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Ed Fowler, a therapist at BAY AREA DBT & COUPLES COUNSELING CENTER & host of The Skillful Podcast, discusses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

John talks with Michael Glover about his new book Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art (David Zwirner Books, 2019)

John talks to Jay David Bolter about his new book The Digital Plenitude (MIT Press, 2019)

John talks with Timothy Aubry about his new book Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures (Harvard, 2018).

John talks with Brandon Kreitler about his essay "Competitive Personhood and the Commonplace of Poetry" in Tourniquet Review. They also discuss book reviewing, the figure of the poet, community, and so much more. Link to Brandon's essay: https://tourniquetreview.com/blog/2018/9/3/competitive-personhood-and-the-commonplace-of-poetry

John talks with poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson, author of Meadow Slasher (Black Ocean 2017) and other things. He lives in Seattle. Josh talks to John about his life away from social media and life without a smartphone.

John talks with Evan Kindley, author of Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture. Evan is a literary scholar, critic, Senior Humanities Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and visiting assistant professor at Pomona College.

John talks with Joseph North about his new book Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History (Harvard University Press, 2017).

John talks with Chistopher Grobe about his new book The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV (NYU Press, 2017).