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Dive into this lit podcast hosted by Mallory Smart, where authors explore the synergy between music and their writing. Brace yourself for offbeat interviews where writers discuss their individual styles, get lost in unpredictable anecdotes, and how music transforms their creative process. New episodes airing every Saturday.

Textual Healing with Mallory Smart Mallory Smart

    • Arts
    • 5.0 • 23 Ratings

Dive into this lit podcast hosted by Mallory Smart, where authors explore the synergy between music and their writing. Brace yourself for offbeat interviews where writers discuss their individual styles, get lost in unpredictable anecdotes, and how music transforms their creative process. New episodes airing every Saturday.

    Off The Record with David Winner: Try Not To Think About Love

    Off The Record with David Winner: Try Not To Think About Love

    Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing

    David Winner is a senior editor at StatOrec magazine, the fiction editor of The American, a magazine based in Rome, and a regular contributor to The Brooklyn Rail. He just released the novel, Master Lovers, from Outpost19.

    Check out his website: https://david-winner.com/

    Follow him on Twitter: @dqw16391

    Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website:https://textualpodcast.com/

    Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844

    Follow us on Twitter: @PodHealing

    Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/

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    • 6 min
    David Winner: Some Surreal Joke

    David Winner: Some Surreal Joke

    Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing

    David Winner is a senior editor at StatOrec magazine, the fiction editor of The American, a magazine based in Rome, and a regular contributor to The Brooklyn Rail. He just released the nove, Master Lovers, from Outpost19.

    Check out his website: https://david-winner.com/

    Follow him on Twitter: @dqw16391

    Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website:https://textualpodcast.com/

    Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844

    Follow us on Twitter: @PodHealing

    Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/

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    • 1 hr 18 min
    Scott Mitchel May: Awkwardly Bumping Into People All Day Long

    Scott Mitchel May: Awkwardly Bumping Into People All Day Long

    Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing

    Scott Mitchel May is the author of the novels Awful People and Breakneck. His short fiction and essays have appeared in HAD, Maudlin House, Trampset, and The  Maryland Literary Review, among others. He tweets @smitchelmay

    Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website:https://textualpodcast.com/

    Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844

    Follow us on Twitter: @PodHealing

    Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/

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    • 1 hr 18 min
    Jeff Alessandrelli: You Don’t Always Know What You’re Doing

    Jeff Alessandrelli: You Don’t Always Know What You’re Doing

    Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing

    Jeff Alessandrelli is most recently the author of the novel 
    And Yet (Future Tense Books, 2024). His work has previously been published in The American Poetry Review, Fence, New American Writing, Lit Hub, BOMB, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. In addition to his writing, he also directs and co-edits the nonprofit book press/record label Fonograf Editions. He’s at 
    https://jeffalessandrelli.net/

    Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/

    Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844

    Follow us on Twitter: @PodHealing

    Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/

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    • 1 hr 14 min
    Steve Gergley: We’re Not Trying To Save The World

    Steve Gergley: We’re Not Trying To Save The World

    Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing

    Steve Gergley is the author of The Great Atlantic Highway & Other Stories (Malarkey Books ’24), There Are Some Floors Missing (Bullshit Lit ’24), Skyscraper (West Vine Press ’23), and A Quick Primer on Wallowing in Despair (Leftover Books ’22). His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Maudlin House, Passages North, Hobart, Always Crashing, and others. He tweets @GergleySteve. His fiction can be found at: https://stevegergleyauthor.wordpress.com/. In addition to his own writing, he is also the editor of scaffold literary magazine.

    Twitter: @GergleySteve

    Author Website: https://stevegergleyauthor.wordpress.com/

    Link to Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1UAxnpUOjTEYQk0sohhSBS?si=7eae822e226840b6

    Links to New Short Story Collection:

    https://malarkeybooks.com/store/greatatlantichighway

    https://asterismbooks.com/product/the-great-atlantic-highway-and-other-stories

    https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-great-atlantic-highway-other-stories-steve-gergley/21330040?ean=9798990324091

    https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-great-atlantic-highway-other-stories-steve-gergley/1145095340?ean=9798990324091

    https://www.amazon.com/Great-Atlantic-Highway-Other-Stories-ebook/dp/B0CY43F4NH/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mPoN8F1L6RPzLLX9G_9pA5HLGmZy9i8LhINj1Jl2FRjGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.EqW-2HNp8whueZVFDFqpPv8PH39hYG6-y_HDrRvFnUc&qid=1712318340&sr=1-2

    Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/

    Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844

    Follow us on Twitter: @PodHealing

    Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/

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    • 1 hr 18 min
    Lowercase Lit Reading-Live At The Whistler

    Lowercase Lit Reading-Live At The Whistler

    Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing

    The Whistler: 2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

    Emily Capers (1:10): Emily Capers is a Midwestern mixed girl, who writes to begin conversations around identity by experimenting with form and genre. In Between My Bodies (Long Day Press) is her first chapbook. She currently lives in Chicago with her beautiful partner and dog, Millie.

    Dmitry Samarov (5:54): Dmitry Samarov paints and writes in Chicago. He is the author and illustrator of six books. He sends out a newsletter every Monday. An absurd amount of his work is collected at his website, which is seventeen years old now.

    Mallory Smart (14:14): Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and Editor-in-Chief of Maudlin House. Some people even call her The Only Living Girl In Chicago. Mallory is also the host of Textual Healing and cohost of That Horrorcast. Her latest book, I Keep My Visions To Myself, is out now from With an X Books.

    Kyle François (17:38): Kyle François is a writer, musician, and educator in Chicago. He was raised in rural Iowa. He plays in the band Gold Dust and wrote the foreword to the 2024 edition of Arno E. Schmidt's The Accomplished Muskrat Trapper.

    Joshua Bohnsack (25:47): Joshua Bohnsack's work has appeared in AGNI, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and others. He is the publisher of Long Day Press. He grew up on a farm and moved to Chicago.

    God’Aryan (32:30): God’Aryan is a producer; singer, songwriter and music artist based in Chicago. Inspired by artists like Frank ocean, paramore, and Charli xcx they make pop, hip hop, and alternative music. There music focuses on themes of vulnerability, relationships, and the struggles of being an artist in our current age.

    Aug Stone (38:56): Aug Stone is a writer, musician, & comedian. His 2023 novel, T_he Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass, was one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books Of The Year. Aug is also author of the memoir Nick Cave’s Bar and the comedy novel Off-License To Kill_, and his journalism has appeared in The Quietus, The Comics Journal, Under The Radar, and many more sites and magazines. Aug was a founding member of H Bird and The Soft Close-Ups, and has played in countless other bands. He performs comedy as absurdist stream-of-consciousness raconteur, Young Southpaw.

    Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/

    Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844

    Follow us on Twitter: @PodHealing

    Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/

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    • 53 min

Customer Reviews

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23 Ratings

23 Ratings

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Your favorite writer’s mosh pit preferences…

Take a voyeuristic look into a writer’s playlists, guilty pleasures, middle school dance memories, and mosh pit preferences. And learn something rad about writing along the way!

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A podcast to disappear into.

Lose yourself in this engaging, thoughtful, deviously playful, wonderfully hosted podcast filled with illuminating guests who are writing works that are worth more than just your time, they’re worth your friends’ and family’s time too.

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Fantastic podcast

These guys rock!!!

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