Tag: Everything Will Be OK

  • The Lost AWP Tapes: Brandi Wells Reads

    We found it. The lost AWP reading of Brandi Wells, author of the collection Please Don’t Be Upset. This podcast, Brandi reads some newer works: “Supreme Court Rules California Must Release Tens of Thousands of Inmates,” “3D Starts to Fizzle and Hollywood Frets,” “A 9-1-1 Call That Can Help Save a Sirloin and a Griller’s Ego,” “Sometimes…

  • Veintiséis minutos, veintiséis segundos: HFR/Knee-Jerk/Big Lucks/The Way We Sleep AWP Chicago Event Podcast #3

    Fall collection. Vampires. Brothers. Eggcheese soap. Figure skating. Wikipedia. Motherfucking dying. Big Lucks’ Mark C. intros Everything Will Be OK‘s third and final group of readers: figure skater Alissa Nutting, designer/brewer Joseph Riippi, and baseball pro J.A. Tyler.

  • Majestic: HFR/Knee-Jerk/Big Lucks/The Way We Sleep AWP Chicago Event Podcast #2

    Casey Bye of Knee-Jerk intros a few more awesome readers in this, our second podcast episode of the AWP Chicago event, Everything Will Be OK. Readers featured in this episode are HFR 1.1 contributors Chloe Caldwell and Larry O. Dean and majestic beard-wearer Sean Kilpatrick.

  • Liars: HFR/Knee-Jerk/Big Lucks/The Way We Sleep AWP Chicago Event Podcast #1

    Now, in its entirety: the horrible sweater joke. Proving comedy is not exactly the stuff of editors behind a mic. But really, some great readings by HFR 1.1 contributors J. Bradley and Anhvu Buchanan and HFR interviewee Sam Pink, at the AWP Chicago event, Everything Will Be OK. Sound by Matt Wulff.

  • Alissa Nutting Looks Back on 2011

    Alissa Nutting Looks Back on 2011

    Looking back on 2011, here are some things I particularly enjoyed during the year: Poetry Heart First Into the Forest, Stacy Gnall (Alice James Books) Wrenching yet beautiful, at times even sweet in the most glorious, painful sense. Imagine watching, in hi-def slow motion, a future race of twelve foot tall albino supermodels engaged in…