November 30, 2016
SHARE
THE IMPOSTER
15
Sports Music For Goths
Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker find the poetry in press conferences. Hazel Meyer redefines fantasy sports. Nick Grottick wants you to smell the song.
Kevin Sexton
Producer

Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker are the co-authors of Erratic Fire, Eratic Passion, a book of found sports poetry. Here’s that Allen Iverson “practice” speech they talk about. Pasha Malla is the award-winning author of five books. Here’s his New Yorker piece about the jump shot. His new novel, Fugue States, will be released in May 2017. Jeff Parker is the author of Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal, the novel Ovenman, and the short story collection The Taste of Penny. Here’s an annotated version of his Metta World Peace poem on Genius.

Hazel Meyer is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, performance, and textiles. You can see her work here, including her performance Muscle Panic and its handbook. Watch that memorable basketball kiss she mentioned.

Nick Grottick makes music as Bad Channels with Jess Gierusz. He composed the song “Muscle Memory” for our show.

More from this series
Will Aliya bomb or solve racism with jokes? Find out in this final episode of The Imposter. 
June 30, 2018
In 1986, an album called Keyboard Fantasies was recorded on cassette in Huntsville, Ontario. It was self-released and barely sold any copies. Recently, the album was rediscovered, shining a spotlight on the incredible catalogue of Beverly Glenn-Copeland.
June 20, 2018
The difference between art and entertainment is in the eye of the bureaucrat, and what happens when your punchline is a 15-foot bronze statue of King Edward VII on a horse?
June 1, 2018
"My mentor, who's like this 71-year-old retired pornstar from the 80s — she would always say the best porns come from your own personal sex life"
May 24, 2018
A shoot 'em up game that runs on emotions and an Indigenous island that runs on memory.
May 3, 2018
A hagiography of celebrated publisher Annie Koyama.
April 23, 2018
Improv’s about saying “yes, and...” to everything. It’s about building a limitless environment for playful and absurd moments to surface organically—but when your boundaries are crossed, how do you push back?
April 2, 2018
Saying yes to everything is an excellent approach to improvisation, but it's a terrible idea in life. So what happens when worlds collide?
March 23, 2018
all podcasts arrow All Podcasts
THE IMPOSTER