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/1250170192Pod Contents:3 min - pod start5 min - Work7 min - never defining oneself as a single thing / multiplicity10 min - presentation / performance / moon stuff14 min - rewriting over years15 min - the moon looks different depending on how the light hits it17 min - Jo Ann Beard “sometimes you gotta just live longer”20 min - “writing is gross”22 min - narcissism / self-concern / autonomy29 min - Longing / By Grand Central Station I Laid Down And Wept (1945) by Elizabeth Smart33 min - planetary / animal stuff35 min - on embarrassment36 min - when Pity the Animal (2014) dropped40 min - on workshopping41 min - taking what you need out of “negative” experiences44 min - on clarity47 min - write to change fate’s course52 min - on doubling down58 min - what Chelsea workin on now1 hr - McClanahanIntro song: "Thank You" by Yamz - https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-masterSean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe twitter.com/stconroehttp://1storyhaus.com/index.html