1888: The How, The Why

Today our podcast connects with Jennifer Volland and Wendy Thomas Russell, co-founders of Brown Paper Press. Jennifer Volland is the co-author of Edward A. Killingsworth: An Architect’s Life (Hennessey + Ingalls) and Long Beach Architecture: The Unexpected Metropolis (Hennessey + Ingalls), as well as co-curator of the exhibition and publication Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life for the Vancouver Art Gallery. Wendy Thomas Russell is the author of Relax, It's Just God (Brown Paper Press), writer of a parenting column for PBSNewsHour, and former writer for Long Beach Press-Telegram. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guests: Jennifer Volland and Wendy Thomas Russell Photo: Asia Morris, Long Beach Post

Joel Arquillos is the Executive Director of 826LA, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Joel Arquillos

Today we connect with Laurie Sheck. She is the author of, most recently, Island of the Mad (Counterpoint Press), and A Monster’s Notes (Knopf), a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 Best Fictions of the Year (2009), and long-listed for the Dublin Impac International Fiction Prize. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The Willow Grove (Knopf), she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Nation.  She has taught at Princeton, CUNY, and Rutgers, and is currently a member of the MFA faculty at the New School. She lives in New York City. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Laurie Sheck Photo: Nina Subin

Today our podcast connects with Matt Rouse, Torrin Greathouse and Nicole Connolly of Black Napkin Press. Black Napkin Press is a non-profit organization that supports emerging artists from across the spectrum of cultures, races, religions, ethnicities, and gender/sexual identities. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Matt Rouse, Torrin Greathouse and Nicole Connolly

Today our podcast connects with David Galef, author of novels such as How to Cope with Suburban Stress (The Permanent Press), short story collections including My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Books), poetry collections such as Kanji Poems (Word Poetry), and most recently Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (Columbia University Press). He is also a professor at Montclair State University, and writes the humor column "U of All People" for Inside Higher Ed. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: David Galef

Today our podcast connects with Cati Porter, Executive Director of the Inlandia Institute, poet, and founder of the literary journal Poemeleon. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Cati Porter

Today our podcast connects with Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Editor-in-Chief of HOOT Review, editor for Lunch Ticket, and contributing writer at SSG Music. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

Today our podcast connects with Benjamin Percy, author of novels such as Red Moon and The Dead Lands (Grand Central Publishing), comics including Green Arrow and Teen Titans (DC Comics), and most recently the collection Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction (Graywolf Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Benjamin Percy

Today our podcast connects with Joyce Krieg, president of the California Writers Club and author of the mystery novels Murder Off Mike, Slip Cue, and Riding Gain (St. Martin's Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Joyce Krieg

Today our podcast connects with Jordan A. Rothacker, author of And the Wind Will Wash Away (Deeds Publishing) and The Pit; and No Other Stories (1888). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jordan A. Rothacker

Today our podcast connects with R. Dean Johnson, Associate Professor at Eastern Kentucky University and author of Californium: A Novel of Punk Rock, Growing Up, and Other Dangerous Things (Plume Books) and Delicate Men: Stories (Alternative Book Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: R. Dean Johnson

Today our podcast connects with Chris Staros, publisher and editor of Top Shelf Productions, former president of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and author of Yearbook Stories, 1976–1978 (Top Shelf). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Christ Staros Photo: Jenni Girtman

Today our podcast connects with Libby Flores, writer and program manager at PEN Center USA's Emerging Voices Fellowship and Craft Sessions. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Libby Flores

Today our podcast connects with Karen Cushman, author of children's historical fiction novels such as the Newbery Award winner The Midwife's Apprentice (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), the Newbery Honor book Catherine, Called Birdy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the recently-released fantasy novel Grayling's Song (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Karen Cushman

Today our podcast connects with Krys Lee, author of the short story collection Drifting House (Viking, Penguin Random House) and the forthcoming novel How I Became a North Korean (Viking, Penguin Random House). She is a recipient of the Rome Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association, and a finalist for the BBC International Story Prize. Her fiction, journalism, and literary translations have appeared in Granta, The Kenyon Review, Narrative, San Francisco Chronicle, Corriere della Sera, and The Guardian, among others. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Yonsei University, Underwood International College, in South Korea. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Krys Lee

Today our podcast connects with Aimee Bender. Aimee is the author of five books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010) which won the SCIBA award for best fiction, and an Alex Award, and The Color Master, a NY Times Notable book for 2013. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, Tin House, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and more, as well as heard on PRI’s “This American Life”and “Selected Shorts”. She lives in Los Angeles with her family, and teaches creative writing at USC. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Aimee Bender

Today our podcast connects with Joe Pan, poet, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Brooklyn Arts Press, Fiction Editor for the arts magazine Hyperallergic, Small Press Editor for Boog City, author of books such as Hiccups (Augury Books) and Autobiomythography & Gallery (BAP), and founder of the services-oriented activist group Brooklyn Artists Helping. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Joe Pan

Today our podcast is live at Azusa Pacific University with Ryan Gattis and host Michael Dean Clark. His most recent book, All Involved: A Novel of the 1992 L.A. Riots, is grounded in 2.5 years of research & background spent with former Latino gang members, firefighters, nurses, & other L.A. citizens who lived through it. The novel has won the American Library Association’s Alex Award & the Lire Award for Noir of the Year in France. Set to be translated into 11 languages, it has been called “a high-octane speedball of a read” by The New York Times & its film rights have been acquired by HBO. Recorded on Thursday, April 14. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Michael Dean Clark Guest: Ryan Gattis Photo: Jamie Roebuck-Joseph

Today our podcast connects with D.T. Max–a graduate of Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His book, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, published in 2012, was a New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, their two young children, and a rescued beagle who came to them named Max. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: D.T. Max

Connecting with your community using effective media tools and developing meaningful relationships with strategic partners with Jenny Feldon, Marisa Reichardt, and Holly Watson. Recorded live on Saturday, July 16 at the Chapman University, Leatherby Libraries in Orange, California. Throughout the month of July, during the Summer Writing Project, 1888 and JukePop present a series of free educational essays, lectures, and podcast episodes produced for the community and available to support our Top 25 with advancing their stories. We have branded July the Summer Writing Project: Workshop Session. For more information about Summer Writing Project 2016 please visit 1888.center/swp. For more details on our free Summer Writing Project events please visit 1888.center/swp16-events. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jenny Feldon, Marisa Reichardt, and Holly Watson