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24Feb/23

Matthew Clark Davison

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February 24, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 8: Matthew Clark Davison + our “The World to Come” review!

Matthew Clark Davison, author of Doubting Thomas and the upcoming The Lab: Experiments in Working Across Genre, joins us to discuss the way his novel explores the sometimes daily fears LGBTQA+ folks STILL feel while at work and among well-meaning family. Then Liz Faraim joins us to review The World to Come!

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Matthew Clark Davison is the author of Doubting Thomas and creator of The Lab :: Writing Classes with MCD, and his textbook The Lab, Experiments in Writing Across Genre, co-authored by bestselling writer Alice LaPlante, is due out in 2023. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews and 580-Split; as well as published in or on Guernica, The Atlantic Monthly, Foglifter, Lumina Magazine, Fourteen Hills, Per Contra, Educe, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant, Cultural Equities Grant, Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and a Stonewall Alumni Award.

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17Feb/23

Liz Faraim

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February 10, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 7: Liz Faraim + our “Tell It to the Bees” review!

Liz Faraim, our guest reviewer this month AND author of the Vivian Chastain series (Canopy, Stitches and Sepsis, Concussion and Contentment) shares her upcoming novels, then helps us review Tell It to the Bees, and shares what won her week!

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Liz Faraim is a recovering workaholic who has mastered multi-tasking, including balancing a day job, solo parenting, writing, and finding some semblance of a social life. In past lives she has been a soldier, a bartender, a shoe salesperson, an assistant museum curator, and even a driving instructor.

Liz writes contemporary fiction that highlights queer characters and often includes complex polyamorous relationships. Her writing has a hefty dose of soul searching and emotional turmoil while also taking the reader on fun adventures. She loves spending time in nature and does her best to share nature with her readers.

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October 23, 2020

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Liz Faraim as the guest on Episode 2919 – It Takes Some Time!

Liz Faraim joins us for her first interview ever! We discuss the first book in her series, Canopy, due Oct 26 from NineStar Press. Come find out what Liz’s debut novel is all about and what the she has planned for the rest of the series.

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Liz Faraim is a recovering workaholic who has mastered multi-tasking, including balancing a day job, solo parenting, writing, and finding some semblance of a social life. In past lives she has been a soldier, a bartender, a shoe salesperson, an assistant museum curator, and even a driving instructor.

Liz writes contemporary fiction that highlights queer characters and often includes complex polyamorous relationships. Her writing has a hefty dose of soul searching and emotional turmoil while also taking the reader on fun adventures. She loves spending time in nature and does her best to share nature with her readers.

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10Feb/23

Annie Krabbenschmidt

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February 10, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 6: Annie Krabbenschmidt + our “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” review!

Annie Krabbenschmidt, author of Fred: An unbecoming woman, joins us to discuss a lifetime of coming out, identity, acceptance, and media influence. Then Liz Faraim joins us to review Portrait of a Lady on Fire!

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Annie (she/they) is living in their native San Francisco. She teaches 10th grade English and her debut book came out this spring.

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03Feb/23

Melanie Mitzner

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February 3, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 5: Melanie Mitzner + our “Everything Everywhere All at Once” review!

Melanie Mitzner, author of the novel Slow Reveal, joins us to discuss building intimacy and trust in relationships and how that mirrors art, as well as capturing the 90s and NYC in her novel. She even reads a powerful 2-minute excerpt. Then Liz Faraim joins us to review Everything Everywhere All at Once!

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Slow Reveal was published by York University’s Inanna Publications in May 2022, a Best of Women’s Fiction Debut 2022 and Fiction Bestseller at Berkeley distributor SPD Books. An excerpt of her novel Too Good To Be True was published in the Harrington Lesbian Quarterly. Her screenplay Zero Gravity was awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship. A finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships for her screenplay Dodge and Burn, her screenplays In The Name of Love and Out to Lunch were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. She received a fellowship from M.E.T. Theater and was awarded fiction grants from Vermont Studio Center and Summer Literary Seminars. As a journalist, she covered the tech industry, television production and visual effects. Her recent work appears in Wine Spectator, Gay and Lesbian Review,Vol1Brooklyn, Bloom and San Francisco Bay Times. Interviews and excerpts are on Open-Book, Rainbow Country radio show syndicated and podcast across Canada, Glad Day Bookshop TV and Hasty Booklist.

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27Jan/23

Josh Bookman

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January 27, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 4: Josh Bookman + Sense8 review part 4!

Josh Bookman, author of the novel to: all the friends I killed, joins us to discuss the millennial experience regarding contemporary loneliness when friends pair off and move on, as well as the postponement of traditional benchmarks. Then Albert Nothlit returns for the final part of our review of Sense8’s first season!

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Joshua Kent Bookman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and reformed by life and work in Sweden, France, and Italy.

He has studied songwriting at Berklee College of Music, as well as languages at the Middlebury Italian School, Syracuse University, Alliance Française, and Folkuniversitetet. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University and M.F.A. from ArtCenter College of Design.

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13Jan/23

Emmett Patterson

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January 13, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 2: Emmett Patterson + Sense8 review part 2!

Emmett Patterson, contributing author to Crisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic joins us to discuss the LGBTQ, racial, and disability healthcare challenges that the recent pandemic highlighted. Then Albert Nothlit returns for part 2 of our review of Sense8’s first season!

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Emmett Patterson is a longtime queer & trans health activist, project manager, and writer. He takes a global, community-centered approach to his work, having organized with activists in the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the United States. Emmett studied Public Health and Gender & Sexuality Studies at American University and earned a graduate certificate in LGBT Healthy Policy & Practice at The George Washington University. He attributes his commitment to sexual health and liberation for himself and others to the wisdom of a lineage of HIV and AIDS, racial justice, and disability justice activists.

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06Jan/23

Dr. JJ Kelly

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January 6, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 1: Dr. JJ Kelly on Emotional Intelligence!

Dr. JJ Kelly, founder of UnorthoDocs Inc., helps us kick off the New Year by sharing her HOLY SH*T series, and educating us on her no-nonsense approach to emotional intelligence, which in turns can facilitate creativity and joy!

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After 16 years of passionately working in the current system of the mental health profession and seeing the systemic sexism, racism, homophobia, ableism, narcissism and elitism…Dr. JJ Kelly wanted nothing more than to burn it all down.

Instead, she decided to redirect her outrage into building something new based on love, laughter, and teaching emotional intelligence – because she believes that global healing is achieved by teaching people the skills to like themselves, or as she always says, “Happy people act right.”

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30Dec/22

2022 Yearly Wrap-up

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December 30, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 52: 2022 Yearly Wrap-up + Our Review of The Christmas House 2!

M.D. Neu helps us close out the year by reviewing The Christmas House 2! We share our honorable mention films, and discuss plans for the year to come! Happy New Year from us to you!

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M.D. Neu is an inclusive, international award-winning Gay fiction writer with a love for writing and travel. Living in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California) and growing up around technology, he’s always been fascinated with what could be.

Growing up in an accepting family as a gay man, he always wondered why there were never stories reflecting who he was. Constantly surrounded by characters that only reflected heterosexual society, M.D. Neu decided he wanted to change that. So, he took to writing, wanting to tell good stories that reflected our diverse world.

When M.D. Neu isn’t writing, he works for a nonprofit and travels with his biggest supporter and his harshest critic, Eric, his husband of twenty plus years.

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16Dec/22

Faith Mosley

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December 16, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 50: Faith Mosley + Our Review of Happiest Season!

Faith Mosley shares her debut novel, Sky Court, which leads to talk about the importance of seeing ourselves reflected in fiction. Then M.D. Neu joins us to review Happiest Season!

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Faith Mosley’s previous works have been included in the short story anthology Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction (BLF Press, 2016). She now lives in Central New Mexico, where she has spent the past couple of years converting a small school bus into a tiny house on wheels.

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02Dec/22

Gary Eldon Peter

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December 2, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 48: Gary Eldon Peter + Our Review of Matteo Lane’s The Advice Special!

Gary Eldon Peter shares his award-winning YA novel, The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen, which leads us to talking about the importance of young adult literature. Then Baz & Vance review Matteo Lane’s The Advice Special and share who won their weeks.

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Gary Eldon Peter’s short stories have been appearing in publications, winning awards, and even performed on NPR to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. His debut novel continues this trend, having won the Acheven Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction and just this week made NPR’s 2022 list of Young Adult Books We Love! Having been awarded many artist residencies, Gary currently teaches courses in writing, law and popular culture, and the future of work and technology at the University of Minnesota.

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