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Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Welcome to episode 2 of The Outrider Podcast with Jenn Zuko and Jason Quinn Malott
Today, we talk about the core foundation of story and how genre, at least as we understand it in the age of book marketing and mega-publishers, is irrelevant to the quality of the story and is actually a means to ghettoize and segregate readers so that they can be more easily marketed to.
Some of our intake:
Our Idiot Brother and my essay on Medium
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garci Marquez
Glory Guitars: Memoir of a 90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl by Gogo Germaine
The Hellhound Heart, by Clive Barker
Philip Pullman’s Carnegie Medal speech - I cannot find a Pullman-approved version of this. Just an unlinked, unsourced version on blog. Search for it on your own. I don’t like linking to unverified sources.
Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record by Andy Saunders
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Welcome back to the Outrider Podcast.
After a long hiatus, I’m back with a new full-time co-host, Jenn Zuko. Jenn was the very first guest on The Outrider Podcast way back in 2013. Since then she’s been on several special episodes as well as our seven part series on Bad Ass Female Tropes and our seven parter on Toxic Masculinity Tropes. We’ll be releasing one regular episode a month where we discuss what we’re working on, what we’re reading, what has made us happy, and finally a craft or business topic that might, sometimes, include a special guest.
For episode one, it’s just the two of us. Once we get past the writing, reading, and happiness, we’ll be discussing Ursula K. LeGuin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. There’s a link below to her essay as well as most of the things we reference in the show.
Follow Jenn at Daily Cross Swords
Keep up with Jason at https://www.jquinnmalott.com
An Incomplete List of Things We Talked About
Ursula K. LeGuin: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Jenn Zuko: Three Rules: The Monomyth Revisited The Aged Hero’s Journey, Hero’s Journey / Villain’s Journey
Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Maria Tatar: The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Star Trek: TNG episodes S5:E2 Darmok, & S5:E25 The Inner Light
The Love Boat S5:E15 I Don’t Play Anymore / Gopher’s Roommate / Crazy for You
Douglas Rushkoff Survival of Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash.
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
In this mini-series I’m joined by my long-time friend, the poet Delia Tramontina for a lively discussion of Djuna Barnes seminal novel Nightwood.
In Episode 4, since Delia and I struggled to get a handle on Nightwood, we’ve invited Stacey Kohut, a fan of the novel and friend of Delia’s to help us get a better understanding of its charms.
Stacey Kohut is a higher education administrator, received her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco, and is currently a doctoral student at USF's School of Education. In addition to her utter failure to maintain work/school/life balance, she is managing her addiction to the printed word. Stacey has contributed to Backwords Blog and has served as a guest curator for Bay Area Generations.
Delia Tramontina is from Flushing, NY. She earned her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her work has appeared in Newtown Literary, Forum, and 1111. Her chapbook CONSTRAINT is available from Dancing Girl Press. For 3.5 years she co-hosted the online show, Poet as Radio, on San Francisco Community Radio. She lives and works in San Francisco.
Saturday Jan 09, 2021
Saturday Jan 09, 2021
In this mini-series I’m joined by my long-time friend, the poet Delia Tramontina for a lively discussion of Djuna Barnes seminal novel Nightwood.
In Episode 3, we’ll discuss the chapters Watchman, What of the Night, Where the Tree Falls, Go Down, Matthew, and The Possessed.
Delia Tramontina is from Flushing, NY. She earned her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her work has appeared in Newtown Literary, Forum, and 1111. Her chapbook CONSTRAINT is available from Dancing Girl Press. For 3.5 years she co-hosted the online show, Poet as Radio, on San Francisco Community Radio. She lives and works in San Francisco.
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
In this mini-series I’m joined by my long-time friend, the poet Delia Tramontina for a lively discussion of Djuna Barnes seminal novel Nightwood.
In Episode 2, we’ll discuss the chapters Bow Down, La Somnambule, Night Watch, and “The Squatter.”
Delia Tramontina is from Flushing, NY. She earned her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her work has appeared in Newtown Literary, Forum, and 1111. Her chapbook CONSTRAINT is available from Dancing Girl Press. For 3.5 years she co-hosted the online show, Poet as Radio, on San Francisco Community Radio. She lives and works in San Francisco.
Saturday Dec 26, 2020
Saturday Dec 26, 2020
In this mini-series I’m joined by my long-time friend, the poet Delia Tramontina for a lively discussion of Djuna Barnes seminal novel Nightwood.
In Episode 1, we’ll read and discuss the preface and introduction to Djuna Barnes' novel Nightwood. The preface is by Jeanette Winterson, and the Introduction is by T.S. Eliot.
Delia Tramontina is from Flushing, NY. She earned her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her work has appeared in Newtown Literary, Forum, and 1111. Her chapbook CONSTRAINT is available from Dancing Girl Press. For 3.5 years she co-hosted the online show, Poet as Radio, on San Francisco Community Radio. She lives and works in San Francisco.
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Today’s guest is an old friend, Evan Hundhausen. Evan was the first person I met when I arrived at Naropa University. A writer, DJ, entrepreneur, and rebel, he’s carved out a path very different from my own, which just goes to show you, there’s no one right way to be a writer. One thing I wish we’d talked about was my favorite story about Evan, Naropa, and Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and why Evan is kind of the Buddha.
Evan Hundhausen received his MFA in Creative Writing at Naropa University in 2001 and you can find his self-published short story collection, 'Accelerated Learning Techniques for a Budding Sociopath' on Amazon (along with his other titles).
Evan's been a cannabis journalist for national magazines like The Hemp Connoisseur, Dope Magazine, and Herb.co.
He's had poetry published in the Asheville Poetry Review, but most recently his short fiction was published in Front Range Tales #3, a comic book anthology, and in TulipTree Review. Visit EvanHundhausen.com to learn more.
Don’t forget, The Outrider Podcast will be on its spring hiatus while I take care of the business of being a writer (revising, submitting), organizing this summer’s live shows, reading, and lining up a few more one-on-one conversations with writers. So, in the meantime, you can go back and check out TOPs series on James Joyce’s Ulysses with Delia Tramontina, or the Bad Business series with Todd Robins and Paul Dee Fecteau, and, of course, our epic 14 part Problematic Badass Female Tropes and Problematic Toxic Masculinity Tropes series with Jenn Zuko. Then there’s the live shows.
If you’re in to horror movies, you can also fill in the empty space during our hiatus by checking out The Terror Test podcast. It’s co-hosted by an old acquaintance, Eric Jenkins, who used to work with me on Eunoia Solstice, our short lived arts and literature website.
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
In the seventh and final episode of our Problematic Toxic Masculinity Tropes series, Jenn and I and joined again by Paul Bradley to discuss the prevalence and normalization of violence in the depiction of men.
Jenn Zuko is adjunct faculty at DU, MSU, and Regis University. She teaches courses in writing, literature, visual arts, performing arts, movement, and of course stage combat. She is the author of Stage Combat: Fisticuffs, Stunts, and Swordplay for Theatre and Film, out from Allworth Press back in 2006. She can be seen performing on stage and in classrooms in the Boulder/Denver area, and online at Daily Cross-Swords and Writers’ HQ, as well as archived on the defunct sites Nerds in Babeland, Your Boulder, and Sherlock’s Home.
Music for this series was created by Paul Bradley. Paul is the author of the Power of Dour blog, where he writes about pessimistic philosophy, politics and culture. He’s also one of those infamous tech guys - a 25-year software industry veteran and startup executive who does weird and interesting things with learning science and artificial intelligence. He is also Jenn Zuko’s administrative assistant.
The Outrider Podcast is orchestrated by me, Jason Quinn Malott, and audio production magic is performed by Heather Anne Eden. You can find the show online at jquinnmalott.com and if you would, please, hop on iTunes and give us a rating. We’ll be back later in 2020 with more miniseries, live shows, and one-on-one conversations with writers, editors, and publishers. Thanks for listening.
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
In the sixth of our Problematic Toxic Masculinity Tropes series, Jenn and I discuss the weird notion that men can’t be good parents, and if a man is engaged in the parental duties normally associated with women then he’s somehow less of a man. Fathers who wash diapers unite!
Jenn Zuko is adjunct faculty at DU, MSU, and Regis University. She teaches courses in writing, literature, visual arts, performing arts, movement, and of course stage combat. She is the author of Stage Combat: Fisticuffs, Stunts, and Swordplay for Theatre and Film, out from Allworth Press back in 2006. She can be seen performing on stage and in classrooms in the Boulder/Denver area, and online at Daily Cross-Swords and Writers’ HQ, as well as archived on the defunct sites Nerds in Babeland, Your Boulder, and Sherlock’s Home.
Music for this series was created by Paul Bradley. Paul is the author of the Power of Dour blog, where he writes about pessimistic philosophy, politics and culture. He’s also one of those infamous tech guys - a 25-year software industry veteran and startup executive who does weird and interesting things with learning science and artificial intelligence. He is also Jenn Zuko’s administrative assistant.
The Outrider Podcast is orchestrated by me, Jason Quinn Malott, and audio production magic is performed by Heather Anne Eden. You can find the show online at jquinnmalott.com and if you would, please, hop on iTunes and give us a rating. We’ll be back later in 2020 with more miniseries, live shows, and one-on-one conversations with writers, editors, and publishers. Thanks for listening.