Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE ANCESTOR, SLOW DOWN, THE MENTORfrom St. Martin’s Press, THE DESIRE CARD, ORANGE CITY, and the Young Adult series RUNAWAY TRAIN and GRENADE BOUQUET. In this episode, he'll be reading from his book, Immoral Origins.

His books are in various stages of development for film/TV. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction that’s outside-of-the-box.

After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Writers Review, Cagibi, Necessary Fiction, Hypertext, If My Book, Past Ten, the anthology Dirty Boulevard, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Underwood Press and others. He is a contributor to Pipeline Artists.

His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay contests.

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This is a special edition episode where I am joined by C.E. Hoffman to talk about Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights. We geek out about our favorite tracks, dive deep into how Taylor has grown as an artist, admit that neither of us were "swifties", and attempt to figure out what kind of literature Taylor Swift might be into.

For those who don't know C.E. Hoffman:

C.E. Hoffman is a published writer from Canada. Sluts and Whores, their #OwnVoices Urban Fantasy debut, was released Feb 2021 by Thurston Howl Publications. They’ve edited the e-zine Visceral Uterus since 2012. Meanwhile, their novels incubate. Inspirations run from Edith Wharton to Martin Millar to Zadie Smith. C’s brain hosts tea parties for Haruki Murakami and C S Lewis. J D Salinger rants to Allen Ginsberg while Allen makes eyes at Irvine Welsh. Michelle Tea recites with Assata Shakur, Joy Harjo, and Saul Williams. Shakespeare’s always there, but he’s shy. So are the musicians. (MCR, Marianas Trench, The Hold Steady, Azealia Banks, Eminem, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meredith Wilson…) C devours books. Favourites of late: There There by Tommy Orange, Jack Wang’s We Two Alone, and Neil S Reddy’s forthcoming JubJub Juice. They’re psyched to read Second Bell by Gabriela Houston, whilst enjoying Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. C writes about magic, sex, and death. They hug trees, love cats, and clearly dig Taylor Swift's new album.

Website: https://cehoffman.net

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CEHoffman2

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Mason Parker is an Okie-born, Montana-based writer. He holds an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. His work has been featured in X-R-A-Y, Hobart, the International Journal of Wilderness, and BULL Men’s Fiction. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness with his partner and two dogs.

He just released the collection, Until the Red Swallows It All, from Trident Press.

You can find out more about him on his website: https://www.masonparker.net/

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You can find Mason on Twitter: @lowkey_okie

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Hillary Leftwich is the founder and owner of ☿ Alchemy Author Services & Writing Workshop and Community Coven, a community-based workshop. She lives in Denver where she hosts/organizes At the Inkwell Denver, a literary reading series focusing on providing a liberated space for writers. Hillary focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma, mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease.

Her memoir, Aura, was just released by Future Tense Books.

She recommends pairing this piece with From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea by The Cure.

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Ravi Mangla is the author of The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil) and Understudies (Outpost19). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction, Tin House Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY.

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Ravi Mangla is the author of The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil) and Understudies (Outpost19). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Salon, The Paris Review Daily, Quarterly West, American Short Fiction, Tin House Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY.

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Jack Moody is a novelist and short story writer from wherever he happens to be at the time. He is the author of the novel Crooked Smile, the short story collection Dancing to Broken Records, and the forthcoming novella The Monotony of Everlasting, out October 1st, 2022 with Anxiety Press. He is a former staff writer for the literary magazine and podcast Brick Moon Fiction, and his work has appeared in multiple publications including Misery Tourism, Maudlin House, Punk Noir Magazine, Scatter of Ashes, Paper and Ink Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Bear Creek Gazette, and The Saturday Evening Post. He didn't go to college.

In this very wild episode, we talk about weird celebrity encounters, Taylor Swift, 9/11, and The Monotony of Everlasting.

It takes us 20 minutes to get to these topics because we go on a strange horror movie tangent but when we get to music and literature it gets very rad!

You can hit up his Twitter: jack_is_moody

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His website: https://linktr.ee/jackmoody

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Jack Moody is a novelist and short story writer from wherever he happens to be at the time. He is the author of the novel Crooked Smile, the short story collection Dancing to Broken Records, and the forthcoming novella The Monotony of Everlasting, out October 1st, 2022 with Anxiety Press. He is a former staff writer for the literary magazine and podcast Brick Moon Fiction, and his work has appeared in multiple publications including Expat Press, Misery Tourism, Maudlin House, Punk Noir Magazine, Scatter of Ashes, Paper and Ink Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Bear Creek Gazette, and The Saturday Evening Post. He didn't go to college.

Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press/The Accomplices 2019). Her hybrid poetry and CNF collection, Saint Dymphna’s Playbook, is forthcoming from PANK Books in 2023. She is the founder and owner of Alchemy Author Services & Workshop, teaches at Lighthouse Writers, and is a creative writing professor at the University of Denver and an assistant creative writing professor at Colorado College. She focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma, mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease. She is an intuitive Tarologist and has been reading Tarot for over 25 years coupled with her clair abilities and studies under several well-known psychic medium mentors. She teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities as well as writing. She lives in Denver with her partner, son, and a cat named Larry.

Her latest book, Aura, just came out from Future Tense Books. Aura is more than a memoir— it’s a spellbook for survival, a powerful promise from mother to son, and an intimate examination of power, spirituality, and the abuse of both. Leftwich weaves together the stories of her life to create startlingly raw memories that are both personal and profoundly universal. She explores the devastating impact of patriarchy in her own life while searching for answers in witchcraft, womanhood, and motherhood. Urgently portrayed and deeply felt, Aura is a complex tapestry of letters, spells, and memories. Her story is a vivid confrontation against an unforgiving world that traps women and children in the systems meant to save them. This is a story for seekers, searchers, and anyone in the process of saving themselves and their loved ones.

To get to know Hillary more, go to her Twitter: @HillaryLeftwich

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Check out her website: https://hillaryleftwich.wordpress.com/

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C E Hoffman (they/them) was born, gave birth, and tried to die in Edmonton, AB (not necessarily in that order.) A grant recipient, Writer’s Union of Canada member, and winner of the 2022 Defunct May Day Chapbook contest, they’ve been published widely online and in print since 2010, and edited Punk Monk Magazine since 2012. 

Their #OwnVoices short story collection SLUTS AND WHORES is available via Thurston Howl Publications, their chapbook BLOOD, BOOZE, AND OTHER THINGS IN NATURE is out from Alien Buddha Press, and Bottlecap Press just released their second poetry chapbook, GHOSTS, TROLLS, AND OTHER THINGS ON THE INTERNET. Find more weirdness at cehoffman.net and follow them on Twitter @CEHoffman2. 

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