Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

Updated: 19 Apr 2025 • 160 episodes
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Dive into this lit podcast hosted by Mallory Smart, where authors explore the synergy between music and their writing. Brace yourself for offbeat interviews where writers discuss their individual styles, get lost in unpredictable anecdotes, and how music transforms their creative process. New episodes airing every Saturday.

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Diana Oropesa is a writer and performer based in Portland. Her debut book, An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance (Future Tense Books), is a hybrid collection of flash fiction and poetic nonfiction that explores the quiet, strange ways people fade from our lives. She’s a member of Yelling Choir and holds an MFA from th

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Nick Rees Gardner is the author of Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts (Madrona Books), a gritty, poetic collection of linked stories about addiction, recovery, and resilience in the fictional town of Westinghouse, Ohio. Grab a copy from Madrona Books or Amazon. He’s also the author of Hurricane Trinity (Unsolicited

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Nick Rees Gardner is the author of Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts (Madrona Books), a gritty, poetic collection of linked stories about addiction, recovery, and resilience in the fictional town of Westinghouse, Ohio. Grab a copy from Madrona Books or Amazon. He’s also the author of Hurricane Trinity (Unsolicited

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Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction writer, essayist, and former librarian based in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things, as well as With Teeth and Stop Me If You've Heard This One. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Vogue, and more. You c

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Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction writer, essayist, and former librarian based in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things, as well as With Teeth and Stop Me If You've Heard This One. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Vogue, and more. You c

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Victoria Brooks is a queer nonbinary author living in London, UK, and parent to an octopod (2 year old identical twins)—an identity-shifting experience they recently wrote about for  W0rms. Their first queer sci-fi novel, Silicone God, was published by MOIST Books in the UK, and was recently published in the US (House

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