Josh Denslow [Host: Aaron Burch]

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Aaron Burch interviews Josh Denslow.

Josh Denslow is the author of the collection Not Everyone Is Special (7.13 Books) and the novel Super Normal (Stillhouse Press). Some recent stories have appeared in The Commuter, Okay Donkey. Pithead Chapel, and The Rumpus. He is the Email Marketing Manager for Bookshop.org, and he has read and edited for SmokeLong Quarterly for over a decade.

Aaron Burch is the author of the essay collection A Kind of In-Between and editor of How to Write a Novel: An Anthology of 20 Craft Essays About Writing, None of Which Ever Mention Writing, both from Autofocus Books. He's also the author of several other books, including the novel, Year of the Buffalo. He is currently the editor of Short Story, Long and the co-editor of WAS (Words & Sports) and HAD. 

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Full conversation topics include:

--moving the family to Barcelona

-- learning a new language

'-- formative places and home

-- degrees of nostalgia

-- moving around and reading

-- going to film school & LA

-- the desire to share creative work

-- discovering the literary world

-- rejection and beginning attempts to publish

-- the publication of Josh's novel, Super Normal

-- lots and lots of drafts and versions

-- humor adding to the reality of fiction

-- superheroes outside of Marvel

-- Josh's story "Infinite Possibilities Outside the Screen"

-- quality and fun

-- channeling a voice

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Podcast theme music  by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's his music project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

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