On July 7, 2007 at ReaderCon 18, we had the pleasure of hearing Leah Bobet, John Bowker, and Barbara Krasnoff read from their stories which were in Sybil’s Garage No. 4. Jim Freund, who hosts the radio program “Hour of the Wolf,” graciously provided the recording for us. Check out his show on 99.5 FM WBAI in New York (webstream is available). – Sybil’s Garage reading at ReaderCon 18 (35:22, 32 MB).

Yesterday morning, Altered Fluid had the pleasure of being on Jim Freund’s radio program, Hour of the Wolf. We assembled at the WBAI studios at the much-too early hour of 4:30 am on Saturday morning. There, Jim provided us with bagels & cream cheese. We came with coffee, but hastily tried to French-brew some more with moderate success before we went on the air . After a quick introduction we got right into things. There was no time for idle chat as we had a full house …

In between bouts of fitful writing and working on the magazine, among other things, I mess around on my acoustic guitar. A riff came to me once while in a fight with my cousin (since resolved) and I slowly morphed it into a song. I used a free program called Audacity, which let me record individual tracks. So I laid down the rhythm guitar, bass (really just me plucking the bass E string), and finger-picking. Then I added a little slide/solo towards the end. The …

This morning, myself and several members of Altered Fluid, my Manhattan based writers group, had the pleasure of being on Jim Freund’s “Hour of the Wolf.” We talked about writers groups and the critiquing process, and then got down to the nitty-gritty of actually critiquing a real-live story, read on the air, by the talented Kris Dikeman. It began like this: It was an interesting experience waking up at 2am and meandering towards the subway when most of the residents of Hoboken were waddling home drunk to bed. …

In Sybil’s Garage #2 we published Lauren McLaughin’s “New York City vs. The World.” She has now just released from her website an audio podcast of the story. Check it out here. If you want, you can read along with the text here.