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Borderline, Ohio

Raw original audio and commentary on one family's efforts to hold things together.

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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Episode 1: Tell That to Peter Fonda

Episode 1: Tell That to Peter Fonda

This site is, for now, anonymous. I am a writer and teacher living in the American Midwest. This is a story of mental il... Read more

15 Jan 2021

13mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 2: You're a Writer, Tell Me the Story (plus Planet of the Apes)

Episode 2: You're a Writer, Tell Me the Story (plus Planet of the Apes)

A family tragedy is one thing--in this case the death of my sister in 1975, when she was seven, of a brain tumor. How th... Read more

16 Jan 2021

7mins

Ranked #3

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Episode 3: That Woman (plus Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Episode 3: That Woman (plus Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

A screaming lecture a la Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And why did we continue to take it? Why were we silent?

17 Jan 2021

11mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 4: You are Going to Be Judged (plus punk & Billy Graham)

Episode 4: You are Going to Be Judged (plus punk & Billy Graham)

An audio clip from a 2009 phone call that shakes the writer's sense of who he is. Plus punk, Billy Graham, and a whisper... Read more

22 Jan 2021

13mins

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Ranked #5

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Episode 5: You Don't Owe Me One F-ing Penny if it Goes Big

Episode 5: You Don't Owe Me One F-ing Penny if it Goes Big

How, as a writer, I kept trying to create in the blast furnace of my Mom's attacks on my work.

9 Feb 2021

12mins

Ranked #6

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Episode 6: The Archangel of Punk

Episode 6: The Archangel of Punk

Was I the archangel of punk? According to my mom I was, and there was hell to pay. The full audio of my mother appears f... Read more

28 Feb 2021

9mins

Ranked #7

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Episode 7: I Am Clint Eastwood

Episode 7: I Am Clint Eastwood

Was the Clint Eastwood reference threat of violence real?

21 Mar 2021

10mins

Ranked #8

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Episode 8: Beyond Interpretation: Julia Kristeva as Balm

Episode 8: Beyond Interpretation: Julia Kristeva as Balm

At a time when no other framework for understanding my mother makes sense, the philosopher Julia Kristeva steps in to he... Read more

10 Apr 2021

12mins

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