Tothworld: The Paul A. Toth Podcast

TothWorld #144

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:17:00 GMT

TothWorld #143

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:58:00 GMT

TothWorld #142

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:34:00 GMT

TothWorld #141

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:53:00 GMT

TothWorld #140

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:31:00 GMT

TothWorld #139

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:16:00 GMT

TothWorld #138

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:26:00 GMT

TothWorld #137

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:07:00 GMT

TothWorld #136

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 04:20:00 GMT

TothWorld #135

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:33:00 GMT

TothWorld #134

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:02:00 GMT

TothWorld #133

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:31:00 GMT

TothWorld #132

Mon, 26 May 2008 18:59:00 GMT

TothWorld #131

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:32:00 GMT

Introducing TothWorld Podcast II: No Talk, No Guests

Thu, 8 May 2008 20:16:00 GMT

A revamped TothWorld Podcast. Distorted sounds for disoriented minds.

TothWorld #129

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:52:00 GMT

It's Prozac Paxil Cymbalta Effexor Zoloft time. Take 'em while you got 'em and chill to the sounds of the empire falling. It's all over now, blue babies.

TothWorld #128

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:26:00 GMT

This week, we check in with TothWorld favorite Jesse Loren. Jesse is co-editor of Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront 2007 and is an MFA graduate of UNO. She is also co-editor of Mourning Sickness which will be released in May and available at spdbooks.org or amazon.com. Her poetry can be found in Octaves, Kingly Blue, The New Virginia Review, Yawp, and Ellipsis. Jesse writes an editorial column and doesn't kill spiders.

TothWorld #127

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:10:00 GMT

Toth's novel #3, Finale, is finally on schedule for publication in 2009.

TothWorld #126

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:48:00 GMT

This week's guest is Lina Ramona Vitkauskas. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Wright State University, is co-editor of online literary/visual arts magazine, milk, and contributing editor to UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry (Lithuania). She is the author of THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2008), Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (dancing girl press, 2006), and Shooting Dead Films with Poets (Fractal Edge Press, 2004). She has been published in the 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets (Outside Voices, Ed. Jessica Smith), The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007); The Prague Literary Review, The Chicago Review, White Fungus (New Zealand), Aufgabe, Moria, MiPoesias, PFS Post, Seven Corners, LocusPoint, Van Gogh's Ear (Paris), Rampike (University of Windsor), Paper Tiger (Australia), In Posse Review Multi-Ethnic Anthology (Ilya Kaminsky, editor), The Mississippi Review, The Wisconsin Review, Lituanus (Lithuanian Quarterly Journal), and many others.

She won an Honorable Mention in the STORY Magazine's 1999 Carson McCullers Award contest and was a semi-finalist in the 2002 Cleveland State University Open Poetry Series. She has read at various venues all over Chicago and the Midwest including The School of the Art Institute (Chicago), The Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Northwestern University, Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Quimby's, Woman Made Gallery, Myopic Books, Woodland Pattern Bookstore, Indiana University-Northwest, North Park University, Lewis University, and Santara-Sveisa Lithuanian Arts, Literature, and Political Conference. Upcoming work will be featured in Blossombones, Another Chicago Magazine, and Arabesques (Algeria). Click here to visit her websit e.

TothWorld #125

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:24:00 GMT

Guests: Dave and Lillian Brummet. Their websites include:

Main Website
Talk Radio Show
MySpace Site

Also, new music and the ressurrection of Additive Headlines.

TothWorld #124

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:54:00 GMT

I finally reveal my true identity: the Jesus Christ of anger. Also featured: the corpse of E.E. Cummings, plus music and other poems.

TothWorld #123

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:42:00 GMT

Goodbye to the U.S.A., plus dead author Robert Frost.

TothWorld #122

Sat, 9 Feb 2008 06:55:00 GMT

This week's guest is author Gabriel Ogrease, with a very interesting piece and equally interesting commentary. The show also features one diatribe, several turtle doves, and plenty of quasi-music.

TothWorld #121

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:19:00 GMT

A tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., with a special piece by Brian Douthit, author, editor, reviewer, and digital artist. He has written book reviews for ForeWord Magazine and writes music and book reviews independently. His contacts with both musicians and poets led him to produce audio pieces for The Public Radio Exchange (PRX), a nonprofit service for distribution, peer review, and licensing of radio pieces for public radio. Although he no longer broadcasts on his radio station, Brian continues to write reviews for audio pieces for PRX. Currently, Brian is creating video reviews for books in an innovative format he calls "Haiku Video Reviews" - an entire book review narrowed down to the seventeen syllables of a Haiku. He is also working on his own CD album of New Age music and is planning on releasing a new book in 2008.

TothWorld #120

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:04:00 GMT

Back with Steven Mayoff, only this time in the guise of his alter ego, Mojomatic. The Mojomatic songs featured: Trance-Sylvania; God Is Alive; Highway 61 Revisited.

Also, more of the usual hijinks and jinxes.

TothWorld #119

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 03:52:00 GMT

This week's guest is Steven Mayoff, making his visit to TothWorld. He reads from 3 Poems and a Postcard, which includes the poems The Crows Are Fearless, My First Cigarette, and Let Us Improvise Motifs. My First Cigarette will appear this month in the inaugural issue of Cerulean Rain. Let Us Improvise Motifs appeared in Aquapolis. And The Two Annes appeared in Grimm Magazine. Steven lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada. His work has appeared in various Canadian magazines, such as the Windsor Review, Grain, All Rights Reserved, Grimm Magazine, CV 2, as well as Terrain.org and Aquapolis (USA), The Dublin Quarterly (Ireland), The Arabesques Review (Algeria) and Upstairs At Duroc (France). Upcoming work include a poetry chapbook, Fridge Magnet Cycle, to be published by Mercutio Press (Montreal) and a fiction collection, Fatted Calf Blues & Other Stories, to be published by Turnstone Press (Winnipeg). Visit Steven's web site at www.stevenmayoff.ca.

Along with Mr. Mayoff, listen to two of my own poems, two songs, and the usual well-founded and deserved bitching about publishing in general and one publisher in particular.

TothWorld #118

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:39:00 GMT

The Confessions of Paul A. Toth, Part II (with only a pinch of madness).

TothWorld #117: The Paul A. Toth Psychological Slip and Fall Extravaganza

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:48:00 GMT

Yes, we all have to learn our lessons and then...

Forget them
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TothWorld #116

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:26:00 GMT

This week's guest, Cicily R. Janus is an active-protagonist turned writer, nurse and mother living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her works have appeared in or are scheduled to appear in Underground Voices, Aesthetica, Eclectica, Del Sol Review, Hecale, The Guild of the Outsider Writers, Writers Post Journal, Venus Envy: A Magazine For Women, Perspectives Magazine, Dogzplot Fiction, Tuesday Shorts, and Handmaidens, to name a few. Currently, she is on staff as an assistant editor for the literary magazine Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens: A Literary Journal of the Absurd and Surreal. A chap-book featuring her essays, poetic prose and rants, entitled, The Pencil Pusher's Prose, is due out in mid-2008 by Scintillating Publications, and her first novels, The Burden of Betrayal and The Reluctance of the Ruling are currently in progress. For some tips on writing the novel, see this site. You can contact Cicily through her widely popular blogs on Myspace, and visit her Myspace profile. Finally, visit her website, under construction but due to be finished within the next few weeks.

Other works include a few songs and some of your host's work.

TothWorld #115

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:47:00 GMT

Featuring a collaboration between author Carol Novack and Donald C. Meyer. Dr. Meyer is a composer and musicologist who collaborates with choreographers, filmmakers, theater directors, and authors to create multi-media works that interweave classical and contemporary sounds into poly-vocal aesthetic structures. He is the author of articles on American cultural history and rock music and a music appreciation textbook called Perspectives on Music (Prentice Hall, 2003). Dr. Meyer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Lake Forest College.

New Yorker Carol Novack, a former criminal defense lawyer and Australian government grant recipient, is the author of a chapbook of poetry, play, collaborative CD and two collaborative films. Writings may or will be found in many publications, including The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, Action Yes, Del Sol Review, Diagram, 5_trope, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Fiction, La Petite Zine, LIT, Notre Dame Review, Otoliths, and the Star*Vigate anthology of best online writings. Carol publishes the multi-media e-journal Mad Hatters' Review, curates a reading series, and leads lyrical fiction writing workshops. She'll be a resident at The Vermont Studio Center next year. For additional details, see her blog.

Minnows is in the current issue (18) of American Letters & Commentary.

TothWorld #114

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:45:00 GMT

This week's show includes a fabulous audio presentation by Jesse Loren, an MFA graduate of UNO. She studies poetry, gardens, and teaches high school journalism. Jesse is co-editor of Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront. Since 2005 she has had a deep relationship with an Infantry medic and purple heart vet who is the subject of one of her two pieces, You Will Be Measured. The other is entitled What Babies Really Do. Looking to please the king of TothWorld? Listen to these pieces.

Additionally, let it be known that I will soon resume phone recorded readings. First, I must have a tooth removed or, apparently, half my face sawed off. For those of you who responded to the Poets and Writers (home of the world's most pretentious bio photos) classified ad, and couldn't handle recording yourselves, I'll be getting back to you in the order in which I find your original emails.

Finally, cheer up: The world can't get any better.

TothWorld #113

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:25:00 GMT

This week's show is a tribute to "writer's writer" (read: unread) Stanley Elkin, the unsung John Coltrane of the novel. Also included: a collaboration between Scott Schroen of Ugly Radio Rebellion and myself.

TothWorld #112

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:57:00 GMT

This week's guest is author Greggory Moore, a lifelong SoCal resident who lives in Long Beach.

Also included is a special project from Scott Schroen of Ugly Radio Rebellion.

Plus, plenty more non-narcotic fun.

TothWorld #111

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:24:00 GMT

"Enjoy" the following works:

Cluster Spores
Paris, Florida
Sand Dollars
Time Bomb
Repetition I Like
Bring on the Culture War

And remember, we cannot "is." We're in flux, oscillating. And if that sounds pretentious, pretentious is just another word for nothing left to gain.

TothWorld #110

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:17:00 GMT

Yes, it's Toth on the loose in this special Rant Edition.

TothWorld #109

Sat, 6 Oct 2007 02:54:00 GMT

This episode is brought to you by The National Coalition for Making All Prescriptions Over-the-Counter.*

This episode is also packed with more dynamite than a suicide bomber. Along with the very high jinks, listen to New Yorker Carol Novack's two contribution. She is the author of a chapbook of poetry, a collaborative CD and two collaborative films. Writings may or will be found in The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, American Letters & Commentary, Action Yes, Anemone Sidecar, Big Bridge, Del Sol Review, Diagram, First Intensity, 5_trope, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Knock, La Petite Zine, LIT, Milk, Notre Dame Review, Otoliths, Salt Flats Annual, Salt River Review, Segue, and other publications. Carol publishes and edits the multi-media e-journal Mad Hatters' Review, runs a reading series at the famous KGB Bar, and teaches lyrical fiction writing and performance reading. One of her fusions will appear in the Star*Vigate anthology of the best on-line writing during the past 10 years. For additional details, see her blog and hear a few tracks from her CD at myspace. Purchase the CD here.

*Me.

TothWorld #108

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:33:00 GMT

This week's guest is Frank Zappa tribute band Ugly Radio Rebellion, with more pyrotechnics than a mis-built meth lab.

Also included is more evidence of your host's rise, decline, decline, rise, rise, decline, decline, decline, rise, decline, rise, and --

TothWorld #107

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:21:00 GMT

Laurie Frankel of LauriesLoveLogic.com returns for part two and the conclusion of her saga. Meanwhile, your host continues -- whatever it is he does. Listen for yourself and "enjoy."

TothWorld #106

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:48:00 GMT

Part 1 of 2 from Laurie Frankel's serialized contribution. Published book author, literary writer and humorist, Laurie knows pain is the root of all comedy and is thrilled her life is so damn funny! Her work has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly and she was twice a finalist for Glimmer Trainâs Very Short Fiction Award. Her book, Itâs Not Me, Itâs YOU! has been translated and is now in its third printing. This former east coast gal can be found saving the human race one love question at a time at LauriesLoveLogic.com.

TothWorld #105

Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:21:00 GMT

This week's guest, Kerry Langan, is a short fiction author living in Oberlin, Ohio. She has published more than three dozen short stories in literary magazines published in the United States, Canada and Hong Kong. Her work has appeared in American Literary Review, Story Quarterly, Cimarron Review, The Seattle Review, Phantasmagoria, Thema, Other Voices, and other publications. Her non-fiction has appeared in Working Mother. A selection of her published fiction appears at this site. Her short story, "Memphis, Tennessee," was originally published in Rosebud but was re-published in the online journal, Literary Mama.

You can also hear my poem, Lunar Mission, as well as these songs and in this order: Rearview Mirror; Mother is the Necessity of Invention; Watershed; and Take It All. And you who've taken it all know who you are.

The Venerable Disease: A Symphony for - X

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 02:44:00 GMT

This could be about the president, but it isn't. A TothWorld "Labor Day" (gee, thanks, that makes up for everything) Special.

TothWorld: Special Bulletin

Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:14:00 GMT

Find out everything there is to know about my new home, Sanibel, Florida, on my newest show, The Sanibel Podcast, and go here to listen to the first show.

TothWorld #104

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:21:00 GMT

I Am a Tire and other surprises.

TothWorld #103

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:00:00 GMT

The robot returns.

Submissions sought. Authors with fiction or poetry published in online or print journals welcome. See this page for recording tips. Send a ten to fifteen minute recording as an .mp3 attachment to tothnews@aol.com with a bio as you would like to be introduced in the body of the message. Then, send a separate email with a photo (the larger and more square, the better) attached, or include a link to one.

TothWorld #102

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:34:00 GMT

The TothWorld Robot is back as I wait for the Sopranos (Nationwide Moving -- do NOT hire no matter what the bid) to deliver my recording equipment.

TothWorld #101

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:04:00 GMT

The TothWorld Robot reads two poems and introduces a song in lieu of my equipment arriving here in Sanibel, Florida.

TothWorld #100

Sat, 4 Aug 2007 13:13:00 GMT

Along with Nathaniel G. Moore, look for the songs 15 mMurals, The Poseidon Adventure, We Slept Alone, Together, and Necessity Is the Invention of Mother, as well my poem Where Were You?

Nathaniel G. Moore is the author of Let's Pretend We Never Met, published this Spring by Pedlar Press in Toronto. His work has appeared in magazines and journals across the country including Matrix, Canadian Literature and Danforth Review where he is features editor. Today he will be reading from his new poetry book, Let's Pretend We Never Met. Said The Georgia Straight in a review: "Moore metaphysically transforms so many literary genres into poetry and works so thoroughly through the most everyday of concepts (love, that is) that the breadth of the work is breathtaking."

TothWorld #99

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:48:00 GMT

A little late but, hey, I'm moving, so get off my sun. This week's show includes a new definition of the American economy, as well as the songs Jackpot, But, and Thank you: We'll Stay Forever, plus the poem The Poseidon Adventure.

The featured guest is Kenneth Pobo, who is fifty-two years old and grew up in Illinois. He and his partner now live in Pennsylvania. Kenneth teaches Creative Writing and English at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. His book, Glass Garden, will be published in 2008 by WordTech Press. He is the author of three other books and seven chapbooks. Check out Amazon.com to get his books or e-mail him. His work can be read online at: Forpoetry.com, Three Candles, Iddie, Centrifugal Eye, Loch Raven Review, and elsewhere. Catch Ken's radio show, Obscure Oldies, on Saturdays from 6-8pm EST at WDNR.com.

TothWorld #98

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:17:00 GMT

This week's guest is Michelle Miller is a writer, poet and academic currently living in small-town Ontario. Come August she will be moving to Vancouver, where she will be attending the prestigious Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at UBC. She has had poetry, fiction and non-fiction published in many local literary reviews, as well as The Danforth Review and Black Heart Magazine. One critic has praised Michelle as being "Like the London Anais Nin, only more crass, or Marguerite Duras with cuss words or a more literary version of mid-period Madonna without the bad electro background and udo kier cameos," which Michelle takes as a mighty set of compliments. Please feel free to creep her on the internet at this site.

Also featured are the songs I'm Okay, I'm Okay, Everyone's a Killer, The World Revolves Around Me, There's No Feeling for this Word, and the poem You've Got to Move, Child.

TothWorld #97

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:31:00 GMT

This week's show features several songs, a poem, and guest reader Leslie Wolter. Leslie is an English instructor and English Specialist at the East St. Louis campus of Southwestern Illinois College. Her work has appeared in a variety of online and print sources, including Eclectica, Great Works, River Walk Journal, Prose Toad, and Miranda Literary Journal. She can be emailed here.

TothWorld #96

Sat, 7 Jul 2007 04:02:00 GMT

Besides wonderful guest Richard Grayson, this week's show includes the poems How Long Do You Plan to Hold That Knife Above Me? and Amateur Biologist, as well as the songs MILF and I'm Nothing Without You and Even Less With You.

Richard Grayson is a retired lawyer and teacher who lives in Brooklyn and Phoenix. His short stories have appeared in literary magazines and webzines since 1975 and in book-length collections that include With Hitler in New York, I Survived Caracas Traffic, The Silicon Valley Diet, Highly Irregular Stories and And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street. He is also the author of WRITE-IN: Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida's Fourth Congressional District, an account of his 2004 campaign for a U.S. House seat that originally appeared online at McSweeney's. See his website here.

TothWorld #95

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:20:00 GMT

Prepare your ears for some massive volume variation due to audio problems beyond my control or, more accurately, understanding. Keep that finger on the volume button.

This show includes my poem and accompanying song Air and Weight and One Day Old, the song Sheltering the Sky Beneath Me, a second poem entitled Dissonance Reduction, and, finally, the song I like Candlelit Beaches and Long Walks on the Dinner Table.

Heather Fowler received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in May of 1997. She has published short stories in the following journals: See You Next Tuesday (2006), Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry (Winter 2006), The Muse Apprentice Guild (October 2002), Artisan, a Journal of Craft (September 2002), Literary PotPourri (May 2002), Exquisite Corpse (Summer 2001), The Barcelona Review (May, 2001), Quercus Review (May, 2001), Penumbra (May 2001), B & A New Fiction (Jan. 2001), Barbaric Yawp (Dec. 2000), Zoetrope All-Story Extra ( June 2001, October and December 1999), Mindkites (December 1999, and June 2000). She worked as a Guest Editor for Zoetrope All-Story Extra in March and April of 2000. Her story "Slut" won third prize at the 2000 California Writer's Conference in Monterey.

Her poetry has been published in various venues including: the Map of Austin Poetry, The Coast Highway Review, The Driftwood Highway 1999 Anthology, Joe's Journal, Best of the Beach 1998, The Publication, and The Cityworks Literary Anthology, Volume 6. She is currently working on writing a second novel entitled Sex Angel, editing and compiling four books of short stories, and querying two screenplays and assorted other projects. Please feel free to email her. And check out her Myspace site here.

TothWorld #94

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:05:00 GMT

These week's guest is Jeff Markowitz, whose novels include Who is Killing Doah's Deer? and A Minor Case of Murder. See Jeff's blog here. Also, hear the story of my medical mystery, as well as the songs Sagital Cut, There Goes the Sun, the poem Mind Bowling, and, finally, the song If I Am What You Say I Am, Then... Download the show here.

Now Available: Organia

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:47:00 GMT

Organia: Eight Poems, Eight Videos and Eight Songs. $11.00 including shipping and handling. Order here. For a sneak preview, right-click this link and save file to desktop.

TothWorld #93

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:34:00 GMT

And...we're back.

Look forward to the songs Clouds Moving Fast Over a Plain, Collateral Circulation and Unsent Letter to Bill Frisell, as well as my poem Personal Computer.

Also, don't forget to buy my novels, the profits of which will go towards purchasing several cells of an unspecified organ.

This week's guest, Libby Fischer Hellman, writes the award-winning suspense series featuring video producer and single mother Ellie Foreman, who gets by with a wry sense of humor, a circle of good friends, and an occasional bottle of wine. Originally from Washington, D.C., Libby has lived in Chicago for 30 years and finds the contrast between the beautiful and the profane in that city a crime writer's paradise. Next up is Chicago Blues,a dark crime fiction anthology she's editing, which will be released in October by Bleak House Books (also my current my publisher). She also will be releasing a stand-alone PI novel some time in 2008 called Easy Innocence. Visit her website here.

TothWorld #92

Sat, 2 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT

This week's show includes the songs Get Lost, Nothing Left to Do, and a cover of Gang of Four's 5:15. Also included is my poem Variations on a Conclusion in C Minor.

This week's guest is Ayn Amorelli, a published sexy-romance writer of four books (with another on the way) who also writes gothics using the pen name of Ayn Hunt. Ms. Amorelli can be found in Hunt's Corner, hosting a writing chat, every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. EST in AOL's Chapter One chat room. Excerpts of all her books can be found at her Ayn Hunt site site and Ayn Amorelli site.

TothWorld #91

Sat, 26 May 2007 04:31:00 GMT

Podcast #91 features a tribute to Georges Bataille, the songs The Knowable Truth and Raindogs, and my poem So You Want to Be a God? Also, a very special and fizzy surprise.

This week's guest is Ursula Pflug, author of the novel, Green Music. (Tesseract Books,2002) Born in Tunis, she attended the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto after traveling widely. An internationally published, award winning short story writer, Pflug has published over fifty stories in journals and anthologies including Leviathan1 and 4, Album Zutique, The Nine Muses, On Spec, Now Magazine, Quarry, Herizons, The Best Of Strange Horizons, The Best of Leviathan and Album Zutique and many more. She writes about books regularly for The Peterborough Examiner, the New York Review of Science Fiction and other publications. Her experience in professional theatre includes several productions of her plays, either solo-authored or collectively written. Recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Works In Progress Award in 2005 to complete her new novel, Thin Wednesday, Pflug was short-listed for the KM Hunter Award the following year. She received a Canada Council grant in the current year for a novel length flash fiction project, in which each chapter will be precisely 500 words long. She teaches short fiction via the Continuing Education Program of Loyalist College. Her bibliography is posted on the ISFDB database. See her Myspace site here.

TothWorld #90

Sat, 19 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT

This week includes the beginning of a blitzkrieg campaign to save my novel Fizz from undeserved obscurity. My other contribution is a tribute to my adolescent and adult psychiatrists, Talking Heads.

This week's guests are the band Foyl and Tamara Williams-Przyjazna. Williams-Przyjazna is an accomplished actress, classically-trained musician, poet, and mother of daughter Gwendolyn, also known as Nugget. Her piece is entitled Travelogue. Foyl is an acoustic-based rock band featuring Paul Michael Audi, Robert Fiets, Brandon Hoffman, and Bob Hull. Their production company is Pavlov's Cellar Productions. Feel free to email the band. The two songs Foyl plays are What Is and Should Never Be and Half-Life.

TothWorld #89

Sat, 12 May 2007 04:15:00 GMT

This week's guest, Wolf Larsen, is an adventurer, writer, and poet who traveled through 45 countries in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Wolf has lived in Chicago, Wisconsin, New York City, Honduras, Brazil, Peru, and India. He worked for nearly twelve years as a seasonal laborer in Alaska. Wolf has written five novels, six collections of poetry, a play, a screenplay, a monologue, a multimedia work, a collection of short stories, and a 70,000 word run-on sentence. He has been published in literary magazines around the world. After you hear his poem, I think you, like I did, will say, "Wow." Click here to visit his website.

The show also features my poem Gastronomy (since revised), plus the songs Junk is No Good Baby, Prodigal Son and Off the Coast of California.

TothWorld #88

Sat, 5 May 2007 04:31:00 GMT

My guest this week, Steven Mayoff, is a writer living on Prince Edward Island, Canada. His work has appeared in various Canadian magazines such as the the Windsor Review, Grain, Filling Station, Parchment, Pottersfield Portfolio, All Rights Reserved, Grimm Magazine, the Malahat Review and the Puritan, as well as Terrain.org (USA), the Dublin Quarterly (Ireland) and the Arabesques Review (Algeria). If I do say so myself, it appears good company shares good places. The piece Steven reads originally appeared in Pottersfield Portfolio (Nova Scotia) 2003. See his website here.

This show also includes the songs No One Receiving and Clocks, as well as a poem/song in the form of one of my monthly additive headline experiments, which may be read at The 2nd Hand.

TothWorld #87

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:04:00 GMT

This week's guest, Nathan Leslie, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland. Nathan Leslieâs five collections of short fiction include Believers (Pocol Press, 2006), Reverse Negative (Ravenna Press, 2006), and Drivers (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2005). Leslieâs work has appeared in over 100 literary magazines including Boulevard, Shenandoah, South Carolina Review, North American Review, and Cimarron Review. He is fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine and of The Potomac, and his book reviews and articles have been published in newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Kansas City Star, and The Orlando Sentinel. His reading includes pieces from Reverse Negative and Drivers, as well as his story The Coloring Book. Visit his website here.

Also featured are the songs Leave Me Alone and I Am Drugs, along with the poem/song You Make Me Feel Like Chet Baker, the Later Years.

TothWorld #86

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:12:00 GMT

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This week's guest, Benjamin M. LeRoy, is the publisher of Bleak House Books. Read his blog here. I engage the guest in an interview of great interest to writers and readers alike, since Ben is both a publisher and writer.

This week's show also features the songs Ghetto Defendant and We're So Free, along with my poem Truck Bumper US-23.

TothWorld #85

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT

After graduating with an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, Dean Serravalle has published stories in The Dalhousie Review, Lichen Literary Arts Preview, The Arabesques Review, Zygote, The Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, Versal, Urban Graffiti, Sputnik, Dime, In Posse Review, and The Del Sol Review. Most recently, one of his stories was nominated for the prestigious Journey Prize in Canada. At present, he is soliciting publishers for his first collection of short stories entitled After The Last Dance, a novella entitled E-pill, and a first novel entitled Reliving Charley. Dean teaches secondary school English in Niagara Falls.

This show also includes a bit from a blog, an Eno cover, and the song Peachy Keen.

TothWorld #84

Sat, 7 Apr 2007 04:24:00 GMT

An Easter Special of sorts, with guest Greg Santos, a Montreal native. He has been published in print and online publications such as, McSweeney's, Matrix, Feathertale, The Gloaming, Sage of Consciousness, and Black Heart Magazine. His poems were featured in a broadside published by ImPress and selected by Canada's Poet Laureate for "Poems of the Week". He studies at Columbia University and currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut where he is a co-editor of "Voce: Recorded Poems" for Palimpsest, Yale University's graduate arts and literary journal. Visit his blog Moondoggyâs Pad and his website.

Also featuring the Hitler: Five Impossibly Possible Love Stories infomercial, the songs Cancer is God's Way of Saying Good Luck in the Future and Dumbbell, and the poem Dead Porcupine.

TothWorld #83

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:29:00 GMT

Ronlyn Domingue's debut novel, The Mercy of Thin Air, was a finalist for the 2005 Borders Original Voices Award and has been acquired in 11 other countries. Her writing has appeared in New England Review, Clackamas Literary Review, New Delta Review, and The Independent (UK). Born and raised in South Louisiana, Ronlyn lives there still and is at work on her second book. For more info, see her website here. Also featured are the songs She Says to Me, She Says, and Sunday News, along with a bit from the blog.

TothWorld: #82

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:06:00 GMT

Author Jon Armstrong grew up outside Seattle, State College, PA., and Columbia, Maryland. His parents both have fine art and art education degrees and life was often like an extended art class. At an early age, Jon read and admired Buckminster Fuller and spent countless afternoons listening to his parents Jack Benny albums. Grey, his first published work, just came out from NightShade Books. Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay had this to say: "Grey is a legendary book waiting to happen. It's a mad, stylish, trippy, endlessly inventive romp through the biohazardouswastes of post-genre literature." Jon Armstrong is a genius, with an umlaut, to the fifth power. See his website here.

Also featuring Coolcumber, Music For Garbage Collectors, Authors of the Millenium, and In the Shadow of the Death Star, plus musings from the blog.

TothWorld: #81

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:49:00 GMT

This week's guest is Reed Farrel Coleman, the former Executive Vice President of Mystery Writers of America and author of nine novels. The 3rd novel in his Moe Prager Mystery Series, The James Deans, won the Shamus, Barry, and Anthony Awards. He was also nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, and Gumshoe Awards. Reed was the editor of the short story anthology, Hardboiled Brooklyn and his essay and short stories appear in These Guns for Hire, Wall Street, Noir, Damn Near Dead, Brooklyn Noir 3, The Darker Mask, Dublin Noir and Crime Spree Magazine. He also writes under the pen name of Tony Spinosa. Reed and his wife live with their two teenage children on Long Island. See his website or publisher Bleak House Books for more information.

Also, get hypnotized by a literally-mesmerizing song, discover the answer to the question, "So you wanna be a robot?" and hear a lengthy commercial for my work...plus some other fun, including The Art of Making Excuses with musical accompaniment by The TothWorld Band.

TothWorld: #80

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:17:00 GMT

This week's guest reader is me. I live in Michigan; I'm not sure why. My first novel Fizz and its successor Fishnet are available now. Short fiction credits include The Barcelona Review, Night Train and The Mississippi Review Online. My work in multimedia has appeared on the Iowa Review Web, Drunken Boat and other sites. My latest project, Hitler: Five Impossibly Possible Love Stories, includes a book and CD featuring two films and interactive experiment. Published in a signed and numbered run of fifty, it may be ordered here. For more information about me, see www.netpt.tv.

This show also includes a surprise and several shocks.

TothWorld: #79

Sat, 3 Mar 2007 05:30:00 GMT

Ed Hamilton, this week's reader, was born in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. He has a Masters Degree in philosophy from the University of Louisville. His fiction has appeared in dozens of small magazines, including Modern Drunkard, Limestone Review, River Walk Journal, SoMa Literary Review, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Exquisite Corpse, and The Lumpen Times. His short story, Nazi Cops,is included in the recently released anthology Class Dismissed: 75 Outrageous, Mind-Bending College Exploits. His short story, Movado,is currently being produced as a short film by the Washington, D.C. based independent film company, Ineffable Productions. He has lived at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City for 12 years, and writes for Living With Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog. He also writes regularly for the Huffington Post, and for the print newspaper, Chelsea Now. Listen for a few surprises, too.

TothWorld: #78

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:18:00 GMT

This week's guest reader is Vincent Louis Carrella, whose debut novel The Serpent Box is scheduled for release this summer by Harper-Collins/Perennial. His fiction and poetry have been published in Literal Latte, LinnaeanStreet.com, TalkingKitchen, Better Non-Sequitor, MicroFiction.net, and Boundoff.com. Also, enjoy the songs 60 Seconds and Six Hours and We Know How Big They Are.

TothWorld: #77

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:15:00 GMT

Sylvia Petter's short stories have been published online at Eclectica, Gangway and others. Her webpublished stories are available in the blogbook Collected Web Stories. Another collection, Past Present, is also available. A story of hers was included in the anthology Valentine's Day: Stories of Revenge, which includes work by Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Fay Weldon, Carol Shields, and Agatha Christie, among others

Sylvia's poems have appeared in print in Cadenza, Offshoots and Ex Tempore. She also writes erotica under the pen name, AstridL. Stories have been published online at Mind Caviar, Ophelia's Muse, Scarlet Letters and The Erotic Woman. Several anthologies are expected soon. Check for updates here.

Backburning is the title story of Sylvia's prizewinning collection of the same name, which will be published in Australia by Interactive Press in November 2007. For more information about the book and prize, see this link, which includes an excerpt from the story.

She is a final year PhD student in creative writing at the University of NSW in Sydney Australia and is now working on a novel. See her blog and official site for more information about Sylvia Petter and her work.

This week's show also includes the songs Lights Out and Everybody is an Addict, as well as my story Nice Kids Carry Guns from the anthology These Guns for Hire.

TothWorld: #76

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:08:00 GMT

This week's guest is Gail Louise Siegel, whose work can be found in journals such as Post Road, Pindeldyboz, Ink Pot, Zoetrope ASE, Brevity, Flashquake, Outsider Ink, The Salt River Review, Tattoo Highway, Night Train, FRiGG, and anthologies like Consumed (So New Media) and Lost on Purpose (Seal Press.) Also featuring the songs The Man from T.O.T.H.W.O.R.L.D. and The Symbol Formally Known as a Representation, plus some media recommendations for surviving winter.

Photo: Gail and daughter.

TothWorld: #75

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 05:37:00 GMT

Over an hour of entertainment, featuring D. Harlan Wilson, author of The Kafka Effekt, Stranger on the Loose, Pseudo-City, and an upcoming pulp science fiction novel, Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia. The novel will be published by Raw Dog Screaming Press in March 2007 and debut at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs convention in Atlanta. His stories and essays have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies across the world in several languages, and he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People. See his website for more information. Also featuring my online I-Ching reading and the songs The Starship Free Enterprise and Seizure.

TothWorld: #74

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:21:00 GMT

Mark Yakich is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004) and The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006). Mark's forthcoming collection is entitled September 12. Visit Mark Yakich's website here. Also featuring my poem Even the Authors Are Gentrified, the utter destruction of a classic pop song that deserves it, and a journey with Ernest Shackleton.

TothWorld: #73

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:09:00 GMT

Ron Chepesiuk was interviewed on TothWorld #27 regarding his book Drug Lords: The Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel. This time, Ron reads from his new book, Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York City's Most Famous Neighborhood. Also featuring my poem The Bird is a Word, something else, and the song Ariel.

TothWorld: #72

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:06:00 GMT

A recent graduate of USC, Evan Kilgore is a Washington transplant living in Los Angeles. He is currently at work on a variety of book, film, and television projects. His debut novel, Who is Shayla Hacker, a bizarre search for one girl, will be published in June of 2007. The show also includes a couple of other pieces and an appearance by dead soul star Barry White. See Evan Kilgore's website here, his MySpace home here, and his Bleak House Books page here.

TothWorld: #71

Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:17:00 GMT

This week's reader, Kim Bannerman, has written two novels, The Tattooed Wolf and The Wolf of Gilsbury Cross. Her career has spanned three continents, a handful of languages, and a Hugo nomination in 2006. More information about Kim's publications can be found at her website. The show also features a tragedy of sorts, the song Multipolar, and my story Sod.

TothWorld: #70

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:24:00 GMT

This podcast is dedicated to the memory of my good friend Phil Hines. Drummer for Dissonance, Phil's life spanned May 30, 1963 through December 25, 2006, and his influence spread far beyond his home town of Flint, Michigan. Also, farewell to James Brown. Adios, my friends.

For those who would like to post a tribute to Phil on the TothWorld Blog, send it in the body of an email message to this address.

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TothWorld: #69

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:26:00 GMT

This week's guest is Dexter Petley, an English novelist living off his wits in a trailer in France. He's published 3 novels, Little Nineveh with Polygon, Scotland, and Joyride and White Lies with Fourth Estate, London, the latter nominated for the 2005 IMPAC DUBLIN. Short fiction has also appeared in Waterlog Magazine and London Magazine. His translation (with Laure Claesen) from the French of The Fishing Box by Maurice Genevoix was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2006. See his website here. Also featuring China Rocket, a 2007 resolution, and Tell Me.

TothWorld: #68

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:08:00 GMT

Ryan Bird is often lowered by God onto a stage in order to untangle a plot-twist or to extricate a particularly loveable protagonist from a particularly sticky situation. Whether he was actually lowered by God or merely dropped on his head is entirely up for debate. His poems are in the current/upcoming issues of Carousel, dANDelion, filling Station, Misunderstandings, Zeugma and Ripe Magazine. Visit his website here. Also featuring Literature Is Dead and Chariot.

TothWorld: #67

Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:12:00 GMT

This week, TothWorld is visited by writer Magdalen Powers, whose credits include Paragraph, Pangolin Papers, Surgery of Modern Warfare, The Morning News, and 5_Trope. Kevin Sampsellâs Future Tense Books published her latest chapbook, The Heart Is Also a Furnace. Gary Lutz says â[her] crucial, compact prose miniatures provoke and disturb with a seductive wit and a sly, nervy exactitude all her own.â? Visit her website here. Also featuring Denver, Creeping Fire and Achoo Baby.

TothWorld: Special Edition

Thu, 7 Dec 2006 02:31:00 GMT

Featuring Matthew St. Amand's uplifting religious adventure, a song for the whole family, the story of Jesus, a gift to Permanent Press, and so much more. Visit Matthew St. Amand's website here. He recently adapted Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for the stage. It will play in Windsor, Ontario at the Capitol Theatre on March 10, 11, 15, 16, and 17, 2007.