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Keep the Channel Open

by Mike Sakasegawa

Making connections through conversation with the art, literature, and creative work that matters to us, and the people who make it. Hosted by writer and photographer Mike Sakasegawa, Keep the Channel Open is a series of in-depth and intimate conversations with artists, writers, and curators from across the creative spectrum.

Episodes

Episode 149: José Pablo Iriarte

1h 7m · Published 24 Apr 07:00

Writer and friend José Pablo Iriarte returns to the show to discuss their debut middle-grade novel, Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed. In our conversation, we talked about building stories without antagonists, writing for young readers, and what makes coming-of-age stories such an enduring phenomenon. Then for the second segment, we talked about the importance of storytelling in creating empathy and connection in our incredibly divided society.

(Recorded April 6, 2024.)

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José Pablo Iriarte
Purchase Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed: White Rose Books (Kissimmee, FL) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 23: José Iriarte
José Pablo Iriarte - “Proof by Induction”
José Pablo Iriarte - “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births”
José Pablo Iriarte - “Secrets and Things We Don’t Say Out Loud”
José Pablo Iriarte - “Life in Stone, Glass, and Plastic”
José Pablo Iriarte - “Spirit of Home”
Becky Chambers - A Psalm for the Wild-Built
A. S. King’s Instagram post
Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You
Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars
A. S. King - Attack of the Black Rectangles

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Episode credits

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Episode 148: Sarah Rose Etter

1h 20m · Published 27 Mar 07:00

Sarah Rose Etter is a writer based in Los Angeles, CA. In Sarah’s latest novel, Ripe, a young woman is trapped in a dream-job-turned-corporate-nightmare at a cutthroat Silicon Valley tech startup. Her bosses are capricious and cruel, the city she lives in is crumbling under late capitalism, and everywhere she goes she is followed by her own personal black hole. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about the relationship between her surrealist fiction and poetry, why visual art is important to her, and what it means for a character to have agency. Then for the second segment we discussed dead authors, reading in translation, and creative insecurity.

(Recorded March 2, 2024.)

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Sarah Rose Etter
Purchase Ripe: Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Sarah Rose Etter - The Book of X
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 89: Julia Dixon Evans
Tommy Pico
Lilliam Rivera
Kristen Arnett
Sarah Rose Etter - “Unpublishable: Censored Emails from Noam Chomsky”
Alina Szapocznikow
Vija Celmins
Nylon - “Sarah Rose Etter’s Ripe and the Rotted Underbelly of Capitalism”
Sarah Rose Etter - “Inside the Cardboard Box of My Heart”
Mark Rothko
Louise Bourgeois
Donald Judd
Sarah Rose Etter - “Girl, What Is Wrong With You?”
Parasite
Uncut Gems
Sarah Rose Etter - “Subglacial Rivers, A Love Poem, Because… & Either/Or”
Crane Brinton - The Anatomy of Revolution
Brandon Taylor - “living shadows: aesthetics of moral worldbuilding”
Tove Ditlevsen - The Copenhagen Trilogy
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine

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Episode Credits:

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Episode 147: KTCO "Book" Club - Baldur's Gate 3 (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)

1h 18m · Published 28 Feb 08:00

For this KTCO “Book” Club conversation, writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall returns to the show to talk about the game Baldur’s Gate 3. In our conversation, Maggie and I talked about what it’s like to experience a story with so many branching paths, how player choices reflect the player’s personality, as well as some standout storytelling moments from the game.

(Recorded February 9, 2024.)

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Purchase Baldur’s Gate 3
Purchase The Siren, the Song, and the Spy
Preorder The Worst Ronin
Pools of Darkness
Unlimited Adventures
Icewind Dale
Baldur’s Gate 2
Octopath Traveler
The Last of Us
The Adventure Zone
Dungeons & Daddies
Neil Newbon
Roger Ebert - “Video games can never be art”
The Brothers Sun
Sarah Lotz - The Impossible Us

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Episode Credits

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Episode 146: Olatunde Osinaike

56m · Published 31 Jan 08:00

Olatunde Osinaike is a poet based in Atlanta, GA. In his debut full-length poetry collection, Tender Headed, Olatunde explores Black masculinity, both celebrating and interrogating it in his sonically virtuosic poems. We talked about his approach to poetry, what poetic lineage means to him, and the silences inherent in patriarchy. Then for the second segment, we talked about departure albums and André 3000’s New Blue Sun.

(Recorded January 20, 2024.)

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Olatunde Osinaike
Purchase Tender Headed: 44th and 3rd Booksellers (Atlanta, GA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Akashic Books (publisher)
Olatunde Osinaike - Upcoming Events
Bonus Reading for Patreon Subscribers: Olatunde Osinaike reads “Being Human Takes a Lot of Nerve”
Etheridge Knight - “The Sun Came”
Gwendolyn Brooks - “truth”
Paul M. Angle - “We Asked Gwendolyn Brooks about the Creative Environment in Illinois”
André 3000 - New Blue Sun
American Fiction
They Cloned Tyrone
Tristan Harris
Knives Out

Transcript

Episode Credits

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Episode 145: KTCO Book Club - Bianca (with Rachel Zucker)

1h 35m · Published 29 Nov 08:00

For this KTCO Book Club conversation, poet and podcaster Rachel Zucker returns to the show to discuss Eugenia Leigh’s poetry collection Bianca. In our conversation, we talked about our approaches to talking about books with their authors, how form shapes how we take in intense subject matter in a poem, and how a book can be a means of connection.

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Rachel Zucker
Purchase Bianca: Print (Portland, ME) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Eugenia Leigh
James Schuyler - “This Dark Apartment”
Jack Kornfield - “Transform Your Life Through Jack Kornfield’s Most Powerful Stories: A 10 Hour Journey”

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Episode Credits

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Episode 144: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

1h 15m · Published 30 Aug 07:00

Gerardo Sámano Córdova is a writer and artist from Mexico City. In his debut novel, Monstrilio, Gerardo draws from both horror and literary fiction traditions to tell a story about grief, family, and self-acceptance. In our conversation, Gerardo and I talked about genre expectations, genre fiction as a site of art, and what it means to be monstrous. For the second segment, we talked about the tension between fulfilling your own artistic vision and creating work that will sell.

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Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Purchase Monstrilio: Books Are Magic (Brooklyn, NY) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Paul Semel - “Exclusive Interview: ‘Monstrilio’ Author Gerardo Sámano Córdova”
At Home with Literati: Gerardo Sámano Córdova & Kelly Link
CrimeReads - “Horror Does a Body Good, or, the Story of My Teeth”
Chuck Tingle
Petite Maman
Petite Maman - Official Trailer

Transcript

Episode Credits

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Episode 143: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

1h 7m · Published 02 Aug 07:00

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a writer based in the Bronx, NY. In his debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana presents us with a dystopian future America where convicted prisoners fight each other to the death in a televised bloodsport. The book is both a blistering critique of the US carceral system and an insistence on the inalienable humanity of every person. In our conversation, Nana and I talked about what satire and dystopia open up for him as a writer, why it’s important to him to implicate both the reader and himself in his work, and how he thinks about prison abolition. Then in the second segment, we talked about the seductive nature of success as an artist in a capitalist society.

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Purchase Chain-Gang All-Stars: The Lit Bar (Bronx, NY) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Kendrick Lamar - “The Art of Peer Pressure”
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Friday Black
Metroidvania (game genre)
@america_is_the_bad_place
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 128: Anahid Nersessian
John Keats - “To Autumn”
Starship Troopers (1997 film)
John Gardner - The Art of Fiction
Ta-Nehisi Coates - “Killing Dylan Roof”
Kadhja Bonet - The Visitor

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Episode Credits

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Episode 142: Rachel Zucker

1h 47m · Published 28 Jun 07:00

Rachel Zucker is a writer, podcast, and teacher based in New York and Maine. Her latest book, The Poetics of Wrongness, is a collection of essays (originally written and performed for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series) delving into her own poetics, motherhood, the history of confessional poetry, and the ethics of “say everything” poetry. In our conversation, Rachel and I talked about wrongness as a stance against moral purity, about addiction to doubt, and about poetry as an opportunity to create outside of capitalism. Then in the second segment, we talked about her new project, the Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics.

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Rachel Zucker
Purchase The Poetics of Wrongness: Print (Portland, ME) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Commonplace
Commonplace - Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness
Adrienne Rich - Of Woman Born
Joyelle McSweeney - “Wrong Poets Society”
Alice Notley - Disobedience
Alice Notley - “The Poetics of Disobedience”
Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process
Julia Cameron - The Artist’s Way
Henrik Ibsen - A Doll’s House
A Doll’s House (2023 Broadway production)

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Episode Credits

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Episode 141: KTCO Book Club - The Scapegracers (with Sarah Gailey)

1h 3m · Published 24 May 07:00

For our latest KTCO Book Club episode, writer Sarah Gailey joins us for a discussion of H. A. Clarke’s YA novels The Scapegracers and The Scratch Daughters. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about the ways Clarke’s novels subvert genre expectations, about the quality of teen girls’ rage, and about why these books are “capital-I Important.”

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Sarah Gailey
Purchase The Scapegracers: Loyalty (Washington, DC) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Purchase The Scratch Daughters: Loyalty (Washington, DC) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Purchase Just Like Home: Loyalty (Washington, DC) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Subscribe to The Personal Canons Cookbook
The Craft
Sarah Gailey - When We Were Magic
Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Squad
Euphoria
How different generations react to a gay character being introduced
Holly Black - The Cruel Prince
Mark Russel & Mike Feehan - Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles

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Episode Credits

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Episode 140: Dayna Patterson

57m · Published 28 Apr 07:00

Dayna Patterson is a poet, photographer, and textile artist based in the Pacific Northwest. The poems in her latest collection, O Lady, Speak Again, use the voices of the women characters from Shakespeare’s plays to talk about patriarchy, motherhood, sexuality, religion, heritage. In our conversation, Dayna and I discussed her creative process and how she finds her way into a poem, her use of persona in O Lady, Speak Again, and how and why she interrogates that same device within the collection. The in the second segment, we talked about play, and how it interacts with the creative process.

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Dayna Patterson
Purchase O Lady, Speak Again: Village Books (Bellingham, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 120: Kazim Ali
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 137: Gabrielle Bates
NaPoWriMo
Othello, Act V, Scene ii
Jorie Graham
The Winter’s Tale
Emily Dickinson - “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”
Rachel Zucker - The Poetics of Wrongness
Kristiana Kahakauwila
Jehanne Dubrow
Mike Sakasegawa - Sheets: A Love Letter
Bruce Beasley - Prayershreds

Transcript

Episode Credits

Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Keep the Channel Open has 187 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 210:41:32. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 8th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 12th, 2024 21:10.