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Michael Sanchez Looks Behind the Curtain
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I met Michael Sanchez during the pandemic on a playground in the East Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philly where we’d both brought our kids. He happened to be reading...
Lisa Borders on the Sustenance of Art in Dark Times
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Last Night at the Disco (Regal House Publishing, 2025) is a fictitious memoir framed as a letter to the former editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner. That context...
Michael Jamin and the Importance of Small Moments
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While attending Princeton in the late 80s and early 90s, was twice rejected by the creative writing program. He already harbored a dream of being a television w...
Antonio Michael Downing on Inner and Outer Colonialism
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The opening and closing lines of Antonio Michael’s memoir Saga Boy are “The Queen designed my brain.” Growing up in Trinidad, it didn’t really register until lat...
Joanna Walsh on Collective Internet Aesthetics
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A fundamental question nags at the fringes of all sorts of creative expression: “Is it art?” Both historically and currently, archives of arguments have...
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A Podcast for Writers, Readers, and Creative Lifers. Creating meaning through personal stories.
I'm the creative director for Talking Writing and a multimedia artist living in Philadelphia. Since the early 2000s I've been making solo music alongside playing in bands, such as Grandchildren and Rad Racket.
Writer, cat lover, alt rock fanatic. Latest novel: Last Night at the Disco. Humor in McSweeney’s & more. 2025 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow. I run the Novel Reactor workshops.
TV writer (King of the Hill, Beavis and Butt-Head, Just Shoot Me, Wilfred, Maron, Rules of Engagement, Brickleberry, Glenn Martin DDS, Rhett & Link's Buddy System, Tacoma FD) Author of A Paper Orchestra, named Vulture's "Best Comedy Books of 2024."
As co-founder and publisher of TALKING WRITING, I'm committed to personal storytelling and diverse voices — and my textbook, FIRST-PERSON JOURNALISM (Routledge, 2022), lays out the value of accuracy and honesty in personal nonfiction.
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