The Offing Podcast
The Offing podcast, a branch of The Offing Magazine, invites you to listen to poetry, fiction, autobiography and more read by the authors at Past Due's Los Angeles recording studio.
Episodes
8 episodes
POETRY: Angela Peñaredondo's experimental poems from "nature felt but never apprehended"
Experimental interdisciplinary poet, writer & educator Angela Peñaredondo reads four pieces from their latest collection nature felt but never apprehended, "Mercy Ceremony," "On Cures and Abrasions from a Responsive Environment," "...
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Episode 8
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16:45
FICTION: Pete Hsu reads from his short story "Sunder"
On today’s episode, short-story author Pete Hsu reads an excerpt from “Sunder,” a story of youth at play exploring belonging, death, and maybe love.Pete Hsu has authored the short story collection If I Were The Ocean, I’d Carry You H...
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Episode 7
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20:50
FICTION: Natashia Deón reads from her NAACP-image award nominated novel "The Perishing"
On today’s episode, novelist and attorney Natashia Deón reads excerpts from her 2021 novel, The Perishing, nominated for both an NAACP Image Award in Literature and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction. The New York Tim...
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Episode 6
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15:55
FICTION: Lilliam Rivera reads an except from her middle-grade novel "Barely Floating"
Lilliam Rivera reads an excerpt from Barely Floating, from KO-ki-la Books, an imprint of Penguin. "A dazzling story full of heart about how one twelve-year-old channels her rage into synchronized swimming dreams."Lilliam Rive...
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Episode 5
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14:25
FICTION: Toni Ann Johnson's "The Way We Fell Out of Touch," from the collection "Light Skin Gone to Waste"
On today’s episode, we welcome novelist, screenwriter, playwright, actress, and Humanitas prize-winner Toni Ann Johnson. During this episode, she reads a segment of the story "The Way We Fell Out of Touch," from her short story collection, ...
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Episode 4
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16:09
POETRY: Vanessa Angelica Villarreal's new poems on family, ancestors, and extinct flowers of the Americas
On today's episode, essayist, critic and award-winning poet Vanessa Angelica Villarreal reads new poems on family, ancestors and extinct flowers of the Americas. Here are "Shelter in Place," ...
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Episode 3
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12:45
FICTION: Dana Johnson's "Wyatt Earp Days," and a conversation with Offing publisher Ashaki M. Jackson
On today’s episode, Dana Johnson, author of "Elsewhere, California" and the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction winner "Break Any Woman Down," reads “Wyatt Earp Days.” A conversation between Johnson and Offing publisher Ashaki M. Ja...
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Episode 2
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1:09:08
MEMOIR: Patrick O'Neil's "Anarchy at the Circle K," addiction, time in prison and life after punk rock
In episode 1 of The Offing Podcast, punk rock roadie icon Patrick O'Neil reads an excerpt from his most recent book Anarchy at the Circle K, out now from Punk Hostage Press. An interview with O'Neil and Offing podcast producer Chistoph...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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49:35