Lo Fi Lit

Got a call from a past guest, Austin Islam.

Alexandra Naughton is a well known and notable alt - lit poet . She knows all the famous alt-lit kiddos like Paul Hanson Clark and even ctch! Wow.

She operates "Be About It Press" and came onto the podcast to promote her latest book 'Sick of Being Inside Myself' published by House of Vlad.

Carmen E Brady, August Smith and Eleanor Eli Moss joined in for the 100th episode of the show. We celebrate and discuss many topics including anime and things like that. Like ctchfest 2017.

Juliet Escoria is the author of "You Are The Snake", "Juliet the Maniac", "Black Cloud" and "Witch Hunt" She's from San Diego. And she's the founder of Zona Motel along with Mesha Maren.

Mike Topp is an iconic writer, humorist, and poetry guy . There's so much to say. I found him through twitter and Chelsea Martin's Universal Error podcast. From Mcsweeney's to X-Ray Lit and beyond.

Find his tweets at @miketopp

Here are some of his books i unearthed in an interview he did on X-RAY Lit. Shout to the former "Self-Exposure" podcast people. Otherwise I wouldn't have reached out to Mike.

Local Boy Makes Good. 1993

Check out my first episode with Ashely Obscura from a few years ago in the archive. She still operates and runs the amazing Metatron Press. She currently runs a substack called 'Codex Obscura' and under that venue(?) posts an ongoing / continuous poem called 'Drinking From The Same Dream.' It's one of my favorite things on the internet right now. I think everyone ought to go over there and check it out and all the cool things she's doing over there.

Linden operates and hosts response_pod over on youtube and spotify. Linden is David's husband. Linden is a writer and has been published on Burial Magazine. Check this out!

Lake is the author of Lo Siento. He's going on a book tour soon .

Check out Lake Markham dot net for more info.

David Gladfelter joined the show today. He's a writer. He's a host of the controversial and hit literary podcast Response_Pod. David is gay. And Jewish. Lives in Detroit. Takes care of his husband.

On this episode of Lo Fi Lit, I invited Mesha Maren onto the show to discuss her involvement with Zona Motel - a literary brotherhood on substack. For people who adore, admire and are all about talking about cool ass books. So okay, she's written three novels - Shae, Perpetual West and Sugar Run. We discuss her background and coming up from a small town, activism and entering into a wrestling ring for research on a character. This was a dope episode.

Ivan Genc is a digital designer for Zona Motel over on substack. He's lives in Petrinja, Croatia . We discuss his poetry on Specta poems and how sink holes hit his town. Sink holes are cool but also not cool at all.

The mysterious user behind the twitter profile of @Moonandmouth, who wishes to remain anonymous - came on the show under the risk of assassination and ruin to discuss their latest book "Cataclysm Moves Me : I regret to Say"

We hung out in Austin, Texas after this episode was recorded - so yeah.

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Shelby Hartness is a badass poet I met through Ben Fama's workshop, Cool Memories. She's been published by people like Spectra, Bending Genres, and Moody Magazine

D.T. Robbins is the author of Leasing (House of Vlad 2024) and a number of other short stories one can read at x-ray lit mag, Maudlin House and HAD and a slew of other places. He runs and operates Rejection Letters. That's the very short of it. Check out his website for the full gambit of his works.

On this episode of lo fi lit, I interviewed Naomi Falk - author of The Surrender of Man. Out now from Inside the Castle Press. We talk for around two hours on everything from video games, furries, punching holes in walls and of course, art. Also discuss Archway and other things. Erin Taylor, Elle Nash, Chris Molnar and recent published books from Archway,

Here's more about the book from the website :

In this genre-defying memoir-in-series, Falk weaves together a rich tapestry of art and introspection, examining twenty pieces of art that...

Autumn Christian is the author of Girl Like A Bomb with Clash Books and The Crooked God Machine. She lives out of Kingfisher, Oklahoma. She also operates a cheese farm close to where she lives now. She now also writes on substack on the Teach Robots Love newsletter.

Super cool she came on the show.

Aidan Ryan returns to the show to discuss his new book - I Am Here You Are Not I Love You. This new book covers the lives of the artists Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski. Aidan, of course, related to both. The book talks about art scenes in Buffalo and even covers some history of it as well. This book has garnered a lot of praise and great press from places like The Brooklyn Rail and even been covered by Matthew Bookin in the Zona Motel over on the substack site.

the navigator is an original piece of music by Andrew Topolski (1952-2008)

Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski are the subjects of Aidan Ryan's "I Am Here You Are Not I Love You' out now by Univ. of Iowa Press.

The image . thumbnail is one of Andrew's pieces of art "Untitled" nabbed from the Burchfield Penny Art Center website. Not related to the navigator. I didn't know what else to use.

I reached out to Kristen Coates - a really dope fan of everyone on twitter. I've seen them enjoying and endorsing and complimenting most indie writers over there. Reminded me of myself - just a fan enjoying people's work.

They're a dope person. They used to run their own magazine before being cancelled.

Aaron Burch is the founder and original creator of hobart, and the author of the essay collection, A Kind of In-Between; the novel, Year of the Buffalo; the memoir/literary analysis Stephen King’s The Body; and the short story collection, Backswing.

He edited the craft anthology How to Write a Novel: An Anthology of 20 Craft Essays About Writing, None of Which Ever Mention Writing, and is currently the editor of the journals Short Story, Long and HAD. He grew up in Tacoma and lives in Michigan, where he teaches at the University of Michigan.

Mike Young is a poet and a musician. He's on tour with Clementine was Right.

Cool guy. Likes Video Games.

Andrew Mack is the founder of Loblolly Press - based of Asheville, North Carolina. He came on the show to talk about Loblolly and his own life as well. Check out his new poetry book, Beasts of Chase over on their site - loblolly dot com

Kyle Seibel is a writer out of California. Formerly worked in the Navy. He came on to promote his new book out with Clash Books called "Hey, You Assholes"

Jamie Hood is a writer and critic and bartender living in New York.

Trauma Plot is her 2nd book.

Her first, "How to be a Good Girl" has also been republished by Pantheon Books.

The same press publishing 'Trauma Plot.' It was dope having her on.

You can visit her 'x" account @veryhotmomm

She also runs a very successful substack "regards. marcel" at

https://proustproject.substack.com/

Pushcart Nominated Tim (they/them) Livingston is a poet and proud Pennsylvanian, living in Philadelphia with their cat, Mamma Mia!, and seven tattoos.

I met them through Rachelle's class. They're very smart and really good. We talked about poetry, baseball, Marvel and Clamour the much anticipated magazine.

GG Roland came on the show and we chatted about his time living South Korea. He's a poet. He has a book called "hehehe" published by Clash Books. Met him through Misery Loves Company. He knows Will and Rudy Johnson, who previously came onto the show.

Out now. Go buy it.

Reuben Gelley Newman is a poet and musician from New York.

I'm stealing this from his website :

"Reuben is a writer, musician, editor, and librarian-in-training based in New York City. Their poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Salamander, Fairy Tale Review, Northwest Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. You can find them online @joustingsnail (Instagram, Twitter); on Bluesky they post at @joustingsnail.bsky.social"

This is the first 45 minutes of the previous episode. It was over three hours so I thought I'd cut it down to a more reasonable length for the audience.

Wallace, Paul and August dropped by for a quick and fun hang out. Post - pop lit is explained within the first hour for those who are interested.

I met morgenrede through the misery loves company reading series on miserytourism. He came on today to promote his new book, Using Your Hand to Block Out the Sun. We talked about poetry and pinball.

I grabbed this from Emily's website :

Emily K. Sipiora, M.A., is a poet from Northern Illinois and serves as a lecturer at Eastern New Mexico University. She is found in Spectra Poets, the Chicago Review of Books, and other publications.

She's an awesome person and she made for a spectacular guest.

Here are some of the poems we went over :

https://spectrapoets.org/All-Life-by-Emily-K-Sipiora

https://spectrapoets.org/Garrote-by-Emily-K-Sipiora

Beach Sloth is a historic blogger of alt lit. Everyone knows Beach Sloth. If you don't you can listen to this show and find out about Beach Sloth. Also, he likes music.

Jimin Seo is a poet. Hold up let's pick this part up from his website, "Jimin Seo was born in Seoul, Korea and immigrated to the US to join his family at the age of eight. He earned his MFA from Columbia University and BA from Florida State University. He is the author of OSSIA, a winner of The Changes Book Prize judged by Louise Glück. His poems can be found in Action Fokus, The Canary, LitHub, Pleiades, mercury firs, and The Bronx Museum. His most recent projects were Poems of Consumption with H. Sinno at the Barbican C...

Wallace Barker is a poet from Austin, Texas. He came on today to promote his translation of Garcia Lorca's "Gypsy Romance" published by Farthest Heaven.

Spencer Williams is a poet. Check her new poetry book - Tranz published by Four Way Books. The first 17 minutes we chit chat about past guests Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan and Julianne Neely. Then we dig into the actual book - Tranz

Michael Washington has been published in Maudlin House. He's a big fan of Nathaniel Duggan, GG Rolland and Cavin Bryce G. We talk about that stuff and more. We discuss Dragonball Z and explicit material and Back Patio Press.

John Trefry is the founder of Inside the Castle.

Nico, Chris, and Naomi from Archway Editions joined me on this episode.

Shout out to their publicist Mia for setting this all up. It was all her idea. Archway Editions has published the most notable and noteworthy authors like Erin Taylor and Blake Butler Are these cats a bunch of corporate drones punching buttons and yanking giant levers? No. They're not.

They’re kinda cool like really cool.

I used audio in the beginning of the episode from a youtube video from an archway reading they held where Chris read his work. And I...

Theo Thimo, Paul Hanson Clark, August Smith, Louis Packard, Alex Savage. and Jesse Prado read for a 9/11 reading. We all hang out and discuss random topics. Come hang out.. Drop in. Buy Lou's new book. Rootbeer Renaissance from wonderpress. Did I spell rootbeer, right.

You can hear Evan Femino and other people on the podcast throughout the episode.

Met Evan Femino through attending readings at ctchfest 2024. Evan is the founder of Feral Dove. Evan founded the experimental visual press and online journal a few years back. A cool dude. We discuss films, writing, Giancarlo, pigeons, and the community. Thanks for listening.