This episode stars Greg Olear (Dirty Rubles, Fathermucker). It was recorded* over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Olear's car in an undisclosed location somewhere in the Hudson Valley region of New York in July 2018. *Please do allow for some glitchy, and sporadic, Bluetooth adjustments during the first 8 minutes of the show.
Jul 20, 2018•1 hr 4 min
This episode stars Charita Cole Brown (Defying The Verdict). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Brown's home in Baltimore, MD in July 2018.
Jul 08, 2018•1 hr 3 min
This episode stars Dwayne Hayes (STAND). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and the STAND inner sanctum, which is located in a top secret location in Michigan in June 2018.
Jun 23, 2018•48 min
This episode stars Daniel Ford and Sean Touhy (Writer's Bone). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and the Writer's Bone top secret compound, which is located in and around Boston, MA in May 2018.
Jun 11, 2018•56 min
This episode stars Joseph Peterson (Gunmetal Blue, Beautiful Piece, Gideon's Confession). It was recorded at 3rd Coast Cafe* in Chicago, IL in December 2017. *Please do ignore some of the early crowd banter, it dissipates, for real.
May 20, 2018•55 min
This episode stars Tabitha Blankenbiller (Eats of Eden). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Blankenbiller's home, which is not quite in Portland, OR in February 2018.
May 03, 2018•1 hr 4 min
This episode stars Vincent Chu (Like a Champion). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Chu's home in San Francisco, CA in February 2018.
Apr 16, 2018•59 min
This episode stars Giano Cromley (The Last Good Halloween, What We Build Upon the Ruins*). It was recorded walking through West Town on Chicago Avenue in Chicago, IL in January 2018. *Or What We Build Upon the Something, Something as some know it.
Apr 02, 2018•52 min
This episode stars Paul Cohen (The Glamshack). It was recorded at 3rd Coast Cafe* in Chicago, IL in November 2017. *Please do ignore some of the early crowd banter, it dissipates, for real.
Mar 22, 2018•56 min
This episode stars Bill Mares (The Full Vermonty: Vermont in the Age of Trump, Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats, Making Beer: From Homebrew to the House of Fermentology). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Mare's home in Burlington, VT in February 2018.
Mar 01, 2018•51 min
This very special 175th episode stars Lori Hettler (TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Hettler's home in Tobyhanna, PA in February 2018.
Feb 18, 2018•1 hr 1 min
This episode stars Bob Hartley (North and Central, Following Tommy). It was recorded walking through the Loop towards Millenium Park and sitting in the park itself in Chicago, IL in November 2017.
Feb 04, 2018•52 min
This episode stars David Masciotra (Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama: Invisible Man). It was recorded at Dollop Coffee Co.* in Chicago, IL in January 2018. *Please do ignore some of the early crowd banter, again, it dissipates, for real.
Jan 19, 2018•1 hr 1 min
This episode stars Nicholas Barron (Two Of One Mind, Scary Beautiful). It was recorded at Metropolis Coffee* in Chicago, IL in November 2017. *Please do ignore some of the early crowd banter, it dissipates, for real.
Jan 07, 2018•1 hr 2 min
This episode stars Jennifer Steele (YOUMedia, Revolving Door Arts Foundation, ChiTeen Lit Fest). It was recorded at Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago, IL in October 2017.
Dec 17, 2017•50 min
This episode stars Glen Binger (Stories By The Sea, Only Human, Bing Bang Co.). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and the backyard of Binger's home in Belmar, NJ (which as it happens is really close to the beach and absolutely killing us) in August 2017.
Dec 01, 2017•49 min
This episode stars Elaine Soloway (The Division Street Princess, She's Not The Type, Green Nails and Other Acts of Rebellion). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at Soloway's home in November 2017.
Nov 15, 2017•52 min
This episode stars Christopher Bowen (We Were Giants; When I Return To You, I will Be Unfed; This Handbook Will Change Your Life 002 - DEBT). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and an undisclosed location in Western Pennsylvania where Bowen was furiously making his final edits to DEBT in October 2017. To learn more about This Handbook Will Change Your Life 002 - DEBT by the Christopher Bowen, or even better, Pre-Order it, p...
Nov 02, 2017•50 min
This episode stars previous guest Patricia Ann McNair (Temple of Air, And These Are The Good Times). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at McNair's office at Columbia College in October 2017.
Oct 20, 2017•50 min
This episode stars Lee L. Krecklow (The Expanse Between). It was recorded in Milwaukee, WI at Cafe Hollander in August 2017.
Oct 01, 2017•55 min
This episode stars Mike McClelland (Gay Zoo Day). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and McClelland's home in Athens, GA in August 2017.
Sep 17, 2017•57 min
This episode stars Garret Schuelke (ANAMAKEE, Whup Jamboree). It was recorded while walking north on LaSalle Street in Chicago, IL in June 2017.
Sep 03, 2017•50 min
This episode stars Michael Wayne Hampton (Bad Kids from Good Schools, Roller Girls Love Bobby Knight). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Hampton's home in Cincinnati, OH in June 2017.
Aug 17, 2017•57 min
This episode stars Lori Jakiela (Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and the Writing Life, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life Hampton Inn satellite office in West Bloomfield, MI and Jakiela's home in Trafford, PA in August 2017.
Aug 04, 2017•51 min
This episode stars Bill Yarrow (The Vig of Love, We All Saw it Coming). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at Revival Food Hall in May 2017.
Jul 24, 2017•56 min
This episode stars Sam Slaughter (God in Neon, When You Cross That Line, The Manual). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
Jul 03, 2017•46 min
This episode stars Sequoia Nagamatsu (Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
Jun 19, 2017•47 min
This episode stars Shaindel Beers (A Brief History of Time, The Children's War). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
Jun 04, 2017•45 min
This episode stars Seth Berg (Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory, Aviary). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Berg's home in Minneapolis, MN in April 2017.
May 16, 2017•53 min
This episode stars Joshua Mohr (Some Things That Meant the World to Me, Fight Song, Sirens). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and some random Airbnb in Boston, MA in March 2017.
May 02, 2017•53 min
