In this episode John talks with Calla Henkel. She was born in 1988 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. A writer, playwright, director and artist, she currently lives and works in Berlin. She has staged plays at Volksbühne Berlin, The Whitney Museum of Art, as well as at New Theater, the experimental theatre space she founded and programmed in Berlin from 2013-2015. Her art writing has been published in periodicals such as Texte zur Kunst, Spike, Mousse, and others. Her artistic work with Max Pitegoff ha...
John talks with Kristian Vistrup Madsen. We have a fascinating conversation about Kristian’s correspondence with a prisoner in the USA, what it means to tell people’s stories and how writing can lead to a better understanding of ourselves and the world at large. Kristian is a writer based in Berlin. He is a contributor to magazines such as Artforum, Frieze, Texte Zur Kunst and Kunstkritikk, and the recipient of the 2020 Broken Dimanche Press Writing Prize. DOING TIME, a collection of essays a...
John talks with Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, a poet, writer and editor about life in Berlin - and other cities, the life and work of Audre Lorde and the book by Lorde which Castro edited in 2020, Dreams of Europe. Other topics include archives and the curiosity they encourage, the universal vs the particular, the poetic impulse and a really fun rapid-fire-question round! Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on July 18, 2021 Thanks to Ziemowit...
John talks with writer Rebecca Rukeyser about teaching creative writing, and writing workshops, the art of writing and editing, the revisionist western as a genre, her fantastic novel The Sea Plane on Final Approach and we carry out a daredevil reenactment from the book live. We also play IN FULL the terrific track by Jemek Jemowit "Meine Tabletten”, enjoy! Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on July 11, 2021 Thanks to Ziemowit Nowak ...
John talks with writer Habib William Kherbek. This was a great chat about lots of things - London, being in a band, William’s new novel ‘Best Practices’, fundraising and development aid, pub quizzes and much more. William has a lot of books about to be published so I was lucky to catch up with him. The pub quiz is serious - the first three answers will get a prize, so send in your answers pronto. Recorded in front of a live audience on the terrasse of Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain on July 3...