Lo Fi Lit

Autumn Christian is the author of Girl Like A Bomb with Clash Books and The Crooked God Machine. She lives out of Kingfisher, Oklahoma. She also operates a cheese farm close to where she lives now. She now also writes on substack on the Teach Robots Love newsletter.

Super cool she came on the show.

the navigator is an original piece of music by Andrew Topolski (1952-2008)

Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski are the subjects of Aidan Ryan's "I Am Here You Are Not I Love You' out now by Univ. of Iowa Press.

The image . thumbnail is one of Andrew's pieces of art "Untitled" nabbed from the Burchfield Penny Art Center website. Not related to the navigator. I didn't know what else to use.

I reached out to Kristen Coates - a really dope fan of everyone on twitter. I've seen them enjoying and endorsing and complimenting most indie writers over there. Reminded me of myself - just a fan enjoying people's work.

They're a dope person. They used to run their own magazine before being cancelled.

Mike Young is a poet and a musician. He's on tour with Clementine was Right.

Cool guy. Likes Video Games.

Andrew Mack is the founder of Loblolly Press - based of Asheville, North Carolina. He came on the show to talk about Loblolly and his own life as well. Check out his new poetry book, Beasts of Chase over on their site - loblolly dot com

Kyle Seibel is a writer out of California. Formerly worked in the Navy. He came on to promote his new book out with Clash Books called "Hey, You Assholes"

Jamie Hood is a writer and critic and bartender living in New York.

Trauma Plot is her 2nd book.

Her first, "How to be a Good Girl" has also been republished by Pantheon Books.

The same press publishing 'Trauma Plot.' It was dope having her on.

You can visit her 'x" account @veryhotmomm

She also runs a very successful substack "regards. marcel" at

https://proustproject.substack.com/

Pushcart Nominated Tim (they/them) Livingston is a poet and proud Pennsylvanian, living in Philadelphia with their cat, Mamma Mia!, and seven tattoos.

I met them through Rachelle's class. They're very smart and really good. We talked about poetry, baseball, Marvel and Clamour the much anticipated magazine.

GG Roland came on the show and we chatted about his time living South Korea. He's a poet. He has a book called "hehehe" published by Clash Books. Met him through Misery Loves Company. He knows Will and Rudy Johnson, who previously came onto the show.

Out now. Go buy it.

Reuben Gelley Newman is a poet and musician from New York.

I'm stealing this from his website :

"Reuben is a writer, musician, editor, and librarian-in-training based in New York City. Their poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Salamander, Fairy Tale Review, Northwest Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. You can find them online @joustingsnail (Instagram, Twitter); on Bluesky they post at @joustingsnail.bsky.social"

This is the first 45 minutes of the previous episode. It was over three hours so I thought I'd cut it down to a more reasonable length for the audience.

Wallace, Paul and August dropped by for a quick and fun hang out. Post - pop lit is explained within the first hour for those who are interested.

I met morgenrede through the misery loves company reading series on miserytourism. He came on today to promote his new book, Using Your Hand to Block Out the Sun. We talked about poetry and pinball.

Beach Sloth is a historic blogger of alt lit. Everyone knows Beach Sloth. If you don't you can listen to this show and find out about Beach Sloth. Also, he likes music.

Wallace Barker is a poet from Austin, Texas. He came on today to promote his translation of Garcia Lorca's "Gypsy Romance" published by Farthest Heaven.