This Podcast Will Change Your Life

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. 

This episode stars Shifra Malka (Dare to Matter: Lessons in Living a Large Life). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Malka's home office in Baltimore, MD. 

This episode stars Stuart Ross (Jenny in Corona). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be for the foreseeable future) and Ross' home office, which is in Chicago, IL as well (and where there are no immediate plans to record any further episodes, though you never know). 

This episode stars Judith Krummeck (Old New Worlds). It was recorded at the 3rd Coast Cafe in Chicago, IL in February 2020.

This episode stars Sharyn Skeeter (Dancing with Langston). It was recorded at the JW Marriott in Chicago, IL in February 2020.

This episode stars Jeremy T. Wilson (Adult Teeth). It was recorded at the 3rd Coast Cafe in Chicago, IL in January 2020.

This episode stars Tony Brunelli (Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Louis K. Meisel Gallery). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Brunelli's studio somewhere off in sunny Florida in December 2019.

This episode stars Dave Newman (Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children, Two Small Birds, East Pittsburgh Downlow). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Newman's home office on the outskirts of Pittsburgh in November 2019.

This episode stars Leland Cheuk (No Good Very Bad Asian, The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, 7.13 Books). It was recorded at the 3rd Coast Cafe in Chicago, IL in November 2019.

This episode stars Gint Aras (Relief by Execution, The Fugue). It was recorded at the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago, IL, not Portland, in November 2019.

This episode stars Liz Scott (This Never Happened). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Scott's office in Portland, OR, yes, Portland, again, and again, sweet, right, yes, again, in October 2019.

This episode stars Melissa Duclos (Besotted, Magnify, Amplify). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Duclos' office in Portland, OR, yes, Portland, again, sweet, right, in September 2019.

This episode stars Greg Gerding (University of Hell Press). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and the University of Hell Press offices in greater PDX in August 2019.

This episode stars Josh Denslow (Not Everyone Is Special). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Denslow's home, which is not in Los Angeles, but somewhere in the great state of Texas in August 2019.

This episode stars Greg Santos (Blackbirds, The Emperor's Sofa, Rabbit Punch). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Santo's home country of wait for it...Canada, yes, that Canada, again, in July 2019.

This episode stars Neile Parisi (Today My Name Is Billie). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Parisi's home in the quaint, literary environ otherwise known as Connecticut, in June 2019.

This episode stars Mica Lemiski (Fainting Couch Feminists, VICE). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Lemiski's home country of Canada, yes, that Canada, in May 2019.

This episode stars Brian Adams (Offline, Love in the Time of Climate Change). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Adam's home in the wilds of Western Massachusetts in May 2019.

This episode stars Sarina Prabasi (The Coffeehouse Resistance). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Prabasi's office in New York City in May 2019.

This episode stars Annie Rodriguez (Lifeforce). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Rodriguez's home in the wild environs of Pennsylvania in April 2019.

This episode stars Kris Hull (Nia Impact Capital, Money Doula Blog). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and the most glorious East Bay, home of Nia Impact Capital, in April 2019.

This milestone episode (he says only semi- tongue-in-cheek) stars Brad Listi (OTHERPPL with Brad Listi). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Listi's state of the art recording studio hidden deep within the endlessly sun-dappled and bleached streets of Los Angeles, CA in March 2019.

This episode stars Duke Haney (Death Valley Superstars, Subversia). It was recorded* over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Haney's home in Los Angeles, CA in March 2019.

*Please do ignore the brief spots of Skype glitchiness around the mid-point and end of the show, they are brief and they will pass, and they may even add character.

This episode stars Barbra J. Dillon (Fanbase Press). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and the Fanbase Press media compound in Los Angeles in February 2019.

This episode stars Pete Anderson (Wheatyard, Where The Marshland Came To Flower). It was recorded at an undisclosed location high above Lincoln Park in Chicago, IL in February 2019.

This episode stars Leza Cantoral (Trash Panda, CLASH Books). It was recorded over the Facetime, yes, that Facetime, a first, yo, between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Live Free or Die New Hampshire where the Cantoral makes magic in January 2019.

This episode stars Donald G. Evans (An Off-White Christmas). It was recorded walking through the Gold Coast neighborhood in Chicago, IL in November 2018.

This episode stars Jenn Stroud Rossmann (The Place You're Supposed To Laugh). It was recorded at Osmium Coffee Bar in Chicago, IL in December 2018.

This episode stars Simon A. Smith (Son of Soothsayer). It was recorded walking through Boys Town and any number of points North (East, West and South) in Chicago, IL in November 2018.

This episode stars Hosho McCreesh (Chinese Gucci*, A DEEP AND GORGEOUS THIRST, and turns still the sun at dusk blood-red). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and the vast plains of New Mexico where McCreesh plies his trade in October 2018.

(*one may still Pre-Order Chinese Gucci through 11/5 and one may very well want to do so post-haste - hoshomccreesh.com/chinesegucci)

This episode stars Terry H. Watkins/Hiner (Darling Girl). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Hiner's abode in Austin, TX in September 2018.

This episode stars Matt Fitzpatrick (Crosshairs). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Fitzpatrick's compound in Chatham, MA in October 2018.

This episode stars Christine Marie Eberle (Finding God in Ordinary Time). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Eberle's office at Gwynedd Mercy University near Philadelphia in September 2018.

This episode stars Harry Marks (Covered). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and a town outside of Rutgers University in September 2018.

This episode stars Vanessa Blakeslee (Train Shots, Juventad, Perfect Conditions). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and The Treasure Coast of Florida in August 2018.

This episode stars Sarah Ward (Aesop Lake). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Ward's office on the campus of the University of Vermont in July 2018.

This episode stars Greg Olear (Dirty Rubles, Fathermucker). It was recorded* over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Olear's car in an undisclosed location somewhere in the Hudson Valley region of New York in July 2018.

*Please do allow for some glitchy, and sporadic, Bluetooth adjustments during the first 8 minutes of the show.

This episode stars Charita Cole Brown (Defying The Verdict). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Brown's home in Baltimore, MD in July 2018.

This episode stars Dwayne Hayes (STAND). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and the STAND inner sanctum, which is located in a top secret location in Michigan in June 2018.

This episode stars Daniel Ford and Sean Touhy (Writer's Bone). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and the Writer's Bone top secret compound, which is located in and around Boston, MA in May 2018.

This episode stars Joseph Peterson (Gunmetal Blue, Beautiful Piece, Gideon's Confession). It was recorded at 3rd Coast Cafe* in Chicago, IL in December 2017.

*Please do ignore some of the early crowd banter, it dissipates, for real.

This episode stars Tabitha Blankenbiller (Eats of Eden). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Blankenbiller's home, which is not quite in Portland, OR in February 2018.

This episode stars Vincent Chu (Like a Champion). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Chu's home in San Francisco, CA in February 2018.

This episode stars Giano Cromley (The Last Good Halloween, What We Build Upon the Ruins*). It was recorded walking through West Town on Chicago Avenue in Chicago, IL in January 2018.

*Or What We Build Upon the Something, Something as some know it.

This episode stars Paul Cohen (The Glamshack). It was recorded at 3rd Coast Cafe* in Chicago, IL in November 2017.

*Please do ignore some of the early crowd banter, it dissipates, for real.

This episode stars Bill Mares (The Full Vermonty: Vermont in the Age of Trump, Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats, Making Beer: From Homebrew to the House of Fermentology). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Mare's home in Burlington, VT in February 2018.

This very special 175th episode stars Lori Hettler (TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Hettler's home in Tobyhanna, PA in February 2018.

This episode stars Bob Hartley (North and Central, Following Tommy). It was recorded walking through the Loop towards Millenium Park and sitting in the park itself in Chicago, IL in November 2017.

This episode stars David Masciotra (Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama: Invisible Man). It was recorded at Dollop Coffee Co.* in Chicago, IL in January 2018.

*Please do ignore some of the early crowd banter, again, it dissipates, for real.

This episode stars Nicholas Barron (Two Of One Mind, Scary Beautiful). It was recorded at Metropolis Coffee* in Chicago, IL in November 2017.

*Please do ignore some of the early crowd banter, it dissipates, for real.

This episode stars Jennifer Steele (YOUMedia, Revolving Door Arts Foundation, ChiTeen Lit Fest). It was recorded at Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago, IL in October 2017.

This episode stars Glen Binger (Stories By The Sea, Only Human, Bing Bang Co.). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and the backyard of Binger's home in Belmar, NJ (which as it happens is really close to the beach and absolutely killing us) in August 2017.

This episode stars Elaine Soloway (The Division Street Princess, She's Not The Type, Green Nails and Other Acts of Rebellion). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at Soloway's home in November 2017.

This episode stars Christopher Bowen (We Were Giants; When I Return To You, I will Be Unfed; This Handbook Will Change Your Life 002 - DEBT). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and an undisclosed location in Western Pennsylvania where Bowen was furiously making his final edits to DEBT in October 2017.

To learn more about This Handbook Will Change Your Life 002 - DEBT by the Christopher Bowen, or even better, Pre-Order it, please go here.

This episode stars previous guest Patricia Ann McNair (Temple of Air, And These Are The Good Times). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at McNair's office at Columbia College in October 2017.

This episode stars Lee L. Krecklow (The Expanse Between). It was recorded in Milwaukee, WI at Cafe Hollander in August 2017.

This episode stars Mike McClelland (Gay Zoo Day). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and McClelland's home in Athens, GA in August 2017.

This episode stars Garret Schuelke (ANAMAKEE, Whup Jamboree). It was recorded while walking north on LaSalle Street in Chicago, IL in June 2017.

This episode stars Michael Wayne Hampton (Bad Kids from Good Schools, Roller Girls Love Bobby Knight). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Hampton's home in Cincinnati, OH in June 2017.

This episode stars Lori Jakiela (Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and the Writing Life, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life Hampton Inn satellite office in West Bloomfield, MI and Jakiela's home in Trafford, PA in August 2017.

This episode stars Bill Yarrow (The Vig of Love, We All Saw it Coming). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at Revival Food Hall in May 2017.

This episode stars Sam Slaughter (God in Neon, When You Cross That Line, The Manual). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.

This episode stars Sequoia Nagamatsu (Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.

This episode stars Shaindel Beers (A Brief History of Time, The Children's War). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.

This episode stars Seth Berg (Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory, Aviary). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Berg's home in Minneapolis, MN in April 2017.

This episode stars Joshua Mohr (Some Things That Meant the World to Me, Fight Song, Sirens). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and some random Airbnb in Boston, MA in March 2017.

This episode stars Kara Vernor (Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Vernor's home in Napa, CA in March 2017.

This episode stars W. Todd Kaneko (The Dead Wrestler Elegies). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.

This episode stars Melissa Faliveno (Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.

This episode stars Rick Kogan (Chicago Tribune, After Hours with Rick Kogan, A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a curse and the American Dream). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at the Billy Goat Tavern in March 2016.

This episode stars Wendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, Bruja). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.

This episode stars Donald Quist (Harbors). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.

This episode stars Steve Lafler (Mean Cat, Dog Boy, Bughouse). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Lafler's home in Santa Rosa, CA in December 2016.