Art, Community, and Reasons for Writing: Nick Rossi

Nick Rossi, cofounder and editor of Sobotka Literary Magazine and Ursus Americanus Press, joins us to talk about why we write, the way art shapes community, and even those words we're never sure how to pronounce. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Berenice Abbott, Two children at the Harlem Community Arts Center in 1939 (cropped). Public doman image courtesy New York Public Library and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!   Eric Benick CM Burroughs "Dear Incubator"  Italo Calvino  Emily Capers In Between My Bodies  Fyodor Dostoevsky                                                                    Forvo  Christopher Gilbert                                    Across the Mutual Landscape Christopher Gilbert "Listening to Monk's Misterioso" Featured in Roger Reeves, "The Uses of Memory"  Nikolai Gogol  Roy Jacobsen                                              Borders  Franz Kafka                                               The Trial  Franz Kafka                                               The Metamorphosis  Rupi Kaur  Chris Kraus  Long Day Press  Plato Phaedrus                                                                  Plato                                                           Symposium  Daniel Pujol  Sobotka Literary Magazine  Sherry Turkle                                              Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other                                                             Ursus Americanus Press Kurt Vonnegut  William Carlos Williams