The TothWorld Podcast

This week's guest author is Randall Brown, a teacher who lives outside of Philadelphia with his wife Meg, a cabaret singer, and their two children. He is a Pushcart nominee, a fiction editor with SmokeLong Quarterly, and on the editorial board of Philadelphia Stories. He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College and a BA from Tufts University. His stories, poems, and essays have been published widely, with recent work appearing or forthcoming in Clackamas Literary Review, Del Sol Review, Cairn, The Saint Ann's Review, and Connecticut Review.  He is currently working on a short short collection, Mad To Live.  Check out Randall's blog here. Also, the songs Time to Crash, Headway, Having Said That, and Music for Listening to Music in Airports.

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The TothWorld Podcast welcomes Kevin Sampsell, author of many small books, including The Patricia Letters, A Common Pornography, Etiquette For Evil (illustrated by Ivan Brunetti), and Beautiful Blemish (2005 Word Riot Press). His next book, The Suitcase, will be a collection of non-fiction from Chiasmus Press in 2007. He's also the editor The Insomniac Reader (Manic D Press) and the publisher of Future Tense Books. Other Kevin Sampsell stories can be read at Nerve, Elimae, Failbetter*, and Powell's Blog entries. He lives in Portland, Oregon where his day job is working at Powell's Books. He also writes book-related articles for Associated Press and performs in a haiku group called Haiku Inferno. Episode #64 also features two songs, Holy Ghosts and 'Cause We Uh, plus my story Chet's Book of Sins. Finally, a special mystery appearance.

This week, the podcast showcases author Kim Chinquee, whose fiction has appeared in Noon, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Fiction International, Notre Dame Review, The Pushcart Prize 31: Best of the Small Presses, and other journals. She teaches creative writing at Central Michigan University. Access Kim's blog here. Other segments include the song I Can Fly and one Toth story, My Eye.

Windsor, Ontario-based poet, novelist, photographer, and journalist Robert Earl Stewart reads a cycle of poems detailing his experiences during the extended illness and recent death of his mother.  Robert has been published by Monday Night, The Quarterly Staple (click on TQS #2), Nth Position, and Poetry Superhighway. Don't miss this poignant episode.

The day nears. Paralyze Bush. Take back his Congress and political capital. Not to be confused with the regular-edition podcast, to be published tonight or tomorrow morning and featuring TothWorld favorite Robert Earl Stewart.

Until then, remember: Anger is an energy. Use it.