To honor possibly our dearest friend of the show, and literary dad, D. Stevenson, the Wordsworthing crew dug into Strangler Bob by Denis Johnson as published in our favorite magazine (to shred), The New Yorker. There was talk about fate vs choice, rolling for luck, hella-craft, and the inevitability that sometimes a story will goes sideways. Ben, D…

Oh, it’s Episode 8, the one where we don’t eviscerate Amy Hempel’s “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” (READ IT PEOPLE), and it’s tight. I mean mammy-TIGHT. LO-FI as fuck, but tight. Here at WW, we don’t stand on pretenses or technological skill. We flounder about the internets.com with the mic’s and the mic stands and the pop filters and t…

Here we are again. In this episode we drop some news about the lit mag, discuss why we are doing it, drink (except Dan who was killing it at sobriety; props dude), we talk some serious wisdoms (sic), and then cavort in the literary effort as we are known to do. Adam O'Fallon Price. A Natural Man. The Paris Review. You should click the link and stuf…

TOP SECRET NO FORN EPISODE SIX: If you are reading this, know: You are the Resistance and I am Castmate Ben, leading you from the heart of the fight, direct from the SkyNet Palmer front, deep in combat with the machines - digitally, spiritually, humanly… leaning forward, as you do. The focus of our best HUMINT (supplied by Castmate Ben himself) is …

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! We really should dedicate this episode of Wordsworthing to Christian Andreas Doppler. I’m sure you’ve all at least flipped through Chris’ seminal work, Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels, a charming little tome the Salzburger scratched out on the observed freq…

Dear Mr. Chappalwala, I am writing to confirm delivery of the latest package. I quite enjoyed the contents, of which immediately began playing upon opening the envelope. I was very excited to hear that the package contained a new Wordsworthing episode (number 4; though, Mr. Chappalwala, I do wish you'd goad these men into a production rate more clo…

Photo by Jordan Schevene Episode Three coming to you hot and ready - smothered, covered, chunked, and topped - from the Waffle Houses of our minds. Here's the rub: We review a story by Deb Olin Unferth entitled "The First Full Thought of Her Life". This story first appeared in Tin House, which is a journal that Nick frequents. I've submitted there,…

Our second episode, currently known best as One of the Top Two Episodes of Wordsworthing, has us examining “You’ll Apologize If You Have To” by Ben Fowlkes, a story first published in Crazyhorse, a literary journal out of the College of Charleston. Ben, who likes mixed martial arts and birds, was probably really surprised about where his story was …

Photo by Herb Eaversmells In this episode we review Paul Theroux's short story "Upside-Down Cake" published by The New Yorker on June 27, 2016. Paul is novelist and a travel writer; more information can be found on his website. We focus on characters, setting, and pretty much everything else...because that's what needs help. (Dan's and Nick's margi…