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	06 Nov 2019	Episode 100: Keah Brown	00:53:13
Keah Brown is a journalist and essayist. Keah’s debut essay collection The Pretty One is an honest and thoughtful look at what it means to be black and disabled in a culture that doesn’t make space for marginalized bodies. In our conversation we talked about the importance of representation, the insidious nature of ableism, and compared notes on how each of us approaches an interview. Then for the second segment, we talked about the 24-hour news cycle. (Conversation recorded October 17, 2019.) Bonus Reading: Subscribers to the Likewise Media Patreon campaign can hear Keah read an excerpt from her book The Pretty One. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Keah Brown Keah Brown - The Pretty One #DisabledAndCute Keah Brown - “Brie Larson on superheroes, success and her Hollywood sisterhood” Keah’s work at Cliché Mag Keah Brown - “Roxane Gay Wants You to See Fat People as Humans” Lyz Lenz - “How Many Personal Stories Must Women Share to Convince Others of Their Humanity?” StarTribune - “Viral photo captures power dynamic between Trump and Nancy Pelosi” Brandon Taylor - Real Life Charmed Almost Family Raising Dion Transcript
	29 Aug 2018	Episode 73: Ada Limón	00:59:48
Ada Limón's latest book of poems, The Carrying, was just released this month by Milkweed Editions, and it's just beautiful. In this episode, Ada and I discuss the book, the power of naming, connection with the Earth, and her collaboration with poet Natalie Diaz. Then in the second segment, we talked about travel and artistic pilgrimages. (Conversation recorded August 17, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Ada Limón Ada Limón - The Carrying: Milkweed Editions \| IndieBound \| B&N \| Goodreads Ada Limón - Bright Dead Things: Milkweed Editions \| IndieBound \| B&N \| Goodreads Ada Limón - Calendar Magnificent frigatebird Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass Ada Limón - “The Burying Beetle” Sorry to Bother You Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz - “Envelopes of Air” Natalie Diaz Ada Limón - “Full Gallop” John Ashbery Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop - Geography III Pablo Neruda Isla Negra Museum House La Sebastian Museum House La Chascona Museum House Pablo Neruda - Ode to Common Things Jeffery Saddoris On Taking Pictures Gisele Firmino Frida Kahlo and the Ex-Voto Style Painting Giveaway - The Carrying
	29 Mar 2017	Episode 36: Barbarella Fokos	01:04:02
Barbarella Fokos is a writer and filmmaker based in San Diego, CA. I came to know Barbarella's work through The Artist Odyssey where, as one of the executive producers, she creates documentary films about artists and their processes and motivations. In our conversation, we talked about her work with The Artist Odyssey as well as her previous work, including her Emmy-winning show Art Pulse TV. I was also pleased to get her perspective on San Diego's burgeoning art scene. Finally, in the second segment, Barbarella chose as her topic the distinction between art and craft. (Conversation recorded February 27, 2017.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Barbarella Fokos The Artist Odyssey David Fokos David Fokos - The Book Pages Project Keep the Channel Open - Episode 1: Trinh Mai The Artist Odyssey - Trinh Mai The Artist Odyssey - Tribal Baroque The Artist Odyssey - Frank Lee Drennen Art Pulse TV San Diego City Beat - Q: What does San Diego’s art scene need to thrive? John Raymond Mireles - Why I Left San Diego’s Art Scene Behind Adrian Sierra Garcia The Artist Odyssey - A Look at the Latest Show at basileIE Gallery Melissa Walter Arthur Danto - What Art Is Rebecca L. Webb
	01 Jul 2020	From the Archive: Alanna Airitam	01:12:39
Alanna Airitam is a portrait photographer based in San Diego, CA. In her series "The Golden Age," Alanna makes portraits of African Americans in the style of the Dutch Realism Golden Age of painting, images full of grace and beauty representing black people in a fine art context, a context from which they are all too often excluded. In our conversation we talked about that series, as well as her "Being Heard" project, which began as a response to seeing how different marginalized women were being excluded from the mainstream activist narrative. Then for the second segment, Alanna and I had a wide-ranging conversation about the roots of social injustice in our society. (Conversation recorded April 10, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Alanna Airitam Salt and Sugar Productions - Alanna Airitam: From Haarlem to Harlem Alanna Airitam - The Golden Age Alanna Airitam - Being Heard San Diego Art Institute - ABOUT-FACE Hamilton @medievalpoc on Twitter Bioneers Kirsten Imani Kasai Skyler McCurine Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	23 Oct 2019	Episode 99: Marisa Crane	01:11:50
Marisa Crane is a writer based in San Diego, CA. What I love about Marisa’s chapbook Our Debatable Bodies is how it moves from one emotion to another and another, both within a poem and throughout the collection—the poems juxtapose our society’s casual misogyny and homophobia with the tenderness and intimacy of a moment between lovers. In our conversation, Marisa and I talked about her book, our “zig-zagging brains,” and what it means to invite an audience into our private moments. Then for the second segment, we talked about the hit sitcom Schitt’s Creek. (Conversation recorded October 8, 2019.) Bonus Reading: Subscribers to the Likewise Media Patreon campaign can hear Marisa read her poem “We Get To Talking About Dating Apps & I Remember How.” Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Marisa Crane Marisa Crane - Our Debatable Bodies Marisa Crane - “yapping dogs” Steven Universe Keep the Channel Open - Episode 98: Lyz Lenz Lyz Lenz - “How Many Personal Stories Must Women Share to Convince Others of Their Humanity?“ Marisa Crane - “The Real Community Guidelines: How to Be a True Ally” Paige Lewis - “When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows” Schitt’s Creek Dan Levy Sarah Rose Etter - The Book of X Jenny Offill - Dept. of Speculation Mary Robison - Why Did I Ever Transcript
	28 Mar 2018	Episode 62: Devin Kelly	00:57:06
Devin Kelly is a poet and teacher based in New York, NY. Devin's latest book of poems, In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen was a recent favorite of mine, an elegiac, contemplative book about family, love, and the ways in which life is more about the search than the finding. In our conversation, we talked about Devin's book as well as several of his essays, and Devin also read his poem "Elegy For the Long Drive." Then in the second segment, Devin chose whales as his topic. (Conversation recorded February 8, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Devin Kelly Purchase In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen: IndieBound \| B&N C. S. Lewis Robert Hayden - "Those Winter Sundays" Maggie Nelson - Bluets Devin Kelly - “Anthony Edwards as Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw in Top Gun (1986)” Devin Kelly - “Running Towards My Father” Devin Kelly - “Caulking the Wagon” Philip Hoare - The Whale Between the Covers - Ursula K. Le Guin: Late in the Day Anelise Chen - So Many Olympic Exertions
	09 May 2018	Episode 65: Alanna Airitam	01:11:59
Alanna Airitam is a portrait photographer based in San Diego, CA. In her series "The Golden Age," Alanna makes portraits of African Americans in the style of the Dutch Realism Golden Age of painting, images full of grace and beauty representing black people in a fine art context, a context from which they are all too often excluded. In our conversation we talked about that series, as well as her "Being Heard" project, which began as a response to seeing how different marginalized women were being excluded from the mainstream activist narrative. Then for the second segment, Alanna and I had a wide-ranging conversation about the roots of social injustice in our society. (Conversation recorded April 10, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Alanna Airitam The Artist Odyssey - Alanna Airitam: From Haarlem to Harlem Alanna Airitam - The Golden Age Alanna Airitam - Being Heard San Diego Art Institute - ABOUT-FACE Hamilton @medievalpoc on Twitter Bioneers Kirsten Imani Kasai Skyler McCurine
	07 Apr 2021	Episode 124: Farrah Karapetian	01:17:56
Farrah Karapetian is an artist based in California. Known for her large-scale photograms, Farrah’s wide-ranging practice incorporates sculpture, performance, and different forms of mark-making to stretch the photographic medium as she is driven by her intense and rigorous curiosity. In our conversation, Farrah and I talked about the appeal of the photographic medium, the tension between constructing an image and the happy accident, and the ethics of artistic beauty. Then in the second segment, we discussed the Nardal sisters and how we develop a language around issues like exoticization. (Conversation recorded March 24, 2021.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Farrah Karapetian Farrah Karapetian - Muscle Memory Farrah Karapetian - Stagecraft Farrah Karapetian - Slips & Pushes HereIn Journal - “Chantel Paul on Farrah Karapetian” AnomolousCo - Beckett & The Virtual tickets Diane Rosenstein Gallery - Expo Chicago Online 2021 Farrah Karapetian in Conversation with Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Venice Family Clinic Art Walk + Auction 2021 Orange County Museum of Art - 2013 California-Pacific Triennial Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Claire A. Warden Paula Riff Thomas Demand Vik Muniz Farrah Karapetian - “The Kitchen” Farrah Karapetian - “Its Negative” Vanessa Beecroft Tino Sehgal James Van Der Zee Rineke Dijkstra Bertholt Brecht Augusto Boal Farrah Karapetian - Relief Farrah Karapetian - Flags & Teleprompters Ingrid Sischy - “Good Intentions” David Levi Strauss - Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics André Breton - Nadja Anahid Nersessian - Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse Jeanne Nardal Paulette Nardal Alain Locke W. E. B. Du Bois Steven Y. Wong - Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art Mark Sealy - Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time Robert Rauschenberg - Borealis 1988-92 Marie-Magdaleine Carbet - “Obeah” and Other Martinican Stories Langston Hughes - I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey Lola Álvarez Bravo Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	07 Oct 2020	Episode 117: Maggie Smith	01:09:54
Maggie Smith is a poet and essayist based in Bexley, Ohio. Maggie’s new book Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change was born out of a difficult life change; it both discusses and is an example of resilience and hope in the face of an unknown future. In our conversation, we talked about the book’s origins in a series of social media notes-to-self, about becoming an essayist after having been a poet for so long, and about finding agency through language. Then for the second segment, we talked about community and connection via social media. (Conversation recorded September 10, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Maggie Smith Maggie Smith - Keep Moving Literati Books - At Home With Literati - Maggie Smith & Molly Spencer (October 8, 2020) Books Are Magic - Maggie Smith: Keep Moving w/ Rebecca Soffer (October 14, 2020) Gramercy Books - A Virtual Conversation about Resilience: Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones (October 15, 2020) Maggie Smith - Upcoming Events Keep the Channel Open - Episode 49: Maggie Smith Maggie Smith - Good Bones Maggie Smith - “At Your Age I Wore a Darkness” Maggie Smith - “Tracking the Demise of My Marriage on Google Maps” (NYT Modern Love) Sabrina Orah Mark - “Happily” (The Paris Review) Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver (upcoming KTCO Book Club pick) Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	12 Oct 2016	Episode 24: Shaindel Beers	01:09:47
Shaindel Beers is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, A Brief History of Time and The Children's War and Other Poems, and her poems have also been published in numerous journals and anthologies. I found both of her books deeply moving, from her depictions of growing up on a farm to poems inspired by child survivors of war, and I was pleased to get to talk to her about her books. For the second segment we talked about artists' collaborations. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes Shaindel Beers Shaindel Beers - A Brief History of Time Shaindel Beers - The Children's War and Other Poems E. B. White - Once More to the Lake William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18 John Keats - Ode to a Grecian Urn Shaindel Beers & Jesse Ahmann - Self Portrait as Rosin Back Rider Shaindel Beers (Twitter) Shaindel Beers (Facebook)
	04 May 2016	Episode 15: Carrie Elizabeth Thompson	01:13:04
Carrie Elizabeth Thompson is a photographer whose work I've been following for several years. Her work is rich in storytelling, and I was drawn in by its complexity and emotional honesty. We recorded our conversation the day after Prince died, and of course that was on both of our minds as we started talking. But as we talked about her work one idea we kept coming back to was the idea of sharing, and how being open lets other people feel like it's OK for them to be open as well. For the second segment, Carrie and I talked about love, and particularly about where love goes after it's gone. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Carrie Elizabeth Thompson Carrie Elizabeth Thompson - Goma Carrie Elizabeth Thompson - Notes From My Therapist Carrie Elizabeth Thompson - I Hope We Go Together Broken Family Road Trip Medium.com: Carrie Elizabeth Thompson Notes From My Therapist (Pre-Order)
	12 Sep 2018	Episode 74: Franny Choi	00:57:56
Franny Choi’s chapbook Death By Sex Machine uses the framing of artificial intelligence to look at things like voicelessness, dehumanization, Asian fetishism, and more. In our conversation, Franny and I talked about her book, about the ethics of making art that uses other people’s voices, about writing lines that surprise yourself, and about Asian American solidarity. Then in the second segment, Franny talked about a recent trip she took to Korea. (Conversation recorded July 24, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Franny Choi Franny Choi - Death by Sex Machine: Sibling Rivalry Press \| IndieBound \| B&N \| Goodreads Franny Choi - Floating, Brilliant, Gone: Write Bloody Publishing \| IndieBound \| B&N \| Goodreads Franny Choi - Soft Science: Alice James Books \| IndieBound \| B&N \| Goodreads VS Podcast Franny Choi - “For Peter Liang” Ex Machina Chobits Airea D. Matthews Oh Jung-hee - River of Fire and Other Stories Han Kang - The Vegetarian
	14 Feb 2018	Episode 59: Justyna Badach	01:41:22
Justyna Badach is a photographic artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Justyna's work examines the iconography of the masculine history of art in relation to her work as a female artist. In this episode we discussed several of her photographic series, including her Untitled Film Stills, Bachelor Portraits, and Land of Epic Battles series, how she uses her work to insert herself into spaces from which women have historically been excluded, and how she interrogates and challenges conventional notions of masculinity. The for the second segment we had a wide-ranging conversation, starting with the connection between writing and images, then moving to the importance of empathy, the roots of American anxiety, and how the current insistence on art having a social practice resembles propaganda mechanisms in totalitarian regimes. (Conversation recorded December 21, 2017.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Justyna Badach Light Work - Justyna Badach: Land of Epic Battles Light Work - Contact Sheet 195: Justyna Badach Haverford College - A Survey of Color Photography from its Prehistory to the Present Day Justyna Badach - Bachelor Portraits Salvation Mountain Justyna Badach - Land of Epic Battles Henri Le Secq Gustave Le Gray Richard Lourie - The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin Ellsworth Kelly
	10 Jul 2024	BONUS: Hey, It's Me — Episode 1: What Are We Doing?	01:00:02
Introducing Hey, It's Me! I'm happy to announce a new podcast from me and my friend Rachel Zucker, Hey, It's Me! Here's the first episode as a bonus for KTCO listeners. Enjoy! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts Overcast RSS Web
	06 May 2020	Episode 109: Sarah Gailey	01:00:18
Sarah Gailey is a writer based in Los Angeles, CA. Sarah’s latest novel, the YA fantasy When We Were Magic, is a wonderful story about teen friendship, magic, and queer love. In our conversation, we talked about the importance of representation and sensitivity edits, writing YA that respects teens, and how it’s okay to take up space in one’s relationships. Then for the second segment, we talked about something that’s been on all of our minds lately: food. (Conversation recorded April 21, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Sarah Gailey Sarah Gailey - When We Were Magic Sarah Gailey - Upright Women Wanted Sarah Gailey - Magic for Liars Sarah Gailey - Here’s the Thing (newsletter) DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - “Parents Just Don’t Understand” Schitt’s Creek Sarah Gailey - “Impostor/Abuser: Power Dynamics in Publishing” Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn Maggie Tokuda-Hall - The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	29 Jan 2020	Episode 103: Philipp Scholz Rittermann	00:51:58
Philipp Scholz Rittermann is a photographer based in the San Diego, CA area. In his photographic work, Philipp has long been interested in trying to see the impossible, and in his latest series sight • time • memory, he tries to imagine what it would look like if his gaze could encompass more than just the present moment—using a large-scale projector, he projects a landscape image from a previous season onto the same landscape, then rephotographs the resulting scene. In our conversation, we talked about his fascination with time and memory, the pleasure of figuring out the “puzzle” of an image, and how to make images that reward long engagement. Then for the second segment, we discussed the decline of hand-making in our culture, the nature of authenticity, and the emotional impact of change. (Conversation recorded January 10, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Donate via PayPal Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Philipp Scholz Rittermann Philipp Scholz Rittermann - sight • time • memory Photo LA Black & White Magazine - “Philipp Scholz Rittermann: China In Transition” Keep the Channel Open - Episode 56: Chris Engman Daniel Abraham - "Writing craft philosophical provocation of the day” WMFA Martha Graham on creative satisfaction Keep the Channel Open - Episode 95: Robert Calafiore Martin Scorsese - “I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain.” Roma My Brilliant Friend (series) Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend (novel) Transcript Episode Credits: Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	04 Jul 2018	Episode 69: Leah Umansky	00:56:48
Leah Umansky is a poet, collage artist, and self-described Game of Thrones and Mad Men super fan. I recently read Leah's latest book, the full-length poetry collection The Barbarous Century, and was struck by the exuberant use of language—it brought me a lot of joy. In our conversation, Leah and I talked about her book, her fascination with pop culture, and the power of story. Then in the second segment, we had a very spoilery discussion about the HBO series Westworld. (Conversation recorded June 21, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Leah Umansky Vote.org Leah Umansky - The Barbarous Century Leah Umansky - Events Leah Umansky - “Stranger Is” Leah Umansky - Domestic Uncertainties This Is Just to Say - Kaveh Akbar Tori Amos Game of Thrones Mad Men Eyewear Publishing Jeanette Winterson T. H. White - The Once and Future King Vice - "Dolores from ‘Westworld’ Is the New Khaleesi" Halfway There Westworld Melissa Broder - The Pisces
	16 Dec 2020	From the Archive: José Olivarez	01:23:38
José Olivarez is a poet living and working in Chicago, Illinois, and is also co-host of one of my all-time favorite podcasts, The Poetry Gods. In our wide-ranging conversation we talked about how The Poetry Gods came to be, toxic masculinity in the poetry world, and how discovering poetry allowed José to find his artistic voice. In the second segment, we talked about beginnings and endings. (This episode was originally released on February 15, 2017. Conversation recorded January 1, 2017.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: José Olivarez José Olivarez - Citizen Illegal José Olivarez - The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT “In Search of the Ecstatic” Workshop “Revision Is Writing” Workshop The Poetry Gods Jon Sands Aziza Barnes T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert Louder Than a Bomb Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You José Olivarez - “I Walk Into the Ocean” Young Chicago Authors Urban Word NYC Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - “Searching for a New Kind of Optimism” Maria Popova - “Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves” Patricia Smith Gloria Anzaldúa - Borderlands Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America Keah Brown @_joseolivarez Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	05 Jul 2017	Episode 43: Susan Rosenberg Jones	01:08:40
Susan Rosenberg Jones is a photographer based in New York City. I've been a fan of Susan's for several years, starting with her series "Second Time Around," about her experience of being a newlywed in her 60's. We had a great conversation about that series as well as her series "Building 1," about the community in her apartment building. For the second segment, Susan and I talked about Neal Rantoul's article in PetaPixel, "A Disturbing Trend in Photography." Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Susan Rosenberg Jones Susan Rosenberg Jones - Second Time Around Susan Rosenberg Jones - Building 1 Soho Photo Gallery - National Photography Competition exhibition Lenscratch - Susan Rosenberg Jones: Second Time Around Jen Davis Lenscratch - Kate Hutchinson Andi Schreiber Jennifer McClure Neal Rantoul - A Disturbing Trend in Photography Mike Sakasegawa - A Predictable Trend in Photography Criticism Robert Frank - The Americans Henri Cartier-Bresson David Carol William Eggleston Yousuf Karsh Alfred Stieglitz Shulem Deen - All Who Go Do Not Return Footsteps
	22 Feb 2023	Episode 138: KTCO Book Club - The Cruel Prince (with Mel Thomas)	00:57:19
For our latest KTCO Book Club episode, media critic Mel Thomas joins us for a conversation about Holly Black’s YA fantasy novel The Cruel Prince. In our conversation, we discuss the ways that craft in YA fiction is often dismissed or overlooked by both critics and readers, the dynamics of abuse and trauma in the novel, and being able to enjoy art on multiple levels. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| Pocket Casts \| Stitcher \| Goodpods \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Mel Thomas Purchase The Cruel Prince: Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY) \| Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org David Eddings - The Belgariad Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea Nicole Kornher-Stace - Archivist Wasp Kameron Hurley Stephen R. Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Sarah J. Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses boygenius - the record Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	06 Jun 2018	Episode 67: Min Jin Lee	00:49:13
Min Jin Lee is a writer based in New York. Earlier this year I read Min's latest novel, Pachinko, and it just blew me away. In our conversation, we talked about the book and it's journey to publication, and the importance of making art out of what's true. Then for the second segment we talked about persistence as a writer, dealing with rejection, and learning to be OK with looking foolish in the beginning. (Conversation recorded May 22, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Min Jin Lee Min Jin Lee - Pachinko 442nd Infantry Regiment Tom Wolfe - "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" John Steinbeck - East of Eden Richard Brautigan John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires John Dos Passos Ira Glass on Storytelling Han King - Human Acts
	03 Feb 2016	Episode 2: Rebecca L. Webb	01:00:09
Photographer Rebecca Louise Webb recently opened a two-person show at the San Diego Art Institute looking at the way that young people interact with the natural world. Rebecca's portion of the show drew from her new series Mother: Nature, which came out of her profound feeling of ambivalence about the impact of technology on the life of her teenage son. I had the opportunity to sit down with Rebecca, and we talked about technology, parenting, and how both of us make deeply personal work. Later in the conversation we discussed a recent article about Elinor Carucci and our thoughts on the balance between intellectual and emotional art. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Rebecca Webb Sticks of the Sun, Ashes of the Night 6 Questions About Art & Parenthood Mother: Nature Sutures: Stories With Seams Ten Minutes Older (Herz Frank, 1978) Archigram Judith Fox - I Still Do Elinor Carucci: “My ability to do things differently lies in a very deep personal area” Elizabeth Fleming Andi Schreiber Sara Macel - Kiss & Tell Jesse Burke - Wild & Precious
	23 Sep 2020	Episode 116: KTCO Book Club - Human Archipelago (with David Naimon)	01:15:42
In the inaugural KTCO Book Club episode I’m joined by writer and podcaster David Naimon, host of the literary podcast Between the Covers. For our conversation, David selected Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh’s hybrid photo/prose book Human Archipelago. In their collaboration, Cole’s writing and Sheikh’s images support each other in a way that expands the form of the traditional photobook and provides a potent exploration of human migration, national boundaries, imperialism, the connections between people, and our responsibilities to one another. (Recorded September 2, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Teju Cole & Fazal Sheikh - Human Archipelago Between the Covers Between the Covers Patreon Teju Cole Fazal Sheikh Keep the Channel Open - Episode 114: Jessica Eaton Keep the Channel Open - Episode 103: Philipp Scholz Rittermann Keep the Channel Open - Episode 80: Jerry Takigawa Keep the Channel Open - Episode 81: Mike Sakasegawa Teju Cole - On Photography (New York Times Magazine column) Steidl Verlag Teju Cole - “A Too-Perfect Picture” Between the Covers - Philip Metres : Shrapnel Maps Sharon Mizota - “Review: ‘Human Archipelago’ shines light on refugees and our shared humanity” The Family of Man Tanvi Misra - “A New Way of Seeing the Global Migration Crisis” Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Walker Evans Dorothea Lange Keep the Channel Open - Episode 77: Brandon Thibodeaux Teju Cole - Open City Between the Covers - Molly Crabapple : Brothers of the Gun — A Memoir of the Syrian War Between the Covers - Joe Sacco : Paying the Land Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	13 Mar 2019	Episode 84: Matika Wilbur	00:38:57
Matika Wilbur, of the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes, is a photographer based in the Pacific Northwest. For her current endeavor, Project 562, Matika has visited hundreds of tribes across the United States, making portraits and sharing contemporary Native stories to counteract the stereotypes and misinformation so prevalent in mainstream media and history textbooks. In our conversation, Matika and I talked about the origins of Project 562, her collaborative portrait-making process, and the difference between activism and storytelling. Then for the second segment, Matika talked about ways to indigenize our spaces, acknowledge our indigenous communities, and form a relationship with the land. (Conversation recorded January 29, 2019.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| YouTube \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Matika Wilbur Project 562 All My Relations David W. May American Indian Gallery - “Natural Wanderment: Stewardship. Sovereignty. Sacredness.” yəhaw̓ at King Street Station! David W. May Distinguished Lecture Series - Artist Lecture: Matika Wilbur Lawrence University Convocation Series #ChannelOpenPhoto Matika Wilbur - We Are One People Matika Wilbur - We Emerge American Indian Movement Billy Frank, Jr. About Billy Mills National Congress of American Indians Whitelash The Horror of Trump’s Wounded Knee Tweet Stand With Standing Rock Reclaiming Native Truth Roma Yalitza Aparicio @project_562 on Instagram Transcript
	26 Apr 2017	Episode 38: Brandon Taylor	01:02:42
Brandon Taylor is a writer and a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of my favorite contemporary writers, Brandon's short stories are marvelously crafted, understated and emotionally charged, while his personal essays and cultural critique are insightful and often lyrical—all of it is just a joy to read. In today's conversation, Brandon and I talked about his work and his process, how he often finds himself inventing around the margins of the stories he takes in, and how and why he always resists the reductive take. For the second segment, Brandon chose expectation as his topic, both the excitement and terror of one's own anticipation of the future, but also the expectations others can put on us. (Conversation recorded April 4, 2017.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Brandon Taylor Brandon Taylor - We’re Just People Brandon Taylor - Frites Brandon Taylor - Run Mavis Gallant Brandon Taylor - There Is No Secret to Writing People Who Do Not Look Like You Gregory Heisler Iowa Writers’ Workshop Catapult Community - TinyLetter of the Month: Brandon Taylor, “Hours” Brandon Taylor - Virgin Wool (TinyLetter) Helena Fitzgerald Alexander Chee Roxane Gay Alexander Chee - The Queen of the Night Ted Chiang Certain Women Kelly Reichardt Maile Meloy
	20 Jul 2016	Episode 18: Aline Smithson	00:59:41
Aline Smithson may well be the busiest person in photography. Not only is she a brilliant artist in her own right, she is also the editor of one of the top photo blogs in the world, Lenscratch, where she posts new material every single day. On top of that, she teaches workshops around the country, gives lectures at photo festivals internationally, participates as a portfolio reviewer, juries all manner of photo competitions, and still manages to exhibit and make her own work. It's astonishing that one person can do as much as she does, and yet there she is, day in and day out, doing it. In this episode I was pleased to talk with her about her recent book Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography, which spans nearly twenty years of her photographic career. And for the second segment, we had a great conversation about the rising role of women as gatekeepers and curators in the artistic community. (Recorded June 14, 2016) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Aline Smithson Lenscratch Aline Smithson - Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography Blake Andrews - Shoot first, ask questions later Aline Smithson - The Lonesome Doll Aline Smithson - Hollywood at Home Aline Smithson - Revisiting Beauty Six Shooters: A Photographic Conversation Ashly Stohl Bootsy Holler Nancy Baron Center for Fine Art Photography Strange Fire Collective What does a female artist have to do to get a major solo show? Lenscratch Student Prize, First Place: Lauren Kelly The Hunting Ground Jon Krakauer - Missoula People v. Turner 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
	14 Oct 2019	BONUS: LikeWise Fiction — "Whale Fall," by Alvin Park	00:14:00
Introducing LikeWise Fiction! I'm thrilled to announce the launch of my new diverse fiction podcast, LikeWise Fiction! I'm sharing the first episode as a bonus for KTCO listeners—enjoy! Whale Fall, by Alvin Park. A whale washes ashore, a village loses its memories, and a relationship falls apart. (This story first appeared in issue 60 of SmokeLong Quarterly.) Bonus Interview: Subscribers to the Likewise Media Patreon campaign can hear an interview with author Alvin Park. This episode is sponsored by the William Male Foundation. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Donate via PayPal \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Newsletter \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram
	28 Sep 2016	Episode 23: José Iriarte	00:56:27
José Iriarte and I go way back, and it's been with great pleasure that I've watched his writing career start to take off over the past few years. He's had short stories appear in a number of publications, including Motherboard, Strange Horizons, and Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, and what I particularly love about his stories is that how he uses genre and genre elements to put a new perspective on or provide a means of entry into more familiar emotions and experiences. José and I talked about a few of his recent stories for the show, and then for the second segment we talked about online communities and the function of public "shaming." Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: José Iriarte José Iriarte - Of Unions, Intersections, and Empty Sets José Iriarte - Spirit of Home José Iriarte - Life in Stone, Glass, and Plastic José Iriarte - The Vampire’s Stepdaughter “You’ve got to sell your heart” (Letters of Note)
	05 Jun 2019	Episode 90: Chaya Bhuvaneswar	01:12:59
Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a physician and writer. I read Chaya’s short story collection White Dancing Elephants this spring and really enjoyed it, both because of the way it centered South Asian and women’s stories, and for the complex, complicated relationships at the heart of each story. In our conversation, Chaya and I talked about White Dancing Elephants; about Seamus Heaney, punishment, and complicity; and about whose stories get called “dark.” Then for the second segment, we talked about some of Chaya’s favorite poets, and why poetry is important to her. (Conversation recorded May 25, 2019.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Spotify \| Stitcher \| YouTube \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Chaya Bhuvaneswar Chaya Bhuvaneswar - White Dancing Elephants: Dzanc Books \| IndieBound ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition - Meet the Authors: Chaya Bhuvaneswar Seamus Heaney - “Punishment” Bog body Keep the Channel Open - Episode 87: David Bowles Gloria Anzaldúa A. K. Ramanujan Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa - This Bridge Called My Back Danez Smith Kahlil Gibran - “On Children” Between the Covers - Chaya Bhuvaneswar: White Dancing Elephants Ashis Nandy - The Intimate Enemy Jallianwala Bagh massacre Diana Abu-Jaber Jhumpa Lahiri Angie Thomas Naben Ruthnum - Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race Gina Apostol Kiese Laymon Seamus Heaney - North Derek Walcott Marianne Moore Native American History and Culture: Boarding Schools Chaya Bhuvaneswar - “On Eliot” Eavan Boland Rabindranath Tagore Octavio Paz Rainer Maria Rilke Kaveh Akbar Fatimah Asghar Adrienne Rich Rupi Kaur Maggie Smith Chelsea Dingman Patricia Spears Jones Danez Smith - “summer, somewhere” Nicole Sealey Tiana Clark Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes - American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Melissa Febos Melissa Febos - “Thesmophoria” Transcript
	18 Jul 2018	Episode 70: Blue Mitchell	01:07:48
Blue Mitchell is an independent publisher, curator, educator, and photographer based in Portland, OR. Blue's work, both as the publisher of Diffusion and as an artist in his own right, focuses on what he calls "artfully crafted" photography—that is, photographic art where you can see the artist's hand. In our conversation we talked about Blue's photographs and his use of a wide variety of techniques to create images that elicit a strong emotional response in the viewer. We also talked about his publishing company, One Twelve, and how Diffusion came about. Then in the second segment, we talked about portfolio review events, and how they can be a great way to connect with the photographic community. (Conversation recorded June 26, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Blue Mitchell #ChannelOpenPhoto One Twelve Publishing One Twelve - Shop Blue Sky Gallery - 2018 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers Click! Photography Festival Blue Mitchell - Evanescent Energy Blue Mitchell - Mythos Blue Mitchell - Chasing the Afterglow Blue Mitchell - Luminous Flux Blue Mitchell - Of Salt and Earth Lenscratch - Blue Mitchell Zone System Diffusion AlternativePhotography.com Medium Festival of Photography Claire A. Warden Drew Nikonowicz PhotoNola Photolucida Aline Smithson Heidi Kirkpatrick Review Santa Fe Ken Rosenthal Kahn & Selesnick - 100 Views of the Drowning World Candela Books Gordon Stettinius
	07 Dec 2016	Episode 28: Alexander Kohnke	01:06:25
Alexander Kohnke is a San Diego-based artist and graphic designer (originally from Germany) whose work incorporates a variety of different disciplines and genres, from printmaking to drawing to photography. Alex and I had a great conversation about his artistic process, especially about the value of randomness and how that interacts with intention. In the second segment we talked about politics. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Alexander Kohnke Keep the Channel Open - Episode 14: Pastilla Alexander Kohnke - Untitled Dots 15 x 22 Alexander Kohnke - A-A-Alpha-B ___Bet This American Life - Episode 596: Becoming a Badger Stranger Things Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas 2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial - San Diego Art Institute Airlock Gallery Leave a review!
	28 Feb 2018	Episode 60: Brenda Biondo	00:58:26
Brenda Biondo is a fine art photographer based in Colorado. Brenda's work focuses on three distinct areas: constructed abstractions centered on atmospheric color and light; conservation and land-based issues; and the way cultural artifacts move from the past into the present. In this conversation we talked about her documentation of American playgrounds, her background in journalism, her interest in land use and conservation, and her love of abstraction and modernist paintings. In the second segment, we talked about portfolio review events and how invaluable an opportunity they are for photographers. (Conversation recorded January 4, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Brenda Biondo Purchase Once Upon a Playground: University Press of New England \| IndieBound \| B&N Brenda Biondo - Once Upon a Playground Brenda Biondo - Remnants and Revival Brenda Biondo - Paper Skies Brenda Biondo - Modalities Open Show San Diego October 2014 Medium Festival of Photography San Diego Museum of Art - Brenda Biondo: Play Frank Stella Mark Rothko Morris Louis Barnett Newman Georgia O’Keeffe Colorado Photographic Arts Center Fotofest Photolucida PhotoNOLA Palm Springs Photo Festival Lenscratch Denver Art Museum Alison Rossiter
	08 May 2019	Episode 88: Jennifer Greenburg	01:07:00
Jennifer Greenburg is a photographer based in Chicago, IL. In her series Revising History, Jennifer alters vintage found photographs by inserting herself into the image, creating something new that comments on the ways that the style and glamor of the post-war era glosses over the very real discrimination and gender inequality of the time. We talked about Revising History, the ways that photographs lie, and the need for visual literacy in our society. Then in the second segment, Jennifer chose vintage clothing as her topic. (Conversation recorded March 21, 2019.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Spotify \| Stitcher \| YouTube \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Jennifer Greenburg Jennifer Greenburg - Revising History jdc Fine Art jdc Fine Art - Cultural Grooming \| New Work by Jennifer Greenburg Head On Photo Festival - Revising History Wired - “Woman Perfectly Adds Herself to Other People’s Old Photos” Jacob Riis Lewis Hine photo-eye - “Interview: Jennifer Greenburg on Revising History” Zelda Fitzgerald Martha Gellhorn Bruce Davidson Georges Seurat - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Penelope Umbrico Eric William Carroll Bob Mackie - Barbie Collection Greer Lankton Nan Goldin Center for Creative Photography Andre Williams Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Bob Baker Marionette Theater Angelyne Mystic Kidder Transcript
	06 Jul 2016	Episode 17: Amanda Dahlgren	01:19:43
Amanda Dahlgren was one of the first friends I made in the San Diego photography community, and I always look forward to a chance to talk with her. Amanda's work combines a strong sense of formal composition with an inquisitive mind, and we had a great conversation about her work, as well as about the benefits of going through art school and the value of community. Building community is something that is important to Amanda, and in the second segment we talked about her work with Open Show and the Society for Photographic Education. (Recorded June 7, 2016) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Amanda Dahlgren Amanda Dahlgren - Pre-Abandoned Amanda Dahlgren - Not My Daughter (NSFW) Medium Festival of Photography Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego Art Institute Open Show San Diego #1 Beauty and the Beast: The Animal in Photography Jonas Yip Lenscratch Richard Prince Doug Rickard PetaPixel: Botched Steve McCurry Print Leads to Photoshop Scandal Teju Cole: A Too-Perfect Picture Bruce Gilden Irving Penn: Ethnographic Studies Meghan Daum: Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House The Poetry Gods Society for Photographic Education Brenda Biondo Stephen Strom John DuBois Photolab The Artist Odyssey
	06 Dec 2017	Episode 54: Courtney Balestier & Mike Sakasegawa	01:16:46
Courtney Balestier is a writer and the host of WMFA, a podcast where writers talk writing. I've been a fan of WMFA for several months now so I was very excited to collaborate with Courtney on this episode, which will be released jointly on both shows. In our conversation we took a behind-the-scenes look at both of our shows, diving into our interviewing processes and why each of us started our podcasts. We also talked about the creative projects we've been working on recently, and our shared fascination with place and identity. (Conversation recorded November 29, 2017.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Courtney Balestier WMFA Podcast WMFA - Episode 7: Esmé Weijun Wang Edacious Podcast Susan Cain - Quiet Eleonora Ronconi Elaine McMillion Sheldon Heroin(e) Roger May Aaron Blum WMFA - Episode 19: Celeste Ng Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You Medium Festival of Photography scott b davis Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib WMFA - Episode 12: Hanif Abdurraqib Claire-Louise Bennett - Pond Amal El-Mohtar
	20 Dec 2017	Episode 55: Daniel Gonçalves	00:57:43
Daniel Gonçalves is a portrait, editorial, and commercial photographer based in Los Angeles. I met Daniel at this year's Medium Festival of Photography, where he was participating in the portfolio reviews and showing work from his "Second Amendment Cowboy" series. We had a great conversation for this episode about his work exploring American gun culture and his fascination with Americana. For the second segment, we talked about the idea of home. (Conversation recorded November 21, 2017.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Daniel Gonçalves Newsweek - American and Guns: To Understand That Deadly Obsession, Come to Texas Photolucia Critical Mass 2017 Top 50 Focus PhotoLA jdc Fine Art 2015 Chattanooga shootings Movember Texas BBQ Posse Brandon Thibodeaux Brandon Thibodeaux - In That Land of Perfect Day Alec Soth Alec Soth - Sleeping by the Mississippi Daniel Gonçalves (Twitter) Daniel Gonçalves (Instagram)
	25 Sep 2019	Episode 97: Binh Danh	00:55:41
Binh Danh is a photographer based in San Jose, CA. Using both historical photographic processes and his unique chlorophyll prints—using photosynthesis to embed images into leaves—Binh makes haunting and resonant images about war, aftermath, landscape, and memory. In our conversation, Binh and I talked about his creative process, his interest in history, and the deep connections between all things. Then in the second segment we took a moment to acknowledge the recent passing of legendary photographer Robert Frank, then talked about the aesthetics of smoke. (Conversation recorded September 12, 2019.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Binh Danh Haines Gallery - Binh Danh: After the Gold Rush Daguerrotype Binh Danh - The Crosses Robert Frank Robert Frank - The Americans New Topographics Mrs. Doubtfire William Eggleston - At Zenith Delaney Allen’s Instagram GLOW Transcript
	27 Mar 2019	Episode 85: Mariela Sancari	00:57:02
Mariela Sancari is an Argentinian-born photographer based in Mexico City. Mariela’s series Moisés—a typology of portraits of men the age her late father would have been if he were still alive—is, in a way, a searching as well as an exploration of grief. In our conversation, Mariela and I talked about the how collaboration shapes her projects, how she uses iteration to create something new from existing work, and what the photobook form is and isn’t good for. Then in the second segment we talked about the unconscious references that inform our photographic work. (Conversation recorded February 5, 2019.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| YouTube \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Mariela Sancari Mariela Sancari - Moisés Mariela Sancari - Moisés (Book) Mariela Sancari - Moisés/Landscape Mariela Sancari - Moisés Is Not Dead Mariela Sancari and Adolfo Córdova - Mr. & Dr. Mariela Sancari - The two headed horse. Reenactment in ten acts FOLIO #ChannelOpenPhoto Louise Bourgeois Louise Bourgeois - I Do, I Undo, I Redo Asunción Casa Editora Cecilia Reynoso Luchino Visconti Cecila Reynoso - acaso las flores Alex Prager Emiliano Monge - No contar todo Transcript
	23 Mar 2016	Episode 9: TML Dunn	01:16:40
I first saw TML Dunn's work last month at the opening of the "Energy: Made in Form" exhibition at the SDSU Downtown Gallery, and his work stopped me dead in my tracks. Visiting his studio later and getting to see the breadth of his work was great fun, and we sat down and had a conversation about his work and process. For the second segment, Matt was interested in talking about art education and why it's such an important (but sadly neglected) part of school curricula. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: TML Dunn Mira Mesa Chris Arnade Stacy Kranitz SDSU Downtown Gallery Energy: Made in Form Selfs - TML Dunn Pains - TML Dunn untitled (JT) - TML Dunn untitled (anti-analogy) - TML Dunn The Treachery of Images Matt Black
	03 Aug 2016	Episode 19: Ken Rosenthal	01:18:37
Tucson-based photographer Ken Rosenthal's work has always stuck in my mind for both its striking visual style and the way that he uses images to represent and explore his internal emotional and psychological state. Whether he's looking at landscapes or family members or familiar objects, his photographs resonate because they represent the personal. We talked about several bodies of work, including his recent series The Forest and a work in progress called Days On the Mountain. For the second segment, Ken and I talked about change, and how when it comes in our personal lives it can spur us to new heights in our work. (Recorded June 22, 2016) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Ken Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal - Photographs 2001-2009 Ken Rosenthal - The Forest Medium Festival of Photography Mary Virginia Swanson Diane Arbus Sally Mann - Hold Still Ken's Instagram Ken's Twitter
	30 Oct 2024	Episode 155: Sarah Gailey	01:52:21
Writer Sarah Gailey returns to the show for a discussion about their new novella, Have You Eaten? This serialized story follows four young queer characters as they traverse an America in the process of collapse, taking care of each other along the way. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about experimentation in fiction, vine-ripened tomatoes, cooking as an act of care, and what apocalypse means. Then for the second segment, we talked about why we re-recorded the second segment, sin-flattening and high-control groups, the necessity of interpersonal repair. (Episode recorded September 27, 2024 and September 30, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| Pocket Casts \| Goodpods \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Sarah Gailey Purchase Have You Eaten? (e-book): Kobo \| Apple Books \| Amazon Sarah Gailey - “STET” Keep the Channel Open - Episode 109: Sarah Gailey (When We Were Magic) Sarah Gailey - “Stone Soup #24: Mending Sauce” Sarah Gailey - “Pantry Cookies” Sabrina Imbler - How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	28 Aug 2024	Episode 153: Jennifer Baker	01:14:01
Writer, editor, and podcaster Jennifer Baker’s debut YA novel, Forgive Me Not, imagines a near-future America in which the juvenile criminal justice system has been “reformed” to allow young people to undergo grueling Trials instead of incarceration. It’s an incisive and powerful story about carceral justice, as well as a moving coming-of-age and family story. In our conversation we talked about writing about serious topics for younger readers, how she approached writing her characters, and why it was important for her to focus on systems rather than individual innocence or guilt. Then for the second segment we talked about finding inspiration in other art forms. (Recorded April 3, 2024.) SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| Pocket Casts \| Goodpods \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Jennifer Baker Purchase Forgive Me Not: Kew & Willow Books (Kew Gardens, NY) \| The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org Minorities in Publishing podcast Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain-Gang All-Stars Kalief Browder Lionel Tate Squid Game Annie Proulx - “Brokeback Mountain” (short story) Brokeback Mountain (film) Rachel Eliza Griffiths Nicholas Nichols Titus Kaphar Kelsey Norris - House Gone Quiet Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	08 Nov 2017	Episode 52: Sarah Gailey	01:11:23
Sarah Gailey's two recent novellas, River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, were a huge amount of fun for me as a fan of both Westerns and speculative fiction. Our conversation covered both of those books, her serialized novelette The Fisher of Bones, as well as her Hugo-nominated column at Tor.com about the women of Harry Potter. In the second segment, Sarah talked to me about Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Sarah Gailey @gaileyfrey Sarah Gailey - River of Teeth Sarah Gailey - Taste of Marrow Sarah Gailey - The Fisher of Bones Alien: Ripley’s Well-Earned Nap The Green Stuff thread Sarah Gailey at Tor.com Sarah Gailey at B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog Sarah Gailey - Women of Harry Potter Sarah Gailey - Storytelling Through Costume Sarah Gailey - Bargain Sarah Gailey - Rescue Elizabeth Bear - Karen Memory Sarah Gailey - Facing Facts: American Itentity is Based on Alternate History Sarah Hollowell Lucius Beebe Charles Clegg King James and George Villiers (Twitter) Evalyn Walsh McLean Fonda Lee - Jade City
	25 Apr 2018	Episode 64: Andy Burgess	01:00:16
Andy Burgess is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tucson, AZ. Known for his paintings of mid-century and modernist paintings, Andy's wide-ranging practice also encompasses collage, printmaking, and photography, and more recently he has become a publisher, having started his own photobook publishing company, Dark Spring Press. In our conversation Andy and I talked about his approach to painting as a form of visual problem-solving, about finding an authentic path in the art world, and about learning to make beautiful photobooks. Then for the second segment, Andy chose nostalgia as his topic. (Conversation recorded March 30, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Andy Burgess Talk Easy - Kogonada Kogonada Columbus Dark Spring Press Purchase Modernist House Paintings book Andy Burgess - Modernist House Paintings Tucson Museum of Art - “Mid-Century Perspectives: Paintings by Andy Burgess and Objects of Modern Design” Jiro Dreams of Sushi Robert Ryman Henri Matisse Robert Stivers - Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids by Robert Stivers Don’t Take Pictures - Bookmarks: Dark Spring Press Iris van Herpen Phoenix Art Museum - Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion
	15 Jan 2020	Episode 102: Paula Riff	00:52:49
Paula Riff is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Combining the cyanotype and gum bichromate processes, Paula Riff creates bold, colorful images that push the boundaries of the photographic medium. In our conversation, Paula and I talked about what photography is to her, why she’s attracted to alternative processes, and how her work is ultimately autobiographical. Then for the second segment, we talked about the value of physical art spaces. (Conversation recorded December 3, 2019.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Donate via PayPal Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Paula Riff Paula Riff - Blue Is Not the Sky Building Bridges Art Exchange - “All Women Are Dangerous II” Center for Photographic Art - “Winter Blues, Contemporary Cyanotypes” Mark Rothko László Moholy-Nagy Alfred Stieglitz Catalyst: Interviews - Paula Riff Keep the Channel Open - Episode 8: Bryan Ida The Diffusion Tapes - Tape no. 7: Mike Sakasegawa The lemon video Paula Riff - Postcards from Russia Harvey Quaytman at Blum & Poe Gallery Constructed Mythologies: Luis González Palma Mike Sakasegawa - Sheets: A Love Letter Transcript
	26 Sep 2018	Episode 75: Tami Bahat	00:53:19
Tami Bahat is a fine art photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. Tami’s Dramatis Personae photographs are a series of Renaissance-inspired portraits, depicting people interacting with a few carefully-chosen props or set pieces, and sometimes a live animal co-star. In our conversation we talked about Tami’s recent solo exhibition of Dramatis Personae at Building Bridges Art Exchange, about how experimentation is crucial to her process, and about the collaborative process of her portraiture. Then in the second segment, we talked about fear, and why it’s so important to get out of your comfort zone. (Conversation recorded September 11, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Tami Bahat Tami Bahat - Dramatis Personae Building Bridges Art Exchange - Tami Bahat: Secrets and Lives Tami Bahat - Revisiting Humanity: Secrets and Lives (video) Pulse Art Fair Critical Mass Top 50 #ChannelOpenPhoto Tami Bahat - “The Twins” Diane Arbus - “Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J.” Yosl Bergner Amedeo Modigliani LACMA - Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage Aline Smithson Los Angeles Center of Photography Sally Mann - Hold Still Daughters of Destiny
	26 Oct 2016	Episode 25: David Emitt Adams	00:56:32
David Emitt Adams recently won the 2016 Clarence John Laughlin award for his photography, and if you've ever seen it before, you know why. In his work, David uses the wet-plate collodion process to create images on objects from his students' used film canisters to discarded cans found in the desert to oil drum lids, and the interplay between the photographs and the objects on which they're exposed adds a whole new dimension. (No pun intended.) David and I had a great talk about his work, and then in the second segment we moved on to discuss the ideas of permanence and impermanence. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: David Emitt Adams 2016 Clarence John Laughlin Award David Emitt Adams - 36 Exposures David Emitt Adams - Conversations With History Etherton Gallery photo-eye Roswell Museum and Art Center
	13 Apr 2016	Episode 12: Andi Schreiber	01:37:25
Photographer Andi Schreiber was one of the first people whose work inspired me to try to make meaningful photographs, myself. Andi's bold, vibrant work is a reflection of her life, looking at family and raising her two sons, and more recently looking at herself and how things are changing for her as she enters middle age. In our wide-ranging conversation we discussed parenting, growing and aging, the ways that each of us came to our work, the importance of connecting with both audiences and other artists, as well as sexual identity and how it's informed by both our stage of life and the way other people interact with us. For the second segment, Andi and I dug into a bunch of artists who inspire our practice. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Andi Schreiber NPR: When Is It OK To Profit From Cooking Other Cultures' Food? LPV Show - Episode 3.13: Shannon Taggart Pretty, Please Drift WonderLust Elizabeth Fleming Jessica Backhaus Elinor Carucci Internet love not colorblind, study says Race and Attraction, 2009-2014 Phil Toledano Martine Fougeron Diane Arbus Henri Cartier-Bresson Alex Cretey Systermans Larry Fink Kathy Shorr: SHOT (Lenscratch) Mark Cohen American Suburb X Nancy Borowick Melanie Walker Celeste Ng Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda's Twitter Jo Ann Callis Samantha Geballe Pictures from Home (Larry Sultan) Andi's Twitter
	27 Feb 2019	Episode 83: Shivanee Ramlochan	01:02:39
Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, arts reporter, and book blogger. I had the opportunity to read Shivanee’s book of poems Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting a few months ago and I found it a powerful experience. In our conversation, Shivanee and I talked about her book, making art out of our traumas, and navigating audience responses to our work. Then in the second segment, we talked about how few opportunities there can be for marginalized writers, and how this often creates an unnecessarily competitive environment. (Conversation recorded January 24, 2019.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| YouTube \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Support the LikeWise Fiction Kickstarter Show Notes: Shivanee Ramlochan Shivanee Ramlochan - Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting: Peepal Tree Press \| IndieBound \| B&N Sonia Farmer Sonia Farmer - The Red Thread Cycle in NE9 National Art Gallery of the Bahamas - National Exhibition 9: “The Fruit and the Seed” Alice Hiller - “Everything I write, I give access to devastate me first”: Shivanee Ramlochan, on ‘saying the difficult thing’ with “weapons of conjure” NGC Bocas Lit Fest Forward Prizes for Poetry 2018 Colin Kaepernick Novel Niche Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné - Doe Songs: Peepal Tree Press \| IndieBound \| B&N
	10 May 2017	Episode 39: Becky Senf	01:26:58
Dr. Becky Senf is the Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment between the Center and the Phoenix Art Museum. In our conversation, Dr. Senf and I talked about her work at the Center, and what the breadth and depth of the Center's archival collection enables in terms of researching and understanding the artists whose work is housed there. We also talked about a deeply personal exhibition she curated for Art Photo Index, entitled "Not MY Family Values," which is a favorite of mine. For the second segment, we talked about the #BuyArtFriday hashtag that she started, and what her hopes are for the initiative in the future. (Conversation recorded April 4, 2017.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Center for Creative Photography - Rebecca Senf Center for Creative Photography Mary Virginia Swanson Society for Photographic Education Prison Photography - Oracle, the Annual International Conference for Photography Curators Nobody Knows About Bill Jay LA Times - Robert Sobieszek (obituary) Ansel Adams - Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico Mark Klett AIPAD Phoenix Art Museum Tina Modotti Zach Weston Keep the Channel Open - Lindsay Hatton Lindsay Hatton - Monterey Bay Art Photo Index - Not MY Family Values Center for Creative Photography - Wynn Bullock: Revelations Phoenix Art Museum - Longer Ways to Go About the Show: Keep the Channel Open is a bi-weekly podcast featuring in-depth conversations with artists, writers, and curators. The show is hosted by San Diego-based photographer and writer Mike Sakasegawa.
	14 Mar 2018	Episode 61: Ty Franck	00:52:52
Ty Franck is a writer based in Albuquerque, NM. Along with Daniel Abraham, Ty is the author of the bestselling science fiction series The Expanse. In our conversation, Ty and I talked about The Expanse, how it got started, and the process by which he and Daniel write the series. Then in the second segment, Ty asked the question: "Who owns the stuff in space?" (Conversation recorded February 6, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: James S. A. Corey Purchase Persepolis Rising: IndieBound \| B&N SyFy - The Expanse Veronica Mars World Government Summit Moon Treaty Outer Space Treaty Moon (movie) Helium-3 Regolith Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers The Shape of Water Ursula K. Le Guin - Earthsea
	02 Mar 2016	Episode 6: Robert Jackson Bennett	01:15:55
Robert Jackson Bennett is one of my favorite contemporary fantasy authors. His Divine Cities series—so far comprising the novels City of Stairs and City of Blades—is unlike anything I can recall seeing before, combining urban and epic fantasy with noir thriller to tell a story of adventure and politics and dead gods, redemption and sacrifice. In this week's episode we talked about the series, as well as about genre expectations, writing diversely, naming fantasy characters, and his highly entertaining Twitter presence. In the second segment, Robert's topic was generational differences, though as we went through it we ended up touching on everything from city planning to Fox News. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Robert Jackson Bennett Robert Jackson Bennett's Twitter City of Stairs City of Blades Terry Pratchett Ender's Game The Genre Fountain Sam Sykes's Twitter Myke Cole's Twitter Clickhole Cul de Sac - 99% Invisible
	14 Aug 2019	Episode 94: Rachel Zucker	01:23:08
Rachel Zucker is a writer based in New York City. Rachel’s podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People) is one of my favorite literary shows, a show that has deeply influenced my approach to podcasting. In our conversation, Rachel and I talked about Commonplace and her 2014 book The Pedestrians, how each of us approach hosting a conversational podcast, and writing as a form of self-castigation. (Conversation recorded July 18, 2019.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Rachel Zucker Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People) Rachel Zucker - The Pedestrians: Wave Books \| IndieBound \| B&N Rachel Zucker - SoundMachine (preorder) SoundMachine Rachel Zucker - MOTHERs: IndieBound \| B&N Alice Notley Sharon Olds Wayne Koestenbaum Mike Sakasegawa - “The Lie Beneath the Story of My Family’s Asian American Dream” Commonplace - Episode 50: Inside Commonplace The Turnaround Commonplace - Episode 71: Mira Jacob Between the Covers - Miriam Toews : Women Talking Commonplace - Episode 72: Ilya Kaminsky Darcey Steinke - Flash Count Diary Tina Chang - Hybrida Transcript
	18 Jan 2017	Episode 31: Christina Riley	01:06:25
Christina Riley is a photographer and musician currently based in Seaside, California. When I first saw Christina's 2014 book Back to Me, I was immediately blown away by the emotional power and authenticity of the photographs. We talked about Christina's experience with bipolar disorder, her photographic process, and what it's like to move from Ontario, Canada to a small coastal community in Northern California. For the second segment, Christina chose change as her topic. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Christina Riley Christina Riley - Back to Me Christina Riley - Instagram Tony Fouhse Straylight Press Tony Fouhse - drool Burnt Palms Burnt Palms - Instagram Burnt Palms - Facebook And Gone Kurt Vile Carrie Brownstein - Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
	11 May 2016	Episode 16: Jennifer McClure	01:11:34
If there's a recurring theme that runs through photographer Jennifer McClure's work, it's about connection, the presence or absence of it. We talked about her ongoing portrait series of singles in New York, and that led to a rich discussion about working with portrait subjects, finding your own style, and self-acceptance. For the second segment, we started off with the topic of what our end goals are as artists, and that quickly branched out to fallow periods and how we deal with them, self-care, community, and the representation of women among photographers. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Jennifer McClure Jennifer McClure - Singles Maggie Steber Jennifer McClure - You Who Never Arrived Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Jennifer McClure - A Certain Distance Jennifer McClure - Lullaby a Broken Song Lisa M. Robinson Susan A. Barnett - Not In Your Face Esmé Weijun Wang Women's Photo Alliance Anastasia Taylor-Lind - How a Lack of Representation Is Hurting Photojournalism West Austin Studio Tour The Elevated Selfie LightBox Photographic Gallery Griffin Museum of Photography
	11 Mar 2020	Episode 106: Jon Sands	01:06:53
Jon Sands is a poet based in Brooklyn, NY. I first became acquainted with Jon as one of the co-hosts of the podcast The Poetry Gods, one of my all-time favorites, and the poems in his latest collection, It’s Not Magic, are both exuberant and profound. In our conversation we talked about being braver on the page, about balancing self-love and accountability, and about writing toward growth. Then in the second segment we talked about how having kids changes how you see other people, and we talked about the work of Aracelis Girmay and how she uses personification in her poems. (Conversation recorded February 18, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Donate via PayPal Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Jon Sands Jon Sands - It’s Not Magic The Poetry Gods Aziza Barnes José Olivarez Keep the Channel Open - Episode 33: José Olivarez Jon Sands - The New Clean Rico Frederick Barely South Review - “Living Brave, Writing Braver: an Interview with Jon Sands” Jon Sands - “Moons Over My Hammy” Geoff Kagan Trenchard Carlos Andrés Gómez Aracelis Girmay Aracelis Girmay - Kingdom Animalia Aracelis Girmay - The Black Maria Planner vs. Pantser Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Frank Ocean - Blonde Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Callie Wright Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	22 Apr 2020	From the Archive: Celeste Ng	01:06:26
Celeste Ng is a writer based in Cambridge, MA. Celeste's first novel, 2014's Everything I Never Told You, is, without exaggeration, one of the most important books of my life. When I read it in 2016, it gave me my first real glimpse at what representation in fiction could mean, and it was revelatory. Celeste's newest novel, which was just released this week, is called Little Fires Everywhere, and I was thrilled to get the chance to talk with her about it. In our conversation we talked about both books, about the importance of representation in media and culture, our shared obsession with Hamilton, and about Celeste's fascination with family roles. For the second segment, Celeste talked about how she got over her phobia of octopuses. (Conversation recorded July 27, 2017. Originally aired September 13, 2017.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Celeste Ng Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu) Celeste Ng - “How to Be Chinese” (LikeWise Fiction) Fresh Off the Boat All-American Girl Hamilton George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo Sesame Street - Me and My Llama Sesame Street - And Now… The Octopus! [Phobia warning: octopuses] Octopus leaps out of water, grabs crab [Phobia warning: octopuses] Sy Montgomery - The Soul of an Octopus Monterey Bay Aquarium Lindsay Hatton New England Aquarium Peter Watts - Blindsight New Scientist - Mirror test shows magpies aren’t so bird-brained Wendy Cope Wendy Cope - The Orange (read by Emma Watson) Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	21 Oct 2020	Episode 118: KTCO Book Club - The True Deceiver (with Alyssa Harad)	01:41:32
For this installment of the KTCO Book Club, I’m joined by writer Alyssa Harad for a conversation about Tove Jansson’s 1982 novel The True Deceiver. Despite the slimness of the volume, Jansson’s novel yet contains a surprising degree of depth and complexity, not to mention psychological tension, in a story that challenges the reader to consider the nature of truth, honesty, and different forms of deception. (Conversation recorded September 22, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver Alyssa Harad Alyssa Harad - Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride #KTCOBookClub on Twitter Moomin Ali Smith Tove Jansson - The Summer Book Flannery O’Connor Eudora Welty Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio Keep the Channel Open - Episode 113: Matthew Salesses Tove Jansson - Fair Play William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury Christiane Ritter - A Woman in the Polar Night Tove Jansson - Moominland Midwinter Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	25 Mar 2020	Episode 107: Julian K. Jarboe	01:01:48
Julian K. Jarboe is a writer based in Massachusetts. Julian’s debut story collection, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel, is a mix of body-horror fairy tales, mid-apocalyptic science fabulism, and blue-collar queer resistance. The stories grapple with body dysmorphia and transformation, and the realities of laboring under late capitalism. In our conversation we talked about different communities responses to the climate crisis, the frustration of white feminism, and “science fabulism” as a genre. Then in the second segment, we talked about different aspects of food and community. (Conversation recorded March 13, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Donate via PayPal Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Julian K. Jarboe Julian K. Jarboe - Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel Franz Kafka - “The Metamorphosis” Uncanny - “Disabled People Destroy Fantasy!” Steve Locke Parasite Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Callie Wright Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	07 Nov 2018	From the Archive: Brandon Taylor (2017)	01:03:55
Brandon Taylor is a writer and graduate student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. One of my favorite contemporary writers, Brandon's short stories are marvelously crafted, understated and emotionally charged, while his personal essays and cultural critique are insightful and often lyrical—all of it is just a joy to read. In today's conversation, Brandon and I talked about his work and his process, how he often finds himself inventing around the margins of the stories he takes in, and how and why he always resists the reductive take. For the second segment, Brandon chose expectation as his topic, both the excitement and terror of one's own anticipation of the future, but also the expectations others can put on us. (Episode originally aired on April 26, 2017. Conversation recorded April 4, 2017.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Brandon Taylor Brandon Taylor - Grace Brandon Taylor - French Absolutism Brandon Taylor - All About My Mother Brandon Taylor - We’re Just People Brandon Taylor - Frites Brandon Taylor - Run Mavis Gallant Brandon Taylor - There Is No Secret to Writing People Who Do Not Look Like You Gregory Heisler Iowa Writers’ Workshop Catapult Community - TinyLetter of the Month: Brandon Taylor, “Hours” Brandon Taylor - Virgin Wool (TinyLetter) Helena Fitzgerald Alexander Chee Roxane Gay Alexander Chee - The Queen of the Night Ted Chiang Certain Women Kelly Reichardt Maile Meloy
	23 May 2018	Episode 66: Hannah Cohen	01:02:48
Hannah Cohen is a poet and editor based in Virginia. I recently picked up a copy of Hannah's new chapbook Bad Anatomy and the way that the poems encompass both vulnerability and strength really struck me, as did the self-deprecating perspective. In our conversation, Hannah and I talked about Bad Anatomy, about emotional truth in poetry, as well as her work as co-editor of the online poetry magazine Cotton Xenomorph. Then in the second segment we discussed the challenges of working as an artist with a day job, especially a day job that isn't in academia. (Conversation recorded May 15, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Christina Riley - Born Kickstarter Hannah Cohen Hannah Cohen - Bad Anatomy Catapult - TinyLetter of the Month: Alvin Park, aspirin and honey Hannah Cohen - Di sotto in sù Hannah Cohen - The Only Living Girl in a Rock Opera Cotton Xenomorph Don’t Take Pictures - Rule Breakers Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop AWP Conference Melissa Broder - The Pisces so sad today Erika L. Sánchez - Lessons on Expulsion
	24 Mar 2021	From the Archive: Ken Rosenthal	01:09:29
Tucson-based photographer Ken Rosenthal's work has always stuck in my mind for both its striking visual style and the way that he uses images to represent and explore his internal emotional and psychological state. Whether he's looking at landscapes or family members or familiar objects, his photographs resonate because they represent the personal. We talked about several bodies of work, including his recent series The Forest and a work in progress called Days On the Mountain. For the second segment, Ken and I talked about change, and how when it comes in our personal lives it can spur us to new heights in our work. (Recorded June 22, 2016. Originally released August 3, 2016.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Ken Rosenthal Purchase Days on the Mountain: Book Only \| Limited Ed. with Print Ken’s online store Center for Creative Photography - “Why Photography?” event Ken Rosenthal - Photographs 2001-2009 Ken Rosenthal - The Forest Medium Festival of Photography Mary Virginia Swanson Diane Arbus Sally Mann - Hold Still Ken's Instagram Ken's Twitter Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	09 Sep 2020	Episode 115: David Adjmi	01:17:17
David Adjmi is a writer and playwright based in Los Angeles, CA. In his new memoir Lot Six, David tells the story of how he found himself through art and the theater, growing up feeling like an outsider as a gay, atheist, artistic youth in a small and insular Syrian Sephardic Jewish community in Brooklyn. In our conversation, David and I discussed the craft of memoir, the process of constructing one’s own identity, and why his book isn’t structured like the typical gay narrative. Then in the second segment, we discussed how the pandemic is affecting our ability to make narratives, and how art can function as a community. (Conversation recorded August 31, 2019.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: David Adjmi Purchase Lot Six (bookshop.org) Review Lot Six on Goodreads Elizabeth Hardwick - Sleepless Nights Richard Wright - Black Boy Melissa Febos San Diego Union-Tribune - “Commentary: In the COVID-19 era, I have to tell my patients they are experiencing authentic fear” L’Avventura Keep the Channel Open - Episode 33: José Olivarez Neutral Milk Hotel - “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” I May Destroy You Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	25 Sep 2024	Episode 154: Rachel Edelman	01:27:05
In the opening poem of Rachel Edelman’s debut collection, Dear Memphis, the speaker returns to their home city after a long time away, traversing a landscape that is both familiar and foreign, a place to which she belongs but also doesn’t. Over the course of the collection, Edelman asks questions about heritage and inheritance; about exile, diaspora, and migration; about home; about marginalization and privilege, oppression and complicity. In our conversation, we talked about acts of care, the importance of self-criticality, what poems do, and the necessary and the possible. Then for the second segment, we talked about corresponding via hand-written letters. (Recorded June 28, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| Pocket Casts \| Goodpods \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Rachel Edelman Purchase Dear Memphis: Open Books (Seattle, WA) \| The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org Jacob Lawrence - The Migration Series Morgan Parker - Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night Alan Kurdi (The boy on the beach) emet ezell Rachel Edelman & emet ezell - “The Correspondent’s Cheeks Are as a Bed of Spices” James Merrill - “Lost in Translation” AGNI 99 Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	16 Jan 2019	Episode 80: Jerry Takigawa	01:02:31
Jerry Takigawa is a photographer, designer, and writer based in Carmel Valley, CA. In his photo series Balancing Cultures, Jerry explores his family’s history during the Japanese American Internment, creating striking and beautiful compositions that tell the story of a dark chapter in our nation’s past. In our conversation, I talked with Jerry about this body of work, about our shared identity as Japanese Americans, and about how he developed a visual vocabulary that has evolved throughout his artistic career. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Jerry Takigawa Jerry Takigawa - Balancing Cultures Jerry Takigawa - False Food Jerry Takigawa - Kimono Series Alvarado Gallery Turchin Center for the Visual Arts - “Full Circle: 2018 CENTER Award Winners” Atlanta Photography Group #ChannelOpenPhoto Poston War Relocation Center 442nd Regimental Combat Team Center for Photographic Art - Jerry Takigawa interview People’s Park Robin DiAngelo - White Fragility Works & Conversations - Jerry Takigawa Interview: Grace In Uncertainty Center for Photographic Art - PIE Labs Brené Brown - Dare to Lead
	24 Feb 2016	Episode 5: Samantha Geballe	01:05:09
Samantha Geballe's photographs made a deep impression on me when I first saw them back in 2014. Her fearless series of self-portraits are some of the most intense, honest portrayals of an artist's inner life I've seen, documenting her emotional journey from obesity through gastric bypass surgery toward self-acceptance. In this week's episode we talked about her work, about honesty and fear, and about the importance of connection and being heard. Samantha's discussion topic, which we talked about in the second half of the show, was benefit of the doubt. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Samantha Geballe Samantha Geballe's YouTube channel Critical Mass Top 50 2016 HCP Fellowship Recipient (Exhibition information) Brooke Shaden
	23 Nov 2016	Episode 27: Lindsay Hatton	01:16:37
I knew that I was going to read Lindsay Hatton's debut novel, Monterey Bay, as soon as I saw the title—I grew up in that area, after all—and I was pleased to discover that between the covers of the book lay a story that is by turns funny, sexy, and profound, an alternate history of a place I know and love so well. I talked to Lindsay about her book, about our shared experiences growing up on the Monterey Peninsula, and a lot about John Steinbeck (both as a real-world literary figure and as a character in her book). In the second segment, we talked about how to navigate multiple modes of creative expression, parenting, and artistic legacy. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Lindsay Hatton Lindsay Hatton - Monterey Bay Monterey Bay Aquarium Connie Chiang - Shaping the Shoreline John Steinbeck - Working Days Lindsay Hatton - My Mother, Monterey, and the Haunted Beauty of Aquariums (LitHub) Monterey Herald - Suicides: High Rate Among Carmel Class Leaves Many Asking 'Why' Diane Arbus Claire-Louise Bennett - Pond Emma Rathbone - Losing It
	12 Aug 2020	Episode 113: Matthew Salesses	01:02:03
Matthew Salesses is a writer based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Matthew’s new novel, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, is darkly funny, unsettling in the best way, and wholly original, the story of a Korean American man struggling simply to exist as he feels himself literally disappearing. In our conversation, Matthew and I discussed his book, the trap of the first-person perspective, and what it means to take responsibility. Then in the second segment, we talked about the meaning of love. (Conversation recorded July 8, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Matthew Salesses Matthew Salesses - Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear Thank You Books - Author Event: Laura Van Den Berg in conversation with Matthew Salesses (August 20, 2020) Prairie Lights - Reading: Matthew Salesses and Lyz Lenz (August 27, 2020) Belmont Books - Virtual Event: Margot Lives and Matthew Salesses (September 16, 2020) Review Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear: Amazon \| Goodreads Julio Cortázar Matthew Salesses - Love and Silence (Catapult column) Matthew Salesses - “What Does It Mean to Write Asian American Literature?” David Eng & Shinhee Han - “A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia” Han Kang - The Vegetarian Margot Livesey - The House on Fortune Street Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Byung-Chul Han - The Agony of Eros Kahlil Gibran - “On Marriage” Jacques Lacan Lyz Lenz - Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women Elisa Gabbert - The Unreality of Memory Margot Livesey - The Boy in the Field Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	14 Sep 2016	Episode 22: Esmé Weijun Wang	01:17:13
Esmé Weijun Wang's debut novel The Border of Paradise is one of my favorite books so far this year. A multigenerational epic centered on an interracial family, the Nowaks, this book touches on so many profound topics, from mental illness to intergenerational trauma to culture clash to the very question of what it means to be a family, all done in stunningly beautiful prose. Esmé and I had a great conversation about her book in the first segment, and in the second segment we chatted about our favorite social media platform: Twitter. (Conversation recorded July 19, 2016.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Esmé Weijun Wang Esmé Weijun Wang - The Border of Paradise Esmé Weijun Wang - With Love and Squalor (e-letter) Heather Havrilesky - Ask Polly Get Bullish Conference Esmé Weijun Wang - “You Are Not Lazy” Esmé Weijun Wang - “I’m Chronically Ill and Afraid of Being Lazy” (elle.com) Esmé Weijun Wang - “Why My Novel Uses Untranslated Chinese” (lithub.com) Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
	02 Aug 2017	Episode 45: Jennifer DeCarlo	01:15:06
Jennifer DeCarlo is the director of jdc Fine Art, which was one of my favorite galleries in San Diego. Today, Jennifer splits time between San Diego and Chicago, and still works constantly championing the artists she represents. I've appreciated Jennifer's insight and eye for years, so I was pleased to have a chance to sit down and talk with her. We talked about her background and how she came to start her own gallery, how she views her role as a gallerist, and also her experiences as a portfolio reviewer. For the second segment, Jennifer chose art collecting as her topic. (Conversation recorded June 22, 2017.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: jdc Fine Art Keep the Channel Open - Episode 32: Ginger Shulick Porcella Paul Turounet jdc Fine Art - Paul Turounet Matt Eich jdc Fine Art - Matt Eich NYT - Peter Lik’s Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. Fluid and crystallized intelligence Joseph Bellows Gallery MOCA: Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson Quint Gallery Robert Rauschenberg Alec Soth Weinstein Gallery Alec Soth - Bible Study Book (Prophet in the Wilderness) Alec Soth - Charles Jennifer Greenburg jdc Fine Art - Jennifer Greenburg Vernacular photography Paul Cava
	03 Jun 2020	#PodcastBlackout	00:17:45
In solidarity with the ongoing protests against police violence, Keep the Channel Open is postponing our regular episode this week and participating in the #PodcastBlackout. Resources: National Bail Fund Network Campaign Zero Showing Up for Racial Justice Scene on Radio - Seeing White Robin DiAngelo - White Fragility Ijeoma Oluo - So You Want to Talk About Race Erika Lee - The Making of Asian America Transcript
	27 Apr 2016	Episode 14: Pastilla	01:19:56
I met San Diego artist Pastilla in March at the MAS Attack event at the San Diego Art Institute, and after talking with her for a few minutes I knew that I wanted to continue the conversation. We started off talking about the piece of hers that had moved me so much when we first met, "La Metamorfosis de Kafka F2," about the story behind its creation, the frustration and tension in the piece itself. For Pastilla, the act of creating art functions like meditation, and we talked about her background in photography as well as the idea of accessibility. For the second segment, she chose as her topic the ways in which an artist can engage with and impact her community, which led to a discussion of stereotypes and stories. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Pastilla La Metamorfosis de Kafka F2 MAS Attack 12 San Diego Art Institute Natalie Krick Jenny Zhang "There's no spectrum of nuance for why people might expose themselves" Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
	24 Jul 2024	Episode 152: Rachel Lyon	01:01:03
Writer Rachel Lyon returns to the show to discuss her latest novel, Fruit of the Dead, a contemporary retelling of the Persephone myth in which a young woman is seduced by wealth and privilege in a story about addiction, class, sexual assault, and power. In our conversation, we talked about how malleable identity can be during adolescence and how that informed how she wrote the character of Cory, how family members do and don’t see each other, and why it was important for the characters in this story to have agency. Then for the second segment we talked about stages of life. (Recorded June 28, 2024.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| Pocket Casts \| Goodpods \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Rachel Lyon Purchase Fruit of the Dead: Broadside Bookshop (Northampton, MA) \| The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org Rachel Lyon - Self-Portrait with Boy Keep the Channel Open - Episode 79: Rachel Lyon (January 2019) The Holdovers Charles Baxter - First Light Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Long View Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	01 Mar 2017	Episode 34: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib	01:07:33
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. For today's episode I was pleased to talk to Hanif about his 2016 book The Crown Ain't Worth Much, one of my favorite reads of 2016. The poems in this book are an intensely personal account of his experiences growing up in Columbus, and in our conversation we talked about Hanif's approach to writing from experience, and how art can engender empathy. We also talked about music, a subject he's very familiar with as a music and culture writer for MTV News. For the second segment, we talked about a subject near and dear to Hanif's heart: the Columbus Blue Jackets. (Conversation recorded January 23, 2017.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - The Crown Ain't Worth Much Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (MTV.com) Button Poetry Belly Nate Marshall Nate Marshall - Wild Hundreds Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - Chance the Rapper: Artist of the Year Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Surf Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - We Can’t Stop Livin’: Listening to Marvin Gaye On the Morning After Jay-Z/Kanye West - Watch the Throne Columbus Blue Jackets Hannah Stephenson Keep the Channel Open - Episode 20: Hannah Stephenson Columbus Crew SC Columbus Arena District Columbus Clippers Aziza Barnes - i be, but i ain’t Transcript
	16 Aug 2017	Episode 46: Rizzhel Mae Javier	01:19:26
Rizzhel Mae Javier is a photographer and installation artist based in San Diego, CA. I first met Rizzhel when we were both participating in the portfolio reviews at the Medium Festival a few years ago, and her stop-motion, flipbook-style pieces immediately caught my attention. More recently, Rizzhel was named one of the 2017 emerging artists by the SD Art Prize for her "Unmentionables" project, creating new art out of old mementos. We had a great conversation for the show about her artistic process, what she loves about making mistakes, and her experience as a teacher. For the second segment, Rizzhel chose the Philippines as her topic. (Conversation recorded July 26, 2017.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: > Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Rizzhel Mae Javier Rizzhel Mae Javier - Move(meant) Rizzhel Mae Javier - Unmentionables San Diego Art Institute - Millennial Pink SD Art Prize - 2017 New Contemporaries CM Curatorial Keep the Channel Open - Episode 33: José Olivarez ARID Journal - Strange Vistas: The Work of Walter Cotten Richard Keely Duane Michals Eikoh Hosoe Richard Prince Lab No. 347 - Intro to the Dark Art San Diego
	11 Sep 2019	Episode 96: Helen Zaltzman	00:49:04
Helen Zaltzman is the host of the podcasts Answer Me This!, The Allusionist, and Veronica Mars Investigations. The Allusionist is one of my favorite podcasts, one that I never miss an episode of, an informative and entertaining and often deeply empathetic look at how we use language. In our conversation, Helen and I talked about her interest in language, her process in creating her shows, and the importance of the podcasting community. Then for the second segment, Helen and I talked about visible mending techniques. (Conversation recorded August 12, 2019.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Helen Zaltzman The Allusionist Answer Me This! Veronica Mars Investigations Allusionist Live Events Pop Culture Happy Hour The Allusionist - Survival part 2: Oot in the Open PRX - What Helen Zaltzman Learned Producing 100 Episodes of ‘The Allusionist’ The Allusionist - Survival part 1: Second Home Podcasters’ Support Group Imaginary Advice Visible mending Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere Transcript
	15 Mar 2017	Episode 35: Paul Turounet	01:39:45
Paul Turounet is a photographer who lives and works in the San Diego area. Paul's work focuses on the border region between the United States and Mexico, which is a topic that is always relevant here in San Diego, but which has taken on even greater import over the past few months. Using forms from traditional darkroom prints to artist books to site-specific installations, Paul's photography encompasses a wide range of experiences, and I was happy to get the chance to talk with him for today's show. We talked about three of his series, "Tierra Brava," "Bajo La Luna Verde," and "Estamos Buscando A," all of which deal with various psychological aspects of the border region. For the second segment, we talked about the idea of artistic commitment. (Conversation recorded February 24, 2017.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Paul Turounet Paul Turounet - Tierra Brava Paul Turounet - Bajo La Luna Verde Paul Turounet - Estamos Buscando A La Jolla Historical Society - Weather on Steroids: the Art of Climate Change Science Open Show San Diego #4 Bomb Magazine - Frayed at the Edges Pedro Meyer jdc Fine Art Raymond Meeks Steidl Verlag TBW Books Trans-Border Institute Retablo (Wikipedia) William Kentridge Anselm Kiefer John Chiara Commitment - John Szarkowski
	14 Dec 2022	Episode 136: Abby Minor	01:21:00
Abby Minor is a writer based in central Pennsylvania. In her debut book of poems, As I Said: A Dissent, Abby combines the historical narrative of Ann Lohman—a 19th-century abortion provider in New York City—with personal and family history, creating a collection of poems that challenge the typical notion of an abortion story. In our conversation, Abby and I talked about her approach to documentary poetry, why it was important to her to push back against conventional abortion discourse, and how art and activism intersect. Then in the second segment, we talked about American work culture and the necessity of rest. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| Pocket Casts \| Stitcher \| Goodpods \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Abby Minor Purchase As I Said: A Dissent: Webster’s Bookstore (State College, PA) \| The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org NPR Arts & Letters - “The Wickedest Woman in New York” Erin Marie Lynch - “Using the Lens of Abortion to Look at Other Things” Abby Minor - “Out On This Red Edge” Abby Minor - “Rooms” Contrary Magazine - Interview with Best of the Net 2018 Winner Abby Minor Abby Minor - “Beyond Choice” Abby Minor - Reframing Abortion to Breathe Life into a “Culture of Death” Steven Stoll - Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass Vaughn Stills - Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	20 May 2020	Episode 110: Maggie Tokuda-Hall	00:59:46
Maggie Tokuda-Hall is a writer and podcaster based in San Francisco, CA. Maggie’s debut YA novel, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, is a swashbuckling pirate fantasy, and it’s also a nuanced and subversive story about colonialism, the power of storytelling, and the cost of violence. In our conversation, Maggie and I talked about her love of working in multiple forms and genres, the presentation of race in her novel, and writing the horrificness of violence. Then in the second segment, we discussed how to talk to our kids about problematic books and authors. (Conversation recorded April 29, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Maggie Tokuda-Hall Maggie Tokuda-Hall - The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Also an Octopus Drunk Safari Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Fear and Loathing in Utero (Catapult) Maggie Tokuda-Hall - “On Violations, Macarons, and the Pursuit of Beauty I Can Control” Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go Barbara Park - Junie B. Jones Lynne Reid Banks - The Indian in the Cupboard Nicole Chung - “E. B. White’s Lesson for Debut Writers: It’s Okay to Start Small“ F Troop James S. A. Corey Never Have I Ever Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	29 May 2024	Episode 150: KTCO Book Club - The Man Who Could Move Clouds (with Martha Crawford)	01:03:14
For this KTCO Book Club conversation, I’m joined by writer and group facilitator Martha Crawford for a discussion about Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s 2023 memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds. In our conversation, Martha and I talked about different ways of knowing, how to read across cultures without being extractive, storytelling as healing, and what identity means in the context of forgetting. (Recorded March 9, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| Pocket Casts \| Goodpods \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Martha Crawford Purchase The Man Who Could Move Clouds, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras: The Collected Works Bookstore (Santa Fe, NM) \| The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org Vine Deloria, Jr. Hildegard of Bingen Thomas Merton - “The Door That Ends All Doors” Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	21 Jun 2017	Episode 42: Jess T. Dugan	01:28:44
Photographer Jess T. Dugan is one of my favorite contemporary portrait artists, whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. Jess's 2015 book Every Breath We Drew is a favorite of mine, and I was pleased to be able to discuss that book with her, as well as her recent series To Survive On This Shore, photographs and interviews with transgender and gender non-conforming people over the age of fifty. We had a great conversation about her artistic process, how she approaches making a portrait, and how her tools inform her work. For the second segment, Jess chose "golden hour" as her subject, the time just before sunset when the light is both striking and rapidly changing. (Conversation recorded May 8, 2017) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Jess T. Dugan Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre - To Survive on this Shore Jess T. Dugan - Every Breath We Drew Jess T. Dugan - “Colby, 2012” Jess T. Dugan - “Devotion” Dawoud Bey Catherine Opie Robert Mapplethorpe Rembrandt van Rijn Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Richard Renaldi Strange Fire Collective Kerry James Marshall Deana Lawson Daylight Books - Every Breath We Drew (purchase link) Jess T. Dugan - Upcoming exhibitions, workshops, and lectures
	18 Nov 2020	Episode 119: Jordanna Kalman	01:08:59
Jordanna Kalman is a fine art photographer who lives and works in New York. Jordanna’s work explores loneliness, femininity and individuality, and the images are highly personal. In her series Little Romances, she rephotographs prints of earlier images of hers which had been stolen and misused. By considering the prints as objects and adding new elements, she creates a new narrative, examining the anxieties of being a woman and creating a form of protection for the image. In our conversation we discussed prints as still-life subjects, what anger can accomplish, and our mutual dislike of “mean” photography. Then in the second segment we discussed a recent Instagram dust-up between two photographers, and how it’s relevant to our larger society. (Conversation recorded October 21, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Jordanna Kalman Jordanna Kalman - Little Romances Purchase books and prints from Jordanna Kalman’s online shop 2018 Critical Mass Top 50 Speax - “Jordanna Kalman - Artist & Photographer” Vik Muniz Joseph Beuys Fotofilmic Laura Letinsky Keep the Channel Open - Episode 114: Jessica Eaton Bruce Gilden Martin Parr Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger William Camargo John Divola William Camargo’s Instagram (@billythecamera) William Camargo’s IG post riffing on John Divola’s work John Divola - As Far As I Could Get Killing of Ahmaud Arbery PetaPixel - “Folded Map Project’s Tonika Johnson Confronts Alec Soth and the NY Times” Tonika Johnson - Folded Map Project The Phoblographer - “Martin Parr is Under Fire for a Photo Book Reprint He Edited in 2017” Keep the Channel Open - Episode 110: Maggie Tokuda-Hall Kazim Ali - The Voice of Sheila Chandra Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	26 Aug 2020	Episode 114: Jessica Eaton	01:10:27
Jessica Eaton is a photographer based in Montreal, Quebec. At first glance, the minimalist compositions in Jessica’s images might seem simple, but the process behind their creation is anything but. Using a series of color filters and a painstaking multiple exposure technique, she is able to use light to construct color. In our conversation, we discussed her photographic technique, her impulse toward iteration, and why her work is not abstract. Then in the second segment we talked about coming to big life changes during a pandemic. (Conversation recorded August 3, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Jessica Eaton Jessica Eaton - That is Picture (short doc) M+B Gallery - Jessica Eaton Higher Pictures Gallery - Jessica Eaton Luminous Landscape - “Profile: The Relentless Jessica Eaton” Keep the Channel Open - Episode 56: Chris Engman Bruce Gilden TransformerStation - Jessica Eaton interview Dolly zoom Akinetopsia Sally Mann - Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs Georgiana Houghton, Hilam AF Kint, Emma Kunz - World Receivers Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	24 Feb 2021	Episode 122: Kary Wayson	00:52:00
Kary Wayson is a poet based in Seattle, WA. The poems Kary’s latest collection, The Slip, are wonderfully slippery in both form and feeling, in a way that demands attention and rewards deep engagement. In our conversation we discussed what a poem can do, how we approach “meaning” in poetry, and how life changes affect our art. Then in the second segment, we talked about time and our human perception of duration. (Conversation recorded January 5, 2021.) Bonus Reading: Subscribers to the Likewise Media Patreon campaign can hear Kary read her poem “Untitled Poem (for a Feeling).” Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Kary Wayson Purchase The Slip: Burnside Review (Publisher) \| Bookshop.org \| Open Books (Seattle, WA) \| The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) The Stranger - “Falling for The Slip” The Seattle Review of Books - “After years of drought, Kary Wayson is writing poetry again” Keep the Channel Open - Episode 33: José Olivarez Kenyon Review - “The Slip interview with Kary Wayson” Sarah Manguso - “A Glittering” Neutral Milk Hotel - “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” Robert Capa - “Watching the Tour de France in front of the bicycle shop owned by Pierre Cloarec, one of the cyclists in the race, Pleyben, France” - First Image - Second Image Next KTCO Book Club pick: Song, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	17 Jul 2019	Episode 92: Ashly Stohl	00:59:21
Ashly Stohl is a photographer based in Los Angeles and New York. In the artist statement for her latest series, The Days & Years, Ashly writes, “In photography, they say that all portraits are really self portraits. So what are portraits of your kids? They are portraits of a parent.” In our conversation, we talked about artistic collaboration, personal photography, and the perception of motherhood in art and society. Then in the second segment we talked about the differences between New York and LA. (Conversation recorded July 9, 2019.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Ashly Stohl Peanut Press Ashly Stohl - Charth Vader Ashly Stohl - The Days & Years (web gallery) Ashly Stohl - The Days & Years (book) @ashleyleostohl (Instagram) @thedaysandyearsproject (Instagram) Six Shooters Aline Smithson Elizabeth Fleming Sally Mann Lee Friedlander Garry Winogrand Stephen Shore David Carol Red Hook Editions Jason Eskenazi Carlos Javier Ortiz - We All We Got Donna Ferrato Ken Schles Lenscratch - Ashly Stohl: Days & Years Lynn Melnick Robert Frank Jacob Riis Lewis Hine Lee Friedlander - Family in the Picture Transcript
	04 Jan 2017	Episode 30: Rachael Short	00:50:48
Rachael Short is a fine art photographer based in Carmel, California. After graduating from the Brooks Institute, Rachael had a thriving wedding and portrait photography business, which ended in 2010 when she was in a car accident that broke her neck and left her paraplegic. Nowadays, Rachael uses her iPhone as her primary tool, and makes beautiful platinum prints from her iPhone images. I talked with Rachael about her work, the town we're both from, the gallery she owns, and her experience as a board member with the Center for Photographic Art. For the second segment, we talked about the importance of supporting the people in our communities. (Conversation recorded November 20, 2016) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Rachael Short Gallery Exposed Viktor Klinger Evynn LeValley Zach Weston Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu Center for Photographic Art Anthony Carbajal
	08 Apr 2020	Episode 108: The Craft of the Literary Podcast Interview	02:01:45
Last month, I was scheduled to moderate a panel at the annual AWP Conference called “The Craft of the Literary Podcast Interview,” featuring Rachel Zucker of Commonplace, Dujie Tahat of The Poet Salon, and David Naimon of Between the Covers, three of my favorite literary podcasts. Due to the coronavirus, we ended up having to cancel our appearance at the conference, which makes it all the sweeter to be able to bring you this podcast version of our panel. In this wide-ranging coversation, Rachel, Dujie, David, and I talked all about the “how”s and the “whys” of interviewing, including the importance of establishing rapport with our guests, questions about the ethics of interviewing, and what the role of the host ought to be. (Conversation recorded March 27, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Donate via PayPal Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Rachel Zucker Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People) Dujie Tahat The Poet Salon Luther Hughes Gabrielle Bates Between the Covers Between the Covers - Solmaz Sharif : Look Commonplace - Episode 37: Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso AWP 2019 - The Art of the Interview VS Podcast Open Books: A Poem Emporium Dujie Tahat - “salat to be read from right to left” CAConrad Keep the Channel Open - Episode 78: David Naimon Keep the Channel Open - Episode 94: Rachel Zucker Commonplace - Episode 82: Maggie Nelson Commonplace - Episode 81: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 2 Commonplace - Episode 72: Ilya Kaminsky Commonplace - Episode 54: Gerald Stern Between the Covers - Junot Diaz : This Is How You Lose Her Between the Covers - Terese Marie Mailhot : Heart Berries Wesley Morris - “The Morality Wars” Nicole Chung - “E. B. White’s Lesson for Debut Writers: It’s Okay to Start Small” Commonplace - Episode 26: Alice Notley Commonplace - Episode 15: Bernadette Mayer Commonplace - Episode 23: Morgan Parker Tommy Pico Danez Smith Robin Coste Lewis Commonplace - Episode 60: Robin Coste Lewis Alexander Chee - “How to Unlearn Everything” Between the Covers - Claudia Rankine : Citizen The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind Zadie Smith - “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction” Between the Covers - Zadie Smith : Grand Union Commonplace - Episode 83: Darcey Steinke The Poet Salon - Taneum Bambrick + End of Tour Toddy Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	11 May 2022	Episode 129: Ayesha Raees	01:28:16
Ayesha Raees is a poet and hybrid artist based in New York, Miami, and Lahore. In her debut book of poetry, Coining a Wishing Tower, she explores death, grief, culture, religion, separation, and return in a hybrid form that is part poetry, part narrative, part fable, and entirely remarkable. In our conversation, we talked about her book, her writing process, and sustaining a relationship with her work over time. Then in the second segment, we discussed community. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| Pocket Casts \| Stitcher \| Goodpods \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Ayesha Raees Purchase Coining a Wishing Tower: Platypus Press \| Bookshop.org Rainier Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet bell hooks - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	27 Jan 2016	Episode 1: Trinh Mai	01:13:03
Trinh Mai is a Vietnamese-American interdisciplinary artist whose incredibly empathetic work encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, and more. I was pleased to be able to sit down with her for the inaugural episode of this show, and talk to her about her work, her artistic process, and the importance of connection, respect, and compassion in the stories she tells. In the second segment we discussed the importance of cooperation between artists. Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: TrinhMai.com Bone of My Bone ViETNAMESE FOCUS: Generations of Stories (Quiet) The Artist Odyssey - Trinh Mai Escondido Municipal Gallery
	26 Feb 2020	Episode 105: Brandon Taylor	00:56:15
Brandon Taylor’s debut novel, Real Life, is one of the best books I’ve read in years. Real Life is the story of Wallace, an introverted, black, gay graduate student studying biochemistry. Over the course of a summer weekend, a series of confrontations with his friends and labmates and a confusing encounter with a straight classmate bring all of the unspoken tensions in the group to the surface. In our conversation, Brandon and I talked about the craft of writing a novel, the question of what real life is, the banality of racism, and the hidden selfishness inside altruism. Then in the second segment, we talked about digital communities and how our interactions in those communities have changed over time. (Conversation recorded November 12, 2019.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Donate via PayPal Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Brandon Taylor Brandon Taylor - Real Life Brandon Taylor Book Tour (PRH website) Keep the Channel Open - Episode 38: Brandon Taylor Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act 2: No. 14 Pas de deux Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Callie Wright Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	28 Aug 2019	Episode 95: Robert Calafiore	01:09:53
Robert Calafiore is a photographer based in West Hartford, CT. Robert’s photographic practice involves building elaborate sets around male nudes or mid-century modern glassware, then photographing them using a hand-built pinhole camera. The resulting images are stunningly colorful and each print is one-of-a-kind. In our conversation, Robert and I talked about his creative process, the depiction of the male figure in art history, the place of vulnerability in masculinity, and the immigrant story behind his glass work. Then in the second segment, Robert and I talked about the phenomenon of de-skilling and what it might mean for the future of humanity. (Conversation recorded July 23, 2019.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Robert Calafiore New Britain Museum of American Art - Expanded Field: Photography from the Collection of the NBMAA Hartford Art School - 2019 Faculty Exhibition Medium Festival of Photography Cindy Sherman Sandy Skoglund Jerry Uelsmann Duane Michals Doug Starn and Mike Starn Scene On Radio - MEN Foto Relevance - Robert Calafiore Artist Interview William Henry Fox Talbot - “Articles of Glass” Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Matisse in the Studio Ted Chiang - “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” Jordan Wolfson - (Female Figure) Transcript
	25 Oct 2017	Episode 51: Mari Ness	01:04:48
Mari Ness is a speculative fiction writer and poet based in central Florida. I was recently turned on to Mari's work by a mutual acquaintance of ours, and I really enjoyed digging through her short stories and poetry. In our conversation we talked about her new book Through Immortal Shadows Singing, her experience working in the speculative poetry genre, and what she loves about revising fairy tales. For the second segment, Mari chose Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery as her topic. (Conversation recorded September 12, 2017.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Mari Ness Medium Festival of Photography Keep the Channel Open - Episode 44: scott b davis Mari Ness - The Witch in the Tower Mari Ness - The Middle Child’s Practical Guide to Surviving a Fairy Tale Mari Ness - Souls Mari Ness - Deathlight Mari Ness - Through Immortal Shadows Singing: GoodReads, IndieBound, B&N, Kobo Mari Ness - Disney Read-Watch Keep the Channel Open - Episode 23: José Iriarte Joe Haldeman Ursula K. Le Guin Jane Yolen Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad Lisa M. Bradley Rose Lemberg Sofia Samatar Kurt Vonnegut Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go Keep the Channel Open - Episode 38: Brandon Taylor Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery - Magic for Marigold Georgette Heyer Agatha Christie Lucy Maud Montgomery - Emily of New Moon Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Nicole Kornher-Stace - Archivist Wasp Mysterious Galaxy Lucy Maud Montgomery - Pat of Silver Bush Lucy Maud Montgomery - Rilla of Ingleside Robert C. O’Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Lara Donnelly Lara Donnelly - Amberlough Theodora Goss Theodora Goss - The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter
	12 Feb 2020	Episode 104: Lilliam Rivera	00:44:43
Lilliam Rivera is a writer based in Los Angeles, CA. In her young adult novels The Education of Margot Sanchez and Dealing In Dreams, Lilliam tells familiar stories in new ways—instead of a typical teen drama or dystopian science fiction, she centers Latina characters in stories that take on topics like colorism and gentrification. In our conversation, we talked about why she’s drawn to write stories about young people, what it means to buy into the American Dream, and whether violence is actually empowering. Then for the second segment, we discussed Jeanine Cummins’ recent novel American Dirt and the controversy around it. (Conversation recorded January 23, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Donate via PayPal Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Lilliam Rivera Lilliam Rivera - The Education of Margot Sanchez Lilliam Rivera - Dealing in Dreams Lilliam Rivera - Never Look Back Last Exit Orpheus and Eurydice Black Orpheus Keep the Channel Open - Episode 87: David Bowles Myriam Gurba - “Pendeja, You Ain’t Steinbeck: My Bronca with Fake-Ass Social Justice Literature” Commonplace - Episode 67: John Biewen Scene on Radio - Seeing White Scene on Radio - MEN Burning Parasite Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	11 Apr 2018	Episode 63: Morgan DeLuna	01:01:38
Morgan DeLuna is a photographic artist based in Southern California. In her Phenotype series, Morgan uses self-portraiture to explore her diverse genetic heritage. In our conversation we talked about that series, and the question that both of us have heard so many times: "What are you?" We also discussed her Extrospection photographs, a series of abstract bodyscapes documenting the topography of her physical existence over time. For the second segment, we talked about social media and its effects on human interaction and on the medium of photography. (Conversation recorded March 13, 2018) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Morgan DeLuna Morgan DeLuna - Phenotype Morgan DeLuna - Extrospection Women Seen By Women Awards Gallery Galeria Valid Foto San Diego Art Institute - ABOUT-FACE Size Matters 2017 Subtext Gallery Cindy Sherman Edward Weston Harry Callahan Xennials Susan Sontag - On Photography Morgan DeLuna - #instagrids Matthew Brandt San Diego Museum of Art - On Beauty and Ugliness in Art Frida Kahlo
	24 May 2023	Episode 141: KTCO Book Club - The Scapegracers (with Sarah Gailey)	01:03:33
For our latest KTCO Book Club episode, writer Sarah Gailey joins us for a discussion of H. A. Clarke’s YA novels The Scapegracers and The Scratch Daughters. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about the ways Clarke’s novels subvert genre expectations, about the quality of teen girls’ rage, and about why these books are “capital-I Important.” Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| Pocket Casts \| Stitcher \| Goodpods \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Sarah Gailey Purchase The Scapegracers: Loyalty (Washington, DC) \| Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org Purchase The Scratch Daughters: Loyalty (Washington, DC) \| Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org Purchase Just Like Home: Loyalty (Washington, DC) \| Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org Subscribe to The Personal Canons Cookbook The Craft Sarah Gailey - When We Were Magic Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Squad Euphoria How different generations react to a gay character being introduced Holly Black - The Cruel Prince Mark Russel & Mike Feehan - Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	21 Apr 2021	Episode 125: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan	01:24:25
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is a writer based in London, UK. Rowan’s second novel, Starling Days, is a beautiful story about the complex love between the book’s two protagonists, Mina and Oscar, and their respective challenges in the wake of Mina’s suicide attempt. Starling Days explores family and love in many forms, and how people both connect and separate. In our conversation, Rowan and I discussed the depiction of mental illness in her book, how she approached writing the multifaceted relationships between the book’s characters, and why it was important to her to include multiracial characters. Then in the second segment, we talked about faith and how we make and find meaning. (Conversation recorded March 30, 2021.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Purchase Starling Days: Pages of Hackney (London, UK) \| Greenlight Bookstore (NYC) \| The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) \| Bookshop.org Rowan Hisayo Buchanan - “The Woman Scared of Her Own Kimono” Ruth Ozeki - A Tale for the Time Being Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You Violet Kupersmith Violet Kupersmith - Build Your House Around My Body Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	01 Feb 2017	Episode 32: Ginger Shulick Porcella	01:00:04
Ginger Shulick Porcella is the Executive Director of the San Diego Art Institute, an experimental, bi-national contemporary arts center in San Diego, CA. In the three years since Ginger has been leading SDAI, it has grown to become one of most vibrant, innovative art spaces in San Diego, something that has been exciting for art-minded folks in San Diego, like me. In our conversation, Ginger and I talked her curatorial background, the changes she's made at SDAI, how it's grown, what's to come, and how she engages with the San Diego arts community. In the second segment, we talked about one of Ginger's favorite topics: conspiracy theories. (Conversation recorded December 5, 2016.) Subscribe: iTunes \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| SoundCloud \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: San Diego Art Institute AMT Festival 2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial MIXTAPE: Volume 2 Kite Sticks of the Sun, Ashes of the Night SDAI Project Space @ Horton Plaza Medium Festival of Photography Unarius Academy of Science Heaven’s Gate Vice - The Berenst(E)ain Bears Conspiracy Theory That Has Convinced the Internet There Are Parallel Universes Mark Geston - Mirror to the Sky
	10 Oct 2018	Episode 76: Nicole Chung	00:54:12
Nicole Chung is a writer and editor. Nicole’s debut memoir All You Can Ever Know was released this month. In it, she tells the story of her life growing up as a transracial adoptee, of eventually finding and connecting with her birth family, and of becoming a parent, herself. In our conversation, Nicole and I talked about her wonderful book, our common experiences as Asian Americans, and about how to write a story that is still ongoing. Then in the second segment, Nicole and I talked about how we discuss race and identity with our kids. (Conversation recorded September 6, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Nicole Chung Nicole Chung - All You Can Ever Know: Catapult \| IndieBound \| B&N Nicole Chung - Events #ChannelOpenPod Nicole Chung - “Magic Can Be Normal” Nicole Chung - “What I Learned From Kristi Yamaguchi” Catapult The Toast Hyphen Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere All You Can Ever Know Giveaway
	13 Jan 2021	Episode 120: Kazim Ali	01:08:52
Kazim Ali is a writer based in San Diego, CA. Kazim’s latest poetry collection, The Voice of Sheila Chandra, uses sound to explode meaning and explore silence and voicelessness, bringing together history, philosophy, spirituality, and personal experience to create something truly profound. In our conversation, Kazim and I discussed the divine in art, what the sound of poetry can embody and enact, and the fundamental oneness of human life. Then for the second segment, we talked about music. (Conversation recorded December 17, 2020.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Podcasts \| RadioPublic \| Stitcher \| Spotify \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Review on Apple Podcasts \| Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram \| YouTube Show Notes: Kazim Ali Purchase The Voice of Sheila Chandra Pre-order Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water Upcoming virtual events with Kazim Ali PoetryNow - “Know No Name” What’s Love Got to Do With It Sheila Chandra Orpheus and Eurydice Alcestis Asian American Writers’ Workshop - The Voice of Sheila Chandra with Kazim Ali, Sheila Chandra, and Rajiv Mohabir The Frost Place Ellen Bryant Voigt Prakriti Festival Kazim Ali - The Far Mosque Cyndi Lauper - At Last Alice Coltrane Qawwali Amjad Sabri Abida Parveen Kirtan Krishna Das Kazim Ali - Bright Felon Keep the Channel Open - Julia Dixon Evans Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - The Age of Phillis Phillis Wheatley Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
	15 Aug 2018	Episode 72: Natalie Eilbert	00:57:37
Natalie Eilbert's newest collection of poems, Indictus, was published in January of this year, and reading it is a profound and intense experience. In our conversation, Natalie and I talked about Indictus, making amends, and what audiences ask of artists who make work about trauma. In the second segment, Natalie chose social media as her topic. (Conversation recorded July 17, 2018.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play \| Stitcher \| TuneIn \| RSS Support: Support our Patreon \| Leave a review Share: Tweet this episode \| Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter \| Email \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Tumblr Show Notes: Natalie Eilbert Natalie Eilbert - Indictus: Noemi Press \| IndieBound \| B&N \| GoodReads Patreon - Natalie Eilbert Wisconsin Book Festival A Room of One’s Own #ChannelOpenPoetry Couplet: A Poetry Series + Social Keep the Channel Open - Episode 69: Leah Umansky Cate Marvin Deborah Landau Leslie Jamison - The Recovering Robert Frost - “Mending Wall” Natalie Eilbert - “The Limits of What We Can Do” Brandon Taylor Brooklyn Museum - David Bowie is Transcript

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