Gail Butensky and Grant Faulkner on Telling Stories to Photos

We’re late to celebrate Grant’s new book, something out there in the distance, so we’re doing it this week, bringing on his co-collaborator on the project, Gail Butensky. Grant and Gail partnered up to create a beautiful and unusual project. This week’s show mixes things up a bit because Brooke interviews Grant, and Grant interviews Gail, and Grant shows up for his segments in all kinds of locations, including his mother’s apartment at her memory care facility. The show covers the power of intuition when it comes to both storytelling and photography, the risks indie presses can and do take, and why loving a good road-trip is a prerequisite to being Grant’s friend. And the trend this week, more state of mind than trend, is in celebration of indie books.

Gail Butensky is a renowned photographer whose work has been featured on numerous record covers as well as in books and magazines. Her lens documented the punk and rock scenes of the '80s and '90s, with work appearing in The San Francisco Guardian, The Village Voice, and The Chicago Reader, and in publications including Our Band Could Be Your Life and CBGB & OMFUG: 30 Years. She is the author of the photography book, Every Bend. Grant Faulkner is the co-founder and co-host of Memoir Nation, co-founder of the online literary journal 100 Word Story, and the former executive director of National Novel Writing Month. He’s the author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story, as well as fiction collections All the Comfort Sin Can Provide and Fissures. His stories have appeared in Tin House, The Gettysburg Review, and Norton anthologies. Together Grant and Gail collaborated on the new flash novel, something out there in the distance, out on the University of New Mexico Press.

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