13 episodes
Fiction Is First Ben Forstenzer
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Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Interviews.
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The Second Fiction Is First House Show (Finally)
Recorded as the winter slowly, angrily, just barely came to an end, here now is the Second Fiction is First House Show. Present in this compact package are songs from Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith, non-fiction by Michelle Dwyer, and fiction by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson and Ben Forstenzer. I mean, come on, this is everything you could want and more. Please share if you enjoy.
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A Storyview: Arizona in the Summertime by Michelle Dwyer
What do sandwiches, naps and a series of very small shampoo and perfume containers have in common? Hint: pretty boys, Clint Eastwood and wheezing in the other room. Take a visit with Michelle Dwyer on her trip to Arizona to see her dad. We have some conversation about life and death.
We hope you enjoy it.
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A Storyview: Love on the Block, by Rachel Anne Warren
Some people run away and join the circus. Some people become magical erotic creatures named Heather. For the rest of us, we get to listen to Rachel Anne Warren read her essay Love on the Block and have a conversation about her night as a shooter girl in a strip club in Baltimore.
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A Storyview: Notes From A Suicide, by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
The mystery of life and the mystery of death are close relatives. Maybe they are mothers and sons, maybe grandmothers and granddaughters.
The only way to know is to look deeply.
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson looks deeply and reads her essay “Notes From A Suicide.”
Ben Forstenzer asks questions. A discussion ensues.
We hope you enjoy it.
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A Storyview: Dead Bird Stories for Non-believers, by Alis Sandosharaj
Birds, food and death, and of course the word YES. Dead Bird Stories for Non-believers is about family, loss and the strange connections we cannot shake, even if we don’t believe.
Alis Sandosharaj shares her essay. Ben Forstenzer asks some questions. A good time was had by all.
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Gladys and the Geek
The south has alligators, murder and Amish people. But don’t we all? No?
Gladys and the Geek will get to the bottom of strange things in the endless and fruitless effort to make the world a little more fair.
Be careful who you love and how you show it. Someone could get killed.
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