Podcast summary

Magically blending sarcasm and gravity, America's favorite surrealist poet and NPR commentator offers an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world.

Participant(s) Bio

Andrei Codrescu is an award-winning writer and National Public Radio commentator. His latest books are Jealous Wit­ness: New Poems and New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City (Algonquin). The author of many essay collections, including The Disappearance of the Outside, he is the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University.

www.codrescu.com

Oana Sanziana Marian moved from Romania to the United States at age 8, one year before the Revolution in 1989. Marian attended Yale University to study studio art, but defected to the English major, graduating in December of 2002. She spent time abroad in Romania, Ireland and Brazil, looking for the poppies of her far-off childhood, bards, and Elizabeth Bishop's dear ghost. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminar in 2004, she read somewhere that a contemporary filmmaker she admired had studied poetry before beginning(and never finishing) film school. She also realized that she was prepared neither to teach nor publish.

To preempt starvation and a certain kind of death, Sanziana fled to former-Communist Romania, to eat real tomatoes and to work in films. She has spent the last four years doing that, in various capacities. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

http://www.oanamarian.com

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