1888: The How, The Why

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Eden Maxwell author of The Man with the Dog. For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For details about our July Workshop Session please visit 1888.center/swp2016-workshop-session. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Eden Maxwell

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Devon Tarantino author of Beautiful to Me. For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For details about our July Workshop Session please visit 1888.center/swp2016-workshop-session. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Devon Tarantino

Understanding your role in modern publishing and finding your path to print or pixel with Jeff Garvin, Jennie Nash, and Jonathan Yanez. Recorded live on Saturday, July 23 at Barnes & Noble in Orange, California. Throughout the month of July, during the Summer Writing Project, 1888 and JukePop present a series of free educational essays, lectures, and podcast episodes produced for the community and available to support our Top 25 with advancing their stories. We have branded July the Summer Writing Project: Workshop Session. For more information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For more details on our free Summer Writing Project events please visit 1888.center/swp16-events. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jeff Garvin, Jennie Nash, and Jonathan Yanez

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Celinda Bickner author of Switch. For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For details about our July Workshop Session please visit 1888.center/swp2016-workshop-session. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Celinda Bickner

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Maxwell Coviello author of Renaissance, 1997 and Dave McLaughlin author of Andy Crowley and the Grace of the Glass Grimoire. For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For details about our July Workshop Session please visit 1888.center/swp2016-workshop-session. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Maxwell Coviello and Dave McLaughlin

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Andre Clemons author of The Lake Giants and J.A. Waters author of When Things are a Little Off. For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For details about our July Workshop Session please visit 1888.center/swp2016-workshop-session. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Andre Clemons and J.A. Waters

We’re highlighting our Summer Writing Project 2016 Top 25 authors. Today our podcast connects with Alex Clark-McGlenn author of The Night Sputnik Flew and M. Howalt author of Blood, Sweat and Runes. For information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For details about our July Workshop Session please visit 1888.center/swp2016-workshop-session. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Editor: Brett Arnold Host: Dean Moses Guest: Alex Clark-McGlenn and M. Howalt

Today our podcast connects with Constance Ann Fitzgerald, editor at Ladybox Books and author of Trashland A Go-Go (Eraserhead Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Constance Ann Fitzgerald

Today our podcast connects with Yi Shun Lai, writer, writing coach, editor, and author of the novel Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu (Shade Mountain Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Yi Shun Lai

Today our podcast connects with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'a Williams, editors of the anthology Revolutionary Mothering. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is also the author of the dissertation We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism and was named one of UTNE Reader’s 50 Visionaries Transforming the World. China Martens is the author of The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others (Atomic Book Company) and coeditor of Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities (PM Press), and is a cofounder of Kidz City, a radical childcare collective in Baltimore. Mai'a Williams is the creator and director of Water Studio, which supports and co-creates with underground community artists and revolutionaries in Cairo, Egypt, and her essays, short stories and poetry have appeared in publications such as make/shift, Mamaphiles, Tenacious, Popshot, Woman's Work, Lilith Devotional, and Co

Today our podcast connects with Erika Goldman, Publisher and Editorial Director of Bellevue Literary Press and Instructor at the New York University School of Medicine, Division of Medical Humanities. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Erika Goldman

Today our podcast connects with Jacob Denno, poet and Editor and Publisher of Popshot Magazine. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jacob Denno

Our third Eichler Session welcomes Garth Greenwell and Mary Rakow. Garth Greenwell is the author of Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Award. What Belongs to You is his first novel. This Is Why I Came by Mary Rakow has been described as a “Blakean tour de force,” receiving strong reviews in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Ploughshares and selected by O Magazine as one of “16 Books to Start 2016 off Right.” Eichler Sessions are a series of conversations with creative pioneers hosted in historic Eichler homes. During the early 1950s, award-winning homebuilder Joseph Eichler influenced the face of American architecture by developing distinctive residential subdivisions of Mid-Century modern style tract housing. The City of Orange is the site of 350 of the 600 Southern California Eichlers. Produced in conjunction with Jeffrey Crussell Fine Properties and Creative Noodle. Click here to view photos

Today our podcast connects with Dani Hedlund, CEO of the literary nonprofit Tethered by Letters, Editor-in-Chief of the journal F(r)iction, and author of the novel Threads of Deception. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Dani Hedlund

Today our podcast connects with Rachel Howzell Hall, author of A Quiet Storm (Scribner), The View from Here, No One Knows You’re Here, and the Detective Elouise Norton series (Forge Books). She serves on the Board of Directors for the Mystery Writers of America, and has participated as a mentor in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ Writer-to-Writer program. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Rachel Howzell Hall

Today our podcast connects with Jonathan Eller, Director of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Senior Textual Editor of the Institute for American Thought, editor of The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, author of Becoming Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury Unbound (University of Illinois Press), and co-author with William Touponce of Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State University Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jonathan Eller

Today our podcast connects with Andrew Tonkovich, editor of the Santa Monica Review; host of Bibliocracy Radio; Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine; co-editor alongside his wife, Lisa Alvarez, of the forthcoming The Barricades of Heaven: A Literary Field Guide to Orange County, California (Heyday); and writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Faultline, Ecotone and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Andrew Tonkavich

Today our podcast connects with Ben Loory, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge, instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and author of numerous books including Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin Books) and The Baseball Player and the Walrus (Dial Books). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Ben Loory

Today our podcast connects with Lilliam Rivera, author of the forthcoming young adult novel The Education of Margot Sanchez (Simon & Schuster); host of the Radio Sombra show Literary Soundtrack; Pushcart Prize winner; editor of the 1888 novellas Harlem's Awakening, Bellies and Buffalos, and 116* Days with Dad; and 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lilliam Rivera

Today our podcast connects with Lux Alptraum and Leigh Stein of BinderCon, a non-profit organization and convention devoted to advancing the careers of women and gender non-conforming writers. Lux is also a writer whose work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Salon.com, TheAtlantic.com, GOOD Magazine, and more. Leigh is author of the novel The Fallback Plan (Melville House), the poetry collection Dispatch from the Future (Melville House), and the forthcoming memoir Land of Enchantment (Blue Rider Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lux Alptraum and Leigh Stein