Reckoning Press Occasional Podcast

Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio or on iTunes! Welcome back to the Reckoning Press podcast! This week we have for you a beautifully wistful performance by Sophia Eilis Singson of "When Teens Turned Into Trees" by Sigrid Marianne Gayagnos. This is the first of two stories that appear in Reckoning 6 about people turning into trees, the other being Wen Yi Lee's "Rooted", which comes out online next month. Both are beautiful and haunting. Both deal with familial love and loss--in particular with a loss, and relinquishing, of control. I'd encourage you to read or listen to them side by side when you have the chance. We also received quite a few other stories on this theme in the submissions! I don't know what it is about this moment--honestly I'm still trying to figure it out, so if you have any thoughts please let me know--but it seems to be an idea whose time has come. Sigrid's story is particularly compelling for me because it provides a desperately needed window on what it