• Raconteuse Radio

    Season 2, Episode 027: Effra

    The joy of pushing myself to learn how to edit sound bites as part of this one-woman show has me playing around with A.I. again. I wrote this “script” as a one-off extra credit creative writing piece for my Intro to Economics class for undergrad. I polished it up and realized how difficult it is to delineate between quotes from sources and the text that the “announcer” reads. This was fun! I hope you enjoy the final edit. Don’t forget to share your feedback with me directly, or use PodChaser to let the world know what you think! Stream it…

  • Raconteuse Radio

    Season 2, Episode 026: Cathouse

    Guilliean reads her short story of the same name, based on the true story of her overhearing a neighbor complaining to their HOA about the existence of such a domicile in their family-friendly neighborhood. Stream it and read along with the text! The fried chicken clucked in Mr. Jackson’s stomach as he strode away from his forever home. He got five doors down before the day’s heat shot through his ragged trainers. His mind tumbled towards one of his favorite memories: his military career. His last duty station was Nellis. He and Mrs. Jackson decided to remain in Vegas, and…

  • Tsundoku

    Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale by Pamela Hamilton

    I thought the book was well-written, but I wasn’t impressed by the pace of its events. I get that this was a fictional telling of a real woman’s life, presented as such from the beginning. However, it was hard for me to keep the details straight. I couldn’t quite place where we were from paragraph to paragraph sometimes. A new character would be introduced, and the implication was that you should already know who this person is. The author did a lot of deep research into Dorothy Hale and the Café Society crowd she hung around with then. I respect…