1888: The How, The Why

Today our podcast connects with Jacob Denno, poet and Editor and Publisher of Popshot Magazine. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jacob Denno

Our third Eichler Session welcomes Garth Greenwell and Mary Rakow. Garth Greenwell is the author of Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Award. What Belongs to You is his first novel. This Is Why I Came by Mary Rakow has been described as a “Blakean tour de force,” receiving strong reviews in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Ploughshares and selected by O Magazine as one of “16 Books to Start 2016 off Right.” Eichler Sessions are a series of conversations with creative pioneers hosted in historic Eichler homes. During the early 1950s, award-winning homebuilder Joseph Eichler influenced the face of American architecture by developing distinctive residential subdivisions of Mid-Century modern style tract housing. The City of Orange is the site of 350 of the 600 Southern California Eichlers. Produced in conjunction with Jeffrey Crussell Fine Properties and Creative Noodle. Click here to view photos

Today our podcast connects with Dani Hedlund, CEO of the literary nonprofit Tethered by Letters, Editor-in-Chief of the journal F(r)iction, and author of the novel Threads of Deception. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Dani Hedlund

Today our podcast connects with Rachel Howzell Hall, author of A Quiet Storm (Scribner), The View from Here, No One Knows You’re Here, and the Detective Elouise Norton series (Forge Books). She serves on the Board of Directors for the Mystery Writers of America, and has participated as a mentor in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ Writer-to-Writer program. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Rachel Howzell Hall

Today our podcast connects with Jonathan Eller, Director of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Senior Textual Editor of the Institute for American Thought, editor of The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, author of Becoming Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury Unbound (University of Illinois Press), and co-author with William Touponce of Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State University Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jonathan Eller

Today our podcast connects with Andrew Tonkovich, editor of the Santa Monica Review; host of Bibliocracy Radio; Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine; co-editor alongside his wife, Lisa Alvarez, of the forthcoming The Barricades of Heaven: A Literary Field Guide to Orange County, California (Heyday); and writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Faultline, Ecotone and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Andrew Tonkavich

Today our podcast connects with Ben Loory, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge, instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and author of numerous books including Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin Books) and The Baseball Player and the Walrus (Dial Books). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Ben Loory

Today our podcast connects with Lilliam Rivera, author of the forthcoming young adult novel The Education of Margot Sanchez (Simon & Schuster); host of the Radio Sombra show Literary Soundtrack; Pushcart Prize winner; editor of the 1888 novellas Harlem's Awakening, Bellies and Buffalos, and 116* Days with Dad; and 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lilliam Rivera

Today our podcast connects with Lux Alptraum and Leigh Stein of BinderCon, a non-profit organization and convention devoted to advancing the careers of women and gender non-conforming writers. Lux is also a writer whose work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Salon.com, TheAtlantic.com, GOOD Magazine, and more. Leigh is author of the novel The Fallback Plan (Melville House), the poetry collection Dispatch from the Future (Melville House), and the forthcoming memoir Land of Enchantment (Blue Rider Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lux Alptraum and Leigh Stein

Today our podcast connects with Lisa Pearson, Publisher and Founder of Siglio Press, editor of It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, and LA Times Person to Watch. Photo: Bob Chamberlin Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Lisa Pearson

Today our podcast connects with Neelanjana Banerjee, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge; Managing Editor of Kaya Press; assistant editor with the Los Angeles Review of Books; instructor with artworxLA and Writing Workshops Los Angeles; journalist; co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press); and writer whose works have appeared in anthologies such as Desilicious (Arsenal Press), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India), and Breaking the Bow: Speculative Stories Inspired by the Ramayana (Zubaan Books), as well as in numerous magazines and journals such as PANK Magazine, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and Asian Pacific American Journal. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Neelanjana Banerjee

Today our podcast reconnects with Kevin Smokler, 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge. Kevin is the author of “Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School” (2013) and a forthcoming book on 80s movies. His cultural essays and criticism have appeared in Salon Vulture, Buzzfeed, The LA Times, Fast Company and on NPR. He lives in San Francisco. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Kevin Smokler

Today our podcast connects with Alan Rifkin, journalist and author of books such as the short story collection Signal Hill (City Lights Publishers) and the upcoming Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir (Brown Paper Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Alan Rifkin

Today our podcast connects with David Ulin, book critic (formerly of the Los Angeles Times; Guggenheim Fellow; author of books such as Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles (University of California Press), The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time (Sasquatch Books), Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America), and the upcoming novel Ear to the Ground with Paul Kolsby (Unnamed Press); and 2016 The Plaza Literary Prize Judge. Photo by Heather Conley. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: David Ulin

Today our podcast connects with William M. Brandon III, author of Silence (Black Hill Press) and A Selfish Man (Publish America); editor of the Black Hill Press novellas The Pit, and No Other Stories, Foster, and A Little Evil; and Managing Editor of 1888. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: William M. Brandon III

Today our podcast connects with Jessica Joy Reveles, writer, USC alum, and editor of 1888's Small Towne Short Stories program—documenting the past, present, and future of historic buildings around Old Towne, Orange. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jessica Joy Reveles

Today our podcast connects with Amy Stolls, Literature Director for the National Endowment for the Arts, where she is involved in programs such as the National Book Festival and Big Read program; former environmental journalist; writer of a blog about the Old Post Office of the United States, and author of the novels Palms to the Ground (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and The Ninth Wife (HarperCollins). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Amy Stolls

Today our podcast connects with Esther Patterson and Natasha Dennerstein of Fourteen Hills and San Francisco State University's Creative Writing Program. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Esther Patterson and Natasha Dennerstein

Today our podcast connects with Robert B. Wallace, Co-founder of Asahina & Wallace, Treasurer of PEN Center USA, and Emmy-winning editor who has previously held positions at St. Martin's Press, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, ESPN, and Primetime Live. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Robert B. Wallace

Our second Eichler Session welcomes special guest Denise Hamilton.  Former journalist, Fulbright scholar and Edgar Award finalist Denise Hamilton is the author of 7 crime novels set in LA. She’s also the editor of Los Angeles Noir and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics, which spent two months on bestseller lists and won the Edgar Award for “Best Short Story.” Hamilton lives in the Los Angeles suburbs with her husband and two boys. She also writes about perfume for the Los Angeles Times. James Ellroy called Denise’s latest novel, Damage Control “A superb psychological thriller.” Eichler Sessions are a series of conversations with creative pioneers hosted in historic Eichler homes. During the early 1950s, award-winning homebuilder Joseph Eichler influenced the face of American architecture by developing distinctive residential subdivisions of Mid-Century modern style tract housing. The City of Orange is the site of 350 of the 600 Southern California Eichlers. Produced in conjunction with Jeffrey Crussell Fine Pr