Transmissions: The Book Chemist
What I never do is read a book with the specific intent to review it (e.g., because I think it will be popular on the channel). It would take all the fun out of reading!
Rebecca Gransden
Rebecca Gransden lives on an island. She is published at X-R-A-Y, Burning House Press, Expat Press, Bruiser, BULL, and Ligeia, among others. A new edition of the novella Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group is released May 2025 at Tangerine Press.
POSSESSION IN THE GAME: An Interview with Thomas Kendall
There is this un-healable division between the physical and the mental within capitalist ‘culture.’ I do feel that we are losing the world and that begins with an alienation from the body.
X-R-A-Y SPECS: A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers (1980)
The idea of chasing people into submission, trying to tame them as they run for their lives. Both the futility and cruelty of it.
TRANSMISSIONS: Not Worth Living
RG: What do you dislike about podcasts? IR: Hosts.
X-R-A-Y SPECS: Toys (1992)
In fact, my experience watching Popeye is what this film most reminded me of: the feeling of alarm, then dismay, and then the slow death of acceptance.
TRANSMISSIONS: Agitator
Podcasting has forever cured me of being precious about writing time or having writer’s block. There’s so much commitment in podcasting, I’ve learned it doesn’t matter if I don’t feel like it or whatever, the time to do it is the time to do it.
X-R-A-Y SPECS: The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)
And isn’t a catechism a religious text that takes the form of questions and answers? Is our conversation a catechism? Or just a cataclysm? Ha.
TRANSMISSIONS: Textual Healing
As a writer I think it’s helped me to guess which questions an author might really want to get asked. So many podcasts solely focus on the writing. As a writer, I know that can be exhausting.
SHORT, SMART, FUN, BAFFLING: An Interview with Brian Allen Carr
It’s infuriating to watch my peer group become less intelligent and more certain as time winds on. It’s supposed to go the other way. The more reality you experience, the less certain you should be.
XRAY SPECS: Chafed Elbows (1966)
Isn’t that what every artist wants? To do the thing in the way they want to do it and have everyone they care about want that for them, too?