Masande Ntshanga is the guest. His debut novel The Reactive is now available in the United States from Two Dollar Radio. It is the official December pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.

In today's monologue, I get right to the interview.

Happy New Year, everybody!

This is the second annual Holiday Spectacular. The guests are Melissa Broder, Gene and Jenny Schlief Morgan, Amelia Gray, Lee Shipman, Ben Loory, Rich Ferguson, and Adam Greenfield. Recorded on December 10, 2016. 

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Happy holidays, everyone. I should be back next week with the final episode of the year. Stay tuned... 

The Oracle of Los Angeles is the guest. Her name is Amanda Yates Garcia. She is an artist, writer, witch, healer, and oracle. Recent performance rituals include Capitalism Exorcism at Human Resources and Devouring Patriarchy at the Women’s Center for Creative Work. Other venues to feature her work include Side Street Projects, REDCAT, Public Fiction, Highways Performance Space, and the Laband and Ben Maltz galleries among others. Her writing has been featured in publications such as CARLA, Black Clock, the Rough Magickanthology, Entropy, Synema Publikationen (Cinema Magazine), and WITCH. Amanda hosts her bi-monthly show The Oracle Hour on KCHUNG radio; teaches the Magical Praxis monthly mystery school; and performs private rites of healing and empowerment at her magical studio in West Adams.

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In today's monologue, I basically just get right to the main event.  

Jason Diamond is the guest. His new memoir Searching for John Hughes is available now from William Morrow. 

In today's monologue, I talk about the current shit show. 

Adam Soldofsky is the guest. His new poetry collection, Memory Foam, is available now from Disorder Press.

In today's monologue, I talk about cold meds and gas lines and no heat and our plumber's fear of heights.