The Talking Book Podcast

Squirting across the sunburned landscape of Southern California, Body High is a journey marked by misplaced lust, mistaken fathers, lost semen, and the kidnapping of a sperm bank daughter, whose untainted kidneys may hold the key to redemption or, perhaps, the realization of its impossibility.

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Featured readers: Jon Lindsey & Allie Rowbottom

Jon Lindsey lives in Los Angeles. Body High is his first book.

The follow-up to his beloved debut collection Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me, Mark Leidner's RETURNING THE SWORD TO THE STONE is simultaneously profound and irreverent, in the same way that the world is flat as we walk and round as we live.

https://fonografeditions.com/catalog/f0no10-mark-leidner-returning-the-sword-to-the-stone-print-book/

A reading by Shy Watson from her new collection HORROR VACUI, out now from HOUSE OF VLAD PRESS.

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SHY WATSON wrote Cheap Yellow (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) & co-founded blush lit. Find more work at places like New York Tyrant, The Rumpus, & [PANK]. Follow @formermissNJ on Twitter for updates.

Quero-Quero deals with emotional strife and survival, a story of two adolescent girls from Brazil during a time of political oppression in their country and nearby Argentina.

Avital Gad-Cykman's book Life in, Life Out (Matter Press) came out in 2014, and her second book, Light Reflection Over Blues is forthcoming this year at Ravenna Press.

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Joshua Dalton’s provocative debut is a darkly comic collection of fiction and fragments about mental illness, television satire, social media emptiness, workplace trauma, and dating in the age of “why won’t they text me back?” I Hate You, Please Read Me is a bold, sad and LOL funny literary meditation for fans of David Sedaris, Melissa Broder, Rachel Bloom and Samantha Irby.

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Sebastian Castillo is the author of 49 Venezuelan Novels (Bottlecap Press). You can find his writing in Queen Mob’s Tea House, Hobart, Peach Mag, X-R-A-Y Lit Magazine, and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter @bartlebytaco. Go get Sebastian's book "NOT I" here:

https://www.wordwest.co/online-store/not-i-p178428336

The following is a new excerpt from Brad Phillips' forthcoming novel, set to be published by Tyrant Books in 2021. Check out his book Essays and Fictions at the links below.

Print

store.nytyrant.com/products/essays…y-brad-phillips

Audio

thetalkingbook.org/essays-and-fictions

Lee Matalone weaves a moving, beautiful narrative of home, identity, and belonging. Home Making is a somber, yet hopeful, ode to the stories we tell ourselves in order to make a family. Go get this book at:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/home-making-lee-matalone

Grant Maierhofer reads an excerpt from FLAMINGOS from the collection WORKS, out now from 11:11 Press. You can get a copy here: https://1111press.bigcartel.com/product/works-by-grant-maierhofer

Papal Glow is the time between centuries, that little dust mote trailing in the sun’s glare between folds of the partition that separates the public from true knowledge. It is the preventative strain keeping the powers-that-be at bay while the world swirls by unnoticed. Get the book here:

https://papalglow.maudlinhouse.net/