52: Chelsea Hodson on TONIGHT I'M SOMEONE ELSE (2018)

NYC — Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else (2018) and the chapbook Pity the Animal (2014). She teaches at the Bennington MFA program and at the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Italy and also does private writing consultations. We met at a reading back in December in Bushwick. I read her book a couple times over the past couple months. Her book: https://www.amazon.com/Tonight-Im-Someone-Else-Essays/dp/1250170192 Pod Contents: 3 min - pod start 5 min - Work 7 min - never defining oneself as a single thing / multiplicity 10 min - presentation / performance / moon stuff 14 min - rewriting over years 15 min - the moon looks different depending on how the light hits it 17 min - Jo Ann Beard “sometimes you gotta just live longer” 20 min - “writing is gross” 22 min - narcissism / self-concern / autonomy 29 min - Longing / By Grand Central Station I Laid Down And Wept (1945) by Elizabeth Smart 33 min - planetary / animal stuff 35 min - on embarrassment 36 min - when Pity the Animal (2014) dropped 40 min - on workshopping 41 min - taking what you need out of “negative” experiences 44 min - on clarity 47 min - write to change fate’s course 52 min - on doubling down 58 min - what Chelsea workin on now 1 hr - McClanahan Intro song: "Thank You" by Yamz - https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-master Sean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe twitter.com/stconroe http://1storyhaus.com/index.html