Episode 98: The Skin is Where the Body Stops
b"Slushies, are you ready to take a deep dive into some fiction? Listen to \\u201cBenefitting Positions,\\u201d at the link below, or read it here. Would you ever hire a professional hugger, or would you want to be one? Listen in as the group discusses the concept of professional snuggling and what the drive is behind good fiction. In this time of social distancing, the topic of touch has become more pignant than ever, and very much so in Jac Smith's piece.\\nMaybe you\\u2019ll be a different kind of touched when you listen to how proud the group is of Jonathan. Maybe you\\u2019ll feel even another kind of touched when you hear about Jason\\u2019s academic journey, followed by Larissa's journey in the VCap Department, which has helped acclimate an ungodly 30,000 zoom users.\\xa0\\nSend us your thoughts on the piece, and what you think of Jane\\u2019s anger, and we'll leave you Slushies with one last question. There isn\\u2019t a right or wrong, although we are side-eyeing you, do you read a book\\u2019s ending first? Or are you NORMAL and read the book from the beginning to end?\\n\\xa0\\nListen to Benefitting Positions\\n\\xa0\\nThis episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, Wilbur Records, who kindly introduced us to the artist\\xa0 A.M.Mills, whose song \\u201cSpaghetti with Loretta\\u201d now opens our show.\\xa0\\nJac Smith is a MFA graduate from the University of Notre Dame and a recipient of the Studios of Key West Fellowship. She is currently seeking representation for her novel, The Loose, which explores grief as a form of addiction and is set in the Florida Keys. She lives in the mountains of Southern California with her wife. Her work can be found at Hypertrophic Literary and Santa Ana River Review."