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In this 53rd episode of the Animal Riot Podcast, we invite Marco Rafala, author of How Fires End, and Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of The Ancestor, The Desire Card, and more, to discuss their longstanding Manhattan reading series, Guerrilla Lit, and how they've adapted during the pandemic. We also dig into how coronavirus has affected the community, their writing, and even themselves. Best of all, we discuss what makes New York the epicenter of culture and literature, regardless of what's going on right now. 

Welcome to the 52nd Episode of the Animal Riot podcast, brought to you by Animal Riot Press. Today, we invite two of our OG crew, Jared Marcel Pollen and Seth Katz--along with David Holllander, the Author of our second title, Anthropica, due to hit the proverbial stands on September 1st. Listen in as we continue a conversation that's woven through several episodes, about the state of the publishing industry, and specifically, how David navigated its turn toward more commercial work. We also take this opportunity to discuss the differences between European and American literature. Best of all, as we speak of such things, you can envisage David wearing what we can only guess were darkly iridescent knock-off Ray-Bans, which we can assure you is in deep contradiction to his normal behavior. 

Welcome back Animals. It's been a while, but we've got the podcast back up and running, beginning with episode 51, featuring the old pack, Devin Kelly, Seth Katz, Jared Marcel Pollen, and George Sawaya. In today's episode, we reflect upon what drives us to write, not just during the ongoing pandemic, when it can seem as if everything that matters has been rearranged from all recognition but why we pick up a pen in the first place. We reflect on everything from Michael Jordan's relentless drive and artistry as reflected in the recent documentary, The Last Dance, to how we used to write before the ambition and vanity of wanting to publish our work began to influence our innocent passion for putting words on paper. We might even muse on how Top Gun was subsidized by the government because they want us to feel a certain way about our country.

Animals! It's our 50th episode! And this week our producer Katie and previous guest & producer Annie Krabbenschmidt have taken over the show... (who knows what they did with Brian!) and are thrilled to welcome Sarah Paolantonio to the show! Sarah is a 'recovering' music programmer who always keeps the radio on. She's a writer of nonfiction and you can read more from her in EntropyMagazine and on her website. Follow Sarah on Twitter via @sarahpaol because she wants to know what your favorite Bob Dylan record is. Join us today as we get down and talk nonfiction, rant & rave about Franzen & DFW, talk politics, and generally discuss whatever the fuck we're feeling. 

We're back, animals! Here with the 49th episode of the Animal Riot Podcast brought to you by Animal Riot Press, a literary press for books that matter. We're here today with the wonderful Mathea Morais, Director of the Noepe Center for Literary Arts on Martha’s Vineyard. Her debut novel There You Are was recently released and we're thrilled to bring her on today to talk about writing communities, debut novels, and debate the timeless question "Who gets to write what?".

We're back animals! And this week we've got special guest poet & radical educator Abigail Kirby Conklin. Abby is the author of the debut chapbook, Triage, out now from Duck Lake Books. She's been published in Duck Lake Journal, Garfield Lake, K’in Literary Journal, Storyscape Journal, The Lampeter Review, The Northern Virginia Review, Sugar House Review, among numerous others. Abby also works in the New York City arts education scene, and today we'll be talking about debut books, poetry, radical pedagogy, and being a grown up poet! Get your paws warmed and let's go! 
The transcript for this episode can be found on our website.