Bonus Show 6

Our 6th WVW Podcast Bonus Show features a recorded live reading from Lee Maynard's appearance at the WV Book Festival, in October. Mr. Maynard reads the first chapter of his new novel-in-memoir-form The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life, published by West Virginia University Press.

Be sure to check out Episodes 21 and 22 for our podcast of the conversation between Lee and Cat Pleska.

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WVW Podcast Bonus Show 6

Links mentioned in Podcast:

The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life

This week...

No podcast today. In fact, our December podcast schedule may be a bit light due to the holiday season, though there are still some goodies on the way. However, Cat Pleska has informed me that her radio interview with Lee Maynard will be broadcast on WV Public Radio, Monday morning between 7:30 and 8. This is not repeated material from the recordings we used in the podcast, but is a complete standalone interview, as yet unheard, recorded specifically for WV Public Radio.

An expanded version of that interview will also be made available on the WV Public Radio website (along with a mention of the podcast interview).

Check it out Monday morning.

Episode 22: A Conversation with Lee Maynard, Part 2

Episode 22 of the WVW Podcast continues with Part 2 of the conversation between WV Writers 1st Vice President Cat Pleska and Lee Maynard. Lee is best known as the author of the book Crum, and its followup Screaming with the Cannibals. He has a new novel-in-memoir-form called The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life, published by West Virginia University Press.

This week some of the topics covered include the truth layered in a fictional memoir; the true threat of retirement; fictional violence in service to story; influences; and the answer to the question "What two things do you know for sure?"

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Links mentioned in Podcast:

LeeMaynard.com

Cat Pleska.com

The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life

Lee Maynard Video Podcast Live Readings on YouTube

Cat Pleska heard in Podcast Episode 4

Podcast Bonus Show 3

Episode 21: A Conversation with Lee Maynard, Part 1

Episode 21 of the WVW Podcast features a conversation between WV Writers 1st Vice President Cat Pleska and Lee Maynard, author of the book Crum, its followup Screaming with the Cannibals and the new novel-in-memoir-form The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life, published by West Virginia University Press.


As those of you who've attended Lee's workshops at previous WV Writers Summer Conferences well know, he's an extremely talented writer who specializes in gut-level writing. This week's part of the conversation explores some of that as well as his writing discipline, his philosophy on truth in memoir vs. storytelling and his feelings about West Virginia.


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Links mentioned in Podcast:

LeeMaynard.com

The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life

Chuck Kinder

Bonus Show 3

Our third WVW Podcast Bonus Show features trimmings from our Episode 4 interview with Cat Pleska. Naturally, my usual bonus show co-host has something to say about it.

We speak about the late Joe McCabe, Cat's work on an upcoming documentary and we also play one of Cat's radio essays that we weren't able to fit into Episode 4.

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Episode 4: Cat Pleska Interview

WV Writers Podcast Episode 4, in which we speak to Cat Pleska, once and future officer of WV Writers. Cat talks about her work as a teacher and memoirist, her essays for WV Public Radio, her views on the current state of the literary world of Appalachia and her time spent portraying both a famous photographer from 1910 and the mother of mother's day.

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Links mentioned in Podcast:
CatPleska.com
Cat Pleska's WV Public Radio Essays
Cat's "Mouth of the Holler" blog
Pearl S. Buck International Writers Workshop