Jun 12, 2025
Affonso Gonçalves is a film editor whose films include May-December, The Lost Daughter, Carol, Keep the Lights On, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Winter’s Bone, True Detective, Season One, and a little film called Night Catches Us. He collaborates frequently with Todd Haynes and Jim Jarmusch. Most recently, he edited...
May 4, 2025
Esmé Raji Codell is the author of Educating Esme, a diary of a first-year teacher; the acclaimed novel Sahara Special, winner of the IRA Children's Book Award, a Kirkus Editors' Choice for 2003; as well as a memoir for young readers, Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade. She lives in Chicago...
Apr 5, 2025
Jim Krusoe is the author of five books of poetry, the short story collection Blood Lake, and the novels The Sleep Garden, Iceland, Girl Factory, Erased, Toward You and Parsifal. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. He was the founder of...
Mar 1, 2025
Monona Wali's debut novel, My Blue Skin Lover, won the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Gold award for multicultural fiction. She is an alum of Hedgebrook, Breadloaf, and the Community of Writers. Her stories appear in Folio, Juked, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Santa Monica Review. Prior to writing fiction,...
Nov 25, 2024
My guest is actor and writer Danton Stone. A longtime member of Circle Rep Company in New York, he originated roles in Lanford Wilson’s “Fifth of July” and “Balm in Gilead”. And he was part of the “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” revival cast that won a Tony Award. His film and TV credits include Once...