This Podcast Will Change Your Life is a long-form interview show hosted by writer, teacher, trainer, coach and content creator Ben Tanzer and housed at This Blog Will Change Your Life. The show focuses on conversations with authors, creatives and changemakers from around the world.
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interviews/art talk/Russian poems from painter/writer Dmitry Samarov ——theme music by Bill MacKay ——a new one most Wednesdays.
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A talk with writer/artist John Tottenham about his work. Read my review of his novel, Service, here.By Dmitry Samarov
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-One - An Echoing Effect.
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This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Denton Loving (Feller, Tamp, Crimes Against Birds). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Loving's farm near the historic Cumberland Gap in September 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy - Telling Truths.
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This episode stars Joseph G. Peterson (The Perturbation of O, Memorandum from the Iowa Cloud Appreciation Society, Wanted: Elevator Man, Beautiful Piece & so many more). It was recorded in-person at the iconic Winter Garden at Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago, IL in September 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine - That Kind Of History.
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This episode stars Maureen Aitken (The Patron Saint of Lost Girls). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and what was Aitken's home in Michigan or possibly Canada, our neighbors to the North, in September 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Eight - This Is Water.
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This episode stars Katharine Coldiron (Out There in the Dark, Wire Mothers, Junk Film & many more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and what I believe is Coldiron's home, which just may be somewhere in The Golden State, in September 2025.…
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Seven - In Balance.
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This episode stars M. M. De Voe (A Flash of Darkness, Book & Baby, Pen Parentis). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and De Voe's awesomely bookshelf'd Gotham City home in September 2025.
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I read a poem from Philip Levine's 1979 collection, Ashes.By Dmitry Samarov
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A talk with programmer/projectionist/wearer-of-many-hats Rebecca Lyon about the work she does with Chicago Film Society and how she got into the movies, with occasional commentary from her colleague, Tavi Veraldi.By Dmitry Samarov
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Six - (Still) Always Hustling.
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This episode stars Lee Matthew Goldberg (Miles in Time, The Great Gimmelmans, The Ancestor & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Goldberg's Gotham City home in August 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Five - I'll Be Writing Until The End.
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This episode stars Curtis Smith (Deaf Heaven, Communion, Bad Monkey & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Smith's Keystone State home in July 2025.
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A talk with writer/indexer/editor June Skinner Sawyers about her many interests in the literary racket.By Dmitry Samarov
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Four - Perpetual Motion Machine.
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This episode stars Hosho McCreesh (Psalms from the Badlands, Chinese Gucci, A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and McCreesh's New Mexico compound in July 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Three - Animating Force.
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This episode stars former (and forever) guest Giano Cromley (American Mythology, The Prince of Infinite Space, What We Build Upon the Ruins, The Last Good Halloween). It was recorded live and on a walk along Division Street in Chicago, IL that started and concluded at Rite Liquors in July 2025.
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A talk with writer Alexander Sorondo about his epic William T. Vollmann profile, the even longer new Mark Danielewski one, Substack, Miami, and more.By Dmitry Samarov
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Two - In The Moment.
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This episode stars Hannah Pittard (If You Love It, Let You Kill You, We Are Too Many & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Pittard's home in Kentucky in June 2025.
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A talk with Krystle Ratticus about zines, art, writing, Chicago, and the rest of it.By Dmitry Samarov
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-One - Unresolvable Paradoxes.
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This episode stars Seth Rogoff (The Castle: A Novel, Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible, The Kirschbaum Lectures). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Kafka's (and Rogoff's now) home city of Prague in April 2025.…
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty - The Message Within The Message.
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This episode stars Dr. Stacey Diane Arañez Litam (Patterns That Remain: A Guide to Healing for Asian Children for Immigrants). It was recorded in-person at the Fairfield Inn & Suites Chicago Downtown* in April 2025. *Please do ignore the occasional outside noise, unlike the host and guest, there were people actually working the day of the recording…
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Nine - How Many Masterpieces Does Someone Have To Create (also known as the After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema edition ...
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This episode stars Judy and Adam Tanzer, the host's mother and brother respectively. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and their homes which are located in greater Philadelphia-land in April 2025.
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A talk with Chicago/New York writer Ben Tanzer about his After Hours book and a lot more.By Dmitry Samarov
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A talk between publisher Mallory Smart and designer Dmitry Samarov on the occasion of the release of a new illustrated edition of Herman Melville's classic by Maudlin House. The event took place at Tangible Books in Chicago on May 10th, 2025.By Dmitry Samarov
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Eight - A Rich Life.
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This episode stars Wendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir; Hollywood Notebook, and Bruja: A Dreamoir) just as all three of her groundbreaking books have been simultaneously re-released. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Ortiz' home in the City of Angels in March 2025.…
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I read the title poem from a 1994 Denis Johnson collection.By Dmitry Samarov
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Seven - Always Bleeding.
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This episode stars David Scott Hay ([NSFW], The Fountain). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Hay's home in the City of Angels in February 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Six - Surreal Moments.
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This episode stars Ruben Quesada (Brutal Companion, Jane /La Segua, and more). It was recorded in-person and in the host's South Loop office in February 2025.
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