Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the Alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review.
Sickkkkkk, bruv. This week, host Kelsie Renehan sits down with Hannah Goldstein, former Editor in Chief of the FU Review, events manager at The Word, host of Picks of Berlin, and Masters Candidate at Freie Univeristät. In this long season finale episode, they talk about the process of creating and running a literary journal, supporting the scene instead of being in the scene, and curating events to support artists. Hannah is shocking us in ways that are insightful, exploring perverse women, and hating the sound of her own voice. See if you can guess where she’s from before the end of the episode.
Hannah’s reading at loads of nights where it wasn’t really appropriate & putting Sick to rest on the pod. They also talk about the standard taking down capitalism and importance of community. And always remember, it depends on what club you’re in in Berlin.
Even though we plug so many great events in this episode, you gotta stay inside right now. So, we’re not doing our episodic biweekly events calendar below. Please, please support your local artists, bars, bookstores, and lit mags, but at a safe distance. We’ll see you out there when it’s safe to do so.
Hey, Christian, this is for you.
We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support. Special love in this episode to the JFKI.
Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the Alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review.
On a podcast where our gut is so on fire we could digest anything and I can’t pronounce anyone’s last names, Blake Matich is here, making the outtakes way more funny than they need to be & where we provide the ASMR service of sweet nothings and pleasantries (pleasant niceitries?? no self-deprecation here; we’re rolling with it). There’s koalas … having intercourse, truly an animal with a commitment to chaos. And Kelsie has decided that when Australians say ‘duhhhh’ there’s an r in there, somewhere.
We talk about the kind of people who google their own houses (me) instead of everything you could possible see on the infinite being of Google Earth that the American Government (capital A capital G) lets you see, and the every present dependency on making people laugh, and climate doom and why we shouldn’t trust it (just the doom, Earth is definitely dying). Does Blake think capitalism will change us?? Did Prometheus cackle as he stole the sun?? Does Blake makes up words that already exist (Trump realness)?? Am I rude off tape??
“I could never disdain wanting to paying attention to something closely.”
You can find one of Blake’s recently published pieces here. If you’d like to collab (especially on a play/comedy) with Blake, connect with him on insta @bkmatich
Check out the Berlin Writers Group, talked about in the episode today, and maybe you’ll run into Blake! Say hi for us.
We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support.
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EVENTS IN BERLIN:
*Please be cautious with your health and pay attention to local and government advice for dealing with covid-19, especially those related to gatherings. Stay safe; we love you!*
10.03 // 19 – 20:30 // Reading Lacan: The Direction of Psychoanalytic Treatment
10.03 // 19:30 – 22 // MSG & Friends #6: Viral Resistance
11.03 // 19 – 21 // Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real
12.03 // 19:30 – 23 // Myth Feat. Jakob Boyd and Saoirse Nash (Du Beast)
15.03 // 19:30 – 22:30 // Entheos
16.03 // 19 // Poetry As__A Workshop
17.03 // 19 – 22 // States of the Body Produced by Love: Readings with Nisha Ramayya
18.03 // 20:30 – 23:30 // How Long is Forever #15 - feat. Karl Pinzon Bustillo
19.03 // 20:30 – 22:30 // Self Indulgence feat. The Color Duchess (Du Beast)
19.03 // 19:30 – 21:30 // Curious Fox Book Club
19.03 // 19 – 21 // Unreal City Open Mic Vol. 7: Present [Blake will be here!]
20.03 // 19:45 – 23 // Walk in My Words #8 - Fear
24.03 // 20:30 – 23:30 // Droll.
26.03 // 18:30 – 21 // March Berlin Podcasting Meetup
Open submissions:
Due March 19, 2020: Open Submissions on the theme “Dear hormones” (Radical Self Knowledge)
Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review.
This week, in a podcast where we allow alternative histories, Kelsie sits down with Hanna Olters for some poems about citrus and blackberries and summer, including one from the archives (issue 5 of the FU Review). Apologies for Kelsie’s blown out voice, even though Hanna is the sick one. We talk about our opposite editing processes, why Mother Mary wears blue, my grandmother, Natalia Ginzburg, and motherhood (which neither of us are). Plus our own poems that surprise us later, self-actualization, The Wild Word, and what stayed behind.
Bonus discussions about my neighborhood squirrel and the age-old question, who amongst us doesn’t hoard Mother Mary paraphernalia?
Hanna is a German American poet and student who insists there is one plus side to mass surveillance: NSA picks of the month (NSA don’t interact!)
Remember, our submissions are now open through Feb 15, 2020! We pay our authors, and ya know, sometimes they end up on a podcast like this one ;)
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Notes: the Toni Morrison quote mentioned is: “There was something so valuable about what happened when one became a mother. For me it was the most liberating thing that ever happened to me. Liberating because the demands that children make are not the demands of a normal ‘other.’ The children’s demands on me were things that nobody ever asked me to do. To be a good manager. To have a sense of humor. To deliver something that somebody could use. And they were not interested in all the things that other people were interested in, like what I was wearing or if I were sensual. Somehow all of the baggage that I had accumulated as a person about what was valuable just fell away. I could not only be me—whatever that was—but somebody actually needed me to be that. If you listen to [your children], somehow you are able to free yourself from baggage and vanity and all sorts of things, and deliver a better self, one that you like. The person that was in me that I liked best was the one my children seemed to want.” :from Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart
This week, in Berlin:
// OPEN SUBMISSIONS // NOW // TIL FEB 15, 2020 // THEME: DEBT //
Mentioned in the episode:
Feb 4 (monthly) // 20 – 23 // Isn’t Everything Poetry?
We recommend:
Feb 16 // 19 – 22 // The Reader Presents: A Night of Queer Scottish Fiction
All events:
Feb 5 // 19:30 – 22:30 // EDIT Berlin Launch
Feb 5 // 19 – 23 // Berlin Screenwriters Network Monthly Happy Hour
Feb 5 // 19 – 22 // Open Harbor
Feb 6 // 19:15 – 22:15 // NOM: a community storytelling open mic about food
Feb 6 // 19:30 – 23 // Water Feat. Meer // Berlin Spoken Word @ Du Beast
Feb 10 // 20 – 22:30 // Rixdorfer Poetry Slam
Feb 11 // 20 – 23 // Dead Ladies Show #25
Feb 11 // 19:30 – 21 // The Magician’s Mother: A Story of Coffee, Race, & German Culture
Feb 11 // 19 – 21 // Unreal City Open Mic Vol. 6: Fruition
Feb 13 // 19:30 – 23 // Valentine’s Special! // Berlin Spoken Word @ Du Beast
Feb 14 // 20:30 – 23 // On Fire! Comedy meets Poetry!
Feb 16 // 14 – 16 // Workshop | Juliana Villegas: Nepantla for Writing Practice
Feb 16 // 19 – 23 // Poetry Meets Soul w/ Kersha Bailey & Sedric Perry | Open Stage
Feb 17 // 19 – 22:30 // Smut Slam Berlin: "Epic Fail" (Feb 17)
Feb 17 // 20 – 23 // Quiz Night at Curious Fox Bookshop, Neukölln
Feb 18 – 19 // 8 – 2 // Absurd Lustre with Elen Huynh
Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review.
This week, on a podcast where we are NOT knocking ourselves down goddamn it, Kelsie sits down with Behram Sidhwa, a philosopher poet with high praise for pigeons and Künstler, Künstlerin (and Alexandra and Luke). We talk about trying to be a nice human being, trying to battle our way through the Berlin winter, and cooking for love. Why go to therapy when you could go to open mics?? (jk go to therapy) Behram reads two pieces involving inter-species relations and that war president, and we talk about writing communities and how pieces are received depending on the reader and the audience. We’ll be back in two weeks. Until then, we are reading absolutely nothing & doing something for ourselves.
Behram is a performer, orator, poet and essayist from India. Mostly writing intuitively, his process (like that of most artists) is driven by an emotional overflowing, that won’t resolve itself until its expression. His work is visually scenic and dramatic. He has a penchant for creating a surreal blend of the esoteric and the exact, with an efficiency of words that feels like witnessing a fresco in 5 minutes.
Remember, our submissions are now open, due Feb 15, 2020! We pay our authors, and ya know, sometimes they end up on a podcast like this one ;)
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We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support.
Our outro song is titled ‘A Caring Friend’, which brings me a bit of joy at the end of editing every time – so if you listen through to the end – it’ll be a treat for you now too.
This week, in Berlin:
// OPEN SUBMISSIONS // NOW // TIL FEB 15, 2020 // THEME: DEBT //
Our picks:
Jan 30 // 18 – 21 // FU Review Winter Reading: Current Works - Come out; come out!
Jan 28 // 20 – 21:30 // Bridge N3 with Dayoung L, Inna K, Magdalena H, and Sara A - Catch one of our editors, Dayoung, reading here!
Jan 25 // 19 - // Picks of Berlin - Catch one of our authors, Ceri Savage, reading here! & more!
Jan 24 // 21 – 4 // LOLA Live: Skiing / Big Eater / Goblin Prince / ACID GOLD
Jan 21 // 20 – 23 // Quiz Night at Curious Fox Bookshop, Neukölln
Jan 21 // 19:30 – 22 // Entheos
Jan 22 // 19:30 // Poetry in Dark Times: Ellen Hinsey & Maria Stepanova
Jan 22 // 19:30 – 21:30 // Between Us and Nature #28 - Ecological Grief
Jan 22 // 20:30 – 22:30 // Künstler, Künstlerin, Are there any fun events happening tonight
Jan 23 // 16:30 – 20 // Poetry As__A Workshop: Midwinter
Jan 23 // 19 – 22 // Readings by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Tzveta Sofronieva
Jan 23 // 19:30 – 22 // Robert reading "Hitchhiking" & "Portraits".
Jan 23 // 19:30 – 23 // Awakening Featuring Denise Pereira (@ Du Beast)
Jan 27 // 21 – 24 // Experimental Electronic Storyteller Night
Jan 29 // 20 – 22:30 // Storytelling Berlin: Surrender
Jan 30 // 19:30 – 23 // Blown Away (@ Du Beast)
Jan 30 & 31 // Brigid meets Berlin : Festival of Irish Female Literary Creativity
Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the Alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review.
This week, host Kelsie Renehan sits down with Maximilien Luc Proctor, a filmmaker who you can just call Max, to read some stories about blocks (which can’t defend themselves), stories about movies, stories from unfinished novels about unfinished dreams. They talk about the translation of humor, starting your own blog, how to get interviews with famous artists, and Kelsie tries to become Max’s personal hero. Go to Serbia, throw that spaghetti, and try to figure out if Kelsie is lying.
Max was truly a joy to record with, and even with cutting the many laughs, the many re-readings of ‘sum of their farts’, this episode is a few minutes longer than usual – but we promise, it’s worth it.
@Wolf Kino – hire my mans!
You can find Max on his blog Ultradogme or on his Vimeo channel! Today, his personal manifesto will be on Photogenie. Keep an eye out there in January for his editorial issue. You can (often) find Max in person at Wolf Kino.
If ya can’t get enough of Max’s voice, tune into Episode 7 of BandsToWatch Podcast here.
We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support.
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This week, in Berlin:
3.12 // 20 – 23 // Isn’t Everything Poetry
3.12 // 20 – 2230 // NOM: a community storytelling open mic about food
4.12 // 2030 – 10 // Poetry Slam Charity Gala für Berliner Obdachlose in der Kälte
4.12 // 19 – 24 // A Poetry Reading With Four Poets!
5.12 // 1930 – 23 // Celebration – 4 Years of BSW! (Berlin Spoken Word)
5.12 // 2030 – 2330 // Book Launch: Aesthesis and Perceptronium : Alexander Wilson
5.12 // 2030 – 2230 // Style - Die Slam Poetry Show
6.12 // 2030 – 230 // On Fire! Comedy meets Poetry!
6.12 // 15 – 17 // How to write and publish a book - ein Workshop mit Autor Matthias J. Diaz
7.12 // 1530 – 1615 // Books For A Better World - Book Club (6+)
7.12 // 20 – 23 // Der ocelot, - Weihnachtsabend
9.12 // 1930 – 23 // Domicilium
10.12 // 16 – 1730 // Books & Booze - Part 23
10.12 // 1930 – 22 // ICI Library Event: A Tentation
10.12 // 1930 – 2130 // Creative Writing Workshop: Exploring the Short Story
11.12 // 1830 – 21 // Between Realism and Utopia: Reflections on Adorno
11.12 // 1930 - 2130 // Out of Darkness: A night of spoken word feat. Demi Anter and Ana Paz
11.12 // 20 – 22 // Four Eyes - Comedy Storytelling Open Mic!
12.12 // 1930 – 24 // Femso Library Opening
Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the Alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review.
This week, on a podcast where there’s no room for modesty, host Kelsie Renehan sits down with Best Poet Ever, Luke Swenson, who would definitely go to Mars. They talk dead Germans, best practices for translation, Battlestar Galactica, and poems that aren’t poems anymore. Luke reads two original poems and two translations (and their German originals!) Kelsie reveals she only knows one language, doesn’t know how to play chess, and is very, very afraid of outer space.
We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support.
Follow the FU Review on Facebook and Instagram! And come to our launch event on Saturday Nov 23.
You can catch Luke Swenson on Instagram, and he’ll be at Künstler, Künstlerin Nov 27 – say hi!
And you can find some of his work at The Los Angeles Review, Inescape Journal, Riddled with Arrows, Berlin Untelevised, and on the Künstler, Künstlerin site.
He was recently featured on an episode of Cashmere Radio’s Cryptomnesia.
Luke’s full sentence of titles was “anticipated future spacecraft home galaxy contracting whip against alpha centauri b”.
If you’re listening Johannes Bobrowski Gesellschaft [http://www.johannes-bobrowski-gesellschaft.de/] check your email! Luke awaits…
This week, in Berlin:
Nov 23 // 17 – 21// Release Party // FU Review Issue 7 [Come show love!!]
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NOV 22 // 1930 – 3 // Inside the Taboo: Launching SAND #20 [Kelsie, Moses, & more will be here!]
NOV 27 // 2030 – 2330 // Künstler, Künstlerin, How long is forever 10 [Luke will be here! + FU Review editors & more authors]
NOV 19 // 20 – 23 // Quiz Night at Curious Fox Bookshop, Neukölln [Kelsie & Dayoung will be here!]
NOV 19 & NOV 26 // 17 – 20 // Poetry As __ A Workshop
NOV 20 // 18 – 2030 // Open Harbor
NOV 21 // 1930 – 2130 // Curious Fox Book Club
NOV 21 // 19 – 22 // Books & Booze - Part 22
NOV 22 // 2030 – 23 // On Fire! Comedy meets Poetry!
NOV 22 // 1930 – 2230 // The Autobiography Effect
NOV 22 // 20 – 2230 // The Bear presents PAPER Stories
NOV 23, 11 – NOV 24, 18 // DISTANZ Pop-up Book Sale
NOV 25 // 1930 – 22 // Literally Speaking: Dysfunctional Thanksgiving
NOV 26 // 1930 – 21 // Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination by Judith Wechsler
NOV 26 // 20 – 2130 // MUSE (an experiment in storytelling & life drawing)
NOV 27 // 20 – 22 // Four Eyes - Comedy Storytelling Open Mic!
NOV 28 // 19 – 21 // Read me Almost 30
NOV 28 // 9 – 12 // Lecture-cum-Seminar "Magical Realism in Arabic Literature"
Every other Thursday, the archives of the FU Review come alive with previously published poems and prose read by their authors and a little interview to match.
For our first archival episode, Dr. Ruth Wishart joins host Kelsie to discuss the formation of the FU Review and to read a piece from Issue 2. There’s incestuous Austrians (who are also great loves and who are also dead), Brexit, Haruki Murakami’s bad sex, and kids who are also poets. Gamze’s Jawbreaker piece published in Tint comes back out to play. Kelsie learns what Mid-Atlantic means and exploits Audible.
If you're a Berliner like us, or just in town, stay tuned after the episode for a few upcoming literary events in Berlin! A full list can be found below.
This episode is brought to you by The FU Review and Bear Radio with big thanks to Hindenburg for their support.
Follow the FU Review on Facebook and Instagram! And come to our launch event on Saturday Nov 23.
You can find Ruth @ruth.wish & her daughter @ailie.gator on Instagram! Sometimes, you can find Ruth reading at Fiction Canteen.
Her random name prompt uses this site.
Special shout outs to the Wild Word and Tint journal who appear in this episode!
This week, in Berlin:
Nov 14 // 19 - 21 // An Interview with the Severed Head of Orpheus
Nov 14 // 1930 - 23 // Berlin Spoken Word: Humor
Nov 14 // 20 - 23 // No time to sleep poetry performance with RAN
Nov 14 // 19 – 21 // Poetry Slam Kopenick
Nov 14 // 18 - 2030 // Lectures and Discussion: Experimental Humanities
Nov 14 // 19 - 23 // GRAND Slam – Poetry meets Music
Nov 15 // 1930 – 21 // Lost in a comic translation
Nov 16 // 11 – 22 // Queer Publishing: Books, Texts, Performances
Nov 16 // 1030 - 12 // Crowdfund Your Literary Project [Say hi to Moses!]
Nov 17 // 20 - 22 // Stories with Spine: DARK Matter
Nov 18 // 15 - 1830 // Telling Tales – Practices of Embodiment
Nov 18 // 19 – 2230 // Smut Slam Berlin: “Hygge AF”
Nov 18 // 1930 - 2130 // Women Writing Berlin Lab Session
Nov 18 // 20 - 24 // Sweetest Taboo Opening Night x Poetry meets Soul
Nov 18 //20 - 23 // Guerrilla Slam #71 – feat Veronika Rieger
Welcome to the first episode of FU Out Loud! We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move.
We're kicking off our inaugural episode with a very near and dear author to the FU Review.
Gamze Saymaz joins host Kelsie to read some cannibalistic and lovesick prose poems and talk about past inspiration, what she's reading now, and how the future of her writing is shaping up. Hint: it involves a house so haunted and so awfully close to the tube, humans making aliens (because there is no limit to human hubris), a knock-off Ikea, and 22 buffalo chicken wings.
After the episode, they talk about a few upcoming literary events in Berlin! If you're a Berliner like them, or just in town, stay tuned.
A full list can be found below. Follow the FU Review on Facebook and Instagram! This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio with big thanks to Hindenburg for their support.
You can find the full text of Jawbreaker at Tint Journal and an in depth bio of Gamze here.
You can find more of Gamze Saymaz's work on youtube @ of seatides and on instagram @of.seatides.
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This week, in Berlin:
05.11.2019 // 20-23 // Isn't Everything Poetry?
07.11.2019 // 19:30-23 // Truth, Berlin Spoken Word
07.11.2019 // 19:30-22 // Reading: Eugene Ostashevsky and Donna Stonecipher
07.11.2019 // 20:30-22 // STYLE - Spoken Word und Poetry Slam Show im November
07.11.2019 // 19-21 // Performance: I Am Not On The Blacklist
08.11.2019 // 21-23 // On Fire! Comedy meets Poetry!
09.11.2019 // 19-? // One World Poetry Night - you matter
09.11.2019 // 14-17 // KAPiTAL 5 What Is A Heroine? Writers Workshop
10.11.2019 // 19-21 // Berlin Launch Double Feature - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan & Jessica J Lee
11.11.2019 // 19:30-23 // Domicilium
