This is one heck of an episode! This conversation between Dorion Sagan and Elizabeth is deeply fascinating. He talks about his father and mother and family, going deeply autobiographical. Dorion also reads from his recent book The Road to Hedotopia (Meat For Tea Press). This is one not to be missed!

Photo: Katherine Kendall

We welcome Stephen St. Francis Decky to the Meat For Teacast!

Stephen and Elizabeth discuss writing, films, music and art - and a lot more. Stephen reads from his novel Werewolf Movie too!

Find out more at https://werewolfmovie.net

And his anwers to the final four questions, summarized here:

1. SCENT: Amour de Cacao by Sud Pacifique presently, but my go-to is the Tonkade by Laboratorio Olfattivo.
2. WRITING: César Aira, (Dinner in particular, but also An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and pretty much everything else he's written); Molly Pohlig (The Unsuitable); Anna Sewell (Black Beauty); The play I'm currently doing projection design for (and reading over and over) is called Beyond That Nothing Is Certain, written by Monica Isakstuen, performed at The Cherry Theater in Ithaca, New York.
3. MUSIC: Melody's Echo Chamber (Unclouded is her newest album); Spell Blanket by Broadcast
4. FILM: Director Lucile Hadžihalilović (The Ice Tower (2025) is her latest, but Earwig (2022) and Evolution (2015) are also fantastic); Director Steve McQueen (Education from the Small Axe series).

It's Women's History Month - so let's go back to Season 1, Episode 14 for Elizabeth's conversation with Gayle Brandeis!

*The fourteenth episode of the Meat For Teacast. Elizabeth MacDuffie has a conversation with author and poet Gayle Brandeis, discussing her most recent collection Many Restless Concerns, among other topics related to her work and writing. Go to gaylebrandeis.com for more information.*

(For the music of Out Out mentioned in the beginning of the episode, go to https://outout.bandcamp.com )