Skylight Books Podcast Series
Episodes
SKYLIT: Dena Igusti, "CUT WOMAN" w/ Ray Jordan Achan
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women Studies. "One of the things I love most is when a poetry book f...
SKYLIT: Yxta Maya Murray, "THE WORLD DOESN"T WORK THAT WAY, BUT IT COULD"
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The gripping, thought-provoking stories in Yxta Maya Murray’s latest collection find their inspiration in the headlines. Here, ordinary people negot...
SKYLIT: Adam O. Davis, "INDEX OF HAUNTED HOUSES"
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet ...
Handsell Ep. 14, "Elisa Garcia"
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Return of the Handsell! We come back after a few weeks to talk to Elisa Garcia, a Skylight children's book specialist, host of KQBH's "Heartbreak Mond...
SKYLIT: Aisha Redux, "STUPID BLACK GIRL"
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this book, a first generation American New Yorker uses her bold voice to share life experiences through the lens of race, culture, and spirituality...
SKYLIT: Sarah M. Sala, "DEVIL'S LAKE" w/ Yves Nuno
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. What does it mean to claim your space in a world that's ending? Sarah M. Sala's DEVIL'S LAKE breaks open the American moment ...
SKYLIT: Vanessa Veselka, "THE GREAT OFFSHORE GROUNDS"
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the day of their estranged father's wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It's been years since the two have ...
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Morgan Jerkins, "WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS" w/ Soraya Nadia McDonald
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movemen...
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Christina Hammonds Reed, "THE BLACK KIDS" w/ Brandy Colbert
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re spending more time at the beach than in the cl...
Colin Dickey, "THE UNIDENTIFIED" w/ Molly Lambert, Tess Lynch, & Emily Yoshida
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational–in fringe–is on the rise:...
Karoline Waclawiak, "LIFE EVENTS" w/ Roxane Gay
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Karolina Waclawiak’s breakout novel, Life Events, follows Evelyn, who, at thirty-seven, is on the verge of divorce and anxiously dreading the death...
SKYLIT: Lori Lansens, "THIS LITTLE LIGHT" w/ Milan Cheylov
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Taking place over the course of 48 hours in 2024, This Little Light draws readers into a universe of born-again Christians and celebrity worship where...
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Ben Ehrenreich, "DESERT NOTEBOOKS" w/ Anthony McCann
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
National Magazine Award winner and The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich layers climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences i...
SKYLIT: Jennifer Levitz & Melissa Korn, "UNACCEPTABLE" w/ Asbhy Jones
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice broke on March 12, 2019, sending shock waves through American schools...
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Aimee Bender, "THE BUTTERFLY LAMPSHADE" w/ Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting...
SKYLIT: Megan Margulies, "MY CAPTAIN AMERICA" w/ Eva Hagberg,
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990s, Megan Margulies’s Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the “W...
SKYLIT: Erica C. Barnett, "QUITTER" w/ Maer Roshan
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Erica C. Barnett had her first sip of alcohol when she was thirteen, and she quickly developed a taste for drinking to oblivion with her friends. In h...
SKYLIT: Ahrm Choi Wild & Muriel Leung
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a conversation with poets Ahrm Choi Wild and Muriel Leung! _______________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo ...
SKYLIT: Arthur Nersesian, "THE FIVE BOOKS OF (ROBERT) MOSES" w/ Johnny Temple
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After a domestic terrorist unleashes a dirty bomb in Manhattan in 1970, making the borough uninhabitable, FBI agent Uli Sarkisian finds himself in a w...
SKYLIT: Daniel WK Lee, "ANATOMY OF WANT" w/ Shane Lukas
25 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Poet Daniel WK Lee is in conversation about his debut collection of poetry Anatomy of Want with spoken word artist and creative solutions specialist ...
SKYLIT: Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, "STAGES" w/ Sarah Ruhl
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry. Art. Perfomance Studies. Literary Nonficition. Can care be enacted through art? Inside a cathedral, staff members from a nursing home work wit...
Handsell, Ep. 13, "Eden Hain of JUNIOR HIGH"
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the lucky number 13th episode of the podcast, Mick and Maddie let off a little bit of steam before we head over to her interview with Eden Hain of ...
SKYLIT: Kristen Millares Young, "SUBDUCTION"
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Subduction by Kristen Millares Young Fleeing the shattered remains of her marriage and a betrayal by her sister, in the throes of a midlife freefall, ...
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Brandy Colbert, "THE VOTING BOOTH" w/ Nina Lacour
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marva Sheridan was born ready for this day. She's always been driven to make a difference in the world, and what better way than to vote in her first ...
Handsell, Ep. 12, "Chris Pine's Good Mask and LAPL's Jennifer Siron"
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mick and Maddie return to the Handsell after a couple weeks off to talk about the viral Chris Pine photo and use it to remind everyone to WEAR YOUR DA...
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Wayne Koestenbaum, "FIGURE IT OUT" w/ Maggie Nelson
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mi...
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Rosalie Knecht, "VERA KELLY IS NOT A MYSTERY" w/ Amy Stewart
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken ...
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Tom Rastrelli, "CONFESSIONS OF A GAY PRIEST" w/ Janet Finch
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Rastrelli is a survivor of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse who then became a priest in the early days of the Catholic Church’s ongoing scandals...
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Sara Sligar and Amy Jo Burns
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Skylight Events are now on Crowdcast! Our Crowdcast debut features Sara Sligar (Take Me Apart) and Amy Jo Burns (Shiner) in conversation, discuss...
LIVE ON ZOOM: "OBJECT LESSONS" Group Reading
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from a spec...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Yuri Herrera, "A SILENT FURY" w/ John Gibler
27 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking a break from producing Handsell episodes for a bit, so we're going to give you guys an extra Skylit episode to get you through the weeken...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Bethany C. Morrow, "A SONG BELOW WATER" w/ Mark Oshiro
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany C. Morrow's A Song Below Water is the story for today’s readers — a captivating modern fantasy about black mermaids, friendship, and sel...
Pedro Jiménez & Matthew Gleeson, "EARTHLY DAYS BY JOSÉ REVUELTAS"
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Pedro Jiménez and translator Matthew Gleeson get together to discuss the first-ever English translation of José Revueltas's "most accompl...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Meredith Talusan, "FAIREST" w/ Amber Tamblyn
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a “sun child” from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in A...
Handsell, Ep. 11, "Juneteenth & Lambda Lit's William Johnson"
20 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy belated Juneteenth everyone! Mick and Maddie are joined by Yves to talk about the holiday and give an update on Skylight's new browsing policy. ...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Charles Flowers, "THE IDEA OF HIM" w/ Blas Falconer
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Charles Flowers' long-awaited collection, The Idea of Him, evokes the implacable power of desire, from its earliest appearance in boyhood to the ach...
Jean Kyoung Frazier, "PIZZA GIRL"
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman comes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a...
Tess Taylor, "RIFT ZONE" w/ Stephanie Danler
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tess Taylor’s previous book of poetry, Work & Days, was named one of the best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Now, with her extraordi...
Handsell, Ep. 10, "Harry Potter Alternatives & Anji Williams"
13 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For the tenth episode of the Handsell, Mick & Maddie talk about an incredibly busy week in the world, including J.K. Rowling's controversial comments....
Harry Dodge, "MY METEORITE"
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself cont...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Tin House Poetry Night
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the best reading in all of time and space, featuring the poets of Tin House: Jenny Zhang, Tommy Pico, Morgan Parker and Khadijah Queen! ...
Handsell, Ep. 9, "In Defense of Black Life"
06 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Handsell, Mick and Maddie are joined by series regulars Sydney and Yves, as well as special guest Tamara, to have a fairly raw ...
Meena Harris, "KAMALA AND MAYA'S BIG IDEA"
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Based on a true story from the childhood of Meena Harris’s aunt, Senator Kamala Harris, and mom, Maya Harris, Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea is about ...
Mary Ann Cherry, "MORRIS KIGHT"
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how unlikely it is that an effective gay movement could have been born from an upper middle-class, law-abiding, conservative populace, there...
Andrés Neuman, "FRACTURE" w/ Chad Post
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, a former electronics company executive and a survivor of the atomic bomb, has always lived like a fugitive from his own memories....
Handsell, Ep. 8, "Protests are Good, Curbside Update, and David Gonzalez"
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's our longest episode yet! Mick and Maddie give a statement about the George Floyd protests on behalf on Skylight Books and recommend some books th...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Genevieve Hudson, "BOYS OF ALABAMA" w/ Cyrus Grace Dunham
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this bewitching debut novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. While h...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Anna Dorn, "VAGABLONDE" w/ Crissy Milazzo
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vagablonde An exploration of the toxic nature of viral fame and a generation’s dangerous dependence on external validation, Anna Dorn’s debut is a...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Porochista Khakpour, “BROWN ALBUM” w/ Myriam Gurba
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an al...
Handsell, Ep. 7, "Maddie & Tara Marsden"
23 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lucky number 7! Sorry for the delay, folks. For this episode, we talk about Skylight's curbside pickup procedure and offer some helpful tips for getti...
Joanne McNeil, "LURKING" w/ Sarah Jaffe
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apart and changed not just the way we commun...
Amy Meyerson, "THE IMPERFECTS" w/ Quig Bruning
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Millers are far from perfect. Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake find themselves under one roof for the first time in years, forced to confr...
Handsell, Ep. 6, "Yves and Mandy Harris Williams"
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this special early edition of the Handsell podcast, Yves talks to Mandy Harris Wiliams (@idealblackfemale), the Programming Director at the Women'...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Deborah Lott & Paul Lisicky
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah Lott and Paul Lisicky will discuss their new books, writing life in quarantine, and what they've been reading. Don’t Go Crazy Without Me...
Handsell, Ep. 5, "Skylight Update, Ingrid, and Liz"
16 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What a week! With social distancing measures beginning to relax a touch, Mick and Maddie talk about what it's going to be like for the Skylighters as ...
LIVE ON ZOOM: Chelsea Bieker, Aja Gabel, Nina Renata Aron
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a Skylight virtual event! Chelsea Bieker, Aja Gabel and Nina Renata Aron will talk about their journeys to publication, the current lite...
Angie Kim, "MIRACLE CREEK" w/ Maddie Gobbo
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they’re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cur...
Lane Moore, "HOW TO BE ALONE"
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It W...
Handsell, Ep. 4, "Mick, Sydney, Joseph, & Sarah"
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Maddie gives us a quick update on Skylight and whether it will open after California Governor Gavin Newsom's big announcement ...
Ali Araghi, "THE IMMORTALS OF TEHRAN"
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This sweeping multi-generational debut tells the story of a centuries-old curse carrying one family to the brink of the 1979 Iranian revolution--and a...
Janelle Brown, "PRETTY THINGS" w/ Family
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing f...
Kathryn Scanlan, "THE DOMINANT ANIMAL" w/ Brian Evenson
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Dominant Animal, compression is key. Sentences have been relentlessly trimmed, tuned, and teased, rendering both their syntax and subjects wo...
Handsell, Ep. 3, "Dylan, Yves, and Trisha Low"
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy May Day, everyone! For the third episode of the Handsell series, Mick gets a quick, overdue lowdown on International Workers Day from Maddie and...
Maggie Tokuda-Hall, "THE MERMAID, THE WITCH, AND THE SEA"
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always done whatever it takes to survive—including sailing under false flag on the Dove as a marauder, thief, an...
Lulu Miller, "WHY FISH DON'T EXIST"
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a...
Emily Gould, "PERFECT TUNES" and Rufie Thorpe, "KNOCKOUT QUEEN" w/ Stephanie Danler
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould It’s the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City’s East Village with the hopes of r...
Jessi Jezewska Stevens, "THE EXHIBITION OF PERSEPHONE Q" w/ Amina Cain
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Percy is pregnant. She hasn’t told a soul. Probably she should tell her husband—certainly she means to—but one night she wakes up to find she ...
Handsell, Ep. 2, "Andie, Ben, & Sydney"
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Back at it! Mick, Maddie, and Sydney talk about albums and books that are inextricably linked for them. Then, Andie gives a book recommendation, and S...
Zan Romanoff, "LOOK" w/ Gina Delvac
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Things Lulu Shapiro's 5,000 Flash followers don't know about her: • That the video of her with another girl was never supposed to go public....
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, "THE MOUNTAINS SING"
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, Th...
Felicia Angeja Viator, "TO LIVE AND DEFY IN LA"
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We all take for granted how synonymous hip-hop music, which dominates the music charts around the world, is with American culture today. This is a pro...
Handsell, Ep. 1, "Lane & Sydney"
18 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the premiere episode of the Skylight Books Booksellers Series, Lane and Sydney handsell us their staff picks. Plus, Mary gives us an update on how ...
Katie Orphan, "READ ME, LOS ANGELES" w/ Liska Jacobs
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read Me, Los Angeles is a colorful, lively, and informed celebration of all things bookish in L.A. past and present, including interviews with curren...
Neda Disney, "PLANTING WOLVES"
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A writer in a purgatory bar, an art collecting housewife who time travels, a movie Production Assistant with stigmata, a codependent AA sponsor, a sex...
MariNaomi, "DISTANT STARS" w/ Myriam Gurba
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the final volume of the Life on Earth trilogy, celebrated cartoonist MariNaomi concludes her tale of growing up, falling in and out of love, and ...
Bernice Steinhardt, "MEMORIES OF SURVIVAL"
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This stunning collection of fabric and embroidered panels depicts Esther Nisenthal Krinitz’s remarkable journey of living through the Holocaust in P...
Steffie Nelson, "SLOUCHING TOWARDS LOS ANGELES" w/ Contributors
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The White Album, Joan Didion wrote that “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively…loves it so radic...
Sarah Gailey, "WHEN WE WERE MAGIC", & Mallory O'Meara, "THE LADY FROM THE BLACK LAGOON"
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A moving, darkly funny novel about six teens whose magic goes wildly awry from Magic for Liars author Sarah Gailey, who Chuck Wendig calls an "autho...
Emily Beyda, "THE BODY DOUBLE" w/ Ivy Pochoda
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From a refreshingly honest new voice in fiction, Emily Beyda, comes The Body Double. Taking cues from both David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Sofia...
Erin Khar, "STRUNG OUT" w/ Jen Pastiloff
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in Los Angeles as the only child of divorced parents, Erin Khar, often consumed with loneliness, looked for an escape from the pervasive be...
Porsha Olayiwola, "I SHIMMER SOMETIMES, TOO"
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Porsha Olayiwola is from the future! Black, poet, queer-dyke, hip-hop feminist, womanist: Porsha is a native of Chicago who now resides in Boston. Ol...
Megan Fernandes, "GOOD BOYS" w/ Catherine Pond & Callie Siskel
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability, Megan Fernandes's Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage, negotiat...
April Davila, "142 OSTRICHES" w/ Amy Meyerson
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Set against the unexpected splendor of an ostrich ranch in the California desert, April Dávila’s beautifully written debut conjures an absorbing an...
Brandon Taylor, "REAL LIFE" w/ Miles Klee
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Taking place over the course of a single summer weekend, Real Life chronicles the life of Wallace, a young black graduate student studying biochemis...
Katharine Coldiron, "CEREMONIALS" w/ Christopher Higgs
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ceremonials is a twelve-part lyric novella inspired by Florence + the Machine’s 2011 album of the same name. It’s the story of two girls, Amelia...
Ebony Flowers, "HOT COMB" w/ Taneka Stotts
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers is one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of 2019, receiving nominations from the YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens an...
Jenn Shapland, "MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS" w/
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman na...
Emily Nemens, "THE CACTUS LEAGUE" w/
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their a...
Kyle Chayka, "THE LONGING FOR LESS" w/ Geoff Manaugh
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everywhere we hear the mantra: Less is more. Marie Kondo and other decluttering gurus promise that shedding our stuff will solve our problems, while ...
Sands Hall, "RELCAIMING MY DECADE LOST IN SCIENTOLOGY" w/ Maggie Rowe
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the secluded canyons of Hollywood, Sands Hall—a young woman from a literary family striving to forge her own way as an artist—finds herself inc...
SEAWITCHES, VOL. 4 w/ Olivia VanDamme & Margaret Seelie
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Seawitches is a bi-annual print publication with the eternal theme of water. Within the water theme we’ve explored menstruation, mental health, whi...
BEST WOMEN'S EROTICA OF THE YEAR, VOL. 5
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 5, award-winning editor Rachel Kramer Bussel takes readers on an outrageous journey into the world of...
Amina Cain, "INDELICACY" w/ Adam Novy
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirati...
Emma Copley Eisenberg, "THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL" w/ Steph Cha
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19,...
Crissy Van Meter, "CREATURES" w/ Edan Lepucki
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unique in its structure and written to mimic the tidal charts that Evie studies as well as the natural ebbs and flows of life, Creatures takes reade...
Lidia Yuknavitch, "VERGE"
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lidia Yuknavitch's bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, and her groundbreaking memoir The Chronology of Water, hav...
WRITEGIRL 4 Group Reading
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WriteGirl is an innovative nonprofit organization that empowers teen girls through creative writing. Join us for this special chance to hear WriteGirl...
Chani Nicholas, "YOU WERE BORN FOR THIS" w/ Jen Richards
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your weekly horoscope is merely one crumb of astrology's cake. In her first book You Were Born For This, Chani Nicholas shows how your birth chart--...
Elaine Kahn, "ROMANCE OR THE END"
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma...
A Tribute to Holly Prado
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The last time I saw Holly Prado, whom I’d known forty years, we were part of a group performance of Song of Myself at Beyond Baroque. Now we have...