This Week on Friday Live: Ingrid Jendrzjewski, AJ Odasso, and Ashley-Elizabeth Best

Another week, another wha-?!, another walk from the bedroom to the kitchen to the home office. But don’t despair, dear reader, for another Friday Live is coming your way!

You have likely noticed that your social media feed is filled with two very different approaches to navigating this most curious of times. The first bouncily tells us to Write a novel! Begin an exercise regimen! Learn a new language! And the other soberly suggests there has never been a better time to wallow, baby, wallow. I like to think of these as, respectively, the Tigger Pandemic Performance Plan and the Eeyore Quarantine Quandary, brought to you by way of the Five Hundred Acre Woods of Social Distance.

While Tigger has oodles of zest and Eeyore easily frets, here at Pulp Literature, we are following the middle way, taking our guidance from the thoughtful, poetic, and sweetness-seeking Winnie-the-Pooh:

“Let’s go and see everybody,” said Pooh. “Because when you have been walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go into somebody’s house, and he says, ‘Hallo, Pooh, you’re just in time for a little smackerel of something,’ and you are, then it’s what I call a friendly day.”*

Every week on our Friday Live Readings, our authors invite you into their homes for a smackerel of literary sweetness, their words a balm during this blustery season. And after all, a good story really is the best kind of honey.

Wishing you the friendliest of days.

(*From The House at Pooh Corner, by AA Milne)

Friday’s live line-up

Every Friday, from 10:00-10:30am pacific, we are livestreaming readings, featuring three authors who will read their work and answer questions from the audience. This week on Friday Live, we bring you Ingrid Jendrzjewski, AJ Odasso, and Ashley-Elizabeth Best.

Ingrid Jendrzjewski

Ingrid Jendrzejewski , winner of the 2017 Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest with ‘Crushed Velvet’,  Issue 15) grew up in Vincennes, Indiana, and studied creative writing at the University of Evansville then physics at the University of Cambridge. She now lives in the UK, where she is trying to get up the nerve to declutter her wardrobe. Links to her work can be found at www.ingridj.com and she occasionally tweets @LunchOnTuesday.  

AJ Odasso

AJ Odasso (‘We Come Back Different’, Issue 17 & 18) is the author of three award-nominated poetry collections (Lost Books and The Dishonesty of Dreams, from Flipped-Eye Publishing; Things Being What They Are, unpublished and shortlisted for the Sexton Prize) as well as a handful of short stories.  They serve as Senior Poetry Editor at Strange Horizons magazine.  You can find them at twitter.com/ajodasso.

Ashley-Elizabeth Best

Ashley-Elizabeth Best (‘Wintering’, Issue 9). Her work has been published internationally in CV2, Ambit Magazine, The Literary Review of Canada, The Columbia Review, and Glasgow Review of Books, among others. In 2015 she was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and her debut collection of poetry, Slow States of Collapse, was published with ECW Press.

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