Episode 25: Cheryl J. Fish with Lucas Hare
Cheryl J. Fish
Cheryl J. Fish is a poet, fiction writer and environmental humanities scholar. Besides ‘Off the Yoga Mat’, she is the author of ‘The Sauna is Full of Maids’, poems and photographs celebrating Finnish sauna culture, the natural world, and friendships; and ‘Crater & Tower’, poems reflecting on trauma and ecology after the Mount St. Helens Volcanic eruption and the terrorist attack of 9/11.
Cheryl has been a Fulbright professor in Finland and is a co-editor with Farah Griffin of ‘A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Literature’. Cheryl’s poems and short fiction have appeared in various journals such as ‘Hanging Loose’, ‘Terrain’, ‘Mom Egg Review’, ‘New American Writing’, ‘Cheap Pop’, ‘KGB Bar Lit’, and more. Her essays on environmental justice through art, film and media were published in 2018 in the collection ‘Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment’ from Lexington Books.
Cheryl is a creative writing editor of the journal ‘Ecocene’, a professor of English at BMCC/City University of New York, and docent lecturer at University of Helsinki.
Lucas Hare
Lucas Hare is an actor and, with Kerry Shale, co-host of the podcast Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan.
About the Episode
EPISODE SUMMARY:
What do yoga, the Y2K freakout, Finland, and Bob Dylan have in common? Cheryl J. Fish, that’s what. Cheryl brings them all together in her debut novel from Livingston Press, ‘Off the Yoga Mat’, set in that crazy year 1999, when everybody feared a looming mass technological meltdown and started filling their garages with buy-in-bulk toilet paper and miscellaneous canned goods (sounds familiar, doesn’t it?). Cheryl is here to talk about her novel.
Later, my go-to Bob Dylan guru pal, Lucas Hare, co-host of the fabulous podcast Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, drops by to talk about what Bob Dylan’s career looked like in the late 1990s/very early 2000s—the period during which Cheryl’s novel is set. FYI: Dylan was a whole lot more active than you probably remember or might imagine, so stick around to hear Lucas and me geek out over that phase of Dylan’s multi-faceted career.
MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Copyright free Bob Dylan x The Beatles Type Beat “No One to Blame”/Classic Rock Beat
“You’re a Big Girl Now” by Bob Dylan
“Idiot Wind” by Bob Dylan
“Jealousy” by Iggy Pop
“I Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore” by The Snake Oil Willie Band
Comedians on Yoga/Tim Hawkins
“1999” by Prince
“Things Have Changed” by Bob Dylan
“Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum” by Bob Dylan
“Can’t Wait” by Bob Dylan” (snippets of three versions)
“Love Sick” by Bob Dylan
LINKS:
Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451
Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350
Cheryl J. Fish’s website: https://www.cheryljfish.com/
Cheryl J. Fish on Twitter and Instagram: @CherylJoyFish
Cheryl’s essay “How I Published My Debut Novel Off the Yoga Mat”:https://authorspublish.com/case-study-how-i-published-my-debut-novel-off-the-yoga-mat/
Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669
Link to Rock is Lit EP9, with Lucas Hare (about Dylan 1966): https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/rockislitpodcast/danaspiottaandlucashare
