Ink And Worm

NEYSA LOZANO Is an actress, model, comedian and friend as well as a graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. The Books: “Are You My Mother?” (Eres mi mama?) by Dr. Suess “Lord of the Rings” by J.R. Tolkien “Wolf in White Van” by John Darnielle “The Magicians Nephew,” “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis Robert Crumb The Music: “Universal Traveler” by Air & “Alley Cats” by Hot Chip Writing: Write an inner monologue for a character you don’t understand (your own or from a book you have read recently). Reading: Read Shakespeare out loud. #inkandworm #rfb #readingplans #catsmeow #confessions #gilmoregirls #elliabisker #plays #readingplays #readaloud #perspective #characters #catonahottinroof #acting #uofu #grandma #thescarletpimpernel #Aldonza #ManofLaMancha #Sondheim #thewitch #intothewoods #thelittlemermaid #villans #gollum #lotr #fairytales #writing #motivations #shakepeare #juliet #readingshakespeare #findingtruth #consonants #vowels #feminineendings #

AMBER SPARKS: Writer, editor. Most recent book “The Unfinished World and other stories” came out January of this year. Prior works include “May We Shed These Human Bodies,” collaboration with Robert Kloss on “The Desert Places” and has been featured in a handful of collections and anthologies. Amber also has an impressive list of published essays and short works of fiction. ambernoellesparks.com @ambernoelle ~http://thefanzine.com/where-wonder-lives-online-why-instagram-is-the-new-cabinet-of-curiosities/ The Books: “The Unfinished World and other stories” by Amber Sparks “Lets Pretend this Never Happened” by Jenny Lawson “Kristin Lavransdatter” by Sigrid Undset “Dick and Jane” books by Penguin Young Readers Victoria Holt novels The Music: "Piece by Piece" by Anna Calve and Mogwai “Are You a Dancer?” Writing: decide a ridiculously small number of pages to write each day/week and run with that! #inkandworm #rfb #hunting #writing #theunfinishedworld #ambersparks #reading #shortstories #language #instagram

FACEBOY (Francis Hall) is the host of Art Star Scene Saturday nights at 7 pm. Additionally he is an actor, producer, writer, poet, performer and community activist in New York City. He has a regular article NYCritters running in The Villager and Chelsea Now. MARGEAUX X is a comedian, and is launching her show in Season 3, “Burning Bridges with Margeaux” on Saturdays from 2-4pm. She also hosts a Comedy Show with free booze every Wednesday night 6:30pm at 25 Cleavland Place (The Bitcoin Center) and has an all female comedy show at the Cornelia Street Cafe on April 30th at 7pm ($20) COOPER WILHELM is a writer of poetry and fiction independently and for The Opiate Magazine and Big Words, Etc. He is the creator and curator of poetryandstrangers and is launching his show in Season 3, “Into the Dark” Sundays at 4pm. The Books: “Taken by the T-Rex (Dinosaur Erotica) by Christie Sims and Alara Branwen, “Behold the Man” Michael Moorcock, “Spark Joy” and “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo, “Eat, P

The Guest: SHARON GUSKIN is the author of the debut novel, THE FORGETTING TIME. She has also written and produced award-winning documentary films and holds degrees from Yale University and the Columbia University School of the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons. www.theforgettingtime.com @SGuskin https://www.facebook.com/Sharon-Guskin-478692778968967/ The Books: “The Forgetting Time” by Sharon Guskin, “Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect” by Ian Stevenson, “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, “Winnie the Pooh” by A.A. Milne, “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte, “Wide Sargasso Sea” by Jean Rhys, “Ways to Disappear” by Idra Novey, “Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keefe” by Dawn Tripp, “The Illusion of Separateness” by Simon Van Booy, “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki The Music: “Morning Passages” by Philip Glass and “So Long, Lonesome” by Explosions in the Sky Writing: What is the story you want to write? Not the story you think others will be impressed by, or that will be received

The Guests: Lyndol Descant Brooklyn based musician, writer and artist www.Lyndol.com Www.facebook.com/lyndol.descant Lawson Leong brooklyn based stand up comedian http://lawsonleong.com/nice-to-meet-you-comedy-special/ The Books: TO BE RELEASED: “Masters of Trust” by Lyndol Descant, “Hope for the Flowers” by Trina Paulus, “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, “1984” by George Orwell, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” by Laura Numeroff, “Catch 22” by Joseph Heller The Music: “WHALE” by Yellow Ostrich and “Bliss” by Phish Writing: write a poem and carve time to read this week #inkandworm #rfb #writing #teachingchildren #changingideas #formating #chapterbooksforchildren #complexemotions #theuglyduckling #performanceanxiety #perfectionism #creativeprocess #dreams #luciddreaming #processing #writewhatyouwantedtoread #insecurities #music #illustration #multimedia #painting #texas #inspire #inspirebyexample #photography #passion #interrelatedness #brianregan #rereadability #natu

The Guests: Alec Shane, Literary Agent for Writers House @alecdshane Casey Barrett, Olympic Swimmer, Co-Founder of Imagine Swimming, and Writer @CapsandGoggles UNDER WATER coming out Fall of 2017 The Books: “Fablehaven” by Brandon Mull, “Goosebumps” by R. L. Stine, “Misery,” “Dolores Clayborne,” “On Writing,” “The Shining” by Stephen King, John D. MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, James Lee Burke, “The Alexandria Quartet” by Lawrence Durrell, “The Chronology of Water” by Lidia Yuknavitch, “Encyclopedia Brown” by Donald J. Sobol, “Jack Reacher” by Lee Child, “The Chairman” by James Kaplan, “Blood Meridian” Cornac McCarthy, “The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher” Molly Bang, Shel Silverstein, Sara MacLean, “Danny Champion of the World” Roald Dahl The Music: “Underwater” by Architecture in Helsinki and “Gypsy’s Curse” by Calexico Writing: “The real function of a spiritual friend is to insult you.” ~ Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Write about the people who love you enough to offend you. #inkandworm #rfb #underwat

The Guests: Geeta Dayal http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com/ Twitter:@geetadayal PATREON: www.patreon.com/geetadayal The Books: “Another Green World” by Geeta Dayal, Cabinet Magazine, “Designing Sound” by Andy Farnell, “Spaces Speak, are you listening?” by Barry Blesser, Melody Maker Magazine, David Toop, Mark Finker (spelling?), Michelangelo Matos The Music: “Sky Saw” and “Zawinul/Lava” by Brian Eno Writing: Timed writing about the music that has shaped you. #inkandworm #rfb #taodeching #geetadayal #freewriting #electronicmusic #anothergreenworld #brianeno #writing #creativity #patreon #relationships #payingartists #secretsocieties #electronicmusicians #scienceficitonwriters #aldoushuxley #raybradbury #sanfrancisco #brooklyn #india #musicalmysteries #research #editing #informedwriting #addingnewinformation #newyork #losangeles #cityenergy #makingmusic #obliquestrategiesdeck #creatives #thecreativeprocess #playfulcreativity #firstdraftsarecrap #throwsomethingatthewall #somethingwillstick #controledartdoe

Ruth Barabe writer, musician, actress and model and purveyor of the blog babysittersfashionclub Daniel Kibblesmith is a author, comedian, writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and co-writer of the new comic book The Doorman, Issue #1 on sale in March The Books: “Meryl’s Special Blend” from the forthcoming collection “I Came Here to Make Friends” by Ruth Barabe, “The Doorman” by Daniel Kibblesmith, “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” by Dave Eggers, “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace, “The Seal Mother” by Mordicai Gerstein, “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein, “Forever” by Judy Blume, “Watchmen” by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, “The Clasp” by Sloane Crosley, Jason (cartoonist) The Music: “One Day Like This” by Elbow and “I Feel the Earth Move” by Carole King Actionable Takeaway: Write a story about that afternoon you spent with a celebrity (one you love or one you know nothing about) #inkandworm #rfb #merylstreep #relationships #thelateshow #muddywriting #sketchwritng #finaldr

The Guests: Cooper Wilhelm: Twitter: https://twitter.com/cooperwilhelm also, http://poetryandstrangers.com/. Abiola Lawal: https://www.my-etymology.tumblr.com, Portfolio www.bee1.allyou.net, IG: Musecian The Books: “As Planned” by Frank O’Hara, Robert Creeley, James Schuyler, Sonnet 16 by Shakespeare, The Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audiolanding, Robert Hass, “Stardust” by Neil Gaiman, “The Hidden Messages of Water” by Masaru Emoto, “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace, “Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain, “Otherland” Series by Tad Williams, Dr. Seuss, “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury, “Nameless” by Grant Morrison, “Stoner Coffee Table Book” by Steve Mockus The Music: “Walk in the Sky” by Bonobo and Bajka; “Between the Bars” by Madeleine Peyroux Writing: Hit the wikipedia random article and write! Movies: “Stardust”: WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN’T! :), “What the Bleep Do We Know?,” “American Crime Story” #inkandworm #rfb #BKis

The Guests: Alexandria Guillen IG: @TeamBookReport, FB: TeamBookReport, TW: @BookReportTeam Abi Inman TW: @abiinman and follow @riverheadbooks The Books: “Bridget Jones Diary” by Helen Fielding, “Moonwalking with Einstein” by Joshua Foer, “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova, “A New Collection of Poems” by Wendell Berry, “Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins, “Sudden Death” by Alvaro Enrique, “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee, “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” Audiobook, “Unfamiliar Finishes” by Sarah Vowell (was the BBC pick by Sarah Vowell), “Brooklyn Spaces” by Oriana Leckert, “Harry Potter” by J.K. Rowling, “Purity” by Jonathan Franzen, “Swallows and Amazons” by Arthur Ransome, “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch, “Am I Beautiful?” by Else Holmelund Minarik, “The Paper Bag Princess” by Robert Munsch, “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman, “Writing Down the Bones” by Natalie Goldberg, “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galax

The Guests: Nikki Georgia K— website: nikkigeorgiak.com IG: nikitabananaaaa, FB:Nikki Georgia K Brian Bins— IG: BrianBins, FB: Brian Bins, Web: www.BrianBins.com, LinkedIn: Brian Bins The Books: “Spark Joy” by Marie Kondo, “Eat, Pray, Love” and “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert, “The Art of Asking” by Amanda Palmer, “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson, “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak, “The Very Hungry Catapillar” by Eric Carle, “1984” by George Orwell, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt, “Drawing People” by Barbara Bradley, Frida Kahlo, “Humans of New York” by Brandon Stanton The Music: “Walkabout (w/Noah Lennox)” by Atlas Sound and Noah Lennox, “Crazy Feeling” by King Coleman Actionable Takeaway: Build a blanket fort and color in it OR create unstructured time http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/dangers-of-blowing-kisses_n_6810416.html

The Guests: Triss Stein, author of recently released “Brooklyn Secrets” as well as “Brooklyn Bones” and “Brooklyn Graves” http://trissstein.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Triss-Stein-252528508190481/?fref=ts The Books: “Brooklyn Bones,” “Brooklyn Graves,” and “Brooklyn Secrets” by Triss Stein, Margaret Maron, S J Rozan, Penelope Lively The Music: “In Too Deep (feat.Emily Bruce)” by GoldFish and “My-getsu” by DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo #inkandworm #rfb #snowpocolypse2016 #trissstein #brooklyn #brooklynmysteries #neighborhoodsofbk #bkpl #libraries #adventurouslibrarians #history #historicalfiction #relationships

The Guests: Rommel Wood listen to Ear Hammer, Thursday evenings 8-10 pm EST, archive here: radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/ear-hammer/ rommelwood.com Ksenyia Yarosh, co-host of Bonnie and Maude, creator of “I Love Bad Movies” and co-organizer of The Brooklyn Zine Festival. www.kseniyayarosh.com Become a Part of the RFB Community: radiofreebrookyn.com/pledge The Books: “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown, Tomi Ungerer, “The Grief Recovery Handbook” by John W James and Russell Friedman, “Clan of the Cave Bear” by Jean M Auel, “Game of Thrones” By George R R Martin, “Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky, “M Train” by Patti Smith, “Gallapagos” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Breakfast of Champions” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Olivia” by Ian Falconner, “The Boss Baby” by Marla Frazee, Cozy Classics for Kids, “Thunder and Lightning” and “Century Girl” by Lauren Redniss, “The Good Bones” by Margaret Atwood (Rommel’s favorite is “The Log”), “Color Me Good James Franco” by Mel Elliott, “Little

The Guests: Greg Kirkorian http://gregariousstreak.com/ https://www.facebook.com/plumpbundt/ https://twitter.com/plumpbundt Madeleine Lloyd-Davies http://sothisallseemshorrible.tumblr.com/ The Books: “Classical Mythology” lectures of Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph. D through “The Great Courses” http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/classical-mythology.html, “On the Move” by Oliver Sacks, Kate Beaton, “Oh Joy Sex Toy” by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/, Tom of Finland, “Dune” by Frank Herbert, “Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person’d God” by John Donne, “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon, “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow, Romanian Folktales, Harry Bush, “Massive” by Anne Ishii, Leah Wishnia, "Graphic Women" by Hillary Chute, “About Writing” by Samuel R. Delany The Music: “Buzzcut Season” by Lorde and “Sexual Healing” by My Bubba Actionable Takeaway: Explore something that hitherto-now you have not. Ask yourself why you read the things you read. Polari, Gay Dialect

The Guests: Michael Stuart-http://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/collision-time-revisited/, http://www.iamtheangel.com/, TW: michael_stuart, IG: stockton22 Taryn Fort-TW:@tarynfortdoyle, FB: https://m.facebook.com/tarynfortdoyle Ray Kimber The Books: “I Am the Angel” by Michael Stuart, “On Writing” by Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, “You Suck” by Christopher Moore, “The Green Mile” by Stephen King, “Carrie” by Stephen King, “Sacre Bleu” by Christopher More, “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl, “Fabelhaven” by Brandon Mull The Music: “Oh Oh I Love Her So” by The Ramones and “Just the Way You Are” by The Goo Goo Dolls Writing: [From “On Wrting” by Stephen King] Write a scenario of a “battered husband” in the house alone and just discovers his abusive wife who just escaped from jail is there, go! Bless the Child (2000)- film #inkandworm #rfb #strongfemalecharacters #editing #collisiontimerevisited #magicalrealism #afterlife #spirituality #transformativeconversations #toughlove #sashialandlyra #unearthingth

The Guests: My siblings! James, Shani, Dani, Morgan, Cheyenne, Rachel, Ray and my mentor Faceboy The Books: “Harry Potter” by J.K. Rowling, “Fablehaven” by Brandon Sanderson, “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles” by Patricia Wrede, “Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon, “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman, “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Mansion” Henry van Dyke, “50 Shades of Grey” by E.L. James, “Olaf’s Night Before Christmas” by Disney & Jessica Julius, “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron, “Sovereign of the Seven Isles” by David A. Wells The Music: “All I Want for Christmas” by Mariah Carey and “I Saw Three Ships Sailing” by Nat King Cole Actionable Takeaway: [From “Wild Mind” by Natalie Goldberg] Write about home, but you cannot write about an apt, street, town, city you have to find another home, go! #inkandworm #rfb #stealingbooks #alwaysreading #readaloud #readtoyourkids #journal #physicalbooks #booksaresharks #shoplocal #localbookstores #sibl

The Guests: Kyle Tigges, http://www.mississippicotten.com/ The Books: “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, “Light on Yoga” by B.K.S. Iyengar, “Becoming your Own Therapist & Make your Mind an Ocean” by Lama Yeshe, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, “Ancient Futures Learning from Ladakh” by Helena Norberg-Hodge, “1984,” by George Orwell, “Panda Bear’s Paintbox” by Michaela Muntean, “The Doors of Perception” by Aldous Huxley, “Bhagavad Gita” The Music: “1929 Dream,” “Pin the Tail on the Monkey,” “Fortress,” “Violet,” “Now’s the Time” all performed by Kyle, live- BRILLIANT! Writing: Find something from the street to write about-do a timed write, 10 minutes. “Don’t think.” Article I mentioned about hit songs: http://nypost.com/2015/10/04/your-favorite-song-on-the-radio-was-probably-written-by-these-two/ Rumi, “There is a Community of the Spirit” quote I couldn’t recall: “feel the delight of walking in the noisy street

The Guests: Laurence Wooster: Science Fiction Writer and aficionado, Rap Artist and nerd extraordinaire Oscar Prado: Rap Artist The Books: “Childhood’s End” by Arthur C. Clarke, “Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction” by Orson Scott Card, Margaret Atwood, “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, “All the Pretty Horses,” by Cormac McCarthy, “Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin, “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, “The Flaneur” by Edmund White, “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, “Infinite Jest” David Forster Wallace, “No le Temas a la Montana” by Dicxon Valderruten, “Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin, “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad, “One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey, “Angela’s Ashes” by Frank McCourt, “Modern Romance” by Aziz Ansari, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “The Godfather” by Mario Puzo, “Buffalo Lockjaw” by Greg Ames The Music: Star Wars Main Title performed by London Symphony Orchestra and “The Facebook Song,”

The Guests: Elli Espi-http://www.elliespi.com/ Ben Taylor-http://www.litriotpress.com/, http://garnpress.com/ The Books: Hummingbird (Elli Epsi-Release in December), This Changes Everything (Naomi Klein), Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling), The Black Inked Pearl (Ruth Finnegan), Le Petit Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery), Winnie the Pooh (A A Milne), Exorcising Your Ex (Elizabeth Kuster), A Hero Ain’t Nothin but a Sandwhich (Alice Childress), (P L Thomas), (Haruki Murakami), and (Burnadette Escobido**not sure on spelling) The Music: “Lako” and “Starting Line” by Elli Espi Writing: Write about what matters to you, what are the core issues that you care about and write about it; Find some small things you can do to inspire change. NOTES: The 3-minute brainstorm came from Jill McDonough during #brlive 2015 #inkandworm #rfb #litriotpress #hummingbird #garnpress #advocacy #climatechange #thankyoubrooklyn #lako #reading #writing #books #community #googlescholar #mtv #journals #wild #peninhand #annotati

The Guests: James-http://viewfromaboxcar.blogspot.com/, @xames Ford- @fordalishus, snapchat: FordsFording The Books: Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor E Frankl), The Art of Loving (Erich Fromm), Train Song (Walker), Wild Wood (Colin Meloy), Fablehaven (Brandon Mull), Moby Dick (Herman Melville), The Book of Mormon (Joseph Smith), The New York Regional Singles Halloween Dance (Elna Baker), The Mastery of Love (Don Miguel Ruiz) Kimball Studio: http://kimballstudio.com/ The Music:“Micheal” by HOMESHAKE, “Lavender Blimp” by Megapuss Writing: Write and describe eyes. Get past the cliches and into REALLY painting a picture of someone’s eyes. #inkandworm #rfb #books #writing #adventure #life #beautifulsouls #eyes