EPISODE · Jun 26, 2025 · 1H 17M
Isa Arsén
from Books on the Bed · host Matt Sawyer
This week we visit with Isa Arsén in San Antonio, Texas. Isa Arsén is a certified bleeding heart based in South Texas, where she lives with her spouse and a comically small dog. Her work has been featured in Stone of Madness Press, The McNeese Review, and several independent anthologies and audiovisual projects. Her novels include SHOOT THE MOON (Putnam, 2023), and THE UNBECOMING OF MARGARET WOLF (Putnam, 2025). When not wrangling prose, Isa is a dialogue engineer & writer for interactive media. For more on Isa: inarsen.com Isa's Books on the Bed: H of H Playbook by Anne Carson The Ring of the Nibelung by P. Craig Russell The Charioteer by Mary Renault The Study of Counterpoint: from Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum (translated and edited) by Alfred Mann The Art of Writing Nonfiction by Andre Fontaine and William A. Glavin, Jr. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy Matt's Gifts for Isa: The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Lolly Willowes : or the loving huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner Moon Child (album) by Kelley Smith
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This week we visit with Isa Arsén in San Antonio, Texas. Isa Arsén is a certified bleeding heart based in South Texas, where she lives with her spouse and a comically small dog. Her work has been featured in Stone of Madness Press, The McNeese Review, and several independent anthologies and audiovisual projects. Her novels include SHOOT THE MOON (Putnam, 2023), and THE UNBECOMING OF MARGARET WOLF (Putnam, 2025). When not wrangling prose, Isa is a dialogue engineer & writer for interactive media. For more on Isa: inarsen.com Isa's Books on the Bed: H of H Playbook by Anne Carson The Ring of the Nibelung by P. Craig Russell The Charioteer by Mary Renault The Study of Counterpoint: from Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum (translated and edited) by Alfred Mann The Art of Writing Nonfiction by Andre Fontaine and William A. Glavin, Jr. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy Matt's Gifts for Isa: The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Lolly Willowes : or the loving huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner Moon Child (album) by Kelley Smith
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