Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

In this episode, I'll be interviewing C E Hoffman. C E Hoffman was born, gave birth, and tried to die in Edmonton, AB (not necessarily in that order.) They wrote their first novel at 11 yrs old, and have continued ever since.

From 2010 onward, they have been published widely in print and online. They love life and hate bios.

On the show, I take us into wild tangents like horror movies, life in the US vs Canada, internet personas, philosophy, and literary muses.

Their novel, Sluts and Whores, is available on Amazon here: https://t.co/pazPzNjcp8?amp=1

On today’s podcast, I’ll be interviewing Adam Gnade about basically everything but focusing mostly on his record label,  Hello America Stereo Cassette, where he releases audio recordings of writers' work.

Adam is both a writer and musician whose work is released as a series of books and records that share characters and themes; the fiction writing continuing plot-lines left open by the self-described "talking songs" in an attempt to compile a vast, detailed, interconnected, personal history of contemporary American life.

In this episode, I get a chance to chat with Lee Matthew Goldberg about a wide array of things, but mostly 90's music and culture since that's at the heart of his newest book, Runaway Train.

Lee Matthew Goldberg is also the author of the novels THE ANCESTOR, SLOW DOWN, THE MENTOR from St. Martin’s Press, and THE DESIRE CARD.

We discuss the last concerts we went to before Covid, favorite 90's bands, what it's like to write several novels at once, and my favorite: PORTLANDIA.

In this episode, I interview Gauraa Shekhar. Gauraa Shekhar is a Founding Editor of No Contact, the Interviews Editor at Maudlin House, and an Assistant Editor at X-R-A-Y. Her debut short story “Other Significant Others: A Glossary” was a finalist for the Francine Ringold Awards for Emerging Writers and earned a nomination for the PEN/ Robert J. Dau Award. Gauraa’s work has appeared in Nimrod, Contrary, Sonora Review, Vol.1 Brooklyn, Literary Hub, Hobart After Dark, and elsewhere. She lives in Richmond, Viriginia with her husband and young dachshund.

Show notes:

0:40- Mallory’s racist building manager

3:08- Christmas trees

7:15- names that no one pronounces  right

9:47- Coffee 

17:14- Covid

25:48- Millennials and social media 

31:35- Gen Z

32:36- whitewashing of American history

33:43- Gen Z playlist names

35:53- Blink-182

37:35- My Chemical Romance

39:08- feeling like a Tall Child

41:02- TikTok

43:12- Kevin Sterne’s tweet about perfect albums from the last 10 years 

44:13- sad girl music

48:00- Lena Dunham

49:29-  music memoirs

50:16- KISS

53:44- divisive musicians (Steely Dan, Taylor Swift…)

1:03:32- No Contact Magazine

1:04:45- Fav Music Genre

1:06:43- music vs writing

1:09:59- Allen Ginsberg

1:11:25- Gauraa’s current writing

1:13:13- Gauraa’s playlists

1:15:40- Being short at concerts

1:17:19- music festivals

1:22:28- Coping with the loss of concerts during the pandemic

1:23:15- WiFi names

1:25:38- Gauraa reads “MARISSA COOPER IS PROUD OF WHAT SHE DID AND SHE’D DO IT AGAIN”

In this episode, I interview Andrew Wilt from 11:11 Press. He is not just a publisher. Andrew has also been working professionally in writing for over a decade. He is the author of Age of Agility: The New Tools for Career Success, which is currently being used as a textbook in universities, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies.

Timestamps

01:42 -- The Midwest Hello

Books/authors mentioned in this podcast:

Alain de Botton (The News: A User's Manual), Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Anton LaVey (The Satanic Bible), Paramhansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi), Alan Watts (The Wisdom of Insecurity), Robert Wright (The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment), Mallory Smart (I Want to Feel Happy but I Only Feel _ _ .), Collected Voices in the Expanded Field (34 Authors in 34 Chapters)

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In a very strange and wild episode of Textual Healing, I got a chance to interview Leza Cantoral who is one of my favorite people in the lit world today! It gets weird, it gets dark, and it actually gets pretty damn hysterical. It's lit.

Leza is a Xicana writer & Editor-in-Chief at CLASH Books. She is also the host of Get Lit With Leza. As a result of her being a megafan of Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath, she curated and edited an anthology of stories called Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath which is available on CLASH Books. She’s the author of the surreal horror story collection Cartoons in the Suicide Forest & alt lit poetry & social media commentary about modern alienation, Trash Panda.

If the sound is a bit off at times in this episode it's because we were both a bit "lit" during the recording of it, which of course set the perfect mood for us to go off on wild tangents about cults, The Bling Ring, drugs, and how we both originally wanted to be filmmakers.

The main focus though is Leza's truly excellent and diverse taste in music. We go on about Courtney Love, Lana Del Rey, The Weeknd, Marilyn Manson, and Madonna. When we aren't talking about that, we're railing against the patriarchy, what got us both into literature, and annoying guys on the internet.

The best parts are when Leza actually reads a bit of her writing and describes some of the films she made. They aren't at the end of the episode like typical Textual Healing episodes but scattered throughout, so listen to the whole show to catch them!

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This week on Textual Healing, we go off the record with Dmitry Samorov where he tells it as it is when it comes to the 80's.

Not just Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and music still on MTV...

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In this episode of Textual Healing, Dmitry Samarov talks about what it's like to be Gen X in a Gen Z world. We joke around about what the right sayings are and whether our taste in music even matters anymore.

We hit music from all angles. The Pixies, Billie Eilish, Nirvana, Kelly Hogan, and even Taylor Swift are discussed. We disagree about the awesomeness of grunge music but we do agree that Mr. Rogers is creepy. Yes, this episode is all over the place but completely on point when it comes to Dmitry's writing.

Dmitry Samarov writes dog portraits and paints book reviews in Chicago, Illinois. Dmitry has also written several books. He was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States in 1978. This both matters and doesn't. Listen to the show to find out more...

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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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Kevin Bigley joins us to talk about his intense love of music, his new book Comaville, and his character Luke in Amazon's Upload.

Kevin is an actor and writer living in Los Angeles. He plays Luke in his latest TV role on Amazon's Upload and Reed Hollingsworth on another Amazon show called Undone.

Most central to this show, though, Kevin just debuted a novel called Comaville from Clash Books.

We talk about garage rock, dream pop, indie record labels, and so much more...

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