Fellow MFAer Allison Rodriguez comes into the studio to talk with Ian and Greg about interning at ZYZZYVA, a literary magazine based in downtown San Francisco. You may have heard of it.

Note: Ian's mic sounds tinny for about the first ten minutes, but eventually gets fixed. Sorry 'bout that.

Episode photo credit to Matthew Fang (https://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewfch/2478230533/)

What do editors at publishing houses do? Well, it depends on what kind of editor you're talking about. In the first of what are sure to be several episodes on the topic of Life After MFA, Ian and Greg talk about life working as an editor in the publishing industry.

In this episode of the Switchback podcast, author Lily Iona Mackenzie comes into the studio to talk about her latest book, Fling!, released earlier this summer by Pen-L Publishing.

After reading a selection from the book, Lily talks with hosts Greg Poulos and Stan O'Neill about the craft of writing, the importance of being a shapeshifter, and why we bother to read and write at all.

Purchase Fling! at Pen-L Publishing: http://www.pen-l.com/Fling.html

Read Switchback online: http://www.swback.com

What book would you delete from the literary canon? What would you put in its place? Greg is wishy-washy about his choices, while Ian barrels straight ahead.