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 To honor possibly our dearest friend of the show, and literary dad, <a target="_blank" href="http://ddstevenson.blogspot.com/">D. Stevenson</a>, the Wordsworthing crew dug into <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/strangler-bob">Strangler Bob by Denis Johnson</a> as published in our favorite magazine (to shred), The New Yorker.&nbsp; There was talk about fate vs choice, rolling for luck, hella-craft, and the inevitability that sometimes a story will goes sideways.&nbsp; Ben, Dan, and <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Strangler-Bob-NDD.pdf">Nick</a> all took notes for your pleasure.&nbsp;Also, a lot of our side jokes were left in this time which we think you'll enjoy.&nbsp; But what do we know about what anyone would enjoy.&nbsp; Other than alcohol.&nbsp; And us.&nbsp; We feel that we would enjoy some alcohol right about now.Castmate Ben then regaled us with a Saunders-esque, techno satire, snap edit fiction which Dan and Nick enjoyed.&nbsp; NPCs were mentioned.As the booze wound on, the crew found themselves debating what living was and is, through sensory stimulation (specifically via mega cold water submerging followed by extreme hot water submerging).&nbsp; Then we wound the show up, thereafter continuing deep into the substances and the night, such that at one point Castmate Nick was asleep on his bed, headphones still on, only to wake to his fellow Castmates shouting "Nick!&nbsp; Wake up!"&nbsp; This, of course, was unrecorded.&nbsp; After Castmate Nick awakened, they still kept on into the night, reaching for something they knew was unattainable:&nbsp; peace.Castmate Nick























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Strangler Bob

In this episode, we drink and rant about Denis Johnson's Strangler Bob as published in The New Yorker.  See more at wordsworthing.com.

Episode 9:  Strangler Bob

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 Oh, it’s Episode 8, the one where we don’t eviscerate Amy Hempel’s “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” (<a target="_blank" href="http://fictionaut.com/stories/amy-hempel/in-the-cemetery-where-al-jolson-is-buried.pdf">READ IT PEOPLE</a>), and it’s tight. I mean <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaj7FNHnjQ">mammy</a>-TIGHT.LO-FI as fuck, but tight.Here at WW, we don’t stand on pretenses or technological skill. We flounder about the internets.com with the mic’s and the mic stands and the pop filters and the, uh, gain knob and such bobs and bits, and we make a thing. This time, we made a thing in front of an audience of willing listeners, corralled into Admin 148 on the verdant campus of the Universidad de Alaska a Anchorage. Jo Ann Beard was there! Ulysses was there! Nick was in the other room. And peripatetic caster Hunter joined, in the flesh, to drop Cackylacky wisdoms on your ass.The point is, content quality: high; production value; low. Close your eyes. Pretend you’re there.&nbsp;Hear the people shuffling papers, clearing throats, talking to babies. Hear the whispered awe, and hear Brett’s phone ring, right there, in the middle of the cast, like phones can’t be silenced. And, sincerely, shut the fuck up about the audio, already.Spoiler alert: We LIKED Hempel’s piece. NO SHOTGUNS! Read it. <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/in-the-cemetery-where-al-jolson-is-buried-nddcomments.pdf">Nick</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Bens-Snap-Edits-glsd.jpg">Ben</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Hunter-Story.jpg">Hunter </a>and <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/DM-Marginalia-E08.pdf">Dan</a> make some admiring notes here.Hunter reads <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Everything-That-Lives-Dreams.docx">a delightful piece </a>involving upside-down chickens (and <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Bens-Snap-Edits.jpg">Ben</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/DM-snap-notes-E08.pdf">Dan</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/HunterSnapEditNDD.jpg">Nick</a> react here).&nbsp;Nick tilts against The New Yorker. We decidedly do NOT surreptitiously consume adult beverages right there in the goddamn classroom. David Stevenson (<a target="_blank" href="http://ddstevenson.blogspot.com/">read the man here</a>; do it, DO IT) winds us along a Wordsworthing that kicked me in the emotional balls, time after time, as I sat there and listened in person and as I edited and listened and listened and listened. I mean, it’s David.Finally, a lively discussion is had re: Hempel and noted editor Gordon “The Lisher” Lish and the role of editors in general and this one in particular, who may or may not have had intimate knowledge of this particular story. But I cut that part out.- Castmate DanPS – Be sure to click here to read the story for the soon-to-be recorded episode 9, “<a target="_blank" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/strangler-bob">Strangler Bob</a>” by Denis Johnson. That’s right, Denis fucking Johnson. Bring it, DJ.























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In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried

In this episode, we drink and rant about Amy Hempel's In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried as published in TriQuarterly.  See more at wordsworthing.com.

Episode 8:  In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried

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 Here we are again. &nbsp;In this episode we drop some news about the lit mag, discuss why we are doing it, drink (except Dan who was killing it at sobriety; props dude), we talk some serious wisdoms (sic), and then cavort in the literary effort as we are known to do.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6924/a-natural-man-adam-ofallon-price">Adam O'Fallon Price. &nbsp;A Natural Man. &nbsp;The Paris Review</a>. &nbsp;You should click the link and stuff that material through your irises before you have a listen. &nbsp;That way when we fly off the fucking handle about shotguns, you'll know what's going on. &nbsp;Seriously. &nbsp;Shotguns. &nbsp;In fact, a little PSA here, whether you are gun fan or not, if you are going to write a story about them SHOOT THE MOTHERFUCKERS A FEW TIMES.Okay, back to the regularly scheduled programming. &nbsp;We eviscerate this piece in a tidy fashion (<a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Natural_Man_marginalia-Ben.pdf">Ben</a>, Dan, and <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/A-Natural-Man-3-NDD.docx">Nick </a>notes)&nbsp;and then proceed to discuss college scouting, rawdog, and poor choices.Dan reads a story. &nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Dan_snap_ed-Ben.pdf">Ben</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Dan-Snap-Edit.docx">Nick</a>&nbsp;respond.The show is just as you'd expect: &nbsp;Raucous and boozy. &nbsp;And, dare we say, informed.But seriously, the shotgun. &nbsp;Castmate Nick























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A Natural Man

In this episode, we drink and rant about Adam O'Fallon Price's A Natural Man as published in The Paris Review.  See more at wordsworthing.com.

Episode 7:  A Natural Man

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 TOP SECRET NO FORNEPISODE SIX: If you are reading this, know: You are the Resistance and I am Castmate Ben, leading you from the heart of the fight, direct from the SkyNet Palmer front, deep in combat with the machines - digitally, spiritually, humanly… &nbsp;leaning forward, as you do.The focus of our best HUMINT (supplied by Castmate Ben himself) is a piece entitled “<a target="_blank" href="https://granta.com/the-tenant/">The Tenant</a>” by a <a target="_blank" href="http://victorlodato.com/">Victor Lodato </a>that appeared in a publication, <a target="_blank" href="https://granta.com/">Granta</a>, of some note. The team dispatched to recon this unit, newly identified, as a possible high value target, and we set up OPs around the archive, downloading as arrantly as we dared. The intel in hand, we repaired to our hides to suss out the essential elements of information.On or about 22APR2017, the team casted, remotely, from our encrypted locales about said target. Owing to the handicap of Powerpoint being down, the team can provide the Resistance with a bulleted list of notes/beacons, for which to listen in this latest broadcast:-Rebecca Solnit, friend of the show-The Trip to Echo Spring-<a target="_blank" href="https://poetryinthemountains.com/">Jason Preator</a>-“I like to stay dumb as a writer.”-Cambridge University-Franzen-Ron Carlson-Lodato equals ‘dumb’ writing equals high journaling-22 pages to anything-Jo-Ann Mapson teaching-Ignorance of Anna Karenina-”Blah, pedestrian.”-Freezyville-Authorial Intent-”Lemme jump in there”-Rigid German Airships-Wurlitzer pianos, A440 tuning forks-<a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/The-Absence-f6m3.docx">The Absence</a>-T-Pain-“<a target="_blank" href="https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6924/a-natural-man-adam-ofallon-price">A Natural Man</a>”I will broadcast on this frequency, as able, to disseminate further updates. If you’re out there, know that you are important. Stay reading the lit, forming your own circles of Art, cutting away at the airport fic and trash poetry and awful symbolism. Remember, if you’re reading this, you are the Resistance, you are important, and the future is yours to earn.REFERENCE DOCUMENTATION: &nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/The-Absence.docx">P-1278</a>; <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/The-Tenant-NDD.docx">TO-65-1113</a>; NAVSECOPSLOG <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Nick_MarginaliaBT-bzzl.jpg">12</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Lodato_MarginaliaBT-r58e.pdf">13</a>, &amp; 85; 45-98GHQTOP SECRET NO FORN























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The Tenant

In this episode, we drink and rant about Victor Lodato's The Tenant as published in Granta.  See more at wordsworthing.com.

Episode 6:  The Tenant

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 We really should dedicate this episode of Wordsworthing to Christian Andreas Doppler.&nbsp;I’m sure you’ve all at least flipped through Chris’ seminal work,&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cber_das_farbige_Licht_der_Doppelsterne_und_einiger_anderer_Gestirne_des_Himmels">Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels</a>, a charming little tome the Salzburger scratched out on the observed frequency of waves and the impact of relative speed. He did this in 1842. Smart guy, Chris.So anyway, you’re receiving this communique from someplace that without Chris would have still just been the murky insides of a person. I’m referring, of course, to the womb, wondrous flesh cave of dark thought and muffled sound, and the magic of the fetal Doppler device which allows me, your MC for Episode 5, to speak these words of introduction. Naturally other technology infiltrates here and there in the transmission, notably that from the inventors and architects of speech-to-text and the internet, but for just straight old gib gab from the deepest darkest folds of the reproductive realm, Herr Chris is our hero.Herein (the episode, not the womb) you’ll find the delights of your regular podcast hosts testing out the Emergency Broadcast System for some personal validation, naming bands after the weather, and working with our old pal (and Friend of the Show) T.C. Boyle on making America Great Again. This should be fun.Then we’ll swim in the warm placental waters of our featured story, “<a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/S01E05-North-Sloss.pdf">North</a>” by <a target="_blank" href="http://ariabethsloss.com/">Aria Beth Sloss</a>, a writer of such nice mouth feel as to elicit salivation. This story, gravid with visual lusciousness, transports us to a cold land from which both America and certain characters may never return. I don’t want to rupture the sack of spoilers, but let us agree that there is a reason these words are spoken in utero. &nbsp;(<a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/S01_E05_marginaliaBen.pdf">Ben</a>'s, <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/NorthMarginaliaNDD.pdf">Nick</a>'s, and <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/North-crit-DM.pdf">Dan</a>'s marginalia can be found here.)Changing directions, the Gutter Monkeys of the cast will force you through a canal of adventure, visiting skeezy beach bars, applauding Lord Byron as he throws shade, and then with full hearted tumescence Ben will deliver us <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Kynikos_1.docx">a short piece about a Greek hero</a> who literally takes in hand his own destiny. Seed is scattered like children across this formerly great land, and the cast closes with the pop-free tinkle of a baby’s laugh. &nbsp;(<a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/Diogenes-snap-DM.pdf">Dan </a>&amp; <a target="_blank" href="http://wordsworthing.com/s/SnapMargNDD.pdf">Nick</a>'s spot check of Ben's tumescence can be found here).Thank you, Chris, thank you for providing me the means to invite the listener to slip through the dilating portal and join me in the swaddled comfort of another episode of Wordsworthing.– MC Yet To Be NamedPS – Be sure to click here to read the story for the already recorded episode 6, “<a target="_blank" href="https://granta.com/the-tenant/">The Tenant</a>” by Victor Lodato.























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North

In this episode, we drink and rant about Aria Beth Sloss's North as published in One Story.  See more at wordsworthing.com.

Episode 5:  North

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