Nick Rees Gardner [Host: Andrew Bertaina]

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Andrew Bertaina interviews Nick Rees Gardner.

Andrew Bertaina is the author of the essay collection The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place, out now from Autofocus Books, and the short story collection One Person Away From You (2021), which won the Moon City Short Fiction Award. 

Nick Rees Gardner is the author of the story collection Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts (Madrona Books, 2024).  He's also the author of the novella Hurricane Trinity, a book of poetry, So Marvelously Far (2019), and a chapbook Decomposed (2017). 

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Full conversation topics include:

-- buying a beer & wine store

-- morning vs evening writing

-- wanting to write

-- running

-- grandma as childhood poetry teacher

-- emo poetry in high school

-- drugs in college

--short stories

-- dropping out for rehab

-- the short story collection DELINQUENTS

-- from novel to story collection

-- time

-- knowing when a story is done

-- rewriting drafts

-- slowing down

-- process

-- reviewing books

-- influence

-- rhythm

-- subverting the narrative of rehab

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Podcast theme music also provided by Mike Nagel. Here's more of his project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.