of bookstores in summertime, and really all the time. 

We sit down via Zoom with Pete Mulvihill, co-owner (along with his wife) of San Francisco's iconic indie bookstore, Green Apple Books. We talk origin story, pandemic community support, exciting summer titles, the literary legacy of San Francisco, and more!

As well, we have our man Ross Hargreaves on as this week's Correspondent, giving us his take and insider narratives of working the floor as a big-box Barnes and Noble bookseller. Funny, droll, very Ross. Enjoy! Happy Summer, and keep moving the story forward, y'all!

You can find out about all things Green Apple Books at greenapplebooks.com. 

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We kick off season one of our exciting new podcast - Story Forward - by diving into the many facets of the concept and execution of the summer read. What constitutes the iconic summer read? Who is reading what in the summer? What does it mean to write and release a book in summer? 

Co-hosts Larry Rosen and Christian Winn deliver their takes on the summer read then sit down with best-selling novelist, Jessica Anya Blau, whose newest novel, Mary Jane, was just released in the runup to summer 2021. Then Christian delivers our Correspondent Story in this debut episode, a yarn all about, among other things, a Charles Bukowski book he appropriated from a love interest one summer over thirty years ago. Welcome and happy summer! Keep moving the story forward, y'all!

You can find out about all things Jessica Anya Blau at https://www.jessicaanyablau.com.

Check out the EaseDrop podcast network at ease-drop.com. We thank them for housing this podcast!

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Story Forward is a weekly podcast that's all about the big, strange, heartfelt, important stories we tell. For our first season we bring you twelve weeks of Summer Stories; the stories we spin during and about summer. Throughout our Summer Stories season we'll be looking at the books we read, the movies we see, the music we listen to, the tales we weave. We'll hear from authors, booksellers, movie critics, sportswriters, podcasters and even a Disneyland jungle cruise captain.  We’ll talk about beach reads, blockbusters, summer camps, July 4th outings gone sideways. There will be family vacations, scary campfire stories, tales of baseball fandom, road trips, wild and dangerous summer jobs in Alaska among so many other classic and singular stories of summer. Slather on the sunscreen and keep moving the story forward!

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This week we're featuring three of the amazing writers who were among Storyfort's winning writers for our themed writing contest, The Before and The After. Poet Dani Parmenter, Essayist Deana Brown, and Fiction Writer Tomas Baiza talk process and the writing life w/ Storyfort Director Christian Winn. AND the winning works are read! Enjoy these amazing and talented writers' work!

Take care and see you at the Fest in September! Then again in March of '22!

Contact Storyfort at story@treefortmusicfest if you have queries about these writers, or any of our programming.

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This week we return to the Idaho Botanical Garden for some poignant stories of rebirth and reemergence as well as some whip-smart Covid comedy. Bloom: A Reading Series Season #2 has begun! Tai Simpson and Odd Hours Theater Co. brought the good stuff, and we can't wait to see all you Boise Area folks at the IBG again on May 10th for the second installment! Be safe, well, and kind. See you at the Fest in September of '21!

Learn about all things Tai Simpson at taisimpson.com.

Find Odd Hours Theater Co by searching Instagram.

All things Idaho Botanical Garden and Bloom can be found here - https://idahobotanicalgarden.org/event/bloom-a-reading-series-april-12/

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Larry and Christian sit down with NM Senator, poet, novelist, big-hearted artist, Bill O'neill, and writer, podcaster, teacher, Emmy-Award winner, and overall good dude, Ben Tanzer. We talk about Bill's collections and novels (info link below), Ben's work both as a creative himself and as a promoter of art and literature like Bill's. We get into some politics, but not too much, mostly we just dig into the good words. Enjoy!

Find out about all things Ben Tazer at tanzerben.com.

Bill O'neill's full bio and latest work can be found at redmountainpress.us. 

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Storyfort’s Christian Winn and Allison Maier chat with writer and performer Olivia Gatwood about book and movie inspirations, the unique challenges of novel-writing, and the similarities between poetry and screenwriting. Plus, Olivia shares the best story she’s never written.

Olivia is the author of two poetry collections: “New American Best Friend” and “Life of the Party.” Her novel “Whoever You Are, Honey” comes out in early 2022.

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