25 MAR 2020 · Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the Alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review. Sickkkkkk, bruv. This week, host Kelsie Renehan sits down with Hannah Goldstein, former Editor in Chief of the FU Review, events manager at The Word, host of Picks of Berlin, and Masters Candidate at Freie Univeristät. In this long season finale episode, they talk about the process of creating and running a literary journal, supporting the scene instead of being in the scene, and curating events to support artists. Hannah is shocking us in ways that are insightful, exploring perverse women, and hating the sound of her own voice. See if you can guess where she’s from before the end of the episode. Hannah’s reading at loads of nights where it wasn’t really appropriate & putting Sick to rest on the pod. They also talk about the standard taking down capitalism and importance of community. And always remember, it depends on what club you’re in in Berlin. Even though we plug so many great events in this episode, you gotta stay inside right now. So, we’re not doing our episodic biweekly events calendar below. Please, please support your local artists, bars, bookstores, and lit mags, but at a safe distance. We’ll see you out there when it’s safe to do so. Hey, Christian, this is for you. We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support. Special love in this episode to the JFKI. Follow the FU Review on Facebook and Instagram!

10 MAR 2020 · Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the Alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review. On a podcast where our gut is so on fire we could digest anything and I can’t pronounce anyone’s last names, Blake Matich is here, making the outtakes way more funny than they need to be & where we provide the ASMR service of sweet nothings and pleasantries (pleasant niceitries?? no self-deprecation here; we’re rolling with it). There’s koalas … having intercourse, truly an animal with a commitment to chaos. And Kelsie has decided that when Australians say ‘duhhhh’ there’s an r in there, somewhere. We talk about the kind of people who google their own houses (me) instead of everything you could possible see on the infinite being of Google Earth that the American Government (capital A capital G) lets you see, and the every present dependency on making people laugh, and climate doom and why we shouldn’t trust it (just the doom, Earth is definitely dying). Does Blake think capitalism will change us?? Did Prometheus cackle as he stole the sun?? Does Blake makes up words that already exist (Trump realness)?? Am I rude off tape?? “I could never disdain wanting to paying attention to something closely.” You can find one of Blake’s recently published pieces here [ http://honisoit.com/2019/12/vale-clive-james-a-lightning-before-death/ ] If you’d like to collab (especially on a play/comedy) with Blake, connect with him on insta @bkmatich Check out the Berlin Writers Group, talked about in the episode today, and maybe you’ll run into Blake! Say hi for us. [ https://www.facebook.com/groups/426862234166232/] We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support. Follow the FU Review on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

4 FEB 2020 · Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review. This week, in a podcast where we allow alternative histories, Kelsie sits down with Hanna Olters for some poems about citrus and blackberries and summer, including one from the archives (issue 5 of the FU Review). Apologies for Kelsie’s blown out voice, even though Hanna is the sick one. We talk about our opposite editing processes, why Mother Mary wears blue, my grandmother, Natalia Ginzburg, and motherhood (which neither of us are). Plus our own poems that surprise us later, self-actualization, The Wild Word, and what stayed behind. Bonus discussions about my neighborhood squirrel and the age-old question, who amongst us doesn’t hoard Mother Mary paraphernalia? Hanna is a German American poet and student who insists there is one plus side to mass surveillance: NSA picks of the month (NSA don’t interact!) Remember, our submissions are now open through Feb 15, 2020! We pay our authors, and ya know, sometimes they end up on a podcast like this one ;) https://www.facebook.com/events/561922491255488/ Follow the FU Review on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support. Notes: the Toni Morrison quote mentioned is: “There was something so valuable about what happened when one became a mother. For me it was the most liberating thing that ever happened to me. Liberating because the demands that children make are not the demands of a normal ‘other.’ The children’s demands on me were things that nobody ever asked me to do. To be a good manager. To have a sense of humor. To deliver something that somebody could use. And they were not interested in all the things that other people were interested in, like what I was wearing or if I were sensual. Somehow all of the baggage that I had accumulated as a person about what was valuable just fell away. I could not only be me—whatever that was—but somebody actually needed me to be that. If you listen to [your children], somehow you are able to free yourself from baggage and vanity and all sorts of things, and deliver a better self, one that you like. The person that was in me that I liked best was the one my children seemed to want.” :from Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart

21 JAN 2020 · Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review. This week, on a podcast where we are NOT knocking ourselves down goddamn it, Kelsie sits down with Behram Sidhwa, a philosopher poet with high praise for pigeons and Künstler, Künstlerin (and Alexandra and Luke). We talk about trying to be a nice human being, trying to battle our way through the Berlin winter, and cooking for love. Why go to therapy when you could go to open mics?? (jk go to therapy) Behram reads two pieces involving inter-species relations and that war president, and we talk about writing communities and how pieces are received depending on the reader and the audience. We’ll be back in two weeks. Until then, we are reading absolutely nothing & doing something for ourselves. Behram is a performer, orator, poet, and essayist from India. Mostly writing intuitively, his process is driven by an emotional overflowing that won’t resolve itself until its expression. He has a penchant for creating a surreal blend of the esoteric and the exact, with an efficiency of words that feels like witnessing a fresco in 5 minutes. Remember, our submissions are now open, due Feb 15, 2020! We pay our authors, and ya know, sometimes they end up on a podcast like this one ;) https://www.facebook.com/events/561922491255488/ Follow the FU Review on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support. Our outro song is titled ‘A Caring Friend’, which brings me a bit of joy at the end of editing every time – so if you listen through to the end – it’ll be a treat for you now too.

3 DEC 2019 · Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the Alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review. This week, host Kelsie Renehan sits down with Maximilien Luc Proctor, a filmmaker who you can just call Max, to read some stories about blocks (which can’t defend themselves), stories about movies, stories from unfinished novels about unfinished dreams. They talk about the translation of humor, starting your own blog, how to get interviews with famous artists, and Kelsie tries to become Max’s personal hero. Go to Serbia, throw that spaghetti, and try to figure out if Kelsie is lying. Max was truly a joy to record with, and even with cutting the many laughs, the many re-readings of ‘sum of their farts’, this episode is a few minutes longer than usual – but we promise, it’s worth it. @Wolf Kino – hire my mans Max. We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support. Follow the FU Review on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/FUReviewBerlin/] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/fureviewberlin/] ! You can find Max on his blog Ultradogme [https://ultradogme.com/] or on his Vimeo channel [https://vimeo.com/maxluc]! Today, his personal manifesto will be on Photogenie [http://photogenie.be/]. Keep an eye out there in January for his editorial issue. You can (often) find Max in person at Wolf Kino [https://wolfberlin.org/]. If ya can’t get enough of Max’s voice, tune into Episode 7 of BandsToWatch Podcast here: [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vl8tNFlR4m6OT5dRfXj44?si=nb9rp1vkTpaj7fHe0FXDWA]

18 NOV 2019 · Every other Tuesday, we’re bringing you readings and interviews with the authors published in the Alien-themed Issue 6 of the FU Review. This week, on a podcast where there’s no room for modesty, host Kelsie Renehan sits down with Best Poet Ever, Luke Swenson, who would definitely go to Mars. They talk dead Germans, best practices for translation, Battlestar Galactica, and poems that aren’t poems anymore. Luke reads two original poems and two translations (and their German originals!). Kelsie reveals she only knows one language, doesn’t know how to play chess, and is very, very afraid of outer space. We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move, thanks to The FU Review and Bear Radio. And as always, big thanks to Hindenburg for their support. Follow the FU Review on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/FUReviewBerlin/] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/fureviewberlin/] ! And come to our launch event [https://www.facebook.com/events/563360644226969/] on Saturday Nov 23. You can catch Luke Swenson on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/luke.n.s/], and he’ll be at Künstler, Künstlerin [https://www.facebook.com/events/2630097520413783/] Nov 27 – say hi! And you can find some of his work at The Los Angeles Review [http://losangelesreview.org/two-poems-johannes-bobrowski/], Inescape Journal [https://inscape.byu.edu/2013/06/13/ode-to-brussel-sprouts/], Riddled with Arrows [http://www.riddledwitharrows.com/spotlight-issue-2018/spotlight-feature-swallow/], Berlin Untelevised [https://berlinuntelevised.com/writing/coming-to-luke-swenson/], and on the Künstler, Künstlerin site [https://www.kunstlerkunstlerin.com/iap-04-luke-swenson]. He was recently featured on an episode of Cashmere Radio’s Cryptomnesia: https://cashmereradio.com/episode/cryptomnesia-27-guest-host-alexander-norton-luke-swenson-wolfgang-friedrich-winkelsen/ Luke’s full sentence of titles was “anticipated future spacecraft home galaxy contracting whip against alpha centauri b”. If you’re listening Johannes Bobrowski Gesellschaft [http://www.johannes-bobrowski-gesellschaft.de/] check your email! Luke awaits… This week, in Berlin: Nov 23 // 17 – 21// Release Party // FU Review Issue 7 [Come show love!!] [https://www.facebook.com/events/563360644226969/] --- AND --- NOV 22 // 1930 – 3 // Inside the Taboo: Launching SAND #20 [Kelsie, Moses, & more will be here!] [https://www.facebook.com/events/2942919242404923/] NOV 27 // 2030 – 2330 // Künstler, Künstlerin, How long is forever 10 [Luke will be here!] [https://www.facebook.com/events/2630097520413783/] NOV 19 // 20 – 23 // Quiz Night at Curious Fox Bookshop, Neukölln [Kelsie & Dayoung will be here!] [https://www.facebook.com/events/536635107173573/] NOV 19 & NOV 26 // 17 – 20 // Poetry As __ A Workshop [https://www.facebook.com/events/453040621966907/?event_time_id=463886797548956] NOV 20 // 18 – 2030 // Open Harbor [https://www.facebook.com/events/498221207439458/] NOV 21 // 1930 – 2130 // Curious Fox Book Club [https://www.facebook.com/events/925372771168072/] NOV 21 // 19 – 22 // Books & Booze - Part 22 [https://www.facebook.com/events/2456204964699962/] NOV 22 // 2030 – 23 // On Fire! Comedy meets Poetry! [https://www.facebook.com/events/575916719815780/] NOV 22 // 1930 – 2230 // The Autobiography Effect [https://www.facebook.com/events/998635797155873/] NOV 22 // 20 – 2230 // The Bear presents PAPER Stories [https://www.facebook.com/events/997683973919012/] NOV 23, 11 – NOV 24, 18 // DISTANZ Pop-up Book Sale [https://www.facebook.com/events/688099855015161/] NOV 25 // 1930 – 22 // Literally Speaking: Dysfunctional Thanksgiving [https://www.facebook.com/events/411177339558697/] NOV 26 // 1930 – 21 // Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination by Judith Wechsler [https://www.facebook.com/events/570722466800823/] NOV 26 // 20 – 2130 // MUSE (an experiment in storytelling & life drawing) [https://www.facebook.com/events/403114947242258/] NOV 27 // 20 – 22 // Four Eyes - Comedy Storytelling Open Mic! [https://www.facebook.com/events/2737326262967014/] NOV 28 // 19 – 21 // Read me Almost 30 [https://www.facebook.com/events/1002620083451292/] NOV 28 // 9 – 12 // Lecture-cum-Seminar "Magical Realism in Arabic Literature" [https://www.facebook.com/events/512228845996066/]

14 NOV 2019 · Every other Thursday, the archives of the FU Review come alive with previously published poems and prose read by their authors and a little interview to match. For our first archival episode, Dr. Ruth Wishart joins host Kelsie to discuss the formation of the FU Review and to read a piece from Issue 2. There’s incestuous Austrians (who are also great loves and who are also dead), Brexit, Haruki Murakami’s bad sex, and kids who are also poets. Gamze’s Jawbreaker piece published in Tint comes back out to play. Kelsie learns what Mid-Atlantic means and exploits Audible. If you're a Berliner like us, or just in town, stay tuned after the episode for a few upcoming literary events in Berlin! A full list can be found below. This episode is brought to you by The FU Review and Bear Radio with big thanks to Hindenburg for their support. Follow the FU Review on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/FUReviewBerlin/] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/fureviewberlin/]! And come to our launch event on Saturday Nov 23! [https://www.facebook.com/events/563360644226969/] You can find Ruth @ruth.wish & her daughter @ailie.gator on Instagram! Sometimes, you can find Ruth reading at Fiction Canteen. [https://fictioncanteen.blog/] Her random name prompt uses this site: [https://www.behindthename.com/random/] Special shout outs to the Wild Word [https://thewildword.com/] and Tint journal [https://tintjournal.com/] who appear in this episode! This week, in Berlin: Nov 14 // 19 - 21 // An Interview with the Severed Head of Orpheus [https://www.facebook.com/events/1428761313929441/] Nov 14 // 1930 - 23 // Berlin Spoken Word: Humor [https://www.facebook.com/events/601824817023207/] Nov 14 // 20 - 23 // No time to sleep poetry performance with RAN [https://www.facebook.com/events/3394725367267350/] Nov 14 // 19 – 21 // Poetry Slam Kopenick [https://www.facebook.com/events/754226684974692/?event_time_id=754226694974691] Nov 14 // 18 - 2030 // Lectures and Discussion: Experimental Humanities [https://www.facebook.com/events/716573825495581/] Nov 14 // 19 - 23 // GRAND Slam – Poetry meets Music [https://www.facebook.com/events/439711826901471/] Nov 15 // 1930 – 21 // Lost in a comic translation [https://www.facebook.com/events/2454599194867427/] Nov 16 // 11 – 22 // Queer Publishing: Books, Texts, Performances [https://www.facebook.com/events/624658968044183/] Nov 16 // 1030 - 12 // Crowdfund Your Literary Project [Say hi to Moses!] [https://www.facebook.com/events/409969276605208/] Nov 17 // 20 - 22 // Stories with Spine: DARK Matter [https://www.facebook.com/events/410925059579261/] Nov 18 // 15 - 1830 // Telling Tales – Practices of Embodiment [https://www.facebook.com/events/2317480081706221/] Nov 18 // 19 – 2230 // Smut Slam Berlin: “Hygge AF” [https://www.facebook.com/events/2564949450267982/] Nov 18 // 1930 - 2130 // Women Writing Berlin Lab Session [https://www.facebook.com/events/465155147539747/] Nov 18 // 20 - 24 // Sweetest Taboo Opening Night x Poetry meets Soul [https://www.facebook.com/events/2260129144285614/] Nov 18 //20 - 23 // Guerrilla Slam #71 – feat Veronika Rieger [https://www.facebook.com/events/477243132866275/]

5 NOV 2019 · Welcome to the first episode of FU Out Loud! We're so happy to bring you a little literature in a sweet twenty-minute package for the reader on the move. We're kicking off our inaugural episode with a very near and dear author to the FU Review. Gamze Saymaz joins host Kelsie to read some cannibalistic and lovesick prose poems and talk about past inspiration, what she's reading now, and how the future of her writing is shaping up. Hint: it involves a house so haunted and so awfully close to the tube, humans making aliens (because there is no limit to human hubris), a knock-off Ikea, and 22 buffalo chicken wings. After the episode, Kelsie talks about a few upcoming literary events in Berlin! If you're a Berliner like us, or just in town, stay tuned. A full list can be found below. This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio with big thanks to Hindenburg for their support. Follow the FU Review on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! [link: https://www.facebook.com/FUReviewBerlin/] [link:https://www.instagram.com/fureviewberlin/] You can find the full text of Jawbreaker at Tint Journal [link: https://tintjournal.com/] and an in depth bio of Gamze here [link: https://tintjournal.com/fiction/short-story/101-jawbreaker] You can find more of Gamze Saymaz's work on youtube @ of seatides [link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNmlJUxJEAc-8Sd-eGeWmvw] and on instagram @of.seatides [link: https://www.instagram.com/of.seatides/] This week, in Berlin: 05.11.2019 // 20-23 // Isn't Everything Poetry? [link: https://www.facebook.com/events/990204308005882/] 07.11.2019 // 19:30-23 // Truth, Berlin Spoken Word [link: https://www.facebook.com/events/401906630503998/] 07.11.2019 // 19:30-22 // Reading: Eugene Ostashevsky and Donna Stonecipher [link: https://www.facebook.com/events/383438802594593/] 07.11.2019 // 20:30-22 // STYLE - Spoken Word und Poetry Slam Show im November [link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2283220365139296/] 07.11.2019 // 19-21 // Performance: I Am Not On The Blacklist [link: https://www.facebook.com/events/504676676762147/] 08.11.2019 // 21-23 // On Fire! Comedy meets Poetry! [link: https://www.facebook.com/events/972821403053672/] 09.11.2019 // 19-? // One World Poetry Night - you matter [link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2475736092509208/] 09.11.2019 // 14-17 // KAPiTAL 5 What Is A Heroine? Writers Workshop [link:https://www.facebook.com/events/784422998683257/] 10.11.2019 // 19-21 // Berlin Launch Double Feature - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan & Jessica J Lee [link: https://www.facebook.com/events/494013118117662/] 11.11.2019 // 19:30-23 // Domicilium [link: https://www.facebook.com/events/395650454694922/]