Month: July 2019

Episode 76: You’ve Known Me Your Entire Life

For this episode, we’re taking a different approach. Instead of an artist promoting a new creation, I sit down with Noah Gainer, someone I’ve known since he was 5, and we have an in-depth conversation about what it means now that he has joined me in adulthood.

In the process, we resist nostalgia. We talk about some very real things that happened to both of us as children, but also the horror of being in one’s early 20’s, and I bust out unlimited quantities of unsolicited old man advice.

As always, I swear. He does too.

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Episode 75: She Will Never be Quelled

Barbara Barrow is a professor and novelist. In this episode we discuss her wonderful new novel The Quelling at length, and her academic monograph Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry briefly. Along the way, we extend this podcast’s already extended conversation about human dignity, we also touch upon the potential monstrosity of medicine, the meaning of classroom spaces, and Barbara’s sentimentality for Legionnaire’s Disease.

Folks who dare to listen to this podcast will want to buy The Quelling from Lanternfish Press. Sure you can buy it from the online monopoly that ruins everything, but buy it from the Lanternfish Press website, or if you are in Pittsburgh, you can find it at independent bookstores like White Whale and City Books, or you can do what I did and have the nice folks at the Mystery Lover’s Bookshop in Oakmont order you a copy.

For those folks looking for a deep dive, check out Barbara Barrow’s book Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry from Routledge, and be sure to stay up with her Facebook Page and her website barbarabarrow.com.

I swear because I always do.

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