Community of Writers Podcasts
Stay abreast of our summer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir by following to hear panels, and craft talks from esteemed agents and editors. Later in the year we will be adding selected craft talks from previous summers.
Year-round, we also host Bibliocracy Radio , a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir and cultural criticism.
Community of Writers Podcasts
Bibliocracy Radio: Suzanne Greenberg on Shopping for Dad
My guest this week is Suzanne Greenberg, a much-published short story writer whose novel Lesson Plans was a Library Journal Editor’s pick. Her previous short story collection Speed-Walk and Other Stories won a Drue Heinze Literature Prize. Now Suzanne Greenberg is out with Shopping for Dad and Other Stories, its title, from one of the defining stories, a helpful nod to the wry, funny, sad engagement with irony, sincerity, loss and unlikely insights offered in these sixteen stories, many centered on missing children, estranged spouses, and disappeared domestic objects. Deadpan tragedy meets necessary if qualified hope, with plenty of attention to the everyday quantification of emotional transaction. Shopping for Dad is out now from Arroyo Seco Press. Suzanne Greenberg teaches creative writing at Cal State University Long Beach
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