LBC Podcast #2: Kellie Wells

Nominator:  Dan Wickett

Nominee:  Kellie Wells

Subjects Discussed:  Interdependent stories, the perception of a “novel in stories,” “Compression Scars” as the launching pad for the novel, building community consciousness within fiction, setting down distinct vernacular, preserving Midwestern cultural details, Sherwood Anderson, the publishing industry’s prejudice against the Midwest, cap guns, finding the right brand name referential balance, Spirographs, novelists as chroniclers, the adaptive nature of human behavior as expressed through fiction, The Pickwick Papers, writing about abuse, the origins of What Cheer, punk culture in Kansas, and the propinquity of magical realism to personal experience.

Backup Link: (MP3)

(A co-production of the LBC and The Bat Segundo Show.)

Comments

[Dan Wickett]

Ed,

Absolutely loved the brief interlude of yours in the middle with the "Hello? Oh, shi..."

I greatly enjoyed hearing Kellie's expounding upon Skin - thanks to the two of you for taking the time and effort with dueling phone calls, leaking bathrooms, power outages in St. Louis, etc.