Fri, 16 May 2008 ![]() Comments[0] |
Thu, 8 May 2008 A revamped TothWorld Podcast. Distorted sounds for disoriented minds.Comments[0] |
Sat, 26 April 2008 It's Prozac Paxil Cymbalta Effexor Zoloft time. Take 'em while you got 'em and chill to the sounds of the empire falling. It's all over now, blue babies. |
Wed, 16 April 2008 This week, we check in with TothWorld favorite Jesse Loren. Jesse is co-editor of Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront 2007 and is an MFA graduate of UNO. She is also co-editor of Mourning Sickness which will be released in May and available at spdbooks.org or amazon.com. Her poetry can be found in Octaves, Kingly Blue, The New Virginia Review, Yawp, and Ellipsis. Jesse writes an editorial column and doesn't kill spiders.Comments[0] |
Thu, 10 April 2008 Toth's novel #3, Finale, is finally on schedule for publication in 2009.Comments[0] |
Sun, 16 March 2008 This week's guest is Lina Ramona Vitkauskas. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Wright State University, is co-editor of online literary/visual arts magazine, milk, and contributing editor to UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry (Lithuania). She is the author of THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2008), Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (dancing girl press, 2006), and Shooting Dead Films with Poets (Fractal Edge Press, 2004). She has been published in the 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets (Outside Voices, Ed. Jessica Smith), The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007); The Prague Literary Review, The Chicago Review, White Fungus (New Zealand), Aufgabe, Moria, MiPoesias, PFS Post, Seven Corners, LocusPoint, Van Gogh's Ear (Paris), Rampike (University of Windsor), Paper Tiger (Australia), In Posse Review Multi-Ethnic Anthology (Ilya Kaminsky, editor), The Mississippi Review, The Wisconsin Review, Lituanus (Lithuanian Quarterly Journal), and many others. She won an Honorable Mention in the STORY Magazine's 1999 Carson McCullers Award contest and was a semi-finalist in the 2002 Cleveland State University Open Poetry Series. She has read at various venues all over Chicago and the Midwest including The School of the Art Institute (Chicago), The Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Northwestern University, Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Quimby's, Woman Made Gallery, Myopic Books, Woodland Pattern Bookstore, Indiana University-Northwest, North Park University, Lewis University, and Santara-Sveisa Lithuanian Arts, Literature, and Political Conference. Upcoming work will be featured in Blossombones, Another Chicago Magazine, and Arabesques (Algeria). Click here to visit her website. Comments[0] |
Tue, 11 March 2008 Guests: Dave and Lillian Brummet. Their websites include:Main Website Talk Radio Show MySpace Site Also, new music and the ressurrection of Additive Headlines. Comments[0] |
Sat, 23 February 2008 I finally reveal my true identity: the Jesus Christ of anger. Also featured: the corpse of E.E. Cummings, plus music and other poems.Comments[0] |
Sun, 17 February 2008 Goodbye to the U.S.A., plus dead author Robert Frost.Comments[0] |
Sat, 9 February 2008 This week's guest is author Gabriel Ogrease, with a very interesting piece and equally interesting commentary. The show also features one diatribe, several turtle doves, and plenty of quasi-music.Comments[0] |
Mon, 21 January 2008 A tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., with a special piece by Brian Douthit, author, editor, reviewer, and digital artist. He has written book reviews for ForeWord Magazine and writes music and book reviews independently. His contacts with both musicians and poets led him to produce audio pieces for The Public Radio Exchange (PRX), a nonprofit service for distribution, peer review, and licensing of radio pieces for public radio. Although he no longer broadcasts on his radio station, Brian continues to write reviews for audio pieces for PRX. Currently, Brian is creating video reviews for books in an innovative format he calls "Haiku Video Reviews" - an entire book review narrowed down to the seventeen syllables of a Haiku. He is also working on his own CD album of New Age music and is planning on releasing a new book in 2008.Comments[0] |
Sat, 12 January 2008 Back with Steven Mayoff, only this time in the guise of his alter ego, Mojomatic. The Mojomatic songs featured: Trance-Sylvania; God Is Alive; Highway 61 Revisited. Also, more of the usual hijinks and jinxes. Comments[0] |
Thu, 3 January 2008 ![]() This week's guest is Steven Mayoff, making his visit to TothWorld. He
reads from 3 Poems and a Postcard, which includes the poems The
Crows Are Fearless, My First Cigarette, and Let Us Improvise
Motifs. My First Cigarette will appear this month in the inaugural
issue of Cerulean Rain. Let Us
Improvise Motifs appeared in Aquapolis. And The Two Annes
appeared in Grimm Magazine. Steven lives
on Prince Edward Island, Canada. His work has appeared in various Canadian
magazines, such as the Windsor Review, Grain, All Rights
Reserved, Grimm Magazine, CV 2, as well
as Terrain.org and Aquapolis (USA), The Dublin
Quarterly (Ireland), The Arabesques Review (Algeria) and
Upstairs At Duroc (France). Upcoming work include a poetry chapbook,
Fridge Magnet Cycle, to be published by Mercutio Press (Montreal) and a
fiction collection, Fatted Calf Blues & Other Stories, to be
published by Turnstone Press (Winnipeg). Visit Steven's web site at www.stevenmayoff.ca.
Along with Mr. Mayoff, listen to two of my own poems, two songs, and the
usual well-founded and deserved bitching about publishing in general and one
publisher in particular. Comments[1] |
Sun, 30 December 2007 The Confessions of Paul A. Toth, Part II (with only a pinch of madness).Comments[0] |
Thu, 20 December 2007 Yes, we all have to learn our lessons and then...Forget them Relearn them Forget them Relearn them Forget them Relearn them Forget them Relearn them Forget them Relearn them Forget them Relearn them Forget them Relearn them Forget them Relearn them Forget them Relearn them Comments[0] |
Fri, 23 November 2007 ![]() This week's guest, Cicily R. Janus is an active-protagonist turned writer, nurse and mother
living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her works have appeared in or are
scheduled to appear in Underground
Voices, Aesthetica, Eclectica, Del Sol Review, Hecale,
The Guild of the Outsider Writers,
Writers Post Journal, Venus Envy: A Magazine For Women, Perspectives Magazine,
Dogzplot Fiction, Tuesday Shorts, and Handmaidens, to
name a few. Currently, she is on staff as an assistant editor for the literary
magazine Bust Down the Door and
Eat All the Chickens: A Literary Journal of the Absurd and Surreal. A
chap-book featuring her essays, poetic prose and rants, entitled, The Pencil
Pusher's Prose, is due out in mid-2008 by Scintillating
Publications, and her first novels, The Burden of Betrayal and
The Reluctance of the Ruling are currently in progress. For some tips
on writing the novel, see
this site. You can contact Cicily through her widely popular blogs on Myspace, and visit her Myspace profile. Finally, visit her website, under construction but
due to be finished within the next few weeks. Other works include a few songs and some of your host's work. Comments[1] |
Mon, 19 November 2007 ![]() Featuring a collaboration between author Carol Novack and
Donald C. Meyer. Dr. Meyer is a composer and musicologist who collaborates with choreographers,
filmmakers, theater directors, and authors to create multi-media works that
interweave classical and contemporary sounds into poly-vocal aesthetic
structures. He is the author of articles on American cultural history and rock
music and a music appreciation textbook called Perspectives on Music (Prentice
Hall, 2003). Dr. Meyer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Music
Department at Lake Forest College.
New Yorker Carol Novack, a former criminal defense lawyer and Australian
government grant recipient, is the author of a chapbook of poetry, play,
collaborative CD and two collaborative films. Writings may or will be found in
many publications, including The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets,
Action Yes, Del Sol Review, Diagram, 5_trope, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental
Fiction, La Petite Zine, LIT, Notre Dame Review, Otoliths, and the
Star*Vigate anthology of best online writings. Carol publishes the
multi-media e-journal Mad Hatters'
Review, curates a reading series, and leads lyrical fiction writing
workshops. She'll be a resident at The Vermont Studio Center next year. For
additional details, see her blog. Minnows is in the current issue (18) of American Letters & Commentary. Comments[0] |
Sat, 10 November 2007 This week's show includes a fabulous audio presentation by Jesse Loren, an MFA graduate of UNO. She studies poetry, gardens, and teaches high school journalism. Jesse is co-editor of Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront. Since 2005 she has had a deep relationship with an Infantry medic and purple heart vet who is the subject of one of her two pieces, You Will Be Measured. The other is entitled What Babies Really Do. Looking to please the king of TothWorld? Listen to these pieces.Additionally, let it be known that I will soon resume phone recorded readings. First, I must have a tooth removed or, apparently, half my face sawed off. For those of you who responded to the Poets and Writers (home of the world's most pretentious bio photos) classified ad, and couldn't handle recording yourselves, I'll be getting back to you in the order in which I find your original emails. Finally, cheer up: The world can't get any better. Comments[0] |
Fri, 2 November 2007 This week's show is a tribute to "writer's writer" (read: unread) Stanley Elkin,
the unsung John Coltrane of the novel. Also included: a collaboration between
Scott Schroen of Ugly Radio Rebellion and
myself. Comments[0] |
Sat, 27 October 2007 This week's guest is author Greggory Moore, a lifelong SoCal resident who lives in Long Beach. Also included is a special project from Scott Schroen of Ugly Radio Rebellion. Plus, plenty more non-narcotic fun. Comments[0] |
Sat, 20 October 2007 "Enjoy" the following works:
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Fri, 5 October 2007 ![]() This episode is brought to you by The National Coalition for Making All
Prescriptions Over-the-Counter.*
This episode is also packed with more dynamite than a suicide bomber. Along
with the very high jinks, listen to New Yorker Carol Novack's two
contribution. She is the author of a chapbook of poetry, a collaborative CD
and two collaborative films. Writings may or will be found in The Penguin Book
of Australian Women Poets, American Letters & Commentary, Action Yes,
Anemone Sidecar, Big Bridge, Del Sol Review, Diagram, First Intensity, 5_trope,
Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Knock, La Petite Zine, LIT, Milk,
Notre Dame Review, Otoliths, Salt Flats Annual, Salt River Review, Segue, and
other publications. Carol publishes and edits the multi-media e-journal Mad
Hatters' Review, runs a reading series at the famous KGB Bar, and teaches
lyrical fiction writing and performance reading. One of her fusions will appear
in the Star*Vigate anthology of the best on-line writing during the past 10
years. For additional details, see her blog and hear a few tracks from her CD
at myspace. Purchase the CD here. *Me. Comments[0] |
Thu, 27 September 2007 This week's guest is Frank Zappa tribute band Ugly Radio Rebellion, with more pyrotechnics than a mis-built meth lab.Also included is more evidence of your host's rise, decline, decline, rise, rise, decline, decline, decline, rise, decline, rise, and -- Comments[0] |
Fri, 21 September 2007 Laurie Frankel of LauriesLoveLogic.com returns for part two and the conclusion of her saga. Meanwhile, your host continues -- whatever it is he does. Listen for yourself and "enjoy."Comments[0] |
Sun, 16 September 2007 Part 1 of 2 from Laurie Frankel's serialized contribution. Published book author, literary writer and humorist, Laurie knows pain is the root of all comedy and is thrilled her life is so damn funny! Her work has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly and she was twice a finalist for Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award. Her book, It’s Not Me, It’s YOU! has been translated and is now in its third printing. This former east coast gal can be found saving the human race one love question at a time at LauriesLoveLogic.com.Comments[0] |
Sat, 8 September 2007 This week's guest, Kerry Langan, is a short fiction author living in Oberlin, Ohio. She has published more than three dozen short stories in literary magazines published in the United States, Canada and Hong Kong. Her work has appeared in American Literary Review, Story Quarterly, Cimarron Review, The Seattle Review, Phantasmagoria, Thema, Other Voices, and other publications. Her non-fiction has appeared in Working Mother. A selection of her published fiction appears at this site. Her short story, "Memphis, Tennessee," was originally published in Rosebud but was re-published in the online journal, Literary Mama.You can also hear my poem, Lunar Mission, as well as these songs and in this order: Rearview Mirror; Mother is the Necessity of Invention; Watershed; and Take It All. And you who've taken it all know who you are. Comments[0] |
Mon, 3 September 2007 This could be about the president, but it isn't. A TothWorld "Labor Day" (gee, thanks, that makes up for everything) Special. Comments[0] |
Sat, 1 September 2007 Find out everything there is to know about my new home, Sanibel, Florida, on my newest show, The Sanibel Podcast, and go here to listen to the first show.Comments[0] |
Thu, 30 August 2007 I Am a Tire and other surprises.Comments[0] |
Fri, 24 August 2007 The robot returns. Submissions sought. Authors with fiction or poetry published in online or print journals welcome. See this page for recording tips. Send a ten to fifteen minute recording as an .mp3 attachment to tothnews@aol.com with a bio as you would like to be introduced in the body of the message. Then, send a separate email with a photo (the larger and more square, the better) attached, or include a link to one. Comments[0] |
Thu, 16 August 2007 The TothWorld Robot is back as I wait for the Sopranos (Nationwide Moving -- do NOT hire no matter what the bid) to deliver my recording equipment.Comments[0] |
Fri, 10 August 2007 The TothWorld Robot reads two poems and introduces a song in lieu of my equipment arriving here in Sanibel, Florida.Comments[0] |
Sat, 4 August 2007 ![]() Along with Nathaniel G. Moore, look for the songs 15 mMurals, The
Poseidon Adventure, We Slept Alone, Together, and
Necessity Is the Invention of Mother, as well my poem Where Were
You?
Nathaniel G. Moore is the author of Let's Pretend We Never Met,
published this Spring by Pedlar Press in Toronto. His work has appeared in
magazines and journals across the country including Matrix, Canadian
Literature and Danforth Review where he is features editor. Today he will
be reading from his new poetry book, Let's Pretend We Never Met. Said
The Georgia Straight in a review: "Moore metaphysically transforms so
many literary genres into poetry and works so thoroughly through the most
everyday of concepts (love, that is) that the breadth of the work is
breathtaking." Comments[0] |
Sat, 28 July 2007 ![]() A little late but, hey, I'm moving, so get off my sun. This week's
show includes a new definition of the American economy, as well as the
songs Jackpot, But, and Thank you: We'll Stay Forever, plus the poem The Poseidon Adventure. The featured guest is Kenneth Pobo, who is fifty-two years old and grew up
in Illinois. He and his partner now live in Pennsylvania. Kenneth
teaches Creative Writing and English at Widener University in Chester,
Pennsylvania. His book, Glass Garden, will be published in 2008 by WordTech Press. He is the author of three other books and seven chapbooks. Check out Amazon.com to get his books or e-mail him. His work can be read online at: Forpoetry.com, Three Candles, Iddie, Centrifugal Eye, Loch Raven Review, and elsewhere. Catch Ken's radio show, Obscure Oldies, on Saturdays from 6-8pm EST at WDNR.com. Comments[0] |
Sat, 21 July 2007 This week's guest is Michelle Miller is a writer, poet and academic
currently living in small-town Ontario. Come August she will be moving
to Vancouver, where she will be attending the prestigious Master of
Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at UBC. She has had poetry,
fiction and non-fiction published in many local literary reviews, as
well as The Danforth Review and Black Heart Magazine.
One critic has praised Michelle as being "Like the London Anais Nin,
only more crass, or Marguerite Duras with cuss words or a more literary
version of mid-period Madonna without the bad electro background and
udo kier cameos," which Michelle takes as a mighty set of compliments.
Please feel free to creep her on the internet at this site. Also featured are the songs I'm Okay, I'm Okay, Everyone's a Killer, The World Revolves Around Me, There's No Feeling for this Word, and the poem You've Got to Move, Child. Comments[0] |
Sat, 14 July 2007 This week's show features several songs, a poem, and guest reader
Leslie Wolter. Leslie is an English instructor and English Specialist
at the East St. Louis campus of Southwestern Illinois College. Her work
has appeared in a variety of online and print sources, including Eclectica, Great Works, River Walk Journal, Prose Toad, and Miranda Literary Journal. She can be emailed here.Comments[0] |
Sat, 7 July 2007 ![]() Besides wonderful guest Richard Grayson, this week's show includes the
poems How Long Do You Plan to Hold That Knife
Above Me? and Amateur Biologist,
as well as the songs MILF and I'm Nothing Without You and Even Less With
You.
Richard Grayson is a retired lawyer and teacher who lives in Brooklyn and
Phoenix. His short stories have appeared in literary magazines and webzines
since 1975 and in book-length collections that include With Hitler in New York, I Survived Caracas Traffic, The Silicon Valley Diet, Highly Irregular Stories and And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer
Street. He is also the author of WRITE-IN: Diary of a Congressional
Candidate in Florida's Fourth Congressional District, an account of his 2004
campaign for a U.S. House seat that originally appeared online at McSweeney's. See his
website here. Comments[0] |
Sat, 30 June 2007 ![]() Prepare your ears for some massive volume variation due to audio problems beyond my control or, more accurately, understanding. Keep that finger on the volume button. This show includes my poem and accompanying song Air and Weight and One Day Old, the song Sheltering the Sky Beneath Me, a second poem entitled Dissonance Reduction, and, finally, the song I like Candlelit Beaches and Long Walks on the Dinner Table. Heather Fowler received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in May of 1997. She has published short stories in the following journals: See You Next Tuesday (2006), Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry (Winter 2006), The Muse Apprentice Guild (October 2002), Artisan, a Journal of Craft (September 2002), Literary PotPourri (May 2002), Exquisite Corpse (Summer 2001), The Barcelona Review (May, 2001), Quercus Review (May, 2001), Penumbra (May 2001), B & A New Fiction (Jan. 2001), Barbaric Yawp (Dec. 2000), Zoetrope All-Story Extra ( June 2001, October and December 1999), Mindkites (December 1999, and June 2000). She worked as a Guest Editor for Zoetrope All-Story Extra in March and April of 2000. Her story "Slut" won third prize at the 2000 California Writer's Conference in Monterey. Her poetry has been published in various venues including: the Map of Austin Poetry, The Coast Highway Review, The Driftwood Highway 1999 Anthology, Joe's Journal, Best of the Beach 1998, The Publication, and The Cityworks Literary Anthology, Volume 6. She is currently working on writing a second novel entitled Sex Angel, editing and compiling four books of short stories, and querying two screenplays and assorted other projects. Please feel free to email her. And check out her Myspace site here. Comments[0] |
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Tue, 19 June 2007 Organia: Eight Poems, Eight Videos and Eight Songs. $11.00 including shipping and handling. Order here. For a sneak preview, right-click this link and save file to desktop. Category: Blog entry -- posted at: 10:47 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 15 June 2007 And...we're back.Look forward to the songs Clouds Moving Fast Over a Plain, Collateral Circulation and Unsent Letter to Bill Frisell, as well as my poem Personal Computer. Also, don't forget to buy my novels, the profits of which will go towards purchasing several cells of an unspecified organ. This week's guest, Libby Fischer Hellman, writes the award-winning suspense series featuring video producer and single mother Ellie Foreman, who gets by with a wry sense of humor, a circle of good friends, and an occasional bottle of wine. Originally from Washington, D.C., Libby has lived in Chicago for 30 years and finds the contrast between the beautiful and the profane in that city a crime writer's paradise. Next up is Chicago Blues,a dark crime fiction anthology she's editing, which will be released in October by Bleak House Books (also my current my publisher). She also will be releasing a stand-alone PI novel some time in 2008 called Easy Innocence. Visit her website here. Comments[0] |
Sat, 2 June 2007 This week's show includes the songs Get Lost, Nothing Left to Do, and a cover of Gang of Four's 5:15. Also included is my poem Variations on a Conclusion in C Minor. This week's guest is Ayn Amorelli, a published sexy-romance writer of four books (with another on the way) who also writes gothics using the pen name of Ayn Hunt. Ms. Amorelli can be found in Hunt's Corner, hosting a writing chat, every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. EST in AOL's Chapter One chat room. Excerpts of all her books can be found at her Ayn Hunt site site and Ayn Amorelli site. Comments[0] |
Sat, 26 May 2007 Podcast #91 features a tribute to Georges Bataille, the songs The Knowable Truth and Raindogs, and my poem So You Want to Be a God? Also, a very special and fizzy surprise. This week's guest is Ursula Pflug, author of the novel, Green Music. (Tesseract Books,2002) Born in Tunis, she attended the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto after traveling widely. An internationally published, award winning short story writer, Pflug has published over fifty stories in journals and anthologies including Leviathan1 and 4, Album Zutique, The Nine Muses, On Spec, Now Magazine, Quarry, Herizons, The Best Of Strange Horizons, The Best of Leviathan and Album Zutique and many more. She writes about books regularly for The Peterborough Examiner, the New York Review of Science Fiction and other publications. Her experience in professional theatre includes several productions of her plays, either solo-authored or collectively written. Recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Works In Progress Award in 2005 to complete her new novel, Thin Wednesday, Pflug was short-listed for the KM Hunter Award the following year. She received a Canada Council grant in the current year for a novel length flash fiction project, in which each chapter will be precisely 500 words long. She teaches short fiction via the Continuing Education Program of Loyalist College. Her bibliography is posted on the ISFDB database. See her Myspace site here. Comments[0] |
Sat, 19 May 2007 This week includes the beginning of a blitzkrieg campaign to save my novel Fizz from undeserved obscurity. My other contribution is a tribute to my adolescent and adult psychiatrists, Talking Heads.This week's guests are the band Foyl and Tamara Williams-Przyjazna. Williams-Przyjazna is an accomplished actress, classically-trained musician, poet, and mother of daughter Gwendolyn, also known as Nugget. Her piece is entitled Travelogue. Foyl is an acoustic-based rock band featuring Paul Michael Audi, Robert Fiets, Brandon Hoffman, and Bob Hull. Their production company is Pavlov's Cellar Productions. Feel free to email the band. The two songs Foyl plays are What Is and Should Never Be and Half-Life. Comments[0] |
Sat, 12 May 2007 This week's guest, Wolf Larsen, is an adventurer, writer, and poet who traveled
through 45 countries in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Wolf
has lived in Chicago, Wisconsin, New York City, Honduras, Brazil, Peru, and
India. He worked for nearly twelve years as a seasonal laborer in Alaska. Wolf
has written five novels, six collections of poetry, a play, a screenplay, a
monologue, a multimedia work, a collection of short stories, and a 70,000 word
run-on sentence. He has been published in literary magazines around the world.
After you hear his poem, I think you, like I did, will say, "Wow." Click here to visit his website.The show also features my poem Gastronomy (since revised), plus the songs Junk is No Good Baby, Prodigal Son and Off the Coast of California. Comments[0] |
Sat, 5 May 2007 My guest this week, Steven Mayoff, is a writer living on Prince Edward
Island, Canada. His work has appeared in various Canadian magazines
such as the the Windsor Review,
Grain, Filling Station, Parchment, Pottersfield Portfolio, All Rights
Reserved, Grimm Magazine, the Malahat Review and the Puritan, as well as Terrain.org (USA), the Dublin Quarterly (Ireland) and the Arabesques Review (Algeria). If I do say so myself, it appears good company shares good places. The piece Steven reads originally appeared in Pottersfield Portfolio (Nova Scotia) 2003. See his website here.This show also includes the songs No One Receiving and Clocks, as well as a poem/song in the form of one of my monthly additive headline experiments, which may be read at The 2nd Hand. Comments[0] |
Sat, 28 April 2007 This week's guest, Nathan Leslie, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland. Nathan Leslie’s five
collections of short fiction include Believers (Pocol Press, 2006), Reverse Negative (Ravenna Press, 2006), and Drivers (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2005). Leslie’s work has appeared in over 100 literary magazines including Boulevard, Shenandoah, South Carolina Review, North American Review, and Cimarron Review. He is fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine and of The Potomac, and his book reviews and articles have been published in newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Kansas City Star, and The Orlando Sentinel. His reading includes pieces from Reverse Negative and Drivers, as well as his story The Coloring Book. Visit his website here.Also featured are the songs Leave Me Alone and I Am Drugs, along with the poem/song You Make Me Feel Like Chet Baker, the Later Years. Comments[0] |
Sat, 21 April 2007 Now audible!The file has been repaired. If you've already downloaded the original version, hit reload/refresh before saving the file. This week's guest, Benjamin M. LeRoy, is the publisher of Bleak House Books. Read his blog here. I engage the guest in an interview of great interest to writers and readers alike, since Ben is both a publisher and writer. This week's show also features the songs Ghetto Defendant and We're So Free, along with my poem Truck Bumper US-23. Comments[0] |
Sat, 14 April 2007 After graduating with an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the
University of Windsor, Dean Serravalle has published stories in The
Dalhousie Review, Lichen Literary Arts Preview, The Arabesques Review,
Zygote, The Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, Versal, Urban Graffiti,
Sputnik, Dime, In Posse Review, and The Del Sol Review.
Most recently, one of his stories was nominated for the prestigious
Journey Prize in Canada. At present, he is soliciting publishers for
his first collection of short stories entitled After The Last Dance, a novella entitled E-pill, and a first novel entitled Reliving Charley. Dean teaches secondary school English in Niagara Falls. This show also includes a bit from a blog, an Eno cover, and the song Peachy Keen. Comments[0] |

A revamped TothWorld Podcast. Distorted sounds for disoriented minds.
It's Prozac Paxil Cymbalta Effexor Zoloft time. Take 'em while you got 'em and chill to the sounds of the empire falling. It's all over now, blue babies.
This week, we check in with TothWorld favorite Jesse Loren. Jesse is co-editor of
Toth's novel #3,
This week's guest is Lina Ramona Vitkauskas. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Wright State University, is co-editor of online literary/visual arts magazine,
Guests: Dave and Lillian Brummet. Their websites include:
I finally reveal my true identity: the Jesus Christ of anger. Also featured: the corpse of E.E. Cummings, plus music and other poems.
Goodbye to the U.S.A., plus dead author Robert Frost.
This week's guest is author Gabriel Ogrease, with a very interesting piece and equally interesting commentary. The show also features one diatribe, several turtle doves, and plenty of quasi-music.
A tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., with a special piece by
Back with Steven Mayoff, only this time in the guise of his alter ego, 
The Confessions of Paul A. Toth, Part II (with only a pinch of madness).
Yes, we all have to learn our lessons and then...

This week's show includes a fabulous audio presentation by Jesse Loren, an MFA graduate of UNO. She studies poetry, gardens, and teaches high school journalism. Jesse is co-editor of
This week's show is a tribute to "writer's writer" (read: unread) Stanley Elkin,
the unsung John Coltrane of the novel. Also included: a collaboration between
Scott Schroen of
This week's guest is author Greggory Moore, a lifelong SoCal resident who lives in Long Beach.
"Enjoy" the following works:
Yes, it's 
This week's guest is Frank Zappa tribute band
Laurie Frankel of
Part 1 of 2 from Laurie Frankel's serialized contribution. Published book author, literary writer and humorist, Laurie knows pain is the root of all comedy and is thrilled her life is so damn funny! Her work has appeared in
This week's guest,
This could be about the president, but it isn't. A TothWorld "Labor Day" (gee, thanks, that makes up for
Find out everything there is to know about my new home, Sanibel, Florida, on my newest show, The Sanibel Podcast, and 
The robot returns.
The TothWorld Robot is back as I wait for the Sopranos (Nationwide Moving -- do NOT hire no matter what the bid) to deliver my recording equipment.
The TothWorld Robot reads two poems and introduces a song in lieu of my equipment arriving here in Sanibel, Florida.

This week's guest is Michelle Miller is a writer, poet and academic
currently living in small-town Ontario. Come August she will be moving
to Vancouver, where she will be attending the prestigious Master of
Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at UBC. She has had poetry,
fiction and non-fiction published in many local literary reviews, as
well as
This week's show features several songs, a poem, and guest reader
Leslie Wolter. Leslie is an English instructor and English Specialist
at the East St. Louis campus of Southwestern Illinois College. Her work
has appeared in a variety of online and print sources, including Eclectica, Great Works, River Walk Journal, Prose Toad, and Miranda Literary Journal. She can be 

Organia: Eight Poems, Eight Videos and Eight Songs. $11.00 including shipping and handling.
And...we're back.
This week's show includes the songs
Podcast #91 features a tribute to Georges Bataille, the songs
This week includes the beginning of a blitzkrieg campaign to save my novel
This week's guest, Wolf Larsen, is an adventurer, writer, and poet who traveled
through 45 countries in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Wolf
has lived in Chicago, Wisconsin, New York City, Honduras, Brazil, Peru, and
India. He worked for nearly twelve years as a seasonal laborer in Alaska. Wolf
has written five novels, six collections of poetry, a play, a screenplay, a
monologue, a multimedia work, a collection of short stories, and a 70,000 word
run-on sentence. He has been published in literary magazines around the world.
After you hear his poem, I think you, like I did, will say, "Wow." Click
My guest this week, Steven Mayoff, is a writer living on Prince Edward
Island, Canada. His work has appeared in various Canadian magazines
such as the the Windsor Review,
Grain, Filling Station, Parchment, Pottersfield Portfolio, All Rights
Reserved, Grimm Magazine, the Malahat Review and the Puritan, as well as Terrain.org (USA), the Dublin Quarterly (Ireland) and the Arabesques Review (Algeria). If I do say so myself, it appears good company shares good places. The piece Steven reads originally appeared in Pottersfield Portfolio (Nova Scotia) 2003. See his website
This week's guest, Nathan Leslie, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland. Nathan Leslie’s five
collections of short fiction include 
After graduating with an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the
University of Windsor, Dean Serravalle has published stories in 