This Podcast Will Change Your Life Days of (both) Future (and) Past.

Glad to be on @BenTanzer's podcast. Love city background as we talk online violence, films, journalism, fight club. https://t.co/9wuw7t6MuJ

— Amy Guth (@amyguth) December 20, 2015

i was reminded by @BenTanzer how much I miss writing and geeking out over music.

— Not Kendra (@kdc) December 22, 2015

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Three - I'm Going To Get My Voice Out There, starring the Amy Guth.

Wow are we so Guth podcast. But that's not all, yo. We are also Three Fallen Women, life as a radio personality, The Pilcrow Lit Fest, The Fixx Reading Series, Megan Stielstra, always, Strangewaze, the Association for Women Journalists-Chicago, The Op-Ed Project Public Voices Fellowship, the Guth's new documentary series on women and online harassment and much, much more. So much more. So do check it out, because it just might, nay, will, change your life.

The Amy Guth is KICKSTARTER campaign.

She is also documentary about women and online harassment, so please do learn more, support and share, yo. 

That time we got to talk The New York Stories, writing, Chicago and compulsions with the Amy Guth on WGN.

And what a time it was. You may listen here. If that's your thing of course. If not, we understand. Really.

99 Problems gets a shout-out from the Chicago Tribune, craziness ensues.

Well, to be frank we're not sure craziness has ensued anywhere but here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters, still big and most humbling thanks to old friend and TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Amy Guth for said shout-out, we are beyond thrilled to be mentioned in any article that name-drops us along with Amby Burfoot, Haruki Murakami and Rachel Toor, the latter of whom is getting a lot of shout-outs this week in the lead-up to the Chicago Marathon and whose book Personal Record: A Love Affair With Running we plan to consume soon. Very soon. For real.

The Orange Alert Podcast. Episode 16. The Smiths-i-Sode. Guth. Bosworth. xTx. Tanzer. And much, much more.

This is the goods. An all-Smiths, all the time, Orange Alert Podcast. Eat it. Touch it. Embrace it. Savor it. Love it.

WGN Radio 720. Behrends. Tanzer. Guth. Lit. Love.

We had the opportunity this weekend to talk literature on WGN Radio 720 with the Jason Behrends and our hosts Alex Quigley and the always lovely La Guth. Fun was had. Lives were changed. And rain was dodged. Please enjoy and many thanks to all involved for the invitation to riff on some of the things and people we love.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Sixteen - Skinny Legs and All. Redux. And Re-Release.

Oh my, its Episode Sixteen and there is Guth.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Five - Robot Girlfriend Roundtable. Redux. And Re-Release.

Episode Five. Madness. Multiple Jason's. Tim Hall's. Guth's. And hot robot girlfriends. Its madness we tell you.

Torn Pages. The photos. And such.

Last night we hit the Torn Pages show. It was the bomb.

Dominique Holmes' illustrations for our story Flight were amazing. No, check that they were more than amazing. That said, do you know any good words for more than amazing?

We saw the Tim Hall. Sublime.

The David Masiotra. Quite rocking.

And some Brandon Will, Amy Guth and Jason Behrends too. All in all, a quite terrific night and many thanks to Josh Lucas for asking us to submit something and the OnNo!Doom Collective for hosting.

The Torn Pages Show. 11 Chicago artists. 11 Chicago writers. Will be cool. Quite cool. Though some funding is needed. Are you in? Maybe?

The Torn Pages Show is coming, The Torn Pages Show is coming. No, we don't know exactly when, but we are excited to be participating. For this show the inestimable Josh Lucas is teaming with 11 Chicago writers, including many TBWCYL, Inc. favorites, including Jill Summers, Joe Meno, Tim Hall, Jamie Calder, Amy Guth, Zach Dodson and our very own spokesperson Ben Tanzer, and 11 Chicago artists, including among others the quite rocking Allison Dunne Burque and Dominique Holmes, to write and illustrate original children's stories that will be presented by the OhNo! Doom Collective in a gallery show. We think it will be quite cool, but If all that wasn't cool enough though for you, Josh is also hoping to collect the work in a perfect-bound, full color book and this is where you may or may not come in. Josh is using KICKSTARTER to raise the funds needed to produce the book and if you think you may want to support this effort please do take a look. Maybe you can take a look regardless, and maybe, just maybe, it will change your life, if only briefly.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Eighteen - Lightning and Women starring Scott McClanahan.

The Scott McClanahan came to town. See above. He read. He rocked it, all funny and low-key. And it was good Stuff. We also had La Guth working her Morrissey thing, the Sam Pink, discharging every possible image to ever enter his brain and TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer's mom Judy. See below. And if all that wasn't enough, there was polka and podcasting as well. Wait, did someone say podcasting? Indeed they did, because we podcasted with the McClanahan on the train and in the rain and now you get to listen to it. Yes, right now, go ahead. Will it change your life? We think so. Enjoy.

Pink. Clone. New City. Preview. Reading. Friday. The Book Cellar.

We were quite geeked to see that the Sam Pink got quite a kind write-up for I Am Going To Clone Myself Then Kill The Clone and Eat It in New City this week as their preview for this Friday's reading at The Book Cellar, where Sam is reading with the lovely Amy Guth and TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer in support of Scott McClanahan and his killer short story collection Stories. Among other things, the reviewer had the following to say:

"Sam Pink’s oddball little book is filled with first-person passages and rants that begin with mundane reality and often finish in bizarro fantasy, usually with some element of violence, disgust or aching simplicity."

That's good stuff. See you on Friday.

Guth. Pink. McClanahan. Tanzer? This Reading Will Change Your Life, so please join us July 24th for some Book Cellar reading love won't you?

Yeah, so, we have unabashedly been hyping the Scott McClanahan and his new joint Stories, so imagine how geeked we are to have the chance to read in support of him at The Book Cellar on July 24th at 7:00pm? Now, what if we also had the chance to read with the very awesome Amy Guth, writer, blogger, runner and one time guest of This Podcast Will Change Your Life and, and, the Sam Pink, author of I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF AND THE KILL CLONE AND EAT IT and the first writer ever published in This Zine Will Change Your Life. Well we are and we do and we think this reading may very well change your life. Meanwhile, if that isn't enough McClanahan for you, you can also see him on July 26th as part of the ongoing and quite killer Orange Alert Reading Series. Pretty nice, yes? Quite.

Chicago Subtext and la Guth. Cool stuff.

The always and endlessly lovely Amy Guth, she of Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again blog fame, the wonderfully not humorous novel Three Fallen Women, Pilcrow Lit Fest awesomeness and a recent edition of This Podcast Will Change Your Life, in which she almost announced something big, has a quite cool new gig, and literary blog, which we can now officially let you know about. The blog is called Chicago Subtext, it is focused on all things literary here in our very own Chicago and we think you will want to check it out. We also think it just may change your life. And we definitely think that either way you get to spend some quality time with la Guth which is always a good thing.

Skinny Legs and All. This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Amy Guth, the Pilcrow Lit Fest and So New publishing.

Check it out, the 2009 Pilcrow Lit Fest is so coming soon, and we are so geeked to be paneling and podcasting there again this year, that we thought, why not do a podcast with Pilcrow literary queen, killer writer, and good friend, the Amy Guth, so she can so hype it. So we did. And so, without further adieu, we present This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Sixteen - Skinny Legs and All, where we talk with Ms. Guth about this year's Pilcrow, her new role at So New media, and her favorite all-time book, which we will not reveal here, though we fully admit that this episode's title may be a tip-off of sorts.

I am Richard Simmons. And we are quite proud to announce it. Well that, what's up at the kick-ass ml press and how all this just might be related.

We should probably add here that we are quite thrilled that our short story "I am Richard Simmons" will be published as part of the new slew of ml press chapbooks. This is a fantastic series and we are way geeked to be included with such a stellar group of writers including TBWYL, Inc. favorites Mark Baumer, Mary Hamilton, the Amy Guth, and many others. Further, and yes, there's more, for $36 American dollars, you can get all 18 volumes to be released, plus ml press' first perfect-bound novella by none other than Molly Gaudry. Coolness, yes? Totally. So, many thanks to ml press and the endlessly cool J.A. Tyler for the interest in this piece and as for the rest of you, please go place your order now, yes, right now, go, great, and thank you as well.

Fiction at Work, not to mention a 55-word dollop of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine hype and YouTube video love at the QUICKIES! Chicago.

It's true, way back on a balmy October night TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer was invited to a QUICKIES! Chicago fundraiser and presented with the seemingly insurmountable challenge of reading a piece of no longer than 55 words. He not only embraced this challenge, but embraced his contractual obligation to hype Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine at any all times and the result has now been published in the new issue of Fiction at Work along with the work of many fine local writers including but not limited to This Blog Will Change Your Life favorites Mary Hamilton, Spencer Dew and the Amy Guth. Feel free to take a look, and if you are so inclined and/or have hankering for some visual stimulation, please feel free to watch the below video of Ben reading the piece live as well. We would argue that it is beyond scintillating, but you of course can be the judge of that yourself.

It's the last day. The last chance. For This Book Tour Will Change Your Life. Yes, Day Thirteen is upon us and today we finish up with the J.A. Tyler.

Quasi-disco and Emo-length blog titles aside, it's true, it is Day Thirteen, the last day of this wonderfully self-absorbed journey we called This Book Tour Will Change Your Life. We really appreciate all of the hospitality and kind words we have received along the way. We hope that we have changed lives, many lives, ideally in good ways, though if we changed any lives in bad ways, we hope it wasn't too bad. Today we visit the always cool J.A. Tyler where we riff on the future of publishing and then it's done, way done. So, many thanks to CCLaP for organizing this and giving Repetition Patterns a home and if you, and you know who you are, are so inclined, please feel free to revisit the entire tour below.

Day One - Pete Lit

Day Two - stand By Bert

Day Three - So the devil and a circus walk into a bar

Day Four - What to wear during an orange alert

Day Five - Does this font make me look fat?

Day Six - Michael Fitzgerald

Day Eight - Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again

Day Nine - Chicago Literary Scene Examiner

Day Ten - Jason Riley

Day Eleven - In The Nick of Time

Day Twelve - I don't know what I'm Talking About

Update: And would you look at this, for the same low price, you also get an official tour round-up kind of thing from the good people at CCLaP. Sweet.

Its Day Eight of This Book Tour Will Change Your Life and we are golden. Well, that and visting good friend Amy Guth at Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again.

Our day of rest is now officially in the rear view mirror and we are back, back on the road and continuing with the two-week Repetition Patterns love fest also known as This Book Tour Will Change Your Life. Today we are stopping at Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again the blog home of the most excellent Amy Guth and we are happy to report that we have gone video in a big way. We hope you like and we hope you will join us for tomorrow's stop at the Chicago Literary Scene Examiner as well. Cool? Cool. Also, please stop by and visit the hard-working staff at CCLaP when you have a chance because we couldn't so this without them and lack of per diems aside we certainly want to be sure that they too are feeling the Repetition Patterns love.