​NYC / WV — Scott McClanahan (b. 1978) is the author of eight books: Stories (2008), Stories II (2009), Stories V! (2011), The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1 (2012), Crapalachia (2013, Two Dollar Radio), Hill William (2013, Tyrant Books), The Incantations of Daniel Johnston (2016, Two Dollar Radio), and The Sarah Book (2017, Tyrant Books), which NPR called "brave, triumphant and beautiful." It is. They also said "it reads like a fever dream, and it feels like a miracle." It fkn does. 
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Sarah Book excerpt (2017)

​Very grateful to Scott for a taking a sec to riff one time.

Listen on iTunes  /  1 hr 5 min  /  July 31 

UPSTATE NY–HARLEM — Nicola Maye Goldberg is the author of the novella Other Women (Sad Spell, 2016), the chapbook The Doll Factory (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), and, most recently, the novel Nothing Can Hurt You (Bloomsbury, 2020). Cop here. 

Or here.

​Shout out Rebecca Godfrey, author of The Torn Skirt  (2001) and Under the Bridge (2005), for connecting me to Nicola's writing.

Nicola's website.
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Listen on Apple Podcasts  /  1 hr 7 min  /  July 9