Bookpod

How’s it feel to expose your humiliation to your family? Jonathan Tropper has written a novel called This Is Where I Leave You on this very subject. 

Listen to Tropper talk about his fifth novel in this latest installment of Bookpod (7 min. mp3; pdf available).

North Carolina-based writer Randi Davenport talks about The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes, the book she wrote about riding a healthcare merry-go-round in her quest to find appropriate care for her psychotic child. 7-minute Bookpod episode (mp3).

I had found a guy in New York City who had carried a torch for me since college and now wanted to marry me. But within a couple of months, he was gone. “You’re fine for a man who likes blondes, but I really prefer dark women,” he said.

It all started when two couples decided to swap husbands. Maybe this was fun for the adults for a while, but the four kids were devastated. Listen to Jane Alison talk about all this in her 6-minute podcast episode. Part of the Bookpod series.

My problem is that I picture being married to every man I meet. That includes you, honey.

I wish I could tell Stewart Kaisen that I now look at the world as if I’m a visitor from an undiscovered tribe in the fourth dimension, and that I no longer grok the music, slang, books and movies making noise all around me.

But he’s long gone — a casualty of the AIDS epidemic of the eighties.

This short piece is part of Bookpod, a weekly blog associated with Bookpod.org, the itinerant media project.

Jay used to sit in the Rutgers student center with his do-nothing friends and ogle the girls. I fended him off when he tried to seduce me to John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Maybe I’m wrong, but I always felt sorry for the guy.

Within a month, the wife of my college crush was nursing a handicapped child and mourning the loss of her husband.

You always love your masculine ideal — but you outgrow it too.