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The No Pants Cocktail Hour: Jeff Somers Talks & Reads

Dec 15, 2019

Author Jeff Somers drinks Coors Lite and discusses the essay "Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium: We Don’t Have Much Time: Stop Wasting it at Work" which appeared in The Inner Swine Volume 7, Issue 4, which appeared in the Zine Yearbook in 2002.


Nov 1, 2019

Author Jeff Somers drinks Wild Turkey 101 like a much younger man and discusses his short story 'The Company I Keep,' which appeared in "Life is Short and Then You Die" edited by Kelley Armstrong. Jeff discusses how the story started off as a 60,000+ word novel and was cut down to just 6,000 words.


Oct 4, 2019

Author Jeff Somers uncorks a bottle of Corgi Cardigan whiskey out of Jersey City and discusses his short story 'No Stranger to Frustration.' The discussion includes references to suicide, The Descendents, and how Jeff manages to like himself very much despite acknowledging he's kind of a terrible person.


Sep 13, 2019

Author Jeff Somers uncorks a bottle of Redbreast and discusses his Avery Cates short story 'This Was Education,' which began life as a deleted chapter from an early version of 'The Digital Plague.' He talks about killing off characters you love and how deleted material like this can still be part of a fictional...


Aug 14, 2019

Author Jeff Somers drinks a barrel bourbon from Astor Wines & Spirits and discusses his short story 'The Unappeasable Host,' which was published in Bare Bone #5 in 2004. A short little piece of horror, the story is all premise and no grace notes. Just like Jeff himself.