A discursive cultural criticism podcast from Post45: Contemporaries, responding to and exploring the clusters of writing we publish at https://post45.org/contemporaries/.
Find Contemporaries on Twitter @AtPost45.
Francisco Robles interviews Blake Stricklin, Y Howard, Kirin Wachter-Grene, Rebekah Sheldon, and Christopher Breu about Samuel R. Delany's Improbable Communities, exploring its themes and impact.
18 Nov 2024
Episode 20: Suspicion
Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles and contributors Eleanor Russell, Olivia Stowell, Sheera Talpaz, and Samuel Catlin dissect the complexities of Suspicion in a cluster of thought-provoking essays.
17 Oct 2024
Episode 19: American Bimbo
Welcome back to another episode of Pod45, the podcast companion to Post45: Contemporaries, with your host Michael Docherty.
Today’s discussion responds to our recent cluster American Bimbo. Joining Michael in a conversation about the enduring potency and complexity of the bimbo as an American cultural figure, celebrity and media in the 2000s, and more recent hyperonline reclamations and revisions of bimbodom, are Emmeline Clein, who edited the cluster, and two of its fantastic contributors – Rax King and Rob Franklin.
Read American Bimbo now at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/american-bimbo (https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/american-bimbo/), where you can also find hundreds more incisive and insightful essays on contemporary literature and culture.
Emmeline Clein (emmelineclein.net (https://emmelineclein.net/); @emmelclein) is the author of Dead Weight (2024).
Rax King (raxkingisdead.com (https://raxkingisdead.com); @raxkingisdead)is the author of Tacky (2021) and the forthcoming Sloppy (2025).
Rob Franklin (robert-michael-franklin.com (https://www.robert-michael-franklin.com/); @robfrank__) is the author of the forthcoming Great Black Hope (2025).
Michael Docherty (michaeldocherty.co.uk (https://michaeldocherty.co.uk/); @maybeavalon) is the author of The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles (2024).
This episode was written, produced, and engineered by Michael Docherty for Post45.
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