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F***ing Shakespeare
by Bloomsday Literary
The high-art low-brow minds behind Bloomsday Literary bring you interviews with the creatives you should know, but don’t. Poets, novelists, memoirists, & short story writers join co-hosts Kate and Jessica as they take a respectful approach to investigating the writer’s art and an irreverent approach to getting the nitty-gritty on the hustle for publication and exposure. Most of us writers making a living by the pen occupy somewhere between the ubiquitous bestsellers and the people who want to write but bemoan the lack of time to do it. So let Terry Gross interview the top 1%. We’ll set to work making community with everyone else.
Episodes
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ire'ne lara silva—Texas Poet Laureate
ire’ne lara silva—Texas Poet Laureate Bloomsday Literary Phuc and Kate speak with the acclaimed and straight-up luminous Texas Poet Laureate, ire’ne lara silva, at the 2023 Writer’s Family Reunion sponsored by Writespace. We had the opportunity to chat about her process, the bold and unapologetic...
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AWP23—Enzo Silon Surin
AWP23—Enzo Silon Surin Bloomsday Literary Enzo Silon Surin writes, composes, and publishes artifacts on the “witness continuum”—art that he says “pays homage to the culture in which it was formed” and the necessity of generational change. Surin’s work spans librettos commissioned by the Boston...
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AWP23—Alyson Sinclair
AWP23—Alyson Sinclair Bloomsday Literary Does Alyson Sinclair sleep? We had to keep asking ourselves as we chatted it up with Alyson from the floor of AWP (Association of Writing and Writing Program)’s Conference and Bookfair. She’s done it all when it comes to the writing world—bouncing between...
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AWP23—Chelsea Kern from CLMP
AWP23—Chelsea Kern from CLMP Bloomsday Literary As Program Director of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), Chelsea Kern is the glue that holds so much of the indie literary world together, advocating for mission-driven independent publishers and magazines—and, with equal...
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AWP23—Deema Shehabi
AWP23—Deema Shehabi Bloomsday Literary Poetry “carr[ies] the most human of voices” for Deema Shehabi, a Palestinian-American writer whose work has appeared in publications including The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology and Kenyon Review. Shehabi earned her undergraduate degree in...
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AWP23—Maha Ahmed
AWP23—Maha Ahmed Bloomsday Literary Exploring the specificities of a diaspora while also calling upon ancestral experiences is just one of the many threads Maha Ahmed weaves through her poetry. Like many members of diasporic communities, Maha’s experiences as an Egyptian American do not always...
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AWP23—Matt Bell
AWP23—Matt Bell Bloomsday Literary Matt Bell is an author, English professor, and editor. He currently teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. In this episode live from the conference floor at AWP 2023, we’re celebrating the one-year anniversary of his indispensable book on the…
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AWP23—Kristen Millares Young
AWP2023 Kristen Millares Young Bloomsday Literary Kristen Millares Young calls her novel Subduction “a study of recurrently going meta,” or “an examination of the longing that we have to be in contact with others who are not like us.” From exploring the notion of consent–not just sexually but…
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AWP23—V.V. Ganeshananthan
AWP23—V.V. Ganeshananthan Bloomsday Literary V.V. Ganeshananthan is an author, poet, and journalist, whose works have been featured in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota as a McKnight...
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AWP21—Amanda Niehaus
AWP21—Amanda Niehaus Bloomsday Literary Amanda Niehaus has a PhD in Physiological Ecology. She is the author of numerous award-winning short stories, essays, and an acclaimed novel, The Breeding Season (Allen & Unwin, 2019). As part of her author profile (bestill our science-loving hearts) she...
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AWP21—Sumita Chakraborty
AWP21—Sumita Chakraborty Bloomsday Literary Corraling the myriad ways Sumita Chakraborty’s poetry collection gets at the heart of grief all but flummoxed me. Its meaning is still washing over me. But I’ll say that poet Rishi Dastidar did what I couldnt do when she wrote that it’s “a book to hold...
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AWP21—Vanessa Garcia
AWP21 —Vanessa Garcia Bloomsday Literary Vanessa Garcia is a Miami-based novelist, playwright, journalist, and visual artist. Much of her work centers on her Cuban homeland, where her parents and grandparents were born. She is the author of incredible essays you can find all over the web and an...
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AWP21—Aimee Bender
AWP21 —Aimee Bender Bloomsday Literary Photo credit: Mike Glier Aimee Bender graduated from UC Irvine and teaches at USC. Her books have received accolades in all the major outlets: from the New York Times, LA Times, & MCSweeney’s, to Oprah. Her latest novel, published July 2020, is The Butterfly...
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AWP21—Craig Santos Perez
AWP21—Craig Santos Perez Bloomsday Literary Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the co-founder of Ala Press, and the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, Habitat Threshold. He’s the recipient of many prizes, including the 2011 PEN Center...
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AWP21—Farid Matuk
AWP21—Farid Matuk Bloomsday Literary Farid Matuk’s poetry, essays, and translations from Spanish appear in a wide range of publications and anthologies. He is the author of the poetry collection, This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine), several chapbooks including My Daughter La Chola...
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AWP21—Michael Zapata
AWP21—Michale Zapata Bloomsday Literary We talked to Michael Zapata about his novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau. It was the winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from The Boston Globe and The Millions, and his…
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AWP21—Alison Hawthorne Deming
AWP21—Alison Hawthorne Deming Bloomsday Literary Alison Deming is so prolific and has been writing for so long that it was a bit overwhelming to pack into a 20-minute interview, but we tried our best. Hawthorne is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona, where she founded the Field...
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AWP21—Jeffrey Colvin
AWP21—Jerffrey Colvin Bloomsday Literary AWP 21 Episode—Jeffrey Colvin (Day 2, Episode 1) We talk to Jeffrey Colvin about his stunning new book, Africaville. Jeffrey Colvin is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Harvard, and Columbia where he earned an MFA in fiction. He is also a…
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Catherine Baab-Muguira
FS-S03E02-Catherine-Baab-Muguira Bloomsday Literary In honor of the launch of Catherine Baab-Muguira’s new book, Poe for Your Problems, we are re-releasing F***ing Shakespeare’s interview with her that we did back in 2019—where we talked about this book in its wee-baby stages. And now, here it…
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AWP21—Lilly Dancyger
AWP 21—Lilly Dancyger Bloomsday Literary Day 1, Episode 1 To kick off the podcast interviews at AWP, we were thrilled to talk to Lilly Dancyger. Her new memoir, Negative Space, comes out May 2021 with Santa Fe Writers Project. She’s the editor of the essay collection, Burn It Down: Women Writing...
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Mira Jacob, Author
Mira Jacob, Author Bloomsday Literary If you have yet to read guest Mira Jacob’s 2019 memoir in conversations, Good Talk, we’re jealous. Praised for her “disarming wit,” Jacob achieves this by welcoming you into her indecision, her confusion, her wonder at raising a child against the backdrop of...
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Jia Tolentino, author
Jia Tolentino, author Bloomsday Literary The one and only Jia Tolentino was our guest on the show. We had Shipley’s donuts & it’s Britney’s Spears birthday all in honor of Jia. She’s a staff writer for the New Yorker and if you haven’t been living in a cave, you know she’s been on an…
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Joy Preble, YA novelist
Joy Preble, YA novelist Bloomsday Literary What do you get when you cross clever, sometimes soaring, sometimes heart-breaking, always beautiful prose with immortality, fantasy, and historical themes? Signature Joy Preble. Since 2009, when she published the first book in her Dreaming Anastasia...
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Thomas McNeely, novelist
Thomas McNeely, novelist Bloomsday Literary We first met this episode’s guest at the WriteFest conference at Rice University. We found had all sorts of connections, as writers in this weird industry often do: he grew up in Houston like Kate did, and he has ties to Jessica’s Boston, where he lives...
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Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, poet
Shakespeare's Shorts: Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, poet Bloomsday Literary Welcome to our final installment of our special summer series, F***ing Shakespeare’s Shorts, where we interviewed the very tired but always brilliant souls who had books coming out in the time of the pandemic. For this final...
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Shakespeare’s Shorts: Alexis Kienlen, novelist
Shakespeare's Shorts: Alexis Kienlen, novelist Bloomsday Literary Move aside, poets! (But just for one second!) Here near the end of our Shakespeare’s Shorts season, we finally caught hold of another fiction aficionado! Alexis Kienlen’s first novel, Mad Cow, came out this April from Now Or Never...
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Shakespeare's Shorts: Ayokunle Falomo, poet
Shakespeare's Shorts: Ayokunle Falomo, poet Bloomsday Literary In this episode, we get to chat (and giggle and lose all sense of time) with an old friend, Ayokunle Falomo, whose first incendiary chapbook entitled African, American has been published. He has promised us that it will be available…
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Shakespeare's Shorts: Esther Lee, poet
Shakespeare's Shorts: Esther Lee, poet Bloomsday Literary Esther Lee is a poet (and letter-press artist!) who, along with her husband and cat Bowie, lives on a 35-foot sailboat called “Hope.” Currently, they’re living off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, where she writes poetry, blogs about…
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Shakespeare's Shorts: Matthew Lippman, poet
Matthew Lippman, poet Bloomsday Literary Matthew Lippman’s most recent collection, Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful, is the winner of the Levis prize from Four Way Books. He is the author of four other poetry collections—A Little Gut Magic, American Chew, Monkey Bars, and The New Year of Yellow. It...
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Shakespeare's Shorts: Juditha Dowd, poet
Juditha Dowd, Poet Bloomsday Literary “It is my belief that we would not know John James Audubon today if it weren’t for [Lucy].” For our third installment of F***ing Shakespeare Shorts, Juditha Dowd reads from her gorgeously soft-spoken collection, Audubon’s Sparrow. The collection is a...
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Shakespeare's Shorts: Jabari Asim, poet
Shakespeare's Shorts: Jabari Asim, poet Bloomsday Literary Welcome to our second installment of Shakespeare’s Shorts, where your favorites from F***ing Shakespeare host the virtual book tour that no one would have wanted before COVID-19, but that is now giving us a literary lifeline as we’re…
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Shakespeare's Shorts: Lee Matalone, novelist
Shakespeare's Shorts: Lee Matalone, novelist Bloomsday Literary HEY! We made a thing: it’s the Virtual Book Tour Quarantine edition of F***ing Shakespeare, we’re calling SHAKESPEARE’S SHORTS! We wanted to get out there and see what’s happening in the land of books — talk with authors who have…
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Bonus #AWP20 with Bloomsday Literary—Chris Cander and Amy Hanson
Bonus #AWP20 with Bloomsday Literary—Chris Cander and Amy Hanson Bloomsday Literary We have one more bit of brightness to send your way with this interview of two writers in the AWP Writer 2 Writer Mentorship program, mentor Chris Cander and mentee Amy Hanson. Chris was unable to attend the...
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Official podcast of #AWP20 LIVE with Bloomsday Literary—Day 3
Official Podcast of #AWP20 LIVE with Bloomsday Literary—Day 3 Bloomsday Literary Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday Literary’s partnership with #AWP20 to bring you all the literary goings-on...
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Official podcast of #AWP20 with Bloomsday Literary—Day 2
Official podcast of #AWP20 with Bloomsday Literary—Day 2 Bloomsday Literary Anna Lena Phillips Bell 0:58 Anna Lena is the editor and art director for Ecotone* and an editor for Lookout Books at the University of North Carolina—Wilmington. She talks about Ecotone’s mission and aesthetic, how to...
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F***ing Shakespeare Shorts
F___ing Shakespeare Shorts Spot Bloomsday Literary
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Official podcast of #AWP20 LIVE with Bloomsday Literary—Day 1
Official podcast of #AWP20 w/ Bloomsday Literary—Day 1 Bloomsday Literary Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday Literary’s partnership with #AWP20 to bring you all the literary goings-on from…
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Phong Nguyen, novelist
Phong Nguyen, novelist Bloomsday Literary Today on the show, Phong Nguyen, an absolute treasure trove of Twain trivia, author of The Adventures of Joe Harper. We do talk lots about writing dialect and the editors that love/hate it, why three-quarters of your way into writing a manuscript is the...
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Abbigail Rosewood, novelist
Abbigail Rosewood, novelist Bloomsday Literary On today’s show, we have novelist Abbigail Rosewood. Jessica, Phuc, Abbigail, and I discussed the virtues of buying hibiscus plants from people who unofficially sell them on the streets of Brooklyn. We bring you another arousing author-psycho-therapy...
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Jericho Brown, poet
Jericho Brown, poet Bloomsday Literary Download On this episode of F***ing Shakespeare, our guest is the one and only Jericho Brown. Poets, lovers, and one who desires to hear beautiful language spoken by a beautiful voice, this episode is for you. We talk about Brown’s duplex, a poetic form he...
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Bryan Washington, novelist
Bryan Washington, novelist Bloomsday Literary In today’s episode we have the 100% on-fire novelist, Bryan Washington, penning effing beautiful and raw stories straight out of the streets of Houston for his story collection Lot. He shares his ridiculously envy-enducing publishing journey for you,...
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Mark Haber, novelist
Mark Haber, novelist Bloomsday Literary In the studio today to open SEASON 4 of the show—that’s right y’all F***ing Shakespeare is on our 4th season! To celebrate we have Houston’s own lit genius, Mark Haber. He’s our first returning guest, so we must be doing something right. He’s definitely…
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Season 4 Announcement
Season 4 Announcement Bloomsday Literary
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PSA-Houston Writers Coalition 2
PSA-Houston Writers Coalition Bloomsday Literary
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Sarah Stankorb, journalist
Sarah Stankorb, journalist Bloomsday Literary Read all of Sarah’s work, but if we were forced to choose, here’s the place to start: Until We All Have Voices in Catapult Fabric of a Community, Gone Threadbare: A Tour of Ohio’s New Trump Country in Catapult The Crusading Bloggers Exposing Sexual...
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PSA-Houston Writers Coalition
PSA: Houston Writers Coalition Bloomsday Literary
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Edan Lepucki, novelist
Edan Lepucki, novelist Bloomsday Literary Novelist and genre shapeshifter Edan Lepucki is our guest on today’s show. Expert writing tips include: what to do when you realize you’ve spent four years writing two different novels that are actually the same, spoiler alert: Instagram poetry is…
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Tillie Walden, graphic novelist
Tillie Walden, graphic novelist Bloomsday Literary Photo by Wayne Alan Brenner Today we settle the great debate once and for all: drafting, or revising? Our guest, graphic novelist, Tillie Walden, weighs in. (Spoiler alert: write, write, write, and think about perfection later.) We also consider...
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Anna Meriano, middle grade author
Anna Meriano, middle-grade author Bloomsday Literary Photo credit: Rita Meriano Ever wondered what you should do if your professor thinks you should write literary fiction, but you know you’re going to write something else? Today’s guest, Anna Meriano, talks about how much she appreciated that…
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Jessica Wilbanks, memoirist
Jessica’s Writing We Discussed When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and Its Loss “From Essay to Book: On ‘Mirrorings’” in Essay Daily “On the Far Side of the Fire: Life, Death and Witchcraft in the Niger Delta” in Longreads Suggested Reads and Honorable Mentions from Jessica Running in the...
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The high-art low-brow minds behind Bloomsday Literary bring you interviews with the creatives you should know, but don’t. Poets, novelists, memoirists, & short story writers join co-hosts Kate and Jessica as they take a respectful approach to investigating the writer’s art and an irreverent approach to getting the nitty-gritty on the hustle for publication and exposure. Most of us writers making a living by the pen occupy somewhere between the ubiquitous bestsellers and the people who want to write but bemoan the lack of time to do it. So let Terry Gross interview the top 1%. We’ll set to work making community with everyone else.
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