This Podcast Will Change Your Life

No Nothing was published as part of the short story collection So Different Now, which was released by CCLaP in 2011. The collection represents Part Two of the linked short story collection UPSTATE re-released in 2020 by Tortoise Books (and originally released under the title The New York Stories by CCLaP in 2015).

No Nothing is read by Ryan W. Bradley (BIO below).

INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench.

READER BIO
Ryan W. Bradley is a sometimes writer/artist and a full-time Marketing Manager for a 15-branch library system. He has written too many books and abandoned just the right amount. 

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Goddess was published as part of the short story collection So Different Now, which was released by CCLaP in 2011. The collection represents Part Two of the linked short story collection UPSTATE re-released in 2020 by Tortoise Books (and originally released under the title The New York Stories by CCLaP in 2015).

Goddess is read by Glen Binger (BIO below).

INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench.

READER BIO
Glen Binger is an author, teacher, and coach from by-the-beach, New Jersey. He hosts the podcast Betterism and his most recent books are Head Games: The Novel and Darren's Journal. 

https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast

Never Said was published as part of the short story collection So Different Now, which was released by CCLaP in 2011. The collection represents Part Two of the linked short story collection UPSTATE re-released in 2020 by Tortoise Books (and originally released under the title The New York Stories by CCLaP in 2015).

Never Said is read by Joseph G. Peterson (BIO below).

INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench.

READER BIO
Joseph G. Peterson is the author of the novel Memorandum from the Iowa Cloud Appreciation Society.

https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast

This episode stars Sari Botton (And You May Find Yourself..., Oldster Magazine, Memoir Monday, Adventures in Journalism). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Botton's home somewhere outside of New York City in November 2022.

Just Like That was published as part of the short story collection So Different Now, which was released by CCLaP in 2011. The collection represents Part Two of the linked short story collection UPSTATE re-released in 2020 by Tortoise Books (and originally released under the title The New York Stories by CCLaP in 2015).

Just Like That is read by Giano Cromley (BIO below).

INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench.

READER BIO
Giano Cromley's latest novel is The Prince of Infinite Space. He's twice been a finalist for the High Plains Book Award. He is the recipient of an Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, and recently completed a BookEnds Fellowship with Stony Brook University. He's an English professor at Kennedy-King College in Chicago, where he is chair of the Communications Department, and sits on the committee for the Center of Equity for Creative Arts.

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This episode stars Mike DeCapite (Jacket Weather, Creamsicle Blue, Through the Windshield). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and DeCapite's home in... where else, the New York City in November 2022.

This episode stars Erika T. Wurth (White Horse, Crazy Horse's Girlfriend, Buckskin Cocaine). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Wurth's home in greater Denverland in December 2022.

Panties was published as part of the short story collection So Different Now, which was released by CCLaP in 2011. The collection represents Part Two of the linked short story collection UPSTATE re-released in 2020 by Tortoise Books (and originally released under the title The New York Stories by CCLaP in 2015).

Panties is read by Debra Pritzker Tanzer (BIO below).

INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench.

READER BIO
Debra Pritzker Tanzer worked in advertising for 20+ years in New York and Chicago and has been married to the author for much longer than that. She somewhat grudgingly agreed to read this story, and is bemused by the author's claims that it was inspired by a date they went on to the long demolished Airport Drive-In in Johnson City, NY way back in the 1980s.

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This most excellent 300th episode stars the most excellent Sara Lippmann (LECH, JERKS, Doll Palace). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Lippmann's home office in the New York City borough known as Brooklyn in December 2022.

This episode stars Coco Picard (The Healing Circling, The Chronicles of Fortune, Green Lantern Press). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Picard's former home somewhere off on the East coast of the United States in September 2022.

This episode stars Jackson Bliss (Dream Pop Origami, Counterfactual Love Stories, Amnesia of June Bugs). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Bliss' home in the City of Angels in September 2022.

This episode stars former (and forever) guest Giano Cromley (The Prince of Infinite Space, What We Build Upon the Ruins, The Last Good Halloween). It was recorded live and on a walk along Division Street in Chicago, IL that started and concluded at Rite Liquors in September 2022.

This episode stars Ashley Marie Farmer (Dear Damage, Beside Myself, The Women). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Farmer's home in the Salt Lake City in August 2022.

Repetition Patterns was published as part of the short story collection Repetition Patterns, which was released by CCLaP in 2008. The collection represents Part One of the linked short story collection UPSTATE re-released in 2020 by Tortoise Books (and originally released under the title The New York Stories by CCLaP in 2015).

Repetition Patterns is read by Judy Tanzer (BIO below).

INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench.

READER BIO
Being the mother of the author of UPSTATE, Judy Tanzer was around for most of the time period Ben was writing about. However, it has been illuminating to her how people of different ages, that is Ben and herself, and different perspectives remember so differently, or at least somewhat differently, events that occurred. Judy had a psychotherapy practice when Ben was growing up, so the influence of wanting to understand why and how things happen, runs in the family.

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This episode stars Jerry Stahl, yes that Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight, I, Fatty, Nein, Nein, Nein!). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Stahl's home in the City of Angels in September 2022.

This episode stars Jonathan Papernick (There is No Other, The Book of Stone, I Am My Beloveds). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Papernick's now former Massachusetts home in June 2022.

This episode stars Kacy Tellessen (Freaks of a Feather). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Tellessen's office somewhere off in the great Northwest in July 2022.

This episode stars Keith Lesmeister (We Could've Been Happy Here, EastOver Press). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Lesmeister's home, which just may be proximal to the Driftless Area (which is pretty cool if you don't know and which you'll learn more about on this episode of the podcast) in April 2022.

This episode stars Adam Robinson (Publishing Genius, Studio Friend, Good Book Developers). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Robinson's office in greater Atlantaland in April 2022.

This episode stars Deborah S. Greenhut (The Hoarder's Wife). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Greenhut's home in The Garden State in March 2022.

This episode stars Andrew DeYoung (The Temps, The Exo Project). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and DeYoung's home office in the great state of Minnesota in February 2022.

This episode stars Amy Long (Taylor Swift as Books, Codependence: Essays). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and what I believe must have been Florida in February 2022.

This episode stars Luke Jerod Kummer (The Blue Period, Takers Mad). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and an underground location outside New York City in January 2022.

This episode stars Beth Gilstrap (Deadheading & Other Stories, I Am Barbarella: Stories). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Gilstrap's home in Kentucky, not North Carolina, in December 2021.

This episode stars Matthew Specktor (Always Crashing in the Same Car, That Summertime Sound, Los Angeles Review of Books). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Specktor's home in the City of Angels in December 2021. 

This episode stars Lee Matthew Goldberg (Stalker Stalked, Grenade Bouquets, Runaway Train and so many more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Goldberg's home on the island known as Manhattan in October 2021. 

This episode stars Diane Grimard Wilson (Brain Dance: My Journey with Invisible Illness, Second Chances, and the Wonders of Applied Neuroscience). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Wilson's home in the greater Chicagoland suburbs in August 2021. 

This episode stars Frank Zafiro (Wrong Place, Write Crime podcast and so many gritty, crime novels). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Zafiro's home in the Pacific Northwest in August 2021. 

This episode stars James Tate Hill (Blind Man's Bluff). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Hill's home in North Carolina (which just may be our very first discussion originated from there) in October 2021. 

This episode stars Joanna C. Valente (A Love Story, Yes, Poetry, Luna Luna Magazine). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Valente's home in New York (not Yonkers sadly) in September 2021. 

This episode stars Avner Landes (Meiselman: The Lean Years). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (and Landes' former hometown, sort of), and Landes' current home in Tel Aviv (yes, that Tel Aviv) in August 2021. 

This episode stars Robert Tomaino (New Madrid). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Tomaino's home, which is not out west, but east (east of the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio anyway) in Connecticut in October 2021. 

This episode stars Maria Price (Love You Still). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Price's home in the Hawkeye State otherwise known as Iowa in October 2021. 

This episode stars Christina Beauchemin (Let My Legacy Be Love: A Shortcut to Self-Loving). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Beauchemin's home in the glory that is upstate New York in September 2021. 

This episode stars Trish McDonald (Paper Bags). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and McDonald's home in South Florida (which is not so terribly far really from where Hemingway wrote) in September 2021. 

This episode stars D.W. Hogan (Unbroken Bonds). It was recorded, wait for it...live on the streets of Chicago in June 2021 and marks both the first live episode since before the pandemic began, but the first walk and talk posting since the way back.*

*Please enjoy the return of street noise and random ambient scuzz.

 

This episode stars Elizabeth B. Splaine (Swan Song Devil's Grace, Blind Order). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Splaine's home in the state of mind also known as Rhode Island in September 2021. 

This episode stars Alisha Bashaw (Four Eyes: A Memoir of a Millenial Caregiver). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Bashaw's home in the glorious state (and state of being) that is Colorado in August 2021.

This episode stars Mike Keren (Four Funerals, No Marriage). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Keren's home in the great state of New Jersey in August 2021.

This episode stars Anne Poirier (The Body Joyful - My Journey from Self-Loathing to Self-Acceptance, Shaping Perspectives). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Poirier's home (and the center of The Body Joyful movement) in Maine in August 2021.

This episode stars Emory Easton (Mother, Can You Hear Me Now?). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Easton's home in Central Illinois in July 2021.

This episode stars Grace Agnew (Sanctuary). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Agnew's office in New Jersey in July 2021.

This episode stars Gregory L. Norris (Ex Marks the Spot and so much more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Xanadu (for real) in August 2021.

This episode stars Spencer Fleury (How I'm Spending My Afterlife). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Fleury's home just minutes away from The Gold Cane in August 2021.

This episode stars Matt Fitzpatrick (Demon Tide, Matriarch Game, Crosshairs). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Fitzpatrick's home on Cape Cod in July 2021.

This episode stars Barbara Newman (The Dreamcatcher Codes). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Newman's home in Western Massachusetts in April 2021.

This episode stars Jason Fisk (Sub Urbane, Hank and Jules, Salt Creek Anthology, Sadly Beautiful). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Fisk's home in the Chicago suburbs in April 2021.

This episode stars Mallory Smart (Maudlin House, Textual Healing, The Only Living Girl in Chicago). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Smart's home in the Chicago suburbs in April 2021.

This episode stars Wayne Goodman (Queer Words Podcast, numerous books). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Goodman's home in Northern California in April 2021.

This episode stars B.B. Russell (Kindreds). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Russell's upstate New York home in April 2021. 

This very special 250th episode stars Chicago artist and author Dmitry Samarov (Old Style, All Hack, Soviet Stamps, Music to My Eyes). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Samarov's Chicago home in March 2021. 

This episode stars Nancie Laird Young (Tea with Dad - Finding Myself in My Father's Life). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Young's father's Maryland home in April 2021. 

This episode stars Amanda Headlee (Till We Become Monsters). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Headlee's home somewhere off in the snowy woods of Pennsylvania in April 2021. 

This episode stars Joshua Chaplinsky (The Paradox Twins, Whispers in the Ear of a Dreaming Ape, Kanye West-Reanimator). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Chaplinsky's home in the city so nice they named it twice (yes, it's New York City) in March 2021. 

This episode stars Amanda Headlee (Till We Become Monsters), B.B. Russell (Kindreds) and Gregory Norris (Ex Marks The Spot). It was recorded during SMOL Fair 2021 and over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and the authors various home studios in March 2021. 

This episode stars NM Senator Bill O'Neill (Panoramic Diaries, Short Session, The Definition of Empty). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Senator O'Neill's office at the New Mexico Legislature in March 2021. 

This episode stars Nancie Laird Young (Tea with Dad), Barbara Newman (The Dreamcatcher Codes), Marc Sheinbaum (Memories Live Here) & Sarina Prabasi (The Coffeehouse Resistance). It was recorded during SMOL Fair 2021 and over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and the authors various home studios in March 2021. 

This episode stars Dr. Gina Barreca (Fast Funny Women, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times, They Used to Call Me Snow White . . . But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Dr. Barreca's home office in the great state of Connecticut in February 2021. 

This episode stars Kelly Kreglow (Kelly Kay Books, Crushing, Over A Barrel). It was recorded over the Zoom (I know) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Kreglow's husband (and previous guest) Eric Spitznagel's home office in the actual second city itself in February 2021. 

This episode stars Marc Sheinbaum (Memories Live Here). It was recorded over the Zoom (because you know) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Sheinbaum's home office in my home state of New York in January 2021. 

This episode stars Joe Walters (Independent Book Review). It was recorded over the Zoom (and we all know why that is) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Walter's home office out east in the great state of Pennsylvania in December 2020. 

This episode stars David Masciotra (I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters, Barack Obama: Invisible Man, Working On a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen). It was recorded over the Zoom (I know you know why) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Masciotra's home office out in the glorious midwest plains of Indiana in December 2020. 

This Year-End BONUS episode stars Kailah "KP" Peters and Meg Harris of They Call Us Feminist Literary Magazine. It was recorded over the Zoom (yes, still, apologies)* between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Peters and Harris' home offices across the very same great city of Chicago in December 2020. 

*And please do disregard my moments of oddly robotic voice and other seemingly weird weather-induced Zoom glitchery.

This episode stars Emily Schultz (The Blondes, little threats). It was recorded over the Zoom (because look, you know)* between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Schultz's borrowed office in the artistic haven also known as Brooklyn in December 2020. 

*And please do disregard the early moments of fanboying, it is corrected in short order, but could not be avoided.

This episode stars Jenny Bhatt (Each Of Us Killers, Desi Books). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's still the thing, obviously) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Bhatt's home in Houston (our second Houston-based guest in 2020, yo) in November 2020. 

This episode stars Elizabeth B. Splaine (Devil's Grace, Blind Order). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's still the thing, obviously) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (because you know) and Splaine's home in the  state of mind also known as Rhode Island in November 2020. 

This episode stars Randall Gavin Horton ({#289-128}, Hook: A Memoir). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing for now, and maybe forever if we all don't start wearing masks) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything must be now) and the wilds of the great state of Connecticut in October 2020. 

This episode stars Kathryn Haueisen (Mayflower Chronicles: A Tale of Two Cultures). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing for now, and maybe forever if we all don't start wearing masks) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, because again, the mask thing, and because that's the thing for the foreseeable future anyway) and (the home of the cheating Astros) Houston, TX in October 2020. 

This episode stars Matthew Salesses (The Hundred Year Flood, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing for now, and maybe forever if we all don't start wearing masks) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, because again, the mask thing, and because that's the thing for the foreseeable future anyway) and the wilds of Iowa in September 2020. 

This episode stars Satish Prabasi (Fragments of Memory: A Nepali National's Reminiscences). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing for now, maybe forever) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, because again, that's the thing for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and the Green Mountains of Vermont in August 2020. 

This episode stars Matt Fitzpatrick (Crosshairs, Matriarch Game). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing now, yo) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and a parked car somewhere on Cape Cod in August 2020. 

This episode stars Lee Matthew Goldberg (The Ancestor, Slow Down, The Mentor). It was recorded over the Zoom (and is my first endeavor at doing so, yo) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Goldberg's home in the city that never sleeps in July 2020. 

This episode stars the Jennifer Pastiloff (On Being Human-A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, And Listening Hard). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Pastiloff's home in the City of Angels in July 2020. 

This episode stars the Benjamin Drevlow (Ina-Baby, BULL). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Drevlow's home in the great state of Georgia in July 2020. 

This episode stars Jonathan Evison (West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, Lawn Boy). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Evison's compound off in the wilds of Western Washington in June 2020. 

This episode stars the Chris Green (American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Green's Chicago home in June 2020. 

This episode stars the Donald Quist (Harbors, For Other Ghosts, Past Ten, Black & White & Read All Over). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Quist's Missouri home in June 2020. 

This episode stars the glorious Alice Kaltman (The Tantalizing Tale of Grace Minnaugh, Wavehouse, Staggerwing). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Kaltman's Brooklyn home (though I do like to imagaine it was Kaltman's Montauk surf compound) in April 2020. 

This episode stars Hosho McCreesh and Brian McGettrick (A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst - Unabridged Audio & Everything Else We Must Endure respectively). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever), McCreesh's hidden New Mexico bunker and McGettrick's home in the north of Ireland. 

This episode stars Kurt Baumeister (PAX AMERICANA). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Baumeister's home office somewhere off in the great state of Virginia.