Wed, 23 October 2024
This episode stars Anne Poirier (Not a Fat Annie, The Body Joyful). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Poirier's Sunshine State home in September 2024. We want to note that the episode is dropping today in honor of Body Acceptance Week (October 21-25, 2024) an exciting initiative promoting body acceptance—including body positivity, body neutrality, and body liberation—for all. |
Wed, 16 October 2024
This episode stars Ben Lindner (Beyond The Zero podcast). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Lindner's down under home studio in July 2024. |
Fri, 27 September 2024
This episode stars Michael Tager (Pop Culture Poetry: The Definitive Edition, Mason Jar Press). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Tager's Charm City office in June 2024. |
Sun, 15 September 2024
This Podcast Will Change Your Life is a somewhat delayed and movingly timed Episode (or Episode Three Hundred and Forty-Three for those counting at home) - Delicious.
This episode stars Lee Matthew Goldberg (The Great Gimmelmans, Stalker Stalked, Immoral Origins & many more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Goldberg's Central Park office in the city so nice they named it twice in April 2024.
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Wed, 4 September 2024
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Forty-Two - This Comes With The Collar.
This episode stars Maddie Norris (The Wet Wound). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Norris' home office in the Tar Heel State in June 2024. |
Sat, 24 August 2024
This episode stars Caleb Curtiss (Age of Forgiveness, A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Curtiss' home office in the home state of our 46th President in June 2024. |
Tue, 13 August 2024
This episode stars Steven Miletto (Teaching Learning Leading K12 podcast). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and the Teaching Learning Leading K12 podcast studio in the great state of Georgia in May 2024. |
Fri, 2 August 2024
This episode stars Cyn Vargas (On the Way, Nothing's Ever The Same). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Vargas' Chicagoland home in July 2024. |
Thu, 25 July 2024
This episode stars Dmitry Samarov (To Whom It May Concern, Old Style, All Hack & many more). It was recorded in-person and in the host's borrowed South Loop classroom in May 2024. |
Sat, 13 July 2024
This episode stars Ken Volante (Something (rather than nothing) Podcast). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Volante's home in the greater Northwest in April 2024. |
Mon, 1 July 2024
This Podcast Will Change Your Life is very special I Blame Myself But Also You release day episode, also known as Episode Three Hundred and Thirty-Six - Emotional Urgency.
This episode stars Spencer Fleury on the release day for his new book I Blame Myself But Also You. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Fleury's freshy fresh San Diego hotel room in June 2024. |
Fri, 28 June 2024
This episode stars Danielle Ariano (The Requirement of Grief, Getting Over the Rainbow). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Ariano's Pennsylvania office in May 2024. |
Sun, 23 June 2024
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Thirty-Four - An Outlet For Positivity.
This episode stars Kyler Bingham (Salt Lake Dirt). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Bingham's, yes, Salt Lake City home studio in April 2024. |
Fri, 7 June 2024
This episode stars Emily Schultz (Sleeping With Friends, Little Threats, The Blondes). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Schultz's Brooklyn home in April 2024. |
Fri, 24 May 2024
This episode stars Syed Ali (The Peer Effect, Migration, Incorporation, and Change in an Interconnected World, Dubai: Gilded Cage). It was recorded in-person at This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL in March 2024. |
Tue, 7 May 2024
This episode stars Judith Krummeck (Old New Worlds, The Deceived Ones). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Krummeck's Charm City home in April 2024. |
Tue, 30 April 2024
This episode stars Jeff Margolis (We're Live in 5: My Extraordinary Life in Television). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Margolis' office in the City of Angels in March 2024. |
Tue, 16 April 2024
This episode stars Tobias Carroll (In The Sight, Transitory, Vol. 1 Brooklyn). It was recorded in-person and in the host's wildly under utilized South Loop office in February 2024. |
Fri, 5 April 2024
This episode stars Mallory Smart (I Keep My Visions to Myself, The Only Living Girl in Chicago, Maudlin House). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Smart's greater Chicagoland home in March 2024. |
Wed, 20 March 2024
This episode stars Ben Tanzer, me (The Missing, UPSTATE, Orphans), in conversation with the awfully splendiferous Giano Cromley. It was recorded in-person walking along Division Street in Chicago, IL in March 2024. |
Tue, 12 March 2024
This Podcast Will Change Your Life is a special AWP 2024 episode (or Episode Three Hundred and Twenty-Six for those counting at home) - A Handful Of Sand.
This special AWP 2024 episode stars John Reed (The Never End, Snowball's Chance, Tales of Woe, and many more). It was recorded in-person at AWP 2024 in Kansas City, MO in February, wait for it...2024. |
Tue, 27 February 2024
This episode stars Lisa Niver (Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Niver's City of Angels home in January 2024. |
Mon, 19 February 2024
This episode stars Diego Báez (Yaguareté White). It was recorded in-person at Báez's City Colleges of Chicago office on the north side of The Jewel of the Midwest in January 2024. |
Mon, 29 January 2024
This episode stars Dana Kaye (Kaye Publicity). It was recorded in-person at Kaye's home office on the north side of Chicago, IL in January 2024. |
Fri, 19 January 2024
This episode stars Eugenio Volpe (I, Caravaggio). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Volpe's El Lay home in January 2024. |
Wed, 20 December 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Twenty-One (and the last glorious episode of 2023) - Listen Deeply.
This episode stars John Noltner (Lessons on the Road to Peace, A Peace of My Mind). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and wherever Noltner is hanging his hat these days in December 2023. |
Sat, 16 December 2023
This episode stars Jacob Budenz (Tea Leaves). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Budenz's Charm City home in December 2023. |
Wed, 29 November 2023
This episode stars Christina Olson (The Anxiety Workbook, The Last Mastodon) & Ben Drevlow (The Book of Rusty, Ina-Baby: a love story in reverse). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Olson and Drevlow's home in the Peach State, otherwise known as Georgia, in November 2023. |
Mon, 20 November 2023
This episode stars JJ Starr (The Mother I Knew: Race to Thunder Bay And The Battle For The Commons). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Starr's home in the Commonwealth of Virginia in November 2023. |
Tue, 31 October 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventeen - Men Are Assumed To Be People.
This episode stars Elizabeth Strauss Friedman (The Lost Positive, The Eggshell Skull Rule, Gathered Bones are Known to Wander). It was recorded in-person at Strauss Friedman's home on the north side of Chicago, IL in October 2023. |
Tue, 24 October 2023
This episode stars SpiderMeka (SpiderMeka Portraits). It was recorded in-person at the SpiderMeka Portraits studio on the north side of Chicago, IL in October 2023. |
Tue, 26 September 2023
This episode stars Jennifer Banash (The Rise and Fall of Ava Arcana, Silent Alarm, White Lines). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Banash's home in the city that never sleeps in September 2023. |
Thu, 14 September 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fourteen - Creating Something Out Of Nothing.
This episode stars Shawn Samuelson Henry (Made in Maine). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Henry's home in the Tar Heel state, also known as North Carolina, and not Maine, in September 2023. |
Thu, 31 August 2023
This episode stars Matt Micheli (Two Minutes With The Devil, Scratched, The White). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Micheli's home in the Republic of Texas in August 2023. |
Thu, 3 August 2023
This episode stars Daniel Cooney, Andrew Fredericks, Gabriel Joffe, Karla Murthy & Jamie Diaz (Love, Jamie, Daniel Cooney Fine Art). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and a variety of locations across the country in July 2023. |
Fri, 30 June 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Thirty-Three - Things Start
Things Start was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Things Start is the final chapter of UPSTATE: The Podcast. Things Start is read by Sara Lippmann (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast
Direct download: ThingsStart_UPSTATEThePodcast_Lippmann_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:32pm CST |
Sun, 18 June 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life is a quite Happy and Special Father's Day Episode (as well as episode Three Hundred and Eleven for those counting at home) - It's A Commandment.
This episode stars Laura Carney (My Father's List). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Carney's home in the great state of New Jersey in June 2023. |
Thu, 15 June 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Thirty-Two - Something Like This
Something Like This was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Something Like This is read by Clayton Smith (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast
Direct download: SomethingLikeThis_Smith_UPSTATEThePodcast_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:27am CST |
Thu, 8 June 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Thirty-One - Night Swimming
Night Swimming was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Night Swimming is read by Mike Smolarek (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast
Direct download: NightSwimming_UPSTATEThePodcast_Smolarek_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:19pm CST |
Thu, 25 May 2023
Longing was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Longing is read by Paula Bomer (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: Longing_UPSTATEThePodcast_Bomer_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:22am CST |
Tue, 23 May 2023
This episode stars Suzanne Clores (The Extraordinary Project Podcast, Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider). It was recorded in-person, and outdoors, yes, in-person and outdoors, at Berger Park on the north side of Chicago, IL in May 2023, not 2024.
Direct download: Clores_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:00pm CST |
Thu, 11 May 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Twenty-Nine - A Different Story
A Different Story was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). A Different Story is read by Dr. Mike McClelland (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: ADifferentStory_UPSTATEThePodcast_FINAL_McClelland.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:48pm CST |
Thu, 4 May 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Twenty-Eight - We Were All Here
We Were All Here was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). We Were All Here is read by Mallory Smart (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: WeWereAllHere_UPSTATEThePodcast_Smart_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:16pm CST |
Fri, 28 April 2023
This episode stars Gogo Germaine, a.k.a. Erin K. Barnes (Glory Guitars). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Germaine's home in the wilds of Colorado in April 2023. |
Thu, 27 April 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Twenty-Seven - What We Talk About When We Talk About The Flood
What We Talk About When We Talk About The Flood was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). What We Talk About When We Talk About The Flood is read by Christian Winn (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: WhatWeTalkAboutWhenWeTalkAboutTheFlood_UPSTATEThePodcast_Winn_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:31pm CST |
Thu, 20 April 2023
Vision was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Vision is read by Adam Lawrence (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast
Direct download: Vision_UPSTATEThePodcast_Lawrence_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:03pm CST |
Wed, 12 April 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Twenty-Five - Freddie's Dead
Freddie's Dead was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Watching And Waiting is read by Robert James Russell (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast
Direct download: FreddiesDead_UPSTATEThePodcast_Russell_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:39pm CST |
Tue, 11 April 2023
This episode stars Noah Michelson (HuffPost Personal). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Michelson's home in the borough of Brooklyn in March 2023. |
Fri, 31 March 2023
This episode stars Timothy Gager (Best of Timothy Gager: Poems, Essays, and Stories, |
Wed, 29 March 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Twenty-Four - Watching And Waiting
Watching And Waiting was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Watching And Waiting is read by Pete Anderson (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast
Direct download: WatchingAndWaiting_UPSTATEThePodcast_Anderson_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:26pm CST |
Wed, 22 March 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Twenty-Three - The Runner
The Runner was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). The Runner is read by Ray Charbonneau (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast |
Thu, 16 March 2023
Untrammeled was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Untrammeled is read by Gerald Brennan (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: Untrammeled_UPSTATEThePodcast_Brennan_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:30am CST |
Wed, 15 March 2023
This episode stars Shannon Downey (Badass Cross Stitch). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Downey's current home in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in February 2023.
Direct download: Downey_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife_FINALIIAfter_conversion.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:35am CST |
Wed, 8 March 2023
God's Work was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). God's Work is read by Barry Graham (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: GodsWork_UPSTATEThePodcast_Graham_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:48pm CST |
Thu, 2 March 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Twenty - Barely Breathing
Barely Breathing was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Barely Breathing is read by Tim Walikis (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: BarelyBreathing_UPSTATEThePodcast_Walikis_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:49pm CST |
Thu, 23 February 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents: UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Nineteen - Stabbed In The Back
Stabbed In The Back was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). Stabbed In The Back is read by Leesa Cross-Smith (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: StabbedInTheBack_UPSTATEThePodcast_CrossSmith_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:25pm CST |
Tue, 21 February 2023
This episode stars Paul Lamb (One-Match Fire). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Lamb's home (albeit, and sadly, not his cabin) somewhere in the greater Kansas City area (which is yes, home to the recent Super Bowl winning Chiefs) in December 2022.
Direct download: Lamb_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:23pm CST |
Thu, 16 February 2023
How It Works was published as part of the short story collection After the Flood, which was released by CCLaP in 2014. The collection represents Part Three 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). How It Works is read by Leland Cheuk (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: HowItWorks_UPSTATEThePodcast_Cheuk_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:32pm CST |
Tue, 7 February 2023
This episode stars Daniel Nester (Harsh Realm: My 1990s, Shader, The Incredible Sestina Anthology). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Nester's home in New York state's greater Capital Region in December 2022.
Direct download: Nester_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:09pm CST |
Wed, 1 February 2023
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
Direct download: NoNothing_UPSTATEThePodcast_Bradley_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:08pm CST |
Thu, 26 January 2023
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
Direct download: Goddess_UPSTATEThePodcast_Binger_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:25am CST |
Thu, 19 January 2023
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
Direct download: NeverSaid_UPSTATEThePodcast_Peterson_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:20am CST |
Tue, 17 January 2023
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.
Direct download: Botton_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:10am CST |
Thu, 12 January 2023
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents: UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Fourteen - Just Like That
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 |
Tue, 10 January 2023
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.
Direct download: DeCapite_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:48pm CST |
Thu, 29 December 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life is end of the year bonus Episode (as well as episode Three Hundred and One for those counting at home) - The In-Between.
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.
Direct download: Wurth_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:34pm CST |
Wed, 28 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
Direct download: Panties_UPSTATEThePodcast_Pritzker_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:22pm CST |
Thu, 22 December 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents: UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Twelve - Cool, Not Removed
Cool, Not Removed 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). Cool, Not Removed is read by Patrick Wensink (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: CoolNotRemoved_UPSTATEThePodcast_Wensink_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:56am CST |
Fri, 16 December 2022
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.
Direct download: Lippmann_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:14am CST |
Wed, 14 December 2022
Stevey 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). Stevey is read by David Masciotra (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: Stevey_UPSTATEThePodcast_Masciotra_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:46pm CST |
Wed, 7 December 2022
In A Single Bound 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). In A Single Bound is read by Seth Berg (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: Berg_InASingleBound_UPSTATEThePodcast_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:42pm CST |
Fri, 2 December 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Ninety-Nine - I Want My Life To Be About Something Else.
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.
Direct download: Picard_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:22pm CST |
Thu, 1 December 2022
So Different Now 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). So Different Now is read by Donald Quist (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: SoDifferentNow_UPSTATEThePodcast_Quist_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:29am CST |
Tue, 22 November 2022
Shooting Stick 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). Shooting Stick is read by Hosho McCreesh (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: ShootingStick_UPSTATEThePodcast_McCreesh_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:58am CST |
Thu, 17 November 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents: UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Seven - Life As He Had Known It
Life As He Had Known It 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). Life As He Had Known It is read by Alice Kaltman (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: LifeAsHeHadKnownIt_UPSTATEThePodcast_Kaltman.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:07pm CST |
Wed, 16 November 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. |
Thu, 10 November 2022
Pac-Man Fever 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). Pac-Man Fever is read by Mark R. Brand (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: PacManFever_UPSTATEThePodcast_Brand_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:47pm CST |
Wed, 2 November 2022
Change Of Plans 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). Change Of Plans is read by Christopher Bowen (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: ChangeOfPlans_UPSTATEThePodcast_Bowen_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:48pm CST |
Wed, 2 November 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.
Direct download: Cromley_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife_2022After_conversion.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:43pm CST |
Thu, 27 October 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents: UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter Four - What We Thought We Knew
What We Thought We Knew 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). What We Thought We Knew is read by Tom Williams (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO
Direct download: WhatWeThoughtWeKnew_UPSTATEThePodcast_Williams_FINAL.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:03am CST |
Thu, 20 October 2022
The Gift 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). The Gift is read by Serena Makofsky (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO |
Wed, 19 October 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Ninety-Six - You Hope You Get Things Right.
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. |
Thu, 13 October 2022
The Babysitter 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). The Babysitter is read by Cyn Vargas (BIO below). INTRO/OUTRO music is Drinking of Me and was generously provided by Monkey Wrench. READER BIO https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast |
Thu, 6 October 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life presents: UPSTATE: The Podcast | Chapter One - Repetition Patterns
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 https://www.tanzerben.com/blog/upstate-the-podcast
Direct download: RepetitionPatterns_UPSTATE_ThePodcast_Tanzer_CHR3_320k.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:44pm CST |
Sun, 2 October 2022
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. |
Thu, 15 September 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Ninety-Four - He's The Great Indoorsman.
This episode stars Andrew Farkas (The Great Indoorsman, The Big Red Herring, Sunsphere and Self-Titled Debut). It was recorded in-person, yes, you read that correctly, at Longman & Eagle in Chicago, IL in July 2022. |
Tue, 6 September 2022
This episode stars Eileen Joyce Donovan (Promises) on the occasion of the release of her new book A Lady Newspaperman's Dilemma. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Donovan's home on the island of Manhattan in September 2022.
Direct download: Donovan_ThisPodcastWillChangeYourLife.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:46am CST |
Fri, 26 August 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Ninety-Two - Until The Story Stops Speaking To Us.
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. |
Thu, 11 August 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Ninety-One - Don't Stop What You're Doing.
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. |
Thu, 21 July 2022
This episode stars Elizabeth Coffey and Mark Wish (Coolest American Stories). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Coffey and Wish's home in the City of New York in June 2022.
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Tue, 5 July 2022
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Eighty-Nine - No Conversation is Perfect.
This episode stars Brad Listi (Be Brief and Tell Them Everything, Board, Attention.Deficit.Disorder., Otherppl with Brad Listi). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Listi's home studio in the City of Angels in June 2022. BONUS MUSIC (for the Listi): Short Metal Blast by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Wed, 15 June 2022
This episode stars Jason Fisk (Sub Urbane, Sadly Beautiful, Salt Creek Anthology) on the occasion of the release of his debut novel The Craigslist Incident. It was recorded in-person, yes, you read that correctly, at Moody's Pub in Chicago, IL in June 2022. |
Tue, 7 June 2022
This episode stars Christine Marie Eberle (Finding God in Ordinary Time) on the occasion of the release of her new book Finding God Abiding: Daily Meditations. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Eberle's home in Pennsylvania in May 2022 (where she encourages you to read only one meditation per day). |
Tue, 7 June 2022
This episode stars Angelique Pesce on the occasion of the release of her debut novel American Pastime. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Pesce's home in Connecticut, also the home of ESPN, which seems appropriate in May 2022. |
Fri, 3 June 2022
This episode stars Jared Yates Sexton (The Hook and The Haymaker, The Man They Wanted Me to Be, American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People and many more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Sexton's home in the increasingly purple state of Georgia in April 2022.
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Fri, 27 May 2022
This episode stars Anita K. Newman on the occasion of the release of her debut children's book Clark the Colorblind Chameleon. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Newman's home in Carver, Massachusetts, named for John Carver, the first governor of the Plymouth Colony, so there's that, in May 2022.
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Thu, 19 May 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.
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Fri, 29 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.
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Mon, 4 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. |
Tue, 29 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. |