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situation / story chris moore
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[mostly feminist] author interviews; email: thesituationandthestory [at] gmail [dot] com for booking or to send a letter.
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LIGHTNING FLOWERS w/Katherine E. Standefer
Katherine Standefer is the author of Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little, Brown Spark 2020), which was a Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction, selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick, and shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Lightning Flowers was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, on the goop pocast, and in O, The Oprah Magazine and People Magazine. Standefer’s previous writing appeared in The Best American Essays 2016. She was a 2018 Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good and a 2017 Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellow at the Mesa Refuge. She earned her MFA at the University of Arizona and lives on a piñon- and juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico with her chickens.
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DEFENESTRATE w/Renée Branum
Renée Branum’s stories and essays have appeared in several publications including The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Lit Hub. Her story “As the Sparks Fly Upward” was included in Best American Nonrequired Reading’s 2019 anthology. She has earned MFAs in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Nonfiction from the University of Montana. She was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts 2020 Prose Fellowship to aid in the completion of her first novel, Defenestrate, published by Bloomsbury in January 2022. She currently lives in Cincinnati where she is pursuing a PhD in Fiction Writing.
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A FACE FOR PICASSO w/Ariel Henley
I am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it.
At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it.
Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the physical aspect of their condition was painful, it was nothing compared to the emotional toll of navigating life with a facial disfigurement.
Ariel explores beauty and identity in her young-adult memoir about resilience, sisterhood, and the strength it takes to put your life, and yourself, back together time and time again.
About Ariel:
Ariel Henley is a writer from Northern California with a B.A. in English and Political Science from the University of Vermont. She is passionate about writing as a form of activism, and hopes to use her story to promote mainstream inclusion for individuals with physical differences. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Narratively. A Face for Picasso is her debut novel.
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BAD TOURIST w/Suzanne Roberts
Suzanne Roberts is a travel writer, memoirist, and poet. Her books include the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award-winning Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Bison Books, 2012), the award-winning memoir in travel essays Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), a collection of lyrical essays, Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, 2022), and four collections of poetry.
Her work has been listed as "Notable" in Best American Essays and published in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, CNN, Longreads, ZYZZYVA, ISLE, 1966, River Teeth, Terrain, National Geographic Traveler, The Normal School, and Litro, as well as anthologized in The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Tahoe Blues, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly, Poems Dead and Undead, and in two editions of Best Women's Travel Writing.
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MADE IN CHINA w/Anna Qu
Anna Qu is a Chinese American writer. She writes personal essays on identity and growing up in New York as an immigrant. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Lithub, Threepenny Review, Lumina, Kartika, Kweli, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and Jezebel, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her book Made in China was published by Catapult in August 2021.
Anna serves as the Nonfiction Editor at Kweli Journal, and teaches at the low res MFA program at New England College, Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, and Catapult. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their cat, Momo.
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GOING SHORT w/Nancy Stohlman
Flash fiction, slashing word counts, and obliterating genre, oh my!
Nancy Stohlman’s latest book, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction, was a 2021 Reader Views Gold Award winner, a Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist, an International Book Award finalist, and is forthcoming as an audiobook with Blackstone Publishing. She is the author of multiple flash fiction collections and flash novels including Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities, The Monster Opera, and The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories. Her work has been anthologized widely, appearing in the W.W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Macmillan’s The Practice of Fiction, and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for both the stage and screen. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and around the world.
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"This is the Word; this is the wound..."
Chris Moore's discussion with Melissa Febos' new memoir, "Girlhood" leaves me wanting to hear more from both of these women. Unlike other Literary podcasts I listen to, this was conversational without being hugely digressive. So many excellent insights points of entry to both Febos' and Moore's worlds, I was left marvelling at Febo's comment that some of us "act out" our trauma, while others of us "act in." Feminism, addiction and the "psychedelic experience of being a consciousness in a young person's body" are themes looked at with self-compassion and at angles not often brought up in activist and recovery communities. That reading toward the end, and the essay, "Thank you for taking care of yourself," with cuddle party experiences at it's center, reminded me of my own journey into the world of ecstatic dance. Moore allows Febos her head, and Febos is so excellent with words, I was bummed when that 55 minutes were over. I plan on getting "Girlhood" as soon as I can. while the feelings this podcast interview are still fresh. I also plan on looking more deeply into "The Situation and the Story" Podcast. Bravo, Chris Moore and Melizza Febos. I can't wait to hear and read more from each of you!
Great questions
Wonderful conversations, we get a real sense of the authors and their work.
So much fun
to listen to smart, insightful, funny conversations between women writers! Chris asks about craft and writing but also about life, the female perspective, and what it means to be an artist in the world at this time. No two interviews are the same and that’s what I love about it. Have a listen!!