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Episodes

Monday May 24, 2021
SKYLIT: Annie Connole, "THE SPRING" w/ Yumi Sakugawa
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
The Spring is a book-length lyric essay that examines grief and transformation through the lens of mystical animal appearances following the death of the narrator's partner.
Author Annie Connole is in conversation with Yumi Sakugawa.
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Wednesday May 19, 2021
SKYLIT: Gail Newman, "BLOOD MEMORY" w/ Amy Uyematsu
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Writing about the Holocaust can be difficult now, not that it was ever easy. It has become myth or something people use as a metaphor for something they object to; those who know, who went through it, are dying off. Those who deny what happened multiply. To make fresh powerful poems rooted in Shoah is amazing.--Marge Piercy
Gail Newman discusses her poetry collection Blood Memory with Amy Uyematsu.
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Monday May 17, 2021
SKYLIT: Corey Rosen, "YOUR STORY, WELL TOLD"
Monday May 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Wednesday May 12, 2021
SKYLIT: Jaya Saxena, "CRYSTAL CLEAR" w/ Helena Fitzgerald
Wednesday May 12, 2021
Wednesday May 12, 2021
Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Lance Morgan.
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Monday May 10, 2021
HANDSELL: Ep. 19, Abigail Paxton, "Storyhouse Bookpub" w/ Lance Morgan
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
Skylight's Lance Morgan is in conversation with Abigail Paxton, owner of Storyhouse Bookpub in Des Moines, Iowa.
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Saturday May 08, 2021
SKYLIT: Sarah Berman, "DON'T CALL IT A CULT" w/ Ashley Ray Harris
Saturday May 08, 2021
Saturday May 08, 2021
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Wednesday May 05, 2021
SKYLIT: William J. Simmons, "QUEER FORMALISM" w/ Emily Wells
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Saturday May 01, 2021
SKYLIT: Jess Phoenix, "MS. ADVENTURE" w/ Branwen Williams
Saturday May 01, 2021
Saturday May 01, 2021
Ms. Adventure skillfully blends personal memoir, daring adventure, and scientific exploration, following Phoenix’s journey from reality television sites deep in Ecuadorian jungles to Andean glaciers, university classrooms to Death Valley in summer. She has even chased down members of a Mexican cartel to retrieve a stolen favorite rock hammer. Readers will delight in her unbelievable adventures, all embarked on for the love of science.
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
SKYLIT: Seamus McGraw, "FROM A TALLER TOWER" w/ the Orfanos
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
We, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the rise of the mass shooter to dismantle the myths we have constructed around the murderers and ourselves.
In 1966, America's first mass shooter, from atop the University of Texas tower, unleashed a new reality: the fear that any of us may be targeted by a killer, and the complicity we bear in granting these murderers the fame or infamy they crave. Addressing individual cases in the epidemic that began in Austin, From a Taller Tower bluntly confronts our obsession with the shooters--and explores the isolation, narcissism, and sense of victimhood that fan their obsessions. Drawing on the experiences of survivors and first responders as well as the knowledge of mental health experts, McGraw challenges the notion of the "good guy with a gun," the idolization of guns (including his own), and the reliability of traumatized memory. Yet in this terrible history, McGraw reminds us of the humanity that can stop the killing and the dying.
McGraw is in conversation with Mark and Susan Orfanos.
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
SKYLIT: Melissa Colasanti, "CALL ME ELIZABETH LARK" w/ E. A. Barres
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Elizabeth Lark is on the run with her son. She's just killed her abusive husband and needs a place to hide. Against her better judgment, she heads to her hometown and stops at the Barkley Inn. When the innkeeper insists that Elizabeth is her long lost daughter, the opportunity for a new life, and more importantly, the safety of her child, is too much for Elizabeth to pass up. But she knows that she isn't the Barkleys's daughter, and the more deeply intertwined she becomes with the family, the harder it becomes to confess the truth.
Except the Barkley girl didn't just disappear on her own. As the news spreads across the small town that the Barkley girl has returned, Elizabeth suddenly comes into the limelight in a dangerous way, and the culprit behind the disappearance those twenty years ago is back to finish the job.
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
SKYLIT: Emma Hine, "Stay Safe" w/ Laura Creste
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Monday Apr 19, 2021
Handsell, Ep. 18: Bookstaggramming w/ Lauren Fanella
Monday Apr 19, 2021
Monday Apr 19, 2021
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Saturday Apr 17, 2021
Jonathan Ames, "A MAN NAMED DOLL"
Saturday Apr 17, 2021
Saturday Apr 17, 2021
Doll gets by just fine following his two basic rules: bark loudly and act first. But when things get out-of-hand with one particularly violent patron, even he finds himself wildly out of his depth, and then things take an even more dangerous twist when an old friend from his days as a cop shows up at his door with a bullet in his gut.
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Thursday Apr 15, 2021
SKYLIT: Sara Kamali, "HOMEGROWN HATE"
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Homegrown Hate is a groundbreaking and deeply researched work that directly compares White nationalists and militant Islamists in the United States. In this timely book, scholar and holistic justice activist Sara Kamali examines these Americans’ self-described beliefs, grievances, and rationales for violence, and details their organizational structures within a transnational context. She presents compelling insight into the most pressing threat to homeland security not only in the United States, but in nations across the globe: citizens who are targeting their homeland according to their respective narratives of victimhood. She also explains the hate behind the headlines and provides the tools to counter this hate from within, cogently offering hope in uncertain and divisive times. Innovative and engaging, this is an indispensable resource for all who cherish equity and justice in the United States and around the world.
Kamali is in conversation with Skylight's Emily Van Koughnett.
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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Monday Apr 12, 2021
LIVE ON CROWDCAST: Sam Cohen, "SARAHLAND" w/ Nikki Darling
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
In Sarahland, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, both demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story, a Jewish college Sarah passively consents to a form-life in pursuit of an MRS degree and is swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. Another reveals a version of Sarah finding pleasure—and a new set of problems—by playing dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A Buffy-loving Sarah uses fan fiction to work through romantic obsession. As the collection progresses, Cohen explodes this search for self, insisting that we have more to resist and repair than our own personal narratives. Readers witness as the ever-evolving "Sarah" gets recast: as a bible-era trans woman, an aging lesbian literally growing roots, a being who transcends the earth as we know it. While Cohen presents a world that will clearly someday end, "Sarah" will continue.
In each Sarah's refusal to adhere to a single narrative, she potentially builds a better home for us all, a place to live that demands no fixity of self, no plague of consumerism, no bodily compromise, a place called Sarahland.
Cohen is in conversation with Nikki Darling.
Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.