1888: The How, The Why

Today our podcast connects with Jonathan Sun, author (under the pen name jomny sun) of the graphic book everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too (HarperPerennial); author behind the Twitter projects @jonnysun, @tinycarebot, and @tinydotblot; Ph.D. candidate and co-creator of The Online Humor Conversation Series at MIT; former editor-in-chief of the Yale School of Architecture journal, Retrospecta 36; playwright; architect; comedian; and artist. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jonathan Sun Photo: Billy Wong

Today our podcast connects with Sarah Ladipo Manyika, author of novels such as Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun (Cassava Republic Press) and In Dependence (Legend Press), board member of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Juror of the California Book Awards, Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and host of OZY’s video series “Write.” Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Today our podcast connects with Kurt Heinzelman, Founder and Editor-at-Large of Bat City Review, Co-Founder of The Poetry Miscellany, Pushcart Prize nominee, translator, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of books of poetry such as The Names They Found There (Pecan Grove Press), and Intimacies & Other Devices (Pinyon Publishing). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Kurt Heinzelman

Today our podcast connects with Jeffery Ryan Long, Editor-in-Chief of Hawaiʻi Review, the literary journal published by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jeffery Ryan Long

Today our podcast connects with Lee Gutkind, founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, founder of the ThinkWritePublish program and Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, and the author and editor of more than 30 books, including titles such as You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction (Da Capo Lifelong Books) and Almost Human: Making Robots Think (W.W. Norton). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lee Gutkind

Today our podcast connects with Lance Olsen, the Chair of the Board of Directors for the author-run publisher Fiction Collective 2, professor at the University of Utah, and author of novels such as Dreamlives of Debris (Dzanc Books), short fiction collections such as How to Unfeel the Dead (Teksteditions), and the anti-textbook Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing (Guide Dog Books). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lance Olsen

Today our podcast connects with Chris Lafave, curator at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Chris Lafave

Today our podcast connects with Ryan Rivas, Publisher at Burrow Press, which focuses on contemporary literature by Floridians and about Florida, as well as fostering a literary community in and around Orlando, Florida. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Ryan Rivas Photo: Delila Smalley

Today our podcast connects with Bill Pierce, author and senior editor of AGNI, the literary journal of Boston University. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Bill Pierce

Today our podcast connects with Seth Greenland, author of novels such as I Regret Everything: A Love Story and The Angry Buddhist (Europa Editions), screenwriter for television shows such as HBO's Big Love, author of plays including Jungle Rot and Red Memories, and co-host of the Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Seth Greenland

Today our podcast connects with Karen Tei Yamashita, author of novels such as Tropic of Orange, I Hotel, and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (Coffee House Press), and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Karen Tei Yamashita

Today our podcast connects with Jennifer Volland and Wendy Thomas Russell, co-founders of Brown Paper Press. Jennifer Volland is the co-author of Edward A. Killingsworth: An Architect’s Life (Hennessey + Ingalls) and Long Beach Architecture: The Unexpected Metropolis (Hennessey + Ingalls), as well as co-curator of the exhibition and publication Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life for the Vancouver Art Gallery. Wendy Thomas Russell is the author of Relax, It's Just God (Brown Paper Press), writer of a parenting column for PBSNewsHour, and former writer for Long Beach Press-Telegram. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guests: Jennifer Volland and Wendy Thomas Russell Photo: Asia Morris, Long Beach Post

Joel Arquillos is the Executive Director of 826LA, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Joel Arquillos

Today we connect with Laurie Sheck. She is the author of, most recently, Island of the Mad (Counterpoint Press), and A Monster’s Notes (Knopf), a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 Best Fictions of the Year (2009), and long-listed for the Dublin Impac International Fiction Prize. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The Willow Grove (Knopf), she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Nation.  She has taught at Princeton, CUNY, and Rutgers, and is currently a member of the MFA faculty at the New School. She lives in New York City. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Laurie Sheck Photo: Nina Subin

Today our podcast connects with Matt Rouse, Torrin Greathouse and Nicole Connolly of Black Napkin Press. Black Napkin Press is a non-profit organization that supports emerging artists from across the spectrum of cultures, races, religions, ethnicities, and gender/sexual identities. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Matt Rouse, Torrin Greathouse and Nicole Connolly

Today our podcast connects with David Galef, author of novels such as How to Cope with Suburban Stress (The Permanent Press), short story collections including My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Books), poetry collections such as Kanji Poems (Word Poetry), and most recently Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (Columbia University Press). He is also a professor at Montclair State University, and writes the humor column "U of All People" for Inside Higher Ed. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: David Galef

Today our podcast connects with Cati Porter, Executive Director of the Inlandia Institute, poet, and founder of the literary journal Poemeleon. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Cati Porter

Today our podcast connects with Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Editor-in-Chief of HOOT Review, editor for Lunch Ticket, and contributing writer at SSG Music. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

Today our podcast connects with Benjamin Percy, author of novels such as Red Moon and The Dead Lands (Grand Central Publishing), comics including Green Arrow and Teen Titans (DC Comics), and most recently the collection Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction (Graywolf Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Benjamin Percy

Today our podcast connects with Joyce Krieg, president of the California Writers Club and author of the mystery novels Murder Off Mike, Slip Cue, and Riding Gain (St. Martin's Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Joyce Krieg