Lo Fi Lit

Mike Topp is an iconic writer, humorist, and poetry guy . There's so much to say. I found him through twitter and Chelsea Martin's Universal Error podcast. From Mcsweeney's to X-Ray Lit and beyond. Find his tweets at @miketoppHere are some of his books i unearthed in an interview he did on X-RAY Lit. Shout to the former "Self-Exposure" podcast people. Otherwise I wouldn't have reached out to Mike. Local Boy Makes Good. 1993Six Short Stories & Seven Short Poems. 1997.Wild Wives/High Priest of California. Collaboration with Sparrow. 1997.Basho’s Milk Dud. 1999.Bad Luck. 2001.Happy Ending. 2002.I Used to be Ashamed of My Striped Face. 2001.Happy Ending. 2003.Where We Found You. 2003.Own Your Own. 2005.Shorts Are Wrong. 2007.Sasquatch Stories. 2010.29 Mini-Essays. 2012.Born on a Train. Collaboration with Raymond Pettibon. 2015.The Double Dream of Spring – A Peg Sluice Mystery. Collaboration with Sparrow. 2016.30 One Liners. 2018.The Poetry Jug. 2021

Check out my first episode with Ashely Obscura from a few years ago in the archive. She still operates and runs the amazing Metatron Press. She currently runs a substack called 'Codex Obscura' and under that venue(?) posts an ongoing / continuous poem called 'Drinking From The Same Dream.' It's one of my favorite things on the internet right now. I think everyone ought to go over there and check it out and all the cool things she's doing over there.

Linden operates and hosts response_pod over on youtube and spotify. Linden is David's husband. Linden is a writer and has been published on Burial Magazine. Check this out!

Lake is the author of Lo Siento. He's going on a book tour soon . Check out Lake Markham dot net for more info.

David Gladfelter joined the show today. He's a writer. He's a host of the controversial and hit literary podcast Response_Pod. David is gay. And Jewish. Lives in Detroit. Takes care of his husband.

On this episode of Lo Fi Lit, I invited Mesha Maren onto the show to discuss her involvement with Zona Motel - a literary brotherhood on substack. For people who adore, admire and are all about talking about cool ass books. So okay, she's written three novels - Shae, Perpetual West and Sugar Run. We discuss her background and coming up from a small town, activism and entering into a wrestling ring for research on a character. This was a dope episode.

Ivan Genc is a digital designer for Zona Motel over on substack. He's lives in Petrinja, Croatia . We discuss his poetry on Specta poems and how sink holes hit his town. Sink holes are cool but also not cool at all.

The mysterious user behind the twitter profile of @Moonandmouth, who wishes to remain anonymous - came on the show under the risk of assassination and ruin to discuss their latest book "Cataclysm Moves Me : I regret to Say" We hung out in Austin, Texas after this episode was recorded - so yeah. Check out the show

Shelby Hartness is a badass poet I met through Ben Fama's workshop, Cool Memories. She's been published by people like Spectra, Bending Genres, and Moody Magazine

D.T. Robbins is the author of Leasing (House of Vlad 2024) and a number of other short stories one can read at x-ray lit mag, Maudlin House and HAD and a slew of other places. He runs and operates Rejection Letters. That's the very short of it. Check out his website for the full gambit of his works.