# Tom Spanbauer

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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Caitlin and Marie read and discuss a shared first-love-book, Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. We talk about how reading this book in our 30s and 40s compares to reading it at age 10, the techniques we noticed that made the book memorable, what aged well and didn't age well with time, and…

Stories from The Quarterly (Issue 1, Spring 1987)

The Quarterly was a literary magazine edited by Gordon Lish from 1987 to 1995. (I was Mr. Lish's editorial assistant in the early '90s.) I'll read three stories from the Spring 1987 first issue of the journal: "The Harvest" by Amy Hempel, "Sea Animals" by Tom Spanbauer, and "The Slit" by Yannick Mu…

Domi Shoemaker: Corporeal Writing

Domi J. Shoemaker is a gender-free writer who lives near Portland, Oregon. Domi has quite simply changed my writing life, and they just might change yours. Domi spent several years with Tom Spanbauer's Dangerous Writers, and started the quarterly reading series, Burnt Tongue in 2012, just before sn…

Andrew McMillan and Nathan Newman

Poet and author, Andrew McMillan, goes head to head with author and screenwriter Nathan Newman in a War of the Words! They chat to Joe Haddow about their new novels ('Pity' and 'How To Leave The House'), chosen family, working class towns, comedy from tragedy and, Margaret Thatcher (yes, really). …

All Memory is Fiction, and All Fiction is a Memory.

Today, the Olympic Games in Paris will finally open after the mayoress has tried to convince us that the Seine River is cleaner than ever by taking a dip in a wetsuit, which offers some protection. The last time I visited Paris, I didn't even consider swimming in the river. However, I did enjoy my …

Remembering ‘Dangerous Writing’ author and teacher Tom Spanbauer

Portland writer Tom Spanbauer is being remembered -- on social media, in articles and in countless conversations with those who knew and loved him, were taught by him or simply loved his books. He died of heart failure on Saturday, Sept. 21 at age 78, after living with Parkinson's for the last eigh…

Tom Spanbauer

This episode is a celebration of the life of writer and teacher Tom Spanbauer, who passed away on September 21, 2024.      Born in rural Idaho in 1946, Spanbauer spent time in Kenya in the Peace Corps after attending Idaho State University. He returned to the United States in 1978 and moved severa…

S. 2 Ep. 3. Spanbauer, Le Guin, Herzog, and Truth

On this episode we take a look at Truth with a big T, examining Chuck Palahniuk's teach Tom Spanbauer talking about Dangerous Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin's essays in "Language of the Night", and Herzog's transcribed speech "On the Absolute, the Sublime, and on the Ecstatic Truth". Hosted on Acast. …

S3E15 How Individual Voice Can Thrive Within Community (with Holly Goodman)

You can find this and other episodes on the podcast's Youtube channel, @TheGenesisJewishPodcast I've been thinking lately about the tension between individual artistic expression and the weight of tradition and communal forms in Jewish life—and that's precisely why I was so eager to speak with Hol…

REPLAY: Margaret Malone on the Portland Writing Scene, Philosophy, Psychology, & Improv

Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 396, my conversation with Margaret Malone. We were talking about her debut story collection, People Like You (Atelier 26 Books). It was a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and it won the 2016 Balcones Fict…