Nick Rossi, cofounder and editor of Sobotka Literary Magazine and Ursus Americanus Press, joins us to talk about why we write, the way art shapes community, and even those words we're never sure how to pronounce.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Berenice Abbott, Two children at the Harlem Community Arts Center in 1939 (cropped). Public doman image courtesy New York Public Library and Wikimedia Commons.
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Eric Benick
CM Burroughs
"Dear Incubator"
Italo Calvino
Emily Capers
In Between My Bodies
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forvo
Christopher Gilbert
Across the Mutual Landscape
Christopher Gilbert
"Listening to Monk's Misterioso"
Featured in Roger Reeves, "The Uses of Memory"
Nikolai Gogol
Roy Jacobsen
Borders
Franz Kafka
The Trial
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
Rupi Kaur
Chris Kraus
Long Day Press
Plato
Phaedrus
Plato
Symposium
Daniel Pujol
Sobotka Literary Magazine
Sherry Turkle
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Ursus Americanus Press
Kurt Vonnegut
William Carlos Williams
