The Exacting Clam Cephalopodcast Exacting Clam

In this episode, Kevin Philip Sirois presents C.J. Spataro’s gorgeous, moving, strange yet familiar story, “The Becoming,” available in the print edition of Exacting Clam’s https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-2-autumn-2021/ (Autumn 2021 issue).
C.J. Spataro is the MFA program director at Rosemont College and the editorial director of Philadelphia Stories and PS Books. She is an award-winning short story writer, Pushcart Prize nominee, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant winner.

In this installment of the Cephalopodcast, Kevin Philip Sirois talks with publisher Jacob Smullyan about art's futility and necessity, the origins of Sagging Meniscus and Exacting Clam, the Cephalopodcast itself, and, especially, Royce M. Becker.

In this, the Cephalopodcast's inaugural episode, host Kevin Philip Sirois reads pieces by Kurt Luchs, Charles Holdefer, Steven D. Schroeder, and Daniel Beauregard.
Books from this episode:
Kurt Luchs: https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/falling_in_the_direction_of_up/ (Falling in the Direction of Up)
Charles Holdefer: https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/dick_cheney_in_shorts/ (Dick Cheney in Shorts)
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-1-summer-2021/ (Exacting Clam No. 1 — Summer 2021)