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S02E03 – Sensitive Skin Live At San Francisco LitCrawl
Bernard Meisler
Sensitive Skin live at LitCrawl, recorded at the Valencia Room, San Francisco.
Instead of the usual conversation, why not give a listen to last week's Sensitive Skin reading at LitCrawl, live from San Francisco? Reade...
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Problem Child
Ron Kolm
It all started with a big bang -- the sound of something heavy smashing against a wall, and it came from the apartment directly below mine. I headed out into the hallway to see what had happened, and was greeted by the secon...
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East of Bowery & The Circus Life
Drew Hubner
East of Bowery was what my mother called the place where we lived when I was a kid, and this is the way our family lived: when my mom wasn’t completely drunk yet, and if my dad got high in time, he might come in and Diz, m...
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Episode 18 – Rob Roberge
Bernard Meisler
Rob Roberge in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Rob Roberge
Rob Roberge, novelist (The Cost of Living, More Than They Could Chew, etc.), memoirist (Liar) and guitarist (The Urinals) and I spoke about everything from ...
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20 Feet from Enlightenment: A Coming of Sage Story
J. Macon King
Never cease from exploring the other side of that ridge... even though you may get lost, or step on a rattlesnake. Here in California I sometimes feel a bit guilty for not being spiritually woo woo enough. I’m just a regul...
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Episode 17 – Andrew Hubner
Bernard Meisler
Andrew (Drew) Hubner in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Andrew (Drew) Hubner, is the author of East of Bowery, We Pierce and American By Blood, and an educator at Hostos Community College in the Bronx. We spoke abo...
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Invisible Sharks
Mike Roberts
I spent a fair amount of time in the Gulf of Oman back in 1988. My shipmates and I were escorting Saddam Hussein’s oil tankers through the Straights of Hormuz, where the Iranians liked to take shots at them with their Silk...
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Episode 12 – Norman Douglas
Bernard Meisler
Norman Douglas in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Norman Douglas, Bernard Meisler and Tina Carstensen, relaxing in her Avenue D apartment, 1986
Norman Douglas is a writer (though he says he's not) and a poet (though...
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Warren Oates Possessed It
Philip Quinn
It was more important than importance itself to get it right, to shoot the damn movie and make sure the actor actually a friend who wanted to be an actor got it right, namely that expression on his face that made him seem li...
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The Locked Door
Joel Allegretti
The door to the room next to my bedroom when I was growing up was always locked. It was the only door in the house that locked from the outside. Not once did I see Mom or Dad—or anyone else—open it. I must have been six ...
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Episode 5 – Chavisa Woods
Chavisa Woods
Chavisa Woods in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Chavisa Woods is a New York-based literary fiction author, and poet. She is the author of three books. The first, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, (2009) is bot...
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Alphanumerica
Robert C. Hardin
The streets were numbered forward and the avenues backward, so that you began at H and walked until you reached the first letter. Then the next avenue, like the first street, began a forward count from one to two and so on....
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Episode 4 – Darius James
Darius James
Darius James in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Darius James (aka Dr. Snakeskin) is the author of That's Blaxploitation, a history of Black exploitation cinema, and the renowned cult classic Negrophobia, a raunchy ...
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Fourth of July in Gotham City
Maria Koby
I had a tradition of celebrating the Independence Day with a twist. It’d start as the typical celebration - hot dogs, BBQ meat skewers and corn with cheap lager and wine at a friend's backyard or rooftop, discussing how ma...
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The King’s Hashish – 1971
Tsaurah Litzky
You pack twenty bricks of black hashish from Lebanon in an empty air canister as part of your scuba diving equipment. We call it the King’s Hashish because every brick is stamped with a gold crown. You ship your diving equ...
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