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H. Lee Barnes #333
H. Lee Barnes is the author of Emerald City Blues: A Novel. 10-Day Screenwriting Outline Workshop is open for registration for Dec 22 – Jan 2, Click here to register. […]
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Stefanie Leder #332
Stefanie Leder is the author of Love, Coffee & Revolution: A Novel. We discuss how she became a TV writer and showrunner, how she wrote this debut novel 20 years […]
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Caitlin Myer – Caitlin Walks At Night – Ep. #331
Caitlin Myer is my writer friend from San Francisco. She has lived in Portugal for the last 7 years. Before that she traveled the world going wherever life would open […]
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Carlo Rotella #330
Carlo Rotella is the author of What Can I Get Out Of This? – Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics. We discuss his optimism for college students […]
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Todd Solondz and Larry Clark #329
I caught up with Todd Solondz in San Francisco in 2004 when he was promoting Palindromes. I caught up with Larry Clark when he was promoting Wassup Rockers in 2005. […]
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Terry Zwigoff Ep. #328
Terry Zwigoff is a great American filmmaker. Many of you know him for Bad Santa, but in 2006 he released a film called Art School Confidential and I had him […]
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Kerfuffling Genitals by Tony DuShane Ep. 327
Tony DuShane is the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. This episode is called Kerfuffling Genitals. I talk about a botched one-night stand, words you can’t use on […]
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Nikki Nash #326
Nikki Nash is the author of Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things. We chat Don Cornelias and Soul Train, working with Conan O’Brien, how Jeff Goldbloom is […]
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Fadi Zaghmout #325
Fadi Zaghmout is the author of The Man of Middling Height. Originally published in Arabic it’s now available in English from Syracuse University Press. We chat speculative fiction vs. sci-fi […]
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Alecia McKenzie #324
Alecia McKenzie is the author of A Million Aunties: A Novel out now on Akashic Books. We chat walking amongst the dead literary spirits of Paris, her start writing as […]
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Tad Crawford #323
Tad Crawford is the author of A Woman in the Wild. We also chat his other book, The Secret Life of Monday, and we talk about IQ84 and other Murakami, […]
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James Elkins #322
James Elkins is the author of A Short Introduction to Anneliese out now on Unnamed Press. Novel 1 registration is open for August workshops, limited to six students: Register here […]
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Ralph Steadman #321
Ralph Steadman illustrated Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Also a writer, I interviewed Ralph in 2007 for his memoir The Joke’s Over. A deep cut from […]
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Kurt Baumeister #320
Kurt Baumeister is the author of Twilight of the Gods on Stalking Horse Press. He’s also an acquisitions editor for 7.13. We discuss how we lose friends and family when […]
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Jeffrey Konvitz #319
Jeffrey Konvitz is the author of The Circus of Satan: A Novel exploring the Irish mob in New York City of the early 1900s. Based on true events, yet fictionalized […]
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Tom Lutz #318
Tom Lutz is the author of 1925 A Literary Encyclopedia out now on Rare Bird Lit. We discuss everything from Fitzgerald to the Harlem Renaissance and more from 1925 A […]
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Ted Kessler on Billy Childish #317
Ted Kessler is the author of The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish: To Ease My Troubled Mind. As a veteran music journalist and friend to Childish since the 1990s, […]
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Jon Ronson #316
Jon Ronson is the author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. I interviewed him in 2015 when the book came out and it’s pretty mind blowing where cancel culture has […]
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Lucinda Berry #315
Lucinda Berry is the author of One In Four: A Thriller. We chat child psychology, running marathons, how the brain works, and her transition to full time author. New creative […]
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Rachel Paris #314
Rachel Paris is the author of See How They Fall: A Novel. We discuss the humiliating vulnerability of writing and why everyone should do it, why we should never write […]
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Chuck Klosterman #313
Chuck Klosterman is the author of tons of books. This is a tape from my interview with him around 2012 when he was promoting The Visible Man. We met at […]
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Matthieu Ricard #312
Matthieu Ricard is the author of Happiness. I interviewed him around 2003 and he introduced the idea of mindfulness to me. He is also assistant and translator for the Dalai […]
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Marlon James #311
Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. I caught up with him in 2005 when he was touring his first book […]
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Colum McCain #310
Colum McCain is the author of Twist: A Novel. We had a great time talking NYC, Ireland, the obsessive structure of writing environments for novels, and his really cool organization […]
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Richard Hell #309
Richard Hell is the author of Godlike. And this interview is old, like 2003 or 2004 taping. We met at a bar called The Argus in San Francisco, he was […]
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Miranda July #308
Miranda July, two interviews from the archives. The first one is from 2015 regarding her novel The First Bad Man. The second one is from 2005 regarding her film Me […]
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Alex Higley #307
Alex Higley is the author of True Failure: A Novel. We do a deep dive into the novel writing process and how we’re always being manipulated by stories. On March 1st […]
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Angela Brown #306
Angela Brown is the author of Some Other Time. We discuss how her and her husband met at 14 in high school, writing speculative fiction, do magic moments happen in […]
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William Boyle #305
William Boyle is the author of Saint of the Narrows Street. We chat Brooklyn Dodgers, Oxford Mississippi, James Joyce, the fun of NOT organizing personal libraries to indulge in the […]
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Paul Ollinger #304
Paul Ollinger is the author of Reasonably Happy: The Skeptic’s Guide to Achievable Contentment. He’s also a podcaster and standup comic. We discuss specific details of when I lost my […]
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Francesca Lia Block #303
Francesca Lia Block is the author of House of Hearts and many other books. We discuss love and heartbreak, her moment with David Byrne. LA punk rock and how The […]
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Craig Clevenger #302
Craig Clevenger is the author of The Contortionist’s Handbook, re-issued by Datura Books. On this episode we discuss the glorious holy temple where we worship which is the public library, […]
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Kim Dower #301
Kim Dower is the author of What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria. We chat channeling our characters, why poetry gets a bad rap, visiting Baudelaire’s grave, and […]
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Joe Clifford #300
Joe Clifford is the author of Shadow People and many other books. We discuss the esoteric ways of writing novels, what success and failure in life can be, how high […]
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Hal Hartley #299
Hal Hartley is one of the kings of indie cinema with films like Henry Fool and The Girl From Monday. I taped this about 20 years ago at Dalva in […]
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Tony’s Complaints to God #298
Tony DuShane is the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. This week I dive into greedy eyeballs of actors at industry screenings, how to make left turns in […]
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Tony DuShane’s Book Smash #297
From the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk comes Tony DuShane’s Book Smash. It’s my rundown on my favorite books of the year, my complaints about society and […]
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David Leo Rice #296
David Leo Rice is the author of The Berlin Wall: A Novel. We discuss Tim O’Brien’s Short Story “On the Rainy River”, Flo from the Progressive commercials and how to […]
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Diego Gerard Morrison #295
Diego Gerard Morrison is the author of Pages of Mourning. We chat the ups and downs of translating novels, the literary scene in Mexico City, how living on a remote […]
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Jean-Paul L. Garnier #294
Jean-Paul L. Garnier is the author of Cardboard Spaceship. He also owns Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree. We talk Czech writers, starting a bookstore and publishing company, why living […]
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Sacha Mardou #293
Sacha Mardou is the author of Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy, A Graphic Memoir. We discuss growing up in crazy families and religions, Internal Family […]
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Kes Trester #292
Kes Trester is the author of To The Nines, Book 3 of The Nine series. We discuss how to safely chat with grocery clerks about suicidal thoughts, how to find […]
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Gabriel Hart #291
Gabriel Hart is the author of On High At Red Tide. He’s also the lead singer of Jail Weddings and The Starvations. October 5th is the first Drinks with Tony […]
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Krystal Kenney #290
Krystal Kenney is the author of Paris, A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir. We discuss tourist scams of Paris, where are the best neighborhoods, how Krystal moved to Paris from […]
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Marianne Leone #289
Marianne Leone is the author of Five-Dog Epiphany: A Memoir. Marianne is an actor you may know from shows like The Sopranos. Her book tackles the grief of losing her […]
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Colleen McKeegan #288
Colleen McKeegan is the author of Rip Tide: A Novel. We discuss what to do when you have a major brain crush on an author, training for mascots of sports […]
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Jessica Maguire #287
Jessica Maguire is the author of The Nervous System Reset: Heal Trauma, Resolve Chronic Pain, and Regulate Your Emotions with the Power of the Vagus Nerve. We discuss the micro-communications […]
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John A. Dailey #286
John A. Dailey is the author of Tough Rugged Bastards: A Memoir of a Life in Marine Special Operations. We discuss the subconscious mind work of repetitive drills, the emotional […]
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Bobi Conn #285
Bobi Conn is the author of Someplace Like Home. We discuss doing psychedelics, her family heritage of moonshiners, how to get out of the way of our characters, collective anger […]
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Alexander Boldizar #284
Alexander Boldizar is the author of The Man Who Saw Seconds. We discuss living in a refugee camp after fleeing Slovakia in the 1979, the art of learning new languages, […]
- H. Lee Barnes #333 October 14, 2025
- Stefanie Leder #332 October 7, 2025
- Caitlin Myer – Caitlin Walks At Night – Ep. #331 September 30, 2025
- Carlo Rotella #330 September 16, 2025
- Todd Solondz and Larry Clark #329 September 9, 2025
- Terry Zwigoff Ep. #328 September 2, 2025