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Craftwork S1E9: Eavesdropping, Travel Writing, & Glasgow Kisses w/ Mark Anthony Jarman

Listen to Craftwork S1E9: Eavesdropping, Travel Writing, & Glasgow Kisses w/ Mark Anthony Jarman.

In this interview, we chat with Mark Anthony Jarman about hockey fiction, deadwood words, finding stories in newspaper clippings, and so much more.

Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Touch Anywhere to Begin, Czech Techno, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. Burn Man, published in 2023 by Biblioasis, was an Editors Choice with the New York Times. He was an acquisitions editor for Oberon Press, and introduced many new writers through the Coming Attractions series. He is also the editor of Best Canadian Stories 2023. His novel Salvage King Ya! is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction. Widely published in Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia, Jarman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the University of New Brunswick. He is also co-editor of the literary journal CAMEL.

Book and poems mentioned in this episode:

  • Flowers of Evil – Charles Baudelaire
  • Study for Obedience – Sarah Bernstein
  • Cathedral – Raymond Carver
  • The Stories of John Cheever – John Cheever
  • Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  • The U.S.A. Trilogy – Jon Dos Passos
  • Literary Theory: An Introduction – Terry Eagleton
  • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – T. S. Eliot
  • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Attack of the Copula Spiders: Essays on Writing – Douglas Glover
  • The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  • Dubliners; Ulysses – James Joyce
  • The Incognito Lounge and Other Poems; Jesus’ Son; Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond – Denis Johnson
  • On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  • Panama – Thomas McGuane
  • Dance of the Happy Shades – Alice Munro
  • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle; Lolita; Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Cariboo Horses – Al Purdy

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Craftwork S1E8: Obsession, Transgression, & the Library of Gestures w/ Maryse Meijer

Listen to Craftwork S1E8: Obsession, Transgression, & the Library of Gestures w/ Maryse Meijer.

In this interview, we chat with Maryse Meijer about metaphor, quotation marks, the dubious necessity of author photos, and so much more.

Maryse Meijer is the author of Heartbreaker, Rag, Northwood, and The Seventh Mansion. She lives in Chicago.

Books and stories mentioned in this episode:

  • Samuel Beckett: A Biography – Deirdre Bair
  • Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
  • About Schmidt – Louis Begley
  • Autobiography of Red – Anne Carson
  • New Grub Street – George Gissing
  • The Children of the Dead; Greed; The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  • Pet Sematary – Stephen King
  • Bad Brains; The Cipher; Kink; Skin; Strange Angels – Kathe Koja
  • The Communicating Vessels – Friederike Mayröcker 
  • All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
  • Hurricane Season; Paradais – Fernanda Melchor
  • The Defense; Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  • Black Water; Blonde; Heat; My Sister, My Love; “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”; Zombie – Joyce Carol Oates
  • With the Animals – Noëlle Revaz
  • Snake Eyes – Rosamond Smith
  • The Custom of the Country – Edith Wharton

Author Photo Credit: Lewis McVey

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Craftwork S1E6: False Epiphanies, Productivity, & Existential Dread w/ Niall Howell

Listen to Craftwork Episode 6: False Epiphanies, Productivity, & Existential Dread w/ Niall Howell.

In this interview, Niall Howell talks about crime fiction, creative spontaneity, the magic of public swimming pools (soggy donuts!), and so much more.

Niall Howell lives in Calgary, Alberta with his wife, sons, and pets. His debut noir novel Only Pretty Damned was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. His follow-up novel, There Are Wolves Here Too, was shortlisted by the Book Publisher’s Association of Alberta for Mystery and Thriller book of the year. Niall’s short fiction has been featured in The Feathertale Review and FreeFall. He is currently working on his third novel.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • City of Margins; Shoot the Moonlight Out – William Boyle 
  • Save the Cat! Writes a Novel – Jessica Brody 
  • Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler – Raymond Chandler; edited by Frank MacShane 
  • The Guest – Emma Cline 
  • Perfidia; This Storm; Widespread Panic – James Ellroy 
  • Our Share of Night – Mariana Enriquez 
  • The Wars – Timothy Findley 
  • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • A Rage in Harlem – Chester Himes 
  • It; Night Shift; Salem’s Lot – Stephen King 
  • Burnt Offerings – Robert Marasco 
  • Moby Dick – Herman Melville 
  • Peyton Place – Grace Metalious 
  • Devil in a Blue Dress – Walter Mosley 
  • Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus – James Otis 
  • “The Black Cat” – Edgar Allan Poe 
  • The House Next Door –  Anne Rivers Siddons
  • The Secret History – Donna Tartt
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Craftwork S1E5: Romance, Ritual, & the Darkness of Yacht Rock w/ Phoebe Marmura

Listen to Craftwork Episode 5: Romance, Ritual, & the Darkness of Yacht Rock w/ Phoebe Marmura.

In this interview, Phoebe Marmura talks about fear, fairies, set design, and so much more.

⁠Phoebe Marmura⁠ is a writer and artist. Her work explores desire, femininity, domestic adventure, and reclusion. Marmura’s writing can be found in Expat Press, D.F.L. Lit, and Orca Literary Journal.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • Erotic Interludes: Tales Told by Women – Lonnie Barbach
  • Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
  • On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  • Biography of X – Catherine Lacey
  • Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
  • Story – Robert McKee
  • Portrait of Jennie – Robert Nathan
  • Junie B. Jones series – Barbara Park
  • The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
  • Pretty Little Liars series – Sara Shepard
  • Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White
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Craftwork S1E1: Persona Poems, Metacognition, & Vancouver Island Marmots w/ Meghan Kemp-Gee

On the first episode of Craftwork, guest Meghan Kemp-Gee talks about poetry, screenwriting, comics, and so much more.

Meghan is the author of The Animal in the Room (Coach House Books, 2023), as well as three poetry chapbooks, What I Meant to Ask, Things to Buy in New Brunswick, and More. She also co-created the webcomic Contested Strip, recently adapted as a graphic novel, One More Year. She is a PhD candidate at UNB and currently lives in North Vancouver BC.

Listen here.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems – Daniel Scott Tysdal
  • Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  • The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
  • Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
  • 20th Century Men – Deniz Camp, Stipan Morian, & Aditya Bidikar
  • The Adversary – Michael Crummey
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Influences on Shelter for the Damned: Novels About Obsession (Guest Post on Where the Reader Grows)

Obsession is a primary driving force in Shelter for the Damned, as the novel’s protagonist, Mark, becomes intensely fixated on a shack he discovers in a suburban field. As the Shack begins revealing its weird sentience, Mark’s interest grows. His relationship to the Shack eventually becomes horrifically parasitic, evoking the nature of debilitating addiction.

While writing Shelter for the Damned, I was conscious of several other books focused on obsession and dependency. I was especially interested in novels that used first-person or quasi-omniscient style to depict their protagonists’ experiences. I have provided snapshots for some of the most overt influences on Shelter for the Damned below…

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