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James Belflower
Welcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode James Belflower reads from his forthcoming book of poetry, Commuter, out this year from Instance Press. Commuter takes us around the world and through time, juxtaposing massacres and majestic archtecture, collapsing history into news and merging tourism with the flight of refugees. Please enjoy James Belflower.  ...

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[ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:05:18 PDT ]


Brian Evenson
This episode we bring you Brian Evenson, reading his short story "Younger" from his collection Fugue State, out in July from Coffee House Press. Brian Evenson's writing might be compared to Gordon Lish, for its elegant simplicity and lush psychology, or Raymond Carver in his desolation. But the fact is that Brian Evenson's work is only familiar because it sounds exactly like life, and it is frightening because, like life, it points beyond us to what we know is true, but cannot understand....

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[ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:21:21 PDT ]


Clane Hayward
Welcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we bring you the life aquatic of Clane Hayward. In her first book, the brilliant memoir, The Hypocrisy of Disco, Clane creates an elegantly melancholy portrait of an early life shaped only by the twin forces of freedom and neglect as the child of 60's radicals. In her second memoir, Nothing Is Fixed, she invites the reader with poetic diction and brutal honesty into her adult life, in which she exchanged the directionless freedom of an unstructured youth ...

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[ Wed, 27 May 2009 20:06:29 PDT ]


William Walsh
Welcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we bring you the quizzical interrogatory of William Walsh. In this excerpt from his new book Questionstruck, a text composed entirely of questions extracted from the writings of Calvin Trillin, Walsh impresses upon us the incredible ability of questions to suggest a world through their hunger for answers. Even as the questions speak to each other, we despair of answering them. But the pleasure of inhabiting a beautifully unfinished and unfinishable world ...

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[ Wed, 13 May 2009 22:01:39 PDT ]


Mark Ehling
This episode we bring you Mark Ehling’s searchlight to advertising, cola and anxiety. The essay “An Introduction to Slamz,” creates a surreally timed conversation that follows the expected patterns of advertising speak, finding the pangs available in the capsule of a “business narrative.” He takes on the form without abusing its excess of greed or tinheart stereotypes. Instead, he finds a cold portrait of the whimsy of consumption, and the fog of its navigation. It also explores why pe...

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[ Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:53:24 PDT ]


Shane Jones
In this episode of Apostrophe Cast, Shane Jones brings us excerpts from his debut novel Light Boxes. These mystifying tableaux of Hummel-like not-so-innocents tearing at the edges of a mad ginger-bread world evoke Henry Darger, Edward Gorey, even Lewis Caroll. But in these excerpts where it is always February, in which hordes of maniacal priests curse flight, and children hope to repair the sky, an originality as unique as the winter light of childhood suffuses an unforgettable space Shane Jones...

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[ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:11:29 PDT ]


Shanthi Sekaran
This episode we bring you Shanthi Sekaran reading from her debut novel, The Prayer Room. Spanning decades, continents, cultures, sexes, generations, classes, and races, The Prayer Room pairs an unlikely English student with a young woman from a traditional Indian family and plops them in Northern California. How they got there and what ensues is storytelling at its best. Please enjoy Shanthi Sekaran. ...

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[ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:49:26 PDT ]


Andrew Lundwall
Welcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we are happy to bring you the dreamy, luxurious poetry of Andrew Lundwall. Lundwall's poetry evokes the dizzy, word-drunk hijinks of city sidewalk culture when Imagism was cafe entertainment and absinthe was no joke. Please accept this invitation into the world of Andrew Lundwall.  ...

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[ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:29:40 PDT ]


Matthew Kirkpatrick
Welcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we go underground with Matthew Kirkpatrick. In "Crystal Castles" a little girl who falls into a well and becomes a media-sensation meets her neighbor the mole, who eats dirt in variety of familiar ways and plays Atari. In "Nevada," Kirkpatrick takes us deep below the surface of the Silver State to the site of an underground nuclear test. What happens from there you have to hear to understand. A transcript of "Crystal Castles" is published at Action Yes, b...

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[ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:42:07 PST ]


James Warner
Welcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode, we are proud to bring you James Warner, a writer whose brilliant wit delivers bitter truths. Warner's story about a comedian whose routine is simply telling the truth about his disastrous life, starkly illustrates that humor is akin to madness, that laughter is never far from tears, and that the funniest things in life are the saddest seen from a surprising angle. Please enjoy "Hecklers," by James Warner. ...

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[ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:06:06 -0600 ]


Blake Butler
This episode we bring you Blake Butler reading from his new novella, Ever. Performing with a haunting modulation of his voice, Butler takes us spelunking into the depths of an irrational world dislocated from the comforting constrictions of cause and effect. But this is not a fantasy world of pleasure and irresponsibility, this is a world in which the disaster of another inexplicable moment is always occurring, and the high adventure of surviving is a matter of observing with as much sensitivity...

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[ Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:06:35 -0600 ]


Sheri Reynolds
The new political age has begun, and Sheri Reynolds graces us with a challenging tale of gender and class identity that requires us to think in new ways. This excerpt from her new novel, The Sweet In-Between explores the existence of real people between the ocean and the land, between childhood and adulthood, between genders, between the right and wrong of the law, and between joy and despair. As difficult sometimes as it is to believe, Ms. Reynolds might convince you that even in these difficul...

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[ Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:38:49 -0600 ]


Sam Lipsyte
Welcome to the first Apostrophe Cast of 2009. We are proud to welcome the new year with Sam Lipsyte. Lipsyte is not the first writer to see comedic potential in the human desire to search for wisdom in the behavior of apes, but these letters from chimps to a researcher certainly makes him among the most successful. But more than simply hitting home runs off primatology humor, Lipsyte actually does find wisdom by analyzing the behavior of apes, accusing us all of being chimp-like in the process. ...

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[ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:01:24 -0600 ]


Michael Kimball
This episode featuresMichael Kimball reading from his latest book, Dear Everybody. In this intimate epistolary novel,a mentally ill weather man radiates crystalline awareness and luminous delusionwhilehis family and others who knew him try to make sense of his tragic life.Both gloomy and amusing, Kimball's flurry of short short stories remind usof thenecessity of communicating and thedaunting difficulty of truly connecting. Please enjoy Michael Kimball. ...

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[ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:21:45 -0600 ]


Jane Sandor
Since Thanksgiving and leftovers are only days away, for this installment, we bring you a short, salty bite of malls, celebrity, and music that will cheer you up if the economy, or all the pie, is getting you down.Jane Sandoris haunted by ghosts. Very well dressed ghosts with lots of money, syndications, and entourages. If we were to connect the dots in Sandor's version of LA, the famous (and the legion of the once-famous) are persistent specters that insist on behaving as if their world is norm...

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[ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:51:28 -0600 ]


Ben Tanzer
Welcome to This Apostrophe Cast. The theme of this week's show is Disappointment. For our reader,Ben Tanzer, specifically: what do you do when you really really like someone, and even maybe idolize them a little bit, and then you meet them, and they don't seem to like you? What do you do if that person could really help your career? Well, Ben Tanzer found out. So please enjoy "Ira Glass Wants To Hit Me," on This Apostrophe Cast....

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[ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:50:09 -0600 ]


Josh Maday
This episode we are pleased to present a short story by Josh Maday. In Josh Maday's work, something is not quite right. It keeps you mesemerized and guessing, sometimes frustrating, sometimes funny, but constantly creeping up on you with the sense that this skewed reality is heading somewhere you have always been afraid to go. When we finally understand his design, werealize that it is not Maday's work that is off, rather that he has discovered something wrong with the world. Please enjoy "Work...

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[ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:01:31 -0500 ]


Celeste Ng
This week we are most pleased to bring you a gorgeous and melancholy tale from Celeste Ng. Mining the platinum veins of the unspoken and unspeakable in family affairs, Ng gives us both the richness of childhood imagination, and the frigid non-negotiable truths of adulthood. Please enjoy this short story by Celeste NG. Click here for an interview with Celeste Ng. ...

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[ Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:13:09 -0500 ]


Randall Brown
This episode we are very pleased to present the Flash Fiction of Randall Brown. Like the trout Mr. Brown is so adept at snaring, these strange andmuscular tales are fast, sleek, andseem to appear out of nowhere -- bright andstrivingat end of his taut lines.Please enjoy the odd flash fiction of Randall Brown. ...

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[ Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:36:22 -0500 ]


Caki Wilkinson
Caki Wilkinson's acrobatic brilliance--her nimble rhythms, double-jointed tropes, and gravity-defying rhymes--performs its signaturemoves in poemsof such quick-wit andvirtually effortlessskill the rapt, delighting observercan onlymarvel athow,injust themoment it takes to catchone's breath, they breakthe heart. Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of all Ages, Please enjoy Caki Wilkinson. ...

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[ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:48:34 -0500 ]


Sheila Heti
This episode we are very pleased to bring you Sheila Heti. Both intense and delightful, Heti's work lures us in with brilliant reimaginings of powerful archetypes, then stings us with endings both surprising and inevitable. The result is a literature of the twilight world between reality and fantasy that instructs as it amazes. In "Autobiography of a Clown" Ms. Heti performs a kind of literary origami to fold and twist the story of a clown into a powerful extended meditation on a beautiful world...

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[ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:23:33 -0500 ]


Richard Siken
Welcome to the one year anniversary of Apostrophe Cast. This episode we are proud to bring you the poetry of Richard Siken. Siken's work is fun and cool and frightening like a boyhood friend who sees no reason to stop wrestling just because one of you has lost a tooth. Please enjoy the poetry of Richard Siken. ...

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[ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:10:05 -0500 ]


Alissa Nutting
Welcome to Apostrophe Cast, and this episode, to the exquisite hideousness of Alissa Nutting. Nutting's suburban feminist gothic prances over manicured lawns through palaces of neglect and dementia in which tracheotomies, self-produced teen porn and routine abortions are rites of passage from a childhood without innocence to an adulthood without maturity. Ms. Nutting's story, "I Feel Nothing 4U," is witty, charming and incredibly disturbing. Please enjoy Alissa Nutting. ...

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[ Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:57:30 -0500 ]


Danielle Pafunda
We are proud to present Danielle Pafunda reading a creative lecture. With dizzying erudition, she delights us at the intersection of poetry and scholarship, biology and criticism. The effect is something like a psychedelic sermon. Please enjoy Danielle Pafunda. ...

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[ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:13:18 -0500 ]


Sabrina Orah Mark
Sabrina Orah Mark is a poet-fabulist whose work is part ghost story, part myth, and part sacred text. Each poem is like an artifact from a sealed and secret vault; each poem is itself a sealed and secret vault, beckoning, glistening, and exhorting any would-be opener to enter carefully and to remember what wonder feels like. There is eeriness, and levity, and eerie levity; there is exultant familiarity set against ominous inscrutability. Listen as Sabrina reads from her forthcoming book Tsim Tsu...

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[ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:33:56 -0500 ]


Garth Risk Hallberg
Garth Risk Hallberg has written the definitive field guide to the North American Family, a book you can open anywhere for illumination concerning the world's least predictable vertebrates. Please listen as Hallberg reads ten entries from the guide, as bewilderingly interwoven as the obscure ecosystem he describes. ...

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[ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:11:47 -0500 ]


Matt Bondurant
Matt Bondurant is the international bestselling author of The Third Translation. His second novel, The Wettest County in the World, inspired by his favorite relative will be available in the fall. But as spring turns to summer, Bondurant reminds us that the best novelists are also poets. Please enjoy Matt Bondurant. ...

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[ Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:36:41 -0500 ]


Brian Connell
Brian Connell is perhaps the best kind of dreamboat--one who is already betting on intimacy's work lasting longer than the glitter of high winds and long kisses. His songs hint at the golden lining of beginnings, but focus more fully on the entropy that he insists is where romance can be trusted in its exposure. These are not odes to melodrama or highliving. Connell's voice is plaintive, and he howls and croons not to sweep you off your feet, but to make your gut swing because he can call you on...

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[ Wed, 21 May 2008 16:16:36 -0500 ]


Nida Sophasarun
Nida Sophasarun's poems refuse to sit still. The liveliness of her mind means that a household's collection of glasses are as worthy of her careful attention as exotic birds in far-flung places. The generosity of these poems means that her readers learn, in the grace of the poems' unfoldings, how the nonhuman elements in our worlds speak to the vulnerability of the individual who is looking for connection. Hers are lines you want to read slowly, out loud, delighting in the words as well as the t...

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[ Wed, 07 May 2008 21:57:40 -0500 ]


Cecily Parks
Cecily Parkss poems investigate the natural world, the landscape of the American West, and their inhabitants (current, past and imagined). While searching for and extracting signs from their surroundings, many of her speakers call out for something some force to move them. In these moments she crafts lines that are at once graceful, haunting and heart-breaking. Reading from her first collection of poems, Field Folly Snow, this is Ms. Cecily Parks. ...

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[ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:48:53 -0500 ]

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