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The Air/Light Podcast

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by Air/Light Editors, David L. Ulin, Aaron Winslow

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Conversations and interviews with the best of contemporary literature. Produced in Los Angeles, The Air/Light Podcast brings you literature from a Southern California perspective. This is the official podcast of Air/Light, an online literary journal published by the English Department at the University of Southern California. We showcase both traditional and innovative works. We are firmly of the West Coast, but also national, international. We mean to look out expansively from this place rather than to gaze narrowly back at it, to express a West Coast aesthetic, a West Coast sensibility, and direct that lens onto the world. If you like what you hear, check out the magazine online at https://airlightmagazine.org/

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April 19, 2022

Christos Ikonomou and Karen Emmerich Interviewed by David L. Ulin

In this essay, Air/Light editor David L. Ulin talks with Christos Ikonomou and Karen Emmerich about writing and translation, particularly Ikonomou’s story “A Dreadful Consolation,” which appears in Air/Light this week. Ikonomou is among Greece’s pre-eminent contemporary fiction writers, the author of four collections of short stories, including “Something Will Happen, You’ll See” and “Good Will Come From the Sea,” both of which Emmerich has translated into English. Emmerich is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton, and a translator of modern Greek poetry and prose. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2010. Ikonomou will be the inaugural recipient of the Chowdhury Prize in Literature, a new annual international mid-career prize for writers, presented at the University of Southern California through the auspices of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation and in collaboration with Kenyon College and The Kenyon Review. The prize seeks to identify authors who are at an inflection point, with a body of work already behind them, but also with significant future potential. It is this future work the prize means to encourage; it is not a retrospective award but rather one that is intended to actively assist writers on the creative cusp to push ahead into new territories. Ikonomou, Emmerich, and Ulin spoke together on a Zoom call from three different time zones: Athens, New York, and Los Angeles.

December 21, 2021

Vickie Vértiz and Alex Espinoza

We're thrilled to welcome two powerhouses of Los Angeles literature onto The Air/Light Podcast. Vickie Vértiz and Alex Espinoza were both born and raised in Los Angeles, and they also make the city, its people, and its communities the center of their poetry and fiction. Vickie and Alex use their writing as both a means of artistic expression and as a process of social justice, helping to redraw the cognitive maps of Los Angeles, to orient them toward a more equal city and society. Vickie and Alex are public writers in the sense that they do so much more than write: they are also teachers, activists, and organizers. Vickie Vértiz is a native Angelena and the oldest child of an immigrant Mexican family. Her poetry and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, KCET Departures, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her book Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut (University of Arizona Press) won the 2018 PEN America Literary Prize in poetry. A VONA, Macondo, and CantoMundo Fellow, she teaches at UC Santa Barbara. Alex Espinoza earned his MFA from UC Irvine and is the author of the novels Still Water Saints (Random House) and The Five Acts of Diego León (Random House). His most recent book is Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime (Unnamed Press). He’s written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, and NPR’s All Things Considered. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, as well as an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, he is the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside. In our conversation, we discuss the history and present of literature in Southern California, how art intersects with community, and more. And keep listening after the closing theme music to hear Vickie and Alex reading from new work. We hope you enjoy the episode!

November 22, 2021

Lilliam Rivera & Mark Haber

We are thrilled and delighted to have Lilliam Rivera and Mark Haber join us. Lilliam’s story, “The Undercurrent,” was published in Issue 1 of Air/Light and Mark’s story “Tegucigalpa” published in Issue 3. Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of children’s books, including the young adult novel Never Look Back (Bloomsbury). Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Elle. A Bronx, New York native, she now lives in Los Angeles. Lilliam’s latest book, WE LIGHT UP THE SKY, came out on October 26 to critical acclaim. Mark Haber’s collection of stories, Deathbed Conversions, was translated into Spanish in a bilingual edition as Melville’s Beard by Editorial Argonáutica. His debut novel, Reinhardt’s Garden (Coffee House Press), was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, will also be published by Coffee House Press in May 2022. He is the operations manager and a bookseller at Brazos Bookstore in Houston, Texas. In this wide ranging conversation, I talked to Lilliam and Mark about how they create characters, horror and genre fiction, literary influences, sacrifices to Slender Man, and, of course, books.

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What is The Air/Light Podcast?: Conversations and interviews with the best of contemporary literature. Produced in Los Angeles, The Air/Light Podcast brings you literature from a Southern California perspective.

This is the official podcast of Air/Light, an online literary journal published by the English Department at the University of Southern California. We showcase both traditional and innovative works. We are firmly of the West Coast, but also national, international. We mean to look out expansively from this place rather than to gaze narrowly back at it, to express a West Coast aesthetic, a West Coast sensibility, and direct that lens onto the world.

If you like what you hear, check out the magazine online at https://airlightmagazine.org/
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

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