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In 2025, ARTWIFE Magazine is teaming up with The Inner Loop to bring you interviews with DC-area authors! In March, April, and May, then again in September, October, and November, join us on the third Tuesday of the month to hear from recently-published novelists, memoirists, and poets in the DMV. Today we meet Patricia Coral, author of the memoir "Women Surrounded by Water," which was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. She holds a BA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico, an MA in Spanish from the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico, and an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. Patricia writes creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, but frequently her words find their home in between. The former director of events for Politics and Prose Bookstore, she has contributed to numerous literary magazines and her work has been supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Purchase Women Surrounded by Water at https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814259252.html and use code CORAL for a 30% discount and free shipping!
Find more from Patricia on her website, www.patriciacoral.com, and find her on Instagram @_patriciacoral_
The Inner Loop creates inclusive and accessible opportunities for our diverse network of both emerging and established writers to connect with each other, to connect to their community, and to transform the written word into a shared experience through the act of reading aloud. They put on monthly readings in Washington, DC, market writers who published with small- to medium-sized presses, host writing retreats and residencies, and provide other special programming throughout the year. Check out upcoming events at theinnerlooplit.org.
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Welcome to the CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT series on The ARTWIFE Podcast! Every other month, we're interviewing an artist whose work we've published in the magazine. Join us as we get to know our contributors and talk about the creative process and the life of the artist.
This month, we're joined by Julia Mallory, a poet, prose writer, visual artist, and founder. Read Julia's short story in ARTWIFE: https://www.artwifemag.com/short-stories/second-helping-of-grits
Find more from Julia at www.thejuliamallory.com and www.blackmermaids.com.
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In 2025, ARTWIFE Magazine is teaming up with The Inner Loop to bring you interviews with DC-area authors! In March, April, and May, then again in September, October, and November, join us on the third Tuesday of the month to hear from recently-published novelists, memoirists, and poets in the DMV.Today we meet Varun Gauri, author of the novel "For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus". Varun worked for more than two decades on development economics and behavioral economics. He now teaches at Princeton University and lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland. His debut novel, For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus, won the 2024 Carol Trawick Fiction Prize, was selected for NPR’s Books We Love 2024, and is a finalist for Foreword INDIES 2024 Book of the Year in General Adult Fiction.
Find more from Varun, as well as links to purchase his book:
https://www.varungauri.com/
https://spia.princeton.edu/faculty/vgauriThe Inner Loop creates inclusive and accessible opportunities for our diverse network of both emerging and established writers to connect with each other, to connect to their community, and to transform the written word into a shared experience through the act of reading aloud. They put on monthly readings in Washington, DC, market writers who published with small- to medium-sized presses, host writing retreats and residencies, and provide other special programming throughout the year. Check out upcoming events at theinnerlooplit.org.
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The ARTWIFE Podcast is on spring break this month, so in honor of the current Venus retrograde we're re-injecting this episode from last fall into your feeds. Here she blows!
This month, we're taking a field trip! Join us as we depart from our usual fare of writing & writers and romp instead into the realm of performance, performers, and the life of the artist. We're joined by astrologer Wonder Bright, who helps us understand how the astrological signatures in Barbra Streisand's birth chart are influencing and describing the way Barbra makes her art. Topics include the intersections and overlaps between astrology and storytelling; the merits of an artist's first instinct (a.k.a. first draft) versus their subsequent attempts (a.k.a. revisions); and the evolution(?) over time of one of our culture's recurring narrative fixations, A Star is Born.
Wonder Bright is an astrologer living in Portland, Oregon. She works with her clients to help them use whatever sliver of free will they possess to embrace their fates and step more fully into their lives. She uses traditional techniques to arrive at thoroughly modern conclusions and has written about this for The Mountain Astrologer and www.astro.com. For more you can find her at www.starsofwonder.com.
View Wonder's companion slide deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hDsHrdr1BiBA1Z7ueKM-n-B3-qZmrPp_/view
We recorded this episode before we learned of Kris Kristofferson's passing. He was incredible—so moving and effective—in the role of John Norman Howard. Rest peacefully, Mr. Kristofferson.
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Welcome to the CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT series on The ARTWIFE Book Club podcast! Every other month, we'll be interviewing an artist whose work we've published in the magazine. Join us as we get to know our contributors and talk about the creative process and the life of the artist.
This month, we're joined by Jaina Cipriano, an experiential designer, filmmaker, and photographer. See Jaina's photo series in ARTWIFE: https://www.artwifemag.com/visual-art/the-empty-mirror-jaina-cipriano
Learn more about Jaina's work at the Arlington International Film Festival (https://aiffest.org) and Finding Bright Studios (https://www.findingbrightproductions.com).
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We're starting 2025 with one of the best books we've read in awhile: The Coin by Yasmin Zaher. After a quick zip through the (bananas, unhinged, incredible) plot, we use the lens of this book to talk about the concept of artistic values and how important they are for clarifying and magnifying the work we make. Jump in!
Starting in February 2025, we invite you to join us weekly for The ARTWIFE Creative Hour! This is a free, virtual gathering for artists working in any medium to set aside an hour each week dedicated to our creative works-in-progress. Learn more and sign up for reminders here: https://www.artwifemag.com/the-creative-hour
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In this short lil snack of an episode, we process some heavy shit and talk through the unique mixture of bleakness and hope stretching out ahead of us. Then Hannah runs down a list of her top 5 books & stories from the year, plus a few honorable mentions. Join us and find out if any of your favorite made the list.
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It's our first-ever movie night on the pod! We're looking at Challengers, a perfect film about three self-loathing, deeply unwell people visiting psychosexual drama upon each other repeatedly for more than a decade. The stuff dreams are made of! But what does it have to do with writing? Well, everything. In this episode, we talk about the power of indoctrinating your audience/readers with sub-perceptual imagery and symbolism. We also look at the absolutely manic and a-chronological movement of this narrative through time and figure out how the hell it managed to work...and so successfully. Hop in!
There's still time to vote if you haven't yet done so! Find your polling place here: https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/. Learn about your rights and responsibilities if you need time off work to vote: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/voting-during-the-work-day-employers-law/index.html.
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This month, we're taking a field trip! Join us as we depart from our usual fare of writing & writers and romp instead into the realm of performance, performers, and the life of the artist. We're joined by astrologer Wonder Bright, who helps us understand how the astrological signatures in Barbra Streisand's birth chart are influencing and describing the way Barbra makes her art. Topics include the intersections and overlaps between astrology and storytelling; the merits of an artist's first instinct (a.k.a. first draft) versus their subsequent attempts (a.k.a. revisions); and the evolution(?) over time of one of our culture's recurring narrative fixations, A Star is Born.
Wonder Bright is an astrologer living in Portland, Oregon. She works with her clients to help them use whatever sliver of free will they possess to embrace their fates and step more fully into their lives. She uses traditional techniques to arrive at thoroughly modern conclusions and has written about this for The Mountain Astrologer and www.astro.com. For more you can find her at www.starsofwonder.com.
View Wonder's companion slide deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hDsHrdr1BiBA1Z7ueKM-n-B3-qZmrPp_/view
We recorded this episode before we learned of Kris Kristofferson's passing. He was incredible—so moving and effective—in the role of John Norman Howard. Rest peacefully, Mr. Kristofferson.
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This month we're back with another SHORTS episode...and we're doing things a little differently this time! Rather than look at the craft of an individual piece of work, we're turning our attention to the question of emotional depth & honesty in creative writing more generally. What does emotional presence *feel like* in a piece of writing? And what does it feel like when it's missing? Finally, and most importantly, how can writers avoid making work that relies on emotional approximation and instead create work with depth and longevity? Hop in and let's find out!
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The hero's journey...reimagined! We're celebrating 1 year of The ARTWIFE Book Club with Sayaka Murata's novel about a protagonist who passes through all the stages of the traditional hero's journey—a foray into the unfamiliar, a dark night of the soul, a return bearing a hard-won treasure—all without ever leaving her hometown. Hop in!
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Studying the craft of writing with the help of lyrics from Taylor Swift? Don't threaten us with a good time! This month, we do a close reading of the lyrics from the song My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys off of The Tortured Poets Department. The story of this song gives us an opportunity to look at how a narrator can effectively communicate their conflicted mental state and convince us of both their lucidity and delusion at the same time. With this example, we're continuing to circle around one of our primary writing obsessions here at the ARTWIFE Book Club: how do we as writers find a balance between being coy & withholding and didactic & excessive? As ever, Taylor Swift shows us. Hop in!
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We read it, we loved it, and now we get to obsess over it...with the author! The book is Thieves, the writer is Valerie Werder, and Valerie herself joins us on this episode to talk about the creation of this astonishing book. We get practical (what can disciplines like sculpture and curation teach us about structuring a narrative?) and we get enigmatic (what the hell is a "self" anyway?) in equal measure, and ultimately we walk away from this inspiring episode with our favorite feeling in the world: the ache to sit down and write.
Read Thieves: https://fenceportal.org/book/thieves/Find Valerie Werder: https://www.valeriewerder.com/
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ARTWIFE is back from spring break with a close look at Vinson Cunningham Is a Ritualistic Eater, a sublime essay published in Grub Street (read it here: https://www.grubstreet.com/article/vinson-cunningham-grub-street-diet.html). We articulate the work's skillful balance of technical expertise and emotional presence and ask ourselves...how the hell can we learn to write like this? Plus, the life & creative lessons from one RuPaul's Drag Race figure in here, and yep, you already guessed it: we wouldn't be The ARTWIFE Book Club without a romp into a little (double!) album by the name of The Tortured Poets Department. Get in, honey!
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Annnnd we're back with the spring episode of the SHORTS edition! This time, we look at The Ice-Cream Truck, a flash essay from Souvankham Thammavongsa. (Read it here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/the-ice-cream-truck-souvankham-thammavongsa) Craft discussion topics include: a look at the way spacing and paragraph breaks help us manage pacing and emphasis, how to think about our written work like visual artists, and a short little addendum (AKA half the episode) about why you should definitely put what you learned in therapy into your artwork, but it functions best if you first digest it, interpret it, and make it your own.
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Our very first venture into science-fiction-adjacent literature on the pod! In our discussion about Jacqueline Harpman's 1995 novel, we revel in a book that rejects many of the fundamental elements that make up the construct of a book in the first place. Chapters? Hard pass. Traditional plot structure? No. Characters? Barely!
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TAYLOR SWIFT, EVERYBODY! In this episode, we learn from the master of storytelling *herself* about mood, manifesting a memorable atmosphere in our work, how distinct and specific imagery helps us experience even the most well-worn subject matter anew, and more. We also talk about how the structured nature of songwriting can serve as a guide when we're organizing our work in prose, so we can write stories that not only makes sense but make an impact. Here's to art and beauty in the new year and...~forevermore~.
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Let's join hands and step into the peerless work of Saeed Jones, author of this 2019 memoir. This work teaches us what balance means in the craft of writing and invites us into the intersection between clarity and nuance. Topics include: remedying one of the main reasons editors reject work submitted to lit mags, why reading poets who write prose is so useful and instructive, and the characteristics of secure vs. insecure forms of interpersonal connection and how they manifest in our writing.
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Welcome to the ARTWIFE Book Club SHORTS edition! In this format, we'll look at shorter-form works like short stories, essays, and song lyrics. This time we discuss Taffy Brodesser-Akner's meditation on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. Come see for yourself: this essay is a national treasure.
Read it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/magazine/taylor-swift-eras-tour.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8kw.Y4Ry.Bs4sElEfKmAA&smid=url-share -
Dive face-first with us into this weird and wonderful 2018 novel from Otessa Moshfegh. We talk about the year 2000 (god help us), how even tropey character templates have the potential to become fully realized, engaging with art & literature using approaches that are less consumeristic and more interactive, and more!
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