by tenderbuttonspodcast
A Bristol-based podcast chatting to writers and artists about their ideas, process and politics đ hosted by Jessica Andrews and Jack Young. With Storysmith bookshop, Bristol. https://storysmithbooks.com Follow us on Twitter @buttons_tender and Instagram @tenderbuttonspodcast
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October 6, 2024
<p>In this episode, we speak to acclaimed poet and novelist Garth Greenwell about his latest novel, Small Rain. We speak about chambers of mind and body within the architecture of the novel, and touch as something with the power to both connect us with and alienate us from our animal corporeality. We explore the embodied nature of syntax in Garth's work, and the ways in which pain can shatter this. We question the 'arts of living' and discuss the necessity of uncertainty and contradictions within fiction, and the importance of sitting with discomfort. We speak about civility, neighbourliness, political division and the myriad ways in which our lives are dependent on others.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>Garth Greenwell is the author of <em>Cleanness </em>and <em>What Belongs to You, </em>which<em> </em>won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> Book Prize. A <em>New York Times Book Review </em>Editorsâ Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His novella <em>Mitko</em> won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. His fiction has appeared in the<em> New Yorker, </em>the<em> Paris Review</em>, <em>A Public Space, </em>and <em>VICE</em>, and he has written criticism for the <em>New Yorker</em>, the <em>London Review of Books</em>, and the <em>New York Times Book Review</em>, among others. He lives in Iowa City.</p> <p><br /></p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/garth-greenwell/small-rain/9781509874699" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Small Rain</a> by Garth Greenwell</p> <p><a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/garth-greenwell/cleanness/9781509874675" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Cleanness</a> by Garth Greenwell</p> <p><a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/garth-greenwell/what-belongs-to-you/9781447280521" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">What Belongs to You</a> by Garth Greenwell</p> <p><a href="https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/IntroducingMyself.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Introducing Myself</a> by Ursula K. Le Guin</p> <p><br /></p> <p>Visit Storysmith for 10% discount on Garth's work.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>This conversation was recorded in person at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/albatrosscafebristol/?hl=en-gb" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Albatross CafĂ© </a>in Bristol. </p>
September 5, 2024
<p>This is a special live episode, hosted at Storysmith to mark the launch of Strange Relations by Ralf Webb.</p> <p><br></p> <p>We think about the contemporary crisis in masculinity through the lives and work of mid-century American writers John Cheever, Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, considering how their legacies might inform the current moment. We speak about the censorship of radical elements of these writers' work, including elements of their politics, queerness and intimacy, and consider the role of their interpersonal and intertextual relationships in understanding their work. We speak about what it means to reclaim space in the canon and expanding terms such as bisexuality, as well as notions of boyishness. We discuss the relationship between poetry and prose, the use of novelistic techniques in non-fiction and the ethical responsibility involved in writing about well-known literary figures.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Ralf Webb</strong> is a poet, writer and editor based in Bristol. His debut collection of poems, <em>Rotten Days in Late Summer </em>was published by Penguin in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. Webbâs poetry and critical writing has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Fantastic Man, and The Poetry Review. He currently manages a creative writing mentorship programme in collaboration with Folio and First Story, which supports school-age writers from low-income backgrounds.</p> <p><br><strong>References</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ralf-webb/strange-relations/9781399713238/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Strange Relations</a> by Ralf Webb</p> <p><a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/153062/ralf-webb?tab=penguin-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Late Days in Rotten Summer </a>by Ralf Webb</p> <p><a href="https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/warped-pastoral/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Warped Pastoral: </a>Ralf Webb and Sam Buchan-Watts in conversation</p> <p><br></p> <p>Visit <a href="https://storysmithbooks.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Storysmith</a> for 10% discount on Ralf's work.</p>
July 28, 2024
<p>In this episode, we speak to author, translator and musician Jen Calleja about her inventive novel, Vehicle. We discuss what it means to write a verse novel and the politics of translation. We discuss the use of archive and the ways in which experimental writing can meet transformative politics and possibilities. We speak about bringing the energy and ethos of DIY punk to the novel and the literary world more generally, through the importance of radical independent publishing and the role of collective writing, as well as the dangers of censorship within the arts.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Jen Calleja</strong> is a poet, short story writer and essayist who has been widely published, including in <em>The White Review</em>, <em>The London Magazine</em>, and <em>Best British Short Stories</em> (Salt). She was awarded an Authorsâ Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors to work on <em>Vehicle</em>, and was shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize for an excerpt from the novel. She was also longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experimentation in Text. Prototype published her short story collection <a href="https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/im-afraid-thats-all-weve-got-time-for/"><em>Iâm Afraid Thatâs All Weâve Got Time For</em></a> in 2020.</p> <p><br></p> <p>She has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize as a literary translator from German into English and was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Calleja played and toured in the DIY punk bands Sauna Youth, Feature, Monotony, Gold Foil and Mind Jail spanning a period of over a decade as both a drummer and a vocalist.</p> <p><br></p> <p>She is also a publisher at <a href="https://www.praspar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Praspar Press.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p><a href="https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/vehicle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><em>Vehicle</em> </a>by Jen Calleja</p> <p><a href="https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/im-afraid-thats-all-weve-got-time-for/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><em>I'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For </em></a>by Jen Calleja</p> <p><a href="https://roughtradebooks.com/products/goblins-jen-calleja-rachel-louise-hodgson?variant=36541353918617" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><em>GOBLINS </em></a>by Jen Calleja and Rachel Louise Hodgson</p> <p><a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em></a><em> </em>by Claudia Rankine</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/15/marlowe-papers-ros-barber-review" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Marlowe Papers</a> by Ros Barber </p> <p><br></p> <p>Visit <a href="https://storysmithbooks.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Storysmith</a> for 10% discount on Jen's work.</p>
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A Bristol-based podcast chatting to writers and artists about their ideas, process and politics đ hosted by Jessica Andrews and Jack Young.
With Storysmith bookshop, Bristol. https://storysmithbooks.com
Follow us on Twitter @buttons_tender and Instagram @tenderbuttonspodcast
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