Textual Healing with Mallory Smart
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Dive into this lit podcast hosted by Mallory Smart, where authors explore the synergy between music and their writing. Brace yourself for offbeat interviews where writers discuss their individual styles, get lost in unpredictable anecdotes, and how music transforms their creative process. New episodes airing every Saturday.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Dive into this lit podcast hosted by Mallory Smart, where authors explore the synergy between music and their writing. Brace yourself for offbeat interviews where writers discuss their individual styles, get lost in unpredictable anecdotes, and how music transforms their creative process. New episodes airing every Saturday.
Language:
English
Episodes
S3E17 - Off The Record with Jeff Alessandrelli: All The Looks Of Love Were Staged
5/25/2024
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Jeff Alessandrelli is most recently the author of the novel And Yet (Future Tense Books, 2024). His work has previously been published in The American Poetry Review, Fence, New American Writing, Lit Hub, BOMB, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. In addition to his writing, he also directs and co-edits the nonprofit book press/record label Fonograf Editions. He’s at https://jeffalessandrelli.net/.
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Duration:00:16:59
S3E16 - Sam Berman: Tree God
5/18/2024
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Sam Berman is a short story writer who lives in Chicago and works at LakeFront Medical with Nancy, Andrew, and Patrick. All terrific coworkers. He has had work published in Forever Magazine, Joyland, Expat Press, Maudlin House, the Northwest Review, The Masters Review, Vlad Mag, HAD, Hobart, CRAFT, Dream Boy Book Club, and Rejection Letters. He was selected as the runner-up in The Kenyon Review’s 2022 Nonfiction Competition as well as a finalist for the 2022 & 2023 Halifax Ranch Prize. This year he has nominations pending for the Pushcart Prize and a Best American Short Story nomination. He has forthcoming work in Back Patio Press, X-Ray and The Idaho Review, among many others. In addition to his writing, Sam is also the Director of Storyfort, a literary festival held during Treefort Music Fest every March in Boise, Idaho.
Website: www.sam-berman.com
Twitter: @Taylorbabe411
Instagram: @sugarcainberman
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Duration:01:06:59
S3E15 - Off The Record with Sam Berman: Meanwhile I’ll Be Here
5/11/2024
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Sam Berman is a short story writer who lives in Chicago and works at LakeFront Medical with Nancy, Andrew, and Patrick. All terrific coworkers. He has had work published in Forever Magazine, Joyland, Expat Press, Maudlin House, the Northwest Review, The Masters Review, Vlad Mag, HAD, Hobart, CRAFT, Dream Boy Book Club, and Rejection Letters. He was selected as the runner-up in The Kenyon Review’s 2022 Nonfiction Competition as well as a finalist for the 2022 & 2023 Halifax Ranch Prize. This year he has nominations pending for the Pushcart Prize and a Best American Short Story nomination. He has forthcoming work in Back Patio Press, X-Ray and The Idaho Review, among many others. In addition to his writing, Sam is also the Director of Storyfort, a literary festival held during Treefort Music Fest every March in Boise, Idaho.
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/
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Duration:00:09:36
S3E14 - Jillian Luft: Embrace Your Inner Scumbag
5/4/2024
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Jillian Luft is a writer and Florida apologist. Her debut novel, Scumbag Summer, is set for publication on June 20th via House of Vlad Press. You can read more of her work at **jillianluft.com. **
Twitter: @JillianLuft
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Duration:01:57:16
S3E13 - Off The Record with Jillian Luft: Feel I'm On Top Again
4/27/2024
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Jillian Luft is a writer and Florida apologist. Her debut novel, Scumbag Summer, is set for publication on June 20th via House of Vlad Press. You can read more of her work at jillianluft.com.
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/
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Duration:00:09:41
S3E12 - Some Kind Of Situationship With Kirsti MacKenzie And Mallory Smart…
4/20/2024
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Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and Editor-in-Chief of Maudlin House. She is the host of the literary/music podcast Textual Healing and cohost of the horror movie podcast That Horrorcast. Her latest book, I Keep My Visions To Myself, just came out from With an X Books.
Find her on Twitter: @malsmart
Kirsti MacKenzie has published in HAD, trampset, Identity Theory, and Rejection Letters. She studied creative writing at Humber College and Memorial University but learned the most from bathroom graffiti in dive bars. Kirsti is also the EIC of Major 7th Magazine. Her book, Better to Beg, came out earlier this year. She lives in Ottawa and can be found perpetually on her bullshit @KeersteeMack
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Follow us on Twitter: @podhealing
Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/
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Duration:01:06:42
S3E11 - Off The Record with John Patrick Higgins: I Started Rising
4/13/2024
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John Patrick Higgins is a writer of long and short stories, screenplays and plays. He has had bad teeth for as long as he can remember and you might expect him, being English, not to notice. But he has noticed, and he’s doing something about it. His new book, Teeth, recounts his journey from a mouthful of moist gravel to a pristine, pacific smile, with the Pole-star wattage of a Hollywood A-lister.
Get it now from Sagging Meniscus Press and read about John's musings on his blog.
He's also on Twitter: @JohnnyMuggins
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844
Follow us on Twitter: @podhealing
Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/
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Duration:00:06:21
S3E10 - Music Trends and Deadly Ends with Brianna Malotke
4/6/2024
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Brianna is a writer based in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to being a member and on the social media team for the Horror Writers Association, she’s also co-chair of the Seattle Chapter. She has work in Beautiful Tragedies 2 and 3, The Dire Circle, The Nottingham Horror Collective, Under Her Skin, _and HorrorScope: A Zodiac Anthology Volumes 1 and 4_. In fall of 2023 her debut horror poetry collection, Fashion Trends, Deadly Ends, was released and she was a “Writer in Residence” at the Chateau d’Orquevaux in France. Malotke’s next collection, Lost Cherry, will be published with January Ember Press fall of 2024. She also has a romance novella series, Sugar & Steam, written under the pen name of Tori Fields.
Website: https://brimalotke.wixsite.com/malotkewrites
IG: @briannamalotke
TikTok: @briannamalotke
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/
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Duration:00:57:41
S3E9 - John Patrick Higgins: Come Into My Mouth
3/30/2024
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John Patrick Higgins is a writer of long and short stories, screenplays and plays. He has had bad teeth for as long as he can remember and you might expect him, being English, not to notice. But he has noticed, and he’s doing something about it. His new book, Teeth, recounts his journey from a mouthful of moist gravel to a pristine, pacific smile, with the Pole-star wattage of a Hollywood A-lister.
Get it now from Sagging Meniscus Press and read about John's musings on his blog.
He's also on Twitter: @JohnnyMuggins
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844
Follow us on Twitter: @podhealing
Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/
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Duration:01:24:43
S3E8 - Off The Record with Mallory Smart: We Are All Just Prisoners Here
3/23/2024
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Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and Editor-in-Chief of Maudlin House. She is the host of the literary/music podcast Textual Healing and cohost of the horror movie podcast That Horrorcast. Her latest book, I Keep My Visions To Myself, just came out from With an X Books.
Find her on Twitter or Instagram: @malsmart
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844
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Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/
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Duration:00:10:59
S3E7 - Adventures of Gold featuring Ari Gold
3/16/2024
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Ari Gold is a film director, poet, musician, & founder/president of Grack Films. His movies have screened at Sundance, Telluride, Karlovy-Vary, & hundreds of other festivals, & he has won over fifty prizes, including best film at SXSW (twice), the Student Oscar, and Best Director at the American Cinematheque / ARPA. Ari is currently in post-production on his third & fourth feature films. Helicopter expands on his student-Oscar-winning short film about his mother’s death, & features legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Brother Verses Brother, a musical odyssey from the streets of San Francisco, is a companion to Ari’s first book of poetry (Father Verses Sons, Rare Bird Lit, 2024).
Previously, he directed a romantic drama called The Song of Sway Lake which played 52 international film festivals, winning Best Feature at over a dozen of these. It features Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan (Umbrella Academy), & Mary Beth Peil. His first feature film, air-drum cult comedy Adventures of Power, was called "One of the funniest films in recent years" by NY Magazine, and features Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Nick Kroll, and Adrian Grenier.
Ari has a dozen other film & TV projects in various stages of development, and also hosts a podcast about drumming called HotSticks, featuring some of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Ari’s most unusual distinctions include a High Times Magazine "Stoner of the Year" award (for his performance as a drug dealer in the rave film Groove), and a Guinness World Record for commanding the largest air-drum ensemble on earth. And yes, his name was “borrowed” by a TV show.
Follow @AriGold on Instagram
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Duration:01:34:32
S3E6 - Ben Tanzer Will Change Your Life
2/24/2024
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Emmy-award winner Ben Tanzer's acclaimed work includes the short story collection UPSTATE, the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool. Ben is a storySouth and Pushcart nominee, a finalist for the Annual National Indie Excellence and Eric Hoffer Book Awards, a winner of the Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival Nonfiction Prose Award and a Midwest Book Award. He also received an Honorable Mention at the Chicago Writers Association Book Awards for Traditional Non-Fiction and a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. He's written for Hemispheres, Punk Planet, Men’s Health, and The Arrow, AARP’s GenX newsletter. His forthcoming novel The Missing will be released in Spring 2024 by 7.13 Books. He lives in Chicago with his family.
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Duration:01:57:25
S3E5 - Off The Record with Beatriz Seelaender: We'll Never Fit In
2/17/2024
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Beatriz Seelaender is a Brazilian writer from São Paulo, Brazil. Traces of her writing can be found all over the internet, especially if you follow her on Twitter (biaseelaender) or instagram (slanderdawg). Her award-winning novella, "All According to Norm", will be out later this year and can be pre-ordered on the Black Spring Press website.
Recent poetry: https://www.litmoralitmag.com/beatriz-seelaender-three-pieces
Fiction about music: https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/cagibilit.com/music-for-the-people-in-the-shadows/amp/ https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/cagibilit.com/i-hate-you-more-than-i-love-you/amp/
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Duration:00:10:10
S3E4 - Patrick Barb: The Cousins of Horror
2/10/2024
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Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His published works include the dark fiction collection Pre-Approved for Haunting, the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost and Turn, as well as the novelette Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare. His forthcoming works include the themed short-story collection The Children's Horror and the sci-fi/horror novel Abducted. Visit him at http://patrickbarb.com.
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Duration:01:37:11
S3E3 - Off The Record with Joshua Bohnsack: First There Is A Mountain
2/3/2024
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Joshua Bohnsack‘s work has appeared in The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Salt Hill, AGNI, SAND, Lit Hub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Essay Daily, and others.
He is the founding editor of Long Day Press, a hand-bound chapbook publisher, faculty advisor of Oyez Review, and teaches at Roosevelt University’s MFA in creative writing program. He received an MFA in creative writing at Northwestern University and a BA at the University of Iowa. Previously he served as the managing editor for TriQuarterly, editorial assistant at Dalkey Archive Press, and managing editor of Curbside Splendor Publishing.
He grew up on a farm and ran an ice cream shop in rural Illinois until he moved to Chicago. In addition to writing & publishing, he is a printmaker and makes music, currently with the Iowa country band Gold Dust.
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Duration:00:05:19
S3E2 - Brian Allen Carr: Marijuana Country Punk
1/27/2024
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Brian Allen Carr is an American writer. He is the author of the short story collection Short Bus and was the winner of the inaugural Texas Observer Story Prize as judged by Larry McMurtry in 2011. Carr was also a finalist for the 2011 Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for First Fiction.
His latest book, Bad Foundations, just came out from CLASH books. It’s a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life is falling apart. S.A. Cosby described the novel as “a raw and ferocious journey into the heart of the working class.”
It’s dedicated to Taylor Swift…
For Taylor Swift
My kids will probably spend my royalties on your merch, so I might as well dedicate the whole book to you.
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Duration:01:16:32
S3E1 - Off The Record with Brianna Malotke: Hung High
1/20/2024
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Brianna Malotke is a writer based in the PNW. In addition to being a member and on the Social Media team for the Horror Writers Association, she’s also co-chair of the Seattle Chapter. Her most recent horror work can be found in Dark Town, Lost Souls, _and _The Nottingham Horror Collective. She has horrifying poems and short stories in the anthologies Beautiful Tragedies 2 and 3, The Dire Circle, Out of Time, Their Ghoulish Reputation, Holiday Leftovers, and Under Her Skin. In August 2023, her debut horror poetry collection, Fashion Trends, Deadly Ends, was released by Green Avenue Books. Her romance novella series, Sugar & Steam, will have its third book released February 2024 and is written under the pen name of “Tori Fields.” During 2023 she was a “Writer in Residence” at the Chateau d’Orquevaux in France. For more malotkewrites.com
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/
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Duration:00:03:04
S2E40 - Nothing Holds Up: Kyler Bingham (The Most Interesting Man on Earth)
12/30/2023
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Kyler Bingham Is a writer, educator, and proud dog dad. He lives in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake Dirt is a literary and film zine, podcast & radio show hosted by Kyler Bingham. Salt Lake Dirt airs on KPCR 92.9FM every Monday at 6:00pm PST in Los Gatos, CA.
You can listen to the show on all podcast platforms and follow the instagram: @saltlakedirt
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Duration:01:25:01
S2E39 - Off The Record with Scott Mitchel May: Buckets of Beer
12/23/2023
Scott Mitchel May is a writer living in Madison, WI. His short fiction has been published in many literary journals including The Maryland Literary Review, HAD, W&S, Maudlin House, Bending Genres, and Rejection Letters.
He was the winner of the 2019 UW-Madison Writers' Institute Poem or Page Competition in the category of literary fiction, and his unpublished novel, Bridgeport Nowhere, was shortlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers' Project Literary Award.
His debut novel, Breakneck: or, it happened once in America, was published by Anxiety Press in late April 2023. He is also the author of the novelette, All Burn Down, forthcoming in October 2023 from Emerge Press, and his second novel Awful People: a ghost story is coming in early 2024 from Death of Print Books.
He holds a GED from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a BS in English Literature from Edgewood College. He tweets @smitchelmay.
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
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Duration:00:07:12
S2E38 - Patrick Barb: As Good As It Can Be For Now
12/16/2023
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Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His published works include the dark fiction collection Pre-Approved for Haunting, the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost and Turn, as well as the novelette Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare. His forthcoming works include the themed short-story collection The Children's Horror and the sci-fi/horror novel Abducted. Visit him at patrickbarb.com.
Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/
Rate us on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/textual-healing-with-mallory-smart/id1531379844
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Take a look at Mallory’s other work on her website: https://mallorysmart.com/
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Duration:01:09:38