{"id":1001,"date":"2023-05-01T18:46:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/consortium\/?page_id=1001"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:29:14","slug":"the-air-light-podcast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/consortium\/podcasts\/the-air-light-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"The AIR\/LIGHT Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1009 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/consortium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2023\/05\/air_light_podcast_header_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/consortium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2023\/05\/air_light_podcast_header_2.png 1200w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/consortium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2023\/05\/air_light_podcast_header_2-200x52.png 200w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/consortium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2023\/05\/air_light_podcast_header_2-150x39.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.4vw;\">Produced in Los Angeles,\u00a0<i>Air\/Light Podcast<\/i>\u00a0brings you literature from a Southern California perspective. We feature conversations and interviews with the best of contemporary literature in California and beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.4vw;\">This is the official podcast of\u00a0<i>Air\/Light<\/i>, an online literary journal published by the English Department at the University of Southern California. We showcase both traditional and innovative works. We are firmly of the West Coast, but also national, international. We mean to look out expansively from this place rather than to gaze narrowly back at it, to express a West Coast aesthetic, a West Coast sensibility, and direct that lens onto the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.4vw;\">If you like what you hear, check out the magazine online at <a style=\"color: #770000;\" href=\"https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spacer \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spacer\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n        \n    \n  \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--interactive-content-pane \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--interactive-content-pane\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"left\">\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n           \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n    <div class=\"pagination-wrapper\">\n      <ul class=\"interactive-content-pane-pagination\"><\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"right\">\n          <div class=\"swiper\">\n        <div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 13: Vickie V\u00e9rtiz and Alex Espinoza\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/460c0ef6-5c4e-4481-8e39-37581e107d64?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 12\/21\/2021<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re thrilled to welcome two powerhouses of Los Angeles literature onto The Air\/Light Podcast. Vickie V\u00e9rtiz and Alex Espinoza were both born and raised in Los Angeles, and they also make the city, its people, and its communities the center of their poetry and fiction. Vickie and Alex use their writing as both a means of artistic expression and as a process of social justice, helping to redraw the cognitive maps of Los Angeles, to orient them toward a more equal city and society. Vickie and Alex are public writers in the sense that they do so much more than write: they are also teachers, activists, and organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/the-air-light-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\/vickie-vertiz-and-alex-espinoza\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 12: Lilliam Rivera and Mark Haber\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/5c0e426e-075e-4f51-8d5a-1795e4103142?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 11\/22\/2021<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We are thrilled and delighted to have Lilliam Rivera and Mark Haber join us. Lilliam\u2019s story, \u201cThe Undercurrent,\u201d was published in Issue 1 of <i>Air\/Light<\/i> and Mark\u2019s story \u201cTegucigalpa\u201d published in Issue 3.<\/p>\n<p>In this wide ranging conversation, I talked to Lilliam and Mark about how they create characters, horror and genre fiction, literary influences, sacrifices to Slender Man, and, of course, books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/etc\/podcasts\/lilliam-rivera-mark-haber-on-the-air-light-podcast-ep12\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 11: Michiko Theurer and Jonathan Leal\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/ec5c92cc-3d7c-4cf3-8c28-b58eb7b2faf6?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 11\/04\/2021<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Michiko Theurer and Jonathan Leal discuss their collaborative music and essay, \u201cReach.\u201d Michi and Jonathan are both musicians, scholars, and writers whose work examines issues of community, collaboration, and the legacies of colonialism in American music and culture. I spoke with Michi and Jonathan about music, writing, working together virtually, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/etc\/podcasts\/a-sonic-offering-michiko-theurer-and-jonathan-leal-on-the-air-light-podcast\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 10: bridgette bianca and MICHAEL CHANG\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/60a6d9e6-2986-42ed-ac7c-6b7fa0b3d4ee?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 10\/14\/2021<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, we host a conversation between two outstanding poets: bridgette bianca and MICHAEL CHANG.<\/p>\n<p>bridgette experiments with poetic form, deploying radical enjambment and extended metaphors to powerful effect. She writes poetry that is direct and forceful; she doesn\u2019t hold back. The same could be said of MICHAEL\u2019s poems that deploy wild, all-caps disjunction to evoke abrasive, uncomfortable scenes of public and private sociality. And yet, both bridgette and MICHAEL write poems that are incredibly subtle and even intimate. Bridgette and MICHAEL\u2019s poetry pushes the art of poetry forward, even as they each use poetry as a vehicle to investigate their own lived experience. In our conversation, we discussed how poets relate to an audience, the role of poetry communities, workshop, revision, and much, much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/etc\/podcasts\/the-air-light-podcast-ep10-bridgette-bianca-and-michael-chang\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 9: Diane Mehta and Jordan Smith\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/56808389-4392-451d-93cf-6609b2103b4f?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 10\/01\/2021<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We host a conversation with two incredible poets: Diane Mehta and Jordan Smith, whose poems were published in\u00a0<i>Air\/Light<\/i>\u00a0Issue 3.<\/p>\n<p>Diane was a student at Union College, where Jordan teaches, and even though they were never in the classroom together the resonance between their work is obvious. Both are poets of the particular, of the moment; the world around them provides entryways into deep memories both personal and historical. Diane and Jordan write poems that bend time and space and the ancient world is a constant presence in the now&#8211;in Jordan\u2019s poem \u201cGood Morning,\u201d burnt coffee in Schenectady sits alongside the ferry to Piraeus in classical Athens. Tree trimming, in Diane\u2019s \u201cRock Garden,\u201d connects us to the Iliad and the blood sacrifices of early religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/etc\/podcasts\/the-air-light-podcast-ep9-diane-mehta-and-jordan-smith-in-conversation\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 8: Victoria Chang\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/a6d51d30-00bf-4802-8c95-fdf22341138e?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 01\/13\/2021<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Chang\u2019s poems encapsulate something that makes poetry unique among literature: they capture a fleeting moment and render it into a form that\u2019s frozen in time yet dynamic. Her work is precise, with an attention to detail at a granular level; at the same time, Chang\u2019s poetry casts a view on the larger, more universal qualities of a subject. Chang\u2019s lemons and peaches are both singular pieces of fruit while also pointing us toward greater symbolic resonances. Impermanence and the ephemerality of material objects&#8211;including the body&#8211;are persistent themes throughout her writing. Chang\u2019s poetry deftly balances two opposing registers of scale, the micro and the macro, the particular and the universal, the individual and the collective. In Chang\u2019s poems, there\u2019s an inbuilt tension that makes them exciting, energetic, open, and present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/etc\/podcasts\/the-air-light-podcast-episode-8-victoria-chang\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 7: Pam Houston\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/f6778924-8c8e-44a4-8e62-c60b64dbd0cd?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 01\/06\/2021<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Pam Houston writes about nature and the environment the way that Dickens writes about London or Tolstoy writes military history\u2013not as an object in and of itself but as a terrain for understanding the human condition. Houston is a pivotal figure in feminist and environmental writing, and a master of the short story, novel, and essay form. From her first, acclaimed book of short stories Cowboys are My Weakness, across novels such as Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, and up to the essays gathered in her recent memoir Deep Creek, Houston portrays women and men in perilous situations, whether it\u2019s from the natural, social, or emotional environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/etc\/podcasts\/the-air-light-podcast-episode-7-pam-houston-on-postcards-from-the-west\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 6: Julia Cowlishaw\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/69f699f2-832c-4902-ad2c-2fc24cf3779f?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 12\/10\/2020<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Vroman&#8217;s in Pasadena and Book Soup in West Hollywood are two of Southern California&#8217;s most iconic bookstores. Though they&#8217;re in very different communities, each one plays a central role in the life of the city. Which is why, in late September, Vroman\u2019s sent a shudder through the world of Southern California\u2019s readers when the 126 year old bookstore announced it was at risk of closing due to the effects of the pandemic. In an extraordinary bit of outreach, Vroman\u2019s asked its community to shop early and often for the holidays and to recommend the store by word of mouth. The situation has since stabilized, but the risk remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/etc\/podcasts\/the-art-of-bookselling-3-julia-cowlishaw-of-vromans-and-book-soup\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 5: Mary Williams\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/ff8ac13e-5c35-465f-8236-056c3fba8019?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 12\/02\/2020<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Since it opened in 1996, Skylight Books has become a fixture in the Los Feliz and a center of the neighborhood\u2019s literary community by hosting readings, book clubs, and launch parties. In the second installment of our \u201cArt of Bookselling\u201d podcast series, <i>Air\/Light<\/i>\u2019s Claire Robertson talks to Mary Williams, the general manager of Skylight. Mary tells us about her favorite book of the year, comfort book buying in the run-up to the first lockdown, and how their customers are helping support the store throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/etc\/podcasts\/the-art-of-bookselling-2-mary-williams-of-skylight-books\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 4: Josh Spencer\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/92988117-c951-4847-8cef-268aba456c55?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 11\/25\/2020<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If literature is an ecosystem, then bookstores are its foundation. They\u2019re where literature intersects with community. They introduce people to new and idiosyncratic books while hosting events to support authors. Through it all, they serve as neighborhood community centers for readers and book lovers.<\/p>\n<p>But the pandemic has been hard on independent bookstores. Many have had to make direct appeals to their customers through GoFundMe and other crowdsourced campaigns. 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It was truly international in scope, with major practitioners and groups located in Brazil, Argentina, Western Europe, the Soviet Bloc countries, and North America. Across the globe, concrete poets created art objects composed of words, letters, colors, and typefaces, in which graphic space plays a central role in both design and meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/airlightmagazine.org\/etc\/podcasts\/language-is-failing-us-monica-de-la-torre-and-alex-balgiu-on-women-in-concrete-poetry-1959-1979-air-light-podcast-3\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Read More\"  \n>\n    Read More \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Episode 2: Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/9ab4b586-1392-401c-9131-d052f873a0ce?dark=false\" title=\"iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><i>Release Date: 10\/30\/2020<\/i><\/p>\n<p>With the election coming up in a few days, we here at <i>Air\/Light<\/i> wanted to help you not make a choice, but to make the right choice. We&rsquo;re thrilled to present a conversation with Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, a writer, artist, and co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. Tracy&rsquo;s Two Evils voting guide is informed, impeccably researched, opinionated, and unabashedly radical. And hilarious. You&rsquo;ll LOL as you burn with righteous rage. Tracy&rsquo;s guide, and our interview with her, will make you want to get out there and vote and also join the LA Tenants Union, your local mutual aid network, your local labor struggle, and just take to the streets to demand justice. 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