Book Fight

Rejecting your friends. Dealing with overzealous editors. Plus: Tom's bloody nipples, which magazines we dislike, and what editors do with their urine. For more, visit us at bookfightpod@gmail.com.

Direct download: WritersAsk_MakingLemonade.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

This book won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award, for which our guest, Matt Jakubowski, was one of the judges. We talk translations, Nordicness, strong female characters, and rabbits. Also, we recommend some music and argue about snacks.

Direct download: Ep_30-Tove_Jansson_The_True_Deceiver.mp3
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How long is too long for a journal or press to read your submission? How much can you get paid for a short story? What are the worst writerly affectations? Talking points include: therapy dogs, AWP, porn scripts, jaunty hats, and writing in coffee shops. Got a question for us? Want to tell us we're wrong? Email us at bookfightpod@gmail.com, or visit bookfightpod.com. Thanks for listening!

Direct download: WritersAsk_TheWaitingGame.mp3
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We're joined by Tod Goldberg and Julia Pistell, of Literary Disco, to talk bedouin poetry tents, writer costumes, Val Kilmer as Mark Twain, and which small presses sound most like metal bands.

Direct download: AWP_Update5.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:54am EDT

The results of our panel dare: Tom goes to a 75-minute session on therapy, while Mike explores the connections between history and poetry. 

Direct download: AWP_Update4.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:24pm EDT

Hello, morning! We're a little groggy, but there's important conferencing to be done. Talking points: popping and locking, the guy in the newspaper hat, rejection notes.

Direct download: AWP_Update3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:41am EDT

More jibber jabber from the AWP conference in Boston. This time we're on the conference floor, recapping Day One in the belly of the beast.

Direct download: AWP_Update2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:51pm EDT

We're at the annual AWP conference in Boston, i.e. ground zero of the American Writing-Industrial Complex. We'll be filing regular brief dispatches from the conference each day. Here's the first one! Talking points include: train travel, poets in newspaper hats, and rolling VIP style.

Direct download: AWP_Update1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:25pm EDT

A novel-in-emails whose main character is annoyed to discover that a former friend has fictionalized his life in a book. Talking points include: Canadian rock, SARS, aggrieved exes, epistolary novels, and grilled cheese sandwiches. 

Direct download: Ep_29-Lynn_Coady_The_Antagonist.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:47pm EDT

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