Guest host Sara Lippmann talks with Seth Rogoff about collaboration, a triangle of place (Berlin, Prague, Maine), a relationship with seminal texts, the old testament, THE KIRSCHBAUM LECTURES (Sagging Meniscus, 2023), decentering meaning, making choices for or against expectation, handwriting (and not outlining), working with former NBA player Kendrick Perkins, and more.

Seth Rogoff is the author of the novels First, the Raven: a Preface (2017), Thin Rising Vapors (2018), and The Kirschbaum Lectures (2023), and the nonfiction book The Politics of the Dreamscape (2021). He is the co-author with former NBA player Kendrick Perkins of the memoir The Education of Kendrick Perkins (2023). Find more at sethrogoff.com.

Sara Lippmann is the author of the novel Lech (Tortoise Books) and the story collections Doll Palace (re-released by 7.13 Books) and Jerks (Mason Jar Press). Her fiction has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her essays have appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, Catapult, The Lit Hub and elsewhere. With Seth Rogoff, she is co-editing the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible for SUNY Press.

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik and Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Seth Rogoff [Guest host: Sara Lippmann]