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Never Meet Your Heroes

by Anthony M. Sanchez

Conversations with artists about their work, inspiration and their heroes.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 10: Book Club - Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina

    Laura Paull and Anthony Moses Sanchez discuss Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot. Buy the book at http://a.co/fkdoks0. A video of this recording is available on YouTube https://youtu.be/mzNqLssFxYg http://nevermeetyourheroespodcast.com

  2. Episode 8: Karen Cunningham

    On the first part of my conversation with English Professor Karen J. Cunningham, she tells me about her early interests in books about horses and sulky racing. Books she read in her free time as a kid like Nancy Drew as well as books in her adulthood such as Michael Connelly’s character…

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  3. Episode 7: Félix Frédéric d'Eon

    I talk to Félix Frédéric d'Eon who updates us on his life in Mexico City. How his visits with his mom to the Huntington Library made an impression on his art. His queer revision of Edwardian and Art Nouveau styles. How the Internet sales on Etsy and Ebay supports his ability to sustain his…

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  4. Episode 6: Ashley Bartlett

    Ashley Bartlett gets into how she started writing Les Fic. Her childhood surrounded by fabulous queer people in suburban Northern California. Our experiences at UCLA. The domestic bliss of being married. Learn about “lovebians.” Meeting her hero, her publishers Bold Strokes Books and getting into...

  5. Episode 9: 2017 Los Angeles Road Concerts

    The Los Angeles Road Concerts took place Saturday, November 11, 2017 on National and Washington in Culver City. For this Road Concert, I spoke briefly with 8 artists about their work. For more information on their project check out laroadconcerts.com or on the Never Meet Your Heroes podcast…

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  6. Episode 5: Stephen Van Dyck

    Stephen Van Dyck talks about his early life in New Mexico, childhood fascination with mapping cities, his early interest in writing and piano, his teenage years in a band and meeting men online, we discuss the ontology of happiness, LA Road Concerts and the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, his...

  7. Episode 4: Ian MacKinnon

    Ian MacKinnon talks to me about what lead him to Los Angeles, discovering performance art and the influence of mentor Tim Miller, the gay liberation, the performance space Highways in Santa Monica, his fetish for gay history, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter, Akbar and the…

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  8. Episode 3: Trebor Healey

    In this conversation with Trebor Healey, he recalls his days in the San Francisco poetry scene, coming to Los Angeles to work on writing fiction, his affinity for fauns and Pan, the Radical Faeries, Catholicism, his mentors Mark Thompson and Felice Picano, how to write your real life into…

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  9. Episode 2: Angel Villanueva

    Meet artist Angel Villanueva who discusses his early life in Baja California, his career as a painter and photographer, being an educator, fascination with paintings, science fiction films and more. Find his work at www.angelvillanueva.com.

  10. Episode 1: Raul Pizarro

    Our first episode of this podcast is with Raul Pizarro. We discuss goddesses, his art series Songs for a Deaf God and Theatro Del Mundo, Simone Gad, Gronk, Kara Walker, Björk, Iris DeMent and more. Find his art at www.raulpizarro.com.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Conversations with artists about their work, inspiration and their heroes.

HOSTED BY

Anthony M. Sanchez

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Conversations with artists about their work, inspiration and their heroes.

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