Sara Majka's guest appearances

Sara Majka

The Catapult

LIC Reading Series

Let's Deconstruct a Story

Kathleen Alcott

Jason Diamond

Jen Doll

Shelly Oria

Julie Buntin

Leslie Jamison

Allie Rowbottom

Alex Segura

Gregory Pardlo

Josh Gondelman

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Eileen Myles

Morgan Parker

Jazmine Hughes

Isaac Butler

OwlTail

Hi Everyone, I'm excited to share my interview with Sara Majka about the title short story, "Cities I've Never Lived In." Here's a brief description of the collection from the publisher Graywolf Press: "Fearlessly riding the line between imagination and experience, fact and fiction, the linked stories in Sara Majka’s debut collection offer intimate glimpses of a young New England woman whose life must begin afresh after a divorce. Traveling the roads of Maine and the train tracks of Grand Central Station, moving from vast shorelines to the unmade beds of strangers, these fourteen stories circle the dreams of a narrator who finds herself turning to storytelling as a means of working through the world and of understanding herself. A book that upends our ideas of love and belonging, and which asks how much of ourselves we leave behind with each departure we make, Cities I’ve Never Lived In exposes, with great sadness and great humor, the ways in which we are most of all citizens of the places where we cannot stay." Before you listen to our discussion, first please read "Cities I've Never Lived In" here. Thanks, Kelly Bio: When she was young, Sara Majka's family moved along the New England coast, living in Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and small towns in Maine. She received graduate degrees from Umass-Amherst and Bennington College and was awarded a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first book, Cities I've Never Lived In, was published by Graywolf Press / A Public Space in 2016. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island where she teaches writing at RISD. Sara Majka's book can be purchased here on Bookshop and here on Amazon as well as directly from the publisher, Graywolf Press. Let's Deconstruct a Story host, Kelly Fordon’s latest short story collection  I Have the Answer (Wayne State University Press, 2020) was chosen as a Midwest Book Award Finalist and an Eric Hoffer Finalist. Her 2016 Michigan Notable Book, Garden for the Blind, (WSUP), was an INDIEFAB Finalist, a Midwest Book Award Finalist, Eric Hoffer Finalist, and an IPPY Awards Bronze Medalist. She lives in Detroit. www.kellyfordon.com

Hi Everyone, I'm excited to share my interview with Sara Majka about the title short story, "Cities I've Never Lived In." Here's a brief description of the collection from the publisher Graywolf Press: "Fearlessly riding the line between imagination and experience, fact and fiction, the linked stories in Sara Majka’s debut collection offer intimate glimpses of a young New England woman whose life must begin afresh after a divorce. Traveling the roads of Maine and the train tracks of Grand Central Station, moving from vast shorelines to the unmade beds of strangers, these fourteen stories circle the dreams of a narrator who finds herself turning to storytelling as a means of working through the world and of understanding herself. A book that upends our ideas of love and belonging, and which asks how much of ourselves we leave behind with each departure we make, Cities I’ve Never Lived In exposes, with great sadness and great humor, the ways in which we are most of all citizens of the places where we cannot stay." Before you listen to our discussion, first please read "Cities I've Never Lived In" <a href="https://longreads.com/2015/10/31/cities-ive-never-lived-in-a-story-by-sara-majka/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here.</a> Thanks, Kelly Bio: When she was young, Sara Majka's family moved along the New England coast, living in Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and small towns in Maine. She received graduate degrees from Umass-Amherst and Bennington College and was awarded a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first book, Cities I've Never Lived In, was published by Graywolf Press / A Public Space in 2016. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island where she teaches writing at RISD. Sara Majka's book can be purchased here on <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/cities-i-ve-never-lived-in-stories/9781555977313" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> and here on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cities-Ive-Never-Lived-Stories/dp/1555977316" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon</a> as well as directly from the publisher, <a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/cities-ive-never-lived" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Graywolf Press</a>. Let's Deconstruct a Story host, Kelly Fordon’s latest short story collection  I Have the Answer (Wayne State University Press, 2020) was chosen as a Midwest Book Award Finalist and an Eric Hoffer Finalist. Her 2016 Michigan Notable Book, Garden for the Blind, (WSUP), was an INDIEFAB Finalist, a Midwest Book Award Finalist, Eric Hoffer Finalist, and an IPPY Awards Bronze Medalist. She lives in Detroit. <a href="http://www.kellyfordon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.kellyfordon.com</a>

"Let's Deconstruct a Story" featuring Sara Majka

Kelly Luce

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota.This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on February 14, 201, with Jason Diamond, Kelly Luce, and Sara Majka. Check out the panel discussion on Thursday!About the Readers:Jason Diamond is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. His first book was Searching for John Hughes.Kelly Luce is the author of the short-story collection Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, which won Foreword Reviews’s 2013 Editor’s Choice Prize for Fiction. A native of Illinois, she holds a degree in cognitive science from Northwestern University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a contributing editor for Electric Literature. She lives in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains.Sara Majka‘s stories have appeared in A Public Space, PEN America, The Gettysburg Review, and Guernica. A former fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she lives in Queens, New York.*This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at <a href="https://www.licreadingseries.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LIC Reading Series</a>. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota.This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on February 14, 201, with Jason Diamond, Kelly Luce, and Sara Majka. Check out the panel discussion on Thursday!About the Readers:Jason Diamond is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. His first book was Searching for John Hughes.Kelly Luce is the author of the short-story collection Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, which won Foreword Reviews’s 2013 Editor’s Choice Prize for Fiction. A native of Illinois, she holds a degree in cognitive science from Northwestern University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a contributing editor for Electric Literature. She lives in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains.Sara Majka‘s stories have appeared in A Public Space, PEN America, The Gettysburg Review, and Guernica. A former fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she lives in Queens, New York.*This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

READING: Jason Diamond, Kelly Luce, and Sara Majka

Kerry Cullen

Igoni Barrett

Three readings on the moments when our bodies and lives surprise us and betray us, in ways common and seemingly supernatural. Kerry Cullen reads her short story, "Unidentifiable," A. Igoni Barrett reads from his novel, Blackass (on sale March 1) and Sara Majka reads an excerpt from her collection, Cities I've Never Lived In (on sale now). ~review The Catapult in iTunes~ CatapultPodcast.com // @CatapultPodcast // The Trebuchet

Three readings on the moments when our bodies and lives surprise us and betray us, in ways common and seemingly supernatural. Kerry Cullen reads her short story, "Unidentifiable," A. Igoni Barrett reads from his novel, <a href="http://www.wordbookstores.com/book/9781555977337" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blackass</a> (on sale March 1) and Sara Majka reads an excerpt from her collection, <a href="http://www.wordbookstores.com/book/9781555977313" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cities I've Never Lived In</a> (on sale now). <a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/837117982" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">~review The Catapult in iTunes~</a> <a href="http://catapultpodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CatapultPodcast.com</a> // <a href="http://twitter.com/catapultpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@CatapultPodcast</a> // <a href="http://tinyletter.com/thecatapult" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Trebuchet</a>

Ep 49: Kerry Cullen, A. Igoni Barrett, & Sara Majka