The TothWorld Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.