Fiction Collective 2 is a non-profit author-run publisher of innovative fiction, a literary alternative since 1974. Each week we bring you a short story from the FC2 archive and a conversation between the author and a guest.
Fiction Transmission
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Fiction Collective 2 is a non-profit author-run publisher of innovative fiction, a literary alternative since 1974. Each week we bring you a short story from the FC2 archive and a conversation between the author and a guest.
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July 9, 2021
"Dissolving Newspaper, Fermenting Leaves," with Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi and Joanna Ruocco
<p>"Dissolving Newspaper, Fermenting Leaves," by <a href="http://www.kiikak.com/">Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi</a>, from <a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/araki-kawaguchi/#kane">The Book of Kane and Margaret</a>, published by FC2 in 2020. Read by <a href="https://tantor.com/narrator/madeleine-lambert.html" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Madeleine Lambert</a>. In the second part of the program, Kiik is joined by writer and FC2 Editorial Board Chair <a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/ruocco/">Joanna Ruocco</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.kiikak.com/">Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi</a> writes dreampop speculative fictions and darkwave minimalist poetry that can be enjoyed on a bus ride or in line for coffee. All his best stories have something to do with talking insects. His best poems are X-Men fan fiction. In addition to The Book of Kane and Margaret, he is the author of Disintegration Made Plain and Easy, forthcoming from <a href="https://www.journal1913.org/">1913 Press</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/ruocco/">Joanna Ruocco</a> lives among the fig trees in North Carolina, where she teaches in the English department at Wake Forest University. She is the author of numerous novels and stories, including <a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/ruocco/#anothergoverness">Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych</a>, winner of FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. She writes commercial romance as <a href="https://www.joannalowell.com/">Joanna Lowell</a>. Since 2018 she has served as Chair of FC2's Editorial Board.</p>
July 2, 2021
"The Secret of Chloe the Dog," with Angela Buck and Curtis White
<p>"The Secret of Chloe the Dog," by <a href="https://angela-buck.com/">Angela Buck</a>, from her collection <a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/buck/#horses">Horses Dream of Money</a>, published by FC2 in 2021. Read by <a href="https://tantor.com/narrator/madeleine-lambert.html">Madeleine Lambert</a>. In the second part of the program, Angela is joined by writer, social critic, and FC2 co-founder <a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/white/">Curtis White</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://angela-buck.com/">Angela Buck</a> has worked in hotels, hospitals, libraries, grocery stores, restaurants, bookstores, schools, amusement parks, museums, and universities. Her first book, <a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/buck/#horses">Horses Dream of Money</a>, was a finalist for the <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/awp_award_series_previous_winners/2019">AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction</a> and was published in 2021 by FC2. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts—Amherst and a PhD in English from the University of Denver. She is Assistant Professor of English at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.</p> <p><a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/white/">Curtis White</a> was born in San Lorenzo, California, a little pre-fab paradise for veterans of World War II. He published his first book of fiction, <a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/white/#heretical">Heretical Songs</a>, with the Fiction Collective in 1980. In the winter of 1989, with Ronald Sukenick and others, he reorganized the Fiction Collective as FC2, a non-profit, author-run press under a governing Board of Directors, with Sukenick as Board Chair and White as Managing Director. He stepped down from his position as Managing Director in 1999. He is the author of fifteen books, including both fiction and social criticism, most recently <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611300/living-in-a-world-that-cant-be-fixed-by-curtis-white/">Living in a World that Can't Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today</a>.</p>
June 25, 2021
"My Horse," with Stacey Levine and Evelyn Hampton
<p>"My Horse," by <a href="https://www.staceylevine.net/">Stacey Levine</a>, from the anthology <a href="https://www.fc2.org/anthologies/illuminated-history-of-the-future/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">An Illuminated History of the Future</a>, edited by Curtis White and published by FC2 in 1989 — reprinted in <a href="https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?mtype=B&keyword=levine+my+horse&hs.x=0&hs.y=0">My Horse and Other Stories</a>, from Sun and Moon Press. Read by <a href="https://tantor.com/narrator/barry-press.html" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Barry Press</a>. In the second part of the program, Stacey is joined by writer <a href="http://www.lispservice.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Evelyn Hampton</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.staceylevine.net/bio">Stacey Levine</a> is the author of four books of fiction. Her story collection The Girl with Brown Fur, which was longlisted for The Story Prize, was also shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award in 2012. Her novel Frances Johnson was shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award in 2005, and her collection My Horse and Other Stories won a PEN/West Fiction Award. My Horse and Levine’s novel Dra— were published by the much-lauded Los Angeles-based Sun & Moon Press. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Levine received a Stranger Genius Award for Literature in 2009, and her fiction has been translated for Japanese and Danish publications.</p> <p><a href="http://www.lispservice.com/">Evelyn Hampton</a> is the author of Discomfort, The Aleatory Abyss, and the chapbooks MADAM, Seven Touches of Music, and We Were Eternal and Gigantic. Her collection <a href="https://www.fc2.org/authors/hampton/#famouschildren">Famous Children and Famished Adults</a> won FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. An excerpt from her novella <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5effb8c71fa3ef50d9689d3e/t/602dceea855fc5303348f971/1613614827286/Evelyn+Hampton+From+an+untitled+manuscript.pdf">Billy Material</a> can be found at Blazing Stadium. She lives in Denver.</p>
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