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Jason Quinn Malott

The Outrider Podcast

A weekly Arts and Books podcast
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The Outrider Podcast

Jason Quinn Malott

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The Outrider Podcast

Jason Quinn Malott

The Outrider Podcast

A weekly Arts and Books podcast
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In this episode we discuss the dopamine hit of going slightly viral on social media for stating the obvious, the speed of the internet, commodifying ourselves, indie authors, age, expiration dates, and the discipline of not posting everything w
In this episode, we discuss the publishing world and what is and isn’t wrong with it. Do we read or not read? What is a book? What isn’t a book? How many times can we repeat what we’ve repeated again. The piece that started it all: No One Bu
AWP summary from Jason, and lots of books, books, books. Not keeping secrets, reviving our passions, and lots and lots of man-babies.Instead of individual books, check out these small presses. Astrophil Books7:13 BooksStalking Horse Pre
In this episode we talk a little bit about mental health and writing, and a tiny bit about joy. Catch up on Jenn’s adventures with her memoirThe Career Adjunct podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-career-adjunct/id1712918978
In this episode we talk about the usual stuff like our readings and writings, catching Covid for the first time, getting noticed by pubs (the boozy kind), and our cranky, cranky take on the future of publishing. The article that launches us
On this month’s episode we talk about recording issues, Jenn’s first driver’s license, pooping, peri-menopause, and D&D dice.  The big topic is a combination of AI in publishing, Literary Freedom, and how we’re letting algorithms determine what
In this episode we discuss time, Star Trek, Ulysses (again), being delusional, the silent rejection, and the purpose, importance, and intent of small presses in response to a Spring 2023 episode of M. Allen Cunningham’s In The Atelier podcast. 
Sorry we’re a bit hard this month, but Jason had a birthday party, and a vacation. Heather started a new job. Jenn did things, we don’t know. In this episode we talk about time, Aubrey Plaza, not reading fiction as much, being out of place and
In this episode, we discuss John Le Carré, Japanese fiction, things we’re sending out to agents and publishers, being in the wilderness—all before we get to our discussion of an essay by Joseph Scapellato on Shape as a wrap-up to our discussion
We’re late. Sorry. It’s summer, and it’s been hot and sluggish. In August, we continue our conversation on Form and Function with a discussion of three essays by Jenn (links below). Other topics include: perimenopause, Penis Appreciation Day
This month, Jenn and Jason kick off a series of discussions on craft: how their things are put together, why and to what ends certain decisions are made and so on. For July, we’re looking at some early chapters from Jason’s project “The Poisone
In this month’s discussion, we chatter about AI and all the ways that the robots are coming for our artistic expression. Instead of the robots being tasked with the dirty jobs, they’ll make our art while we scoop poop and pray that the billiona
In this episode, we discuss craft and crafty things, and what it all really means and how we think about it and, maybe, should think about it. We trot out a metaphor that writing is baking—and that some writers rely too much on premade cake and
In this episode we finish up our discussion of Chokepoint Capitalism and make the argument for mutual aid, small presses, and systemic change as a means of wrestling control of our creative lives back from the big tech and big content. You s
In this episode we discuss the illusion of TV as a substitute for socializing, finding comp titles, homogenization as a way to increase extraction. Award season for TV and movies and the awesomeness around Jamie Lee Curtis being a champion… and
In our February episode we jump right in with Dick, Moby Dick then ranting about holiday stress and turning fifty. We then do a bit of an exercise based on a bestseller list Jenn sent to find out how much the Big Five Publishers dominate the pu
This month we continue our topic on story basics, as well as what we’re working on, reading, and what is making us happy. Today we discuss Maria Tartar’s The Heroine with 1,001 Faces.Jenn is still reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, but
Welcome to episode 2 of The Outrider Podcast with Jenn Zuko and Jason Quinn MalottToday, we talk about the core foundation of story and how genre, at least as we understand it in the age of book marketing and mega-publishers, is irrelevant t
Welcome back to the Outrider Podcast. After a long hiatus, I’m back with a new full-time co-host, Jenn Zuko. Jenn was the very first guest on The Outrider Podcast way back in 2013. Since then she’s been on several special episodes as well as o
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In this mini-series I’m joined by my long-time friend, the poet Delia Tramontina for a lively discussion of Djuna Barnes seminal novel Nightwood. In Episode 4, since Delia and I struggled to get a handle on Nightwood, we’ve invited Stacey Ko
In this mini-series I’m joined by my long-time friend, the poet Delia Tramontina for a lively discussion of Djuna Barnes seminal novel Nightwood. In Episode 3, we’ll discuss the chapters Watchman, What of the Night, Where the Tree Falls, Go
In this mini-series I’m joined by my long-time friend, the poet Delia Tramontina for a lively discussion of Djuna Barnes seminal novel Nightwood. In Episode 2, we’ll discuss the chapters Bow Down, La Somnambule, Night Watch, and “The Squatte
In this mini-series I’m joined by my long-time friend, the poet Delia Tramontina for a lively discussion of Djuna Barnes seminal novel Nightwood. In Episode 1, we’ll read and discuss the preface and introduction to Djuna Barnes' novel Nightwoo
Today’s guest is an old friend, Evan Hundhausen. Evan was the first person I met when I arrived at Naropa University. A writer, DJ, entrepreneur, and rebel, he’s carved out a path very different from my own, which just goes to show you, there’s
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