Episode 22: A Conversation with Lee Maynard, Part 2

Episode 22 of the WVW Podcast continues with Part 2 of the conversation between WV Writers 1st Vice President Cat Pleska and Lee Maynard. Lee is best known as the author of the book Crum, and its followup Screaming with the Cannibals. He has a new novel-in-memoir-form called The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life, published by West Virginia University Press.

This week some of the topics covered include the truth layered in a fictional memoir; the true threat of retirement; fictional violence in service to story; influences; and the answer to the question "What two things do you know for sure?"

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West Virginia Writers Podcast Episode 22

Links mentioned in Podcast:

LeeMaynard.com

Cat Pleska.com

The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life

Lee Maynard Video Podcast Live Readings on YouTube

Cat Pleska heard in Podcast Episode 4

Podcast Bonus Show 3

Episode 21: A Conversation with Lee Maynard, Part 1

Episode 21 of the WVW Podcast features a conversation between WV Writers 1st Vice President Cat Pleska and Lee Maynard, author of the book Crum, its followup Screaming with the Cannibals and the new novel-in-memoir-form The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life, published by West Virginia University Press.


As those of you who've attended Lee's workshops at previous WV Writers Summer Conferences well know, he's an extremely talented writer who specializes in gut-level writing. This week's part of the conversation explores some of that as well as his writing discipline, his philosophy on truth in memoir vs. storytelling and his feelings about West Virginia.


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West Virginia Writers Podcast Episode 21

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Links mentioned in Podcast:

LeeMaynard.com

The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life

Chuck Kinder

Coming This Friday...

...we'll be playing the first part of an interview WVW's own 1st VP Cat Pleska conducted last month with Lee Maynard.  They'll discuss Lee's latest book The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life.  

Tune in this Friday.

Bonus Show 5

Our 5th WVW Podcast Bonus Show features a recorded live reading from the October Literary Tea series at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg. The reader in question is Tim Armentrout, WV Writers Region 3 Representative. Tim reads from his book-length work in progress poem entitled Someone Screaming Out.

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WVW Podcast Bonus Show 5

LINKS TO TOPICS MENTIONED IN PODCAST
Tim's Blog, Breath Made Visible
Tim's Chapbook, All This Falling Away
Tim's Blogger Profile
Tim's CD, Pilgrim of the Neo-Dark Ages
The Livestock Barnyard
MacBeth Curse Info

Episode 20: Cheryl Denise Interview

Episode 20 of the WVW Podcast in which we speak with poet Cheryl Denise, author of the collection I Saw God Dancing.

We talk to Cheryl about her upbringing in Canada as well as the origins behind some of her poetry. And, of course, we hear her recite some of that poetry.

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West Virginia Writers Podcast Episode 20

Links mentioned in Podcast:
I Saw God Dancing
Garrison Keillor Read's Cheryl's Poem "They'll" on the Writer's Almanac
More of Cheryl's poetry courtesy of the Hamilton Stone Review
More of Cheryl's poetry courtesy of Mennonite Life.