Index for Continuance
Episodes
Episode 26: Roy Scranton - “Publishing at the End of the World (No New Kaiju)”
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a heartening discussion of Where It’s All Going and Why There’s Not A Lot of Good Reason to Believe It’s Going to Turn Out Well. Sou...
Episode 25: Alicia Wright - “The Ecstatic State of Making the Point”
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we talk to literary hero and former camp counselor Alicia Wright, editor of the magazine Annulet and Annulet Editions, and author of the ju...
Episode 24: Callie Garnett - “There’s a Cheerleader Inside of Me”
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We spend a killer ep. 24 with Callie Garnett, poet and editorial director of fiction and memoir at Bloomsbury Publishing. (FYI Callie acquired and edi...
Episode 23: Youssef Rakha - “Genre, Freedom, and Political Despair”
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this ep Hilary talks to the writer and editor Youssef Rakha, whose novel The Dissenters is just out this spring from Graywolf. The D...
Episode 22: Kirsty Dunlop & Maria Sledmere - “Small Presses Are Infrastructure”
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a cool milestone in our first-ever transatlantic episode. We interview Kirsty Dunlop and Maria Sledmere, Glasgow-based post-internet poeti...
Episode 21: Sony Ton-Aimé - “Facilitating Grace”
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this ep we get into “arts administration”: how to do it well, why maybe it should be called something else, and what small presses can offer li...
Episode 20: Noor Hindi & George Abraham - “Structures for Abundance”
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with poets Noor Hindi and George Abraham about Heaven Looks Like Us, a new anthology of Palestinian poetry they co-edited...
Episode 19: Kate Kremer - “Impossible and Interactive: How to Publish Plays”
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with Kate Kremer, playwright and publisher of 53rd State Press, which now also houses 3 Hole Press and Plays Inverse, makin...
Episode 18: Joe Hall - “Imperialism for Writers, or Empire in the Avant-Garde”
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder what literary orgs have to do with the state? Nonprofits with the CIA? Your own poems with military operations on the other side of the pl...
Episode 17: Ryan Skrabalak - “Networks of Pleasure”
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Strap in as we spelunk some of “indie” publishing’s murkiest and most nutrient-rich depths. Zach talks with Ryan Skrabalak: poet, teacher, chees...
Episode 16: Lucy Biederman - “Koch Money, Catapult, Capital, and Real Human Language”
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hilary talks to friend of the pod Lucy Biederman to get her updated thoughts on the presence of Koch money in literary publishing—specifically, how ...
Episode 15: “What Brains Eat: On Small Press Distribution”
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a raw one as we respond in the moment to some real-time small press world-historical events (the end of SPD). With minimum filtration and ...
Episode 14: Caryl Pagel - “The Text is the Site of That Relationship”
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We finally sit down with Caryl Pagel (director of the CSU Poetry Center) and talk about her other job as publisher of Rescue Press. Caryl sheds light ...
Episode 13: Ali Black - “The Black Experience from a Cleveland Lens”
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this ep we got to sit down with Ali Black, who inspires us (and many people) as a poet, writer, educator, and administrator from Cleveland. We talk...
Episode 12: Daryl Seitchik & Dan Nott - “How to Be a Little More Punk About This Sh*t”
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here we go with comics artists, educators, and publishers Daryl Seitchik and Dan Nott, founders and operators of Parsifal Press, a comic and graphic t...
Episode 11: Jeremy Wang-Iverson & Samara Rafert - “Publicity, Marketing, & Reminding Them We’re Here”
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We gotta say, this episode is really useful for anyone who wants to learn about publicity and marketing outside the Big Five (or even inside the Big F...
Episode 10: Janaka Stucky & Carrie Olivia Adams - “Hunger for Awe”
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with Janaka Stucky and Carrie Olivia Adams: poets, editors, and founders of Black Ocean, an independent publisher based in Bos...
Episode 9: Joyelle McSweeney & Johannes Göransson - “Keeping Things Lit”
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an inspiring session with Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson, editors and founders of Action Books—as well as poets, translators,...
Episode 8: Joseph Earl Thomas - “Multiplayer Experiences”
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Time to chat with Joseph Earl Thomas, a writer from Frankford. Joseph is the author of the memoir Sink, the Director of Programs at Blue Sto...
Episode 7: Suzanne DeGaetano - “Small Presses Are the Lifeblood of the Indie Bookstore”
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We spend this episode with the inimitable Suzanne DeGaetano of Mac’s Backs Books on Coventry, the beloved indie bookstore in Cleveland Heights (and ...
Episode 6: Sarah Rose Etter - “How to Run a Reading Series (& Why)”
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This ep is for anyone who ever wondered how to host a good reading or read from their own work because there is just not a lot of info out there. Join...
Episode 5: Rebecca Wolff - “Weird and Cool”
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an hour-plus with Rebecca Wolff, founder and long-time editor of Fence the journal as well as Fence Books (disclosure: Hilary is a Fence a...
Episode 4: Peter Dimock, Eugene Lim, & Ian Dreiblatt - “Hope Is a Word I’d Replace with Collaboration”
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to the writers, editors, publishers, translators, publicists, librarians, & brilliant commentators Peter Dimock, Eugene L...
Episode 3: Matt Weinkam & Michelle Smith - “How to Bring It All Together”
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to writers, teachers, and organizers Matt Weinkam (Executive Director) and Michelle Smith (Programming Associate) of Literary...
Episode 2: Danielle Dutton - “Women Talking About Women Publishing Women (Mostly)”
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hilary talks to the writer Danielle Dutton, who is co-founder, editor, and designer of Dorothy, a publishing project. Subjects includ...
Episode 1: Matvei Yankelevich - “The New Obsolescence”
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode, we talk to Matvei Yankelevich, poet, translator, critic, editor, and publisher. You may know him as a founding member of the edi...