Short Story magazine, based in Columbia, South Carolina, has announced a call for entries for — you guessed it — short stories. They’ll be selecting 52 to record and podcast — the podcast site isn’t up yet, but they’re reading submissions now.
A new Short Story project called Short Story Podcasts will be launched in September 2008. One story a week will be read and available on the Short Story website. 52 stories a year.
It’s a wonderful idea — podcasts are an ideal delivery system for the short story. Are they the first to think of it? Anyway, send ‘em your short stories now. If you become podcasted, they’ll even toss you 25 bucks.
The only catch: submissions must be mailed, hardcopy, to a PO Box. No e-mailed entries. (Not entirely Web 2.0 after all.)
Nicola Griffith spoke to me about her book Always, an LBC summer Read This! nominee. Clicking on that there link will play the podcast, which includes Gwenda Bond and bits of music from Gomez and Nina Simone.
Listen to author Alan DeNiro in conversation (with me) about Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, his debut short story collection and the LBC’s Read This! pick.
Topics include: Small Beer Press, weaving between genres, fabulism, literary fiction, creepiness, letter-writing action, wordplay, Dungeons & Dragons, absurdity, contemporary income disparities, dread, footnotes in fiction, jolts of emotion, reversing polarity between poetry and fiction, the rust belt, and the lonliness of Wal-Mart.
Hear the LBC interview with Mark Binelli, the author of Sacco & Vanzettie Must Die! The podcast was produced by the inimitable Ed/Bat Segundo and includes a short intro with me talking to nominator Jessica Stockton. This caps off S&VMD! week at the LBC.
In barely related news, the Pittsburgh airport — at least here in the Southwest terminal — does have free wifi. I love airports with free wifi.
A podcast! Of Miss Jami Attenberg. Her debut book Instant Love hit shelves last summer; now it’s coming out in paperback in April. When we sat down in a noisy Williamsburg cafe, she talked about the characters in the book (her girls), making bad decisions, zines vs. blogs, making a living as a writer, scripting a documentary and not getting freaked out by anything.
Tonight Jami Attenberg hosts The Class of 2007 Reading Series at Boxcar Lounge in NYC, featuring Joshua Ferris, Felicia Sullivan, Anna Choi and Min Jin Lee.
It would be remiss of me not to point to this brand new podcast interview with Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, author of Wizard of the Crow, the LitBlog Coop’s latest Read This! pick. Way cool.
How better than a podacst interview to peek behind the scary curtain of Stephen Graham Jones‘ Demon Theory? Don’t be afraid. He’s really quite congenial. Although he does tell a true story, which is maybe the scariest thing of all relating to his book. Also featured: our nominator Scott McKenzie and what he likes best about Demon Theory.
This, like all LBC podcasts, is a co-production of the LBC, The Bat Segundo Show, and me.
Topics covered: imaginary editors, accidental test-taking, bloody ATV wrecks, literary heroes, writing from Texas, monkey torture, classic slasher films, footnotes v. endnotes and more.
Get a look (listen?) inside Valerie Trueblood’s book Seven Loves, with a lovely intro from our nominator Anne Fernald. Seven Loves was one of the finalists for the LBC’s first Read This! pick of 2007.
Once again, Ed Champion has done all the hard work putting this podcast together. I owe that man a quesedilla.
All week the LBC has been celebrating the fall top pick, Firmin by Sam Savage. Don’t miss the podcast, in which Ed talks to Savage in person, with much enthusiasm.
Altho Ed says I assisted, I did little more than peep over the transom on this one. Mr. Champion deserves all the credit.
What’s a Manbug? It’s a new novel by George Ilsley about love affair between a gay entomologist and dyslexic bisexual which was a finalist for the fall Litblog Coop pick. Hear the interview, conducted by me and produced by the ineffable Bat Segundo.
