Where We're At Podcast – No. 9
Amy Guth
The poets say genius is wisdom and youth—so does that make writer Amy Guth a bonafide genius-type? Wisdom—check. Youth—check. Throw in wit and whimsy when describing her dynamic readings/performances, add splashes of violence and call-to-arms feminism in her writing, and you start to get a sense of the multi-faceted Ms. Guth. A nomad who's lived and toured all over the country, Amy Guth now resides in Chicago where she has dabbled in improv and collaborated on shows in the Second City Training Center. Currently she hosts The Fixx monthly reading series; as well as freelancing for such publications as The Believer and Bookslut, working as an assistant fiction editor at 42 Opus, putting the finishing touches on her next two novels, and just being fabulous in general. Ninth Letter dropped in on Amy's reading from her novel Three Fallen Women at Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago in September, 2006. What happens in Chicago stays in Chicago—suffice it to say that the writing was powerful and the event memorable, sentiments all Guth fans take away from time spent with her.
Credits
Editors
Colin Bradford
Videography
Colin Bradford
Project Manager
Laura Bandy
