Aug 31, 2025

⁠Sylvia Jones⁠ is the author of the debut poetry collection ⁠Television Fathers⁠, available from Meekling Books.

Jones is an adjunct professor at George Washington University. She also works as poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press and serves as a first reader for Ploughshares. Her next book, Dope Callisthenics

Aug 28, 2025

Volume 57 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad leans on A.I. for emotional validation...Angry Adam weighs in...Mira's Grandpasaurus has a massive stroke (survives)...Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get engaged...the Taylor Timer shatters...Lil Nas X walks nude through Studio City...a finger in a chicken...

Aug 26, 2025

⁠Lydi Conklin⁠ is the author of the debut novel ⁠Songs of No Provenance⁠, available from Catapult Press. It was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.  

Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Creative Writing Fulbright in...

Aug 24, 2025

⁠Donald Berger⁠ is the author of the poetry collection ⁠The Rose of Maine⁠, available from SurVision Books. Winner of the 2024 James Tate International Poetry Prize.

Berger's other books include Pizza Necklace, The Long Time—winner of the Poetry Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry—and 

Aug 21, 2025

Volume 56 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's hummingbird death angel friend...a letter from a listener who got run over by a car...Angry Adam returns (we forgot to play his audio last week)...Lana del Rey vs. Ethel Cain...billionaires in submersibles getting coffee and going to visit the disintegrated remains...