Episode 88: Calvin Hennick & Bill Henderson

December 10, 2019

Calvin Hennick jokingly calls his memoir, ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO, “every thought I’ve ever had,” and the book touches on fatherhood, manhood, race, family, alcohol, baseball, and countless other topics, all considered on a road trip to his childhood hometown with his young son. He talks to James about having the memoir roundly rejected until it won the Pushcart Press Editor’s Award, walking around naked in front of the reader, and not solving all of the world’s problems. Plus, the legendary Bill Henderson of Pushcart Press.

Calvin Hennick

Buy ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO

Calvin and James discuss: 

The Chunky Monkeys 

THE BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE

Grub Street

Boston Red Sox 

Adam Jones 

Baltimore Orioles

Curt Schilling 

Fenway Park 

GET OUT dir by Jordan Peele 

Cooperstown, NY 

Baseball Hall of Fame 

PLEASANTVILLE dir by Gary Ross 

Jackie Robinson

Millicent Bennett

Grand Central Publishing 

Pushcart Editor’s Prize 

Bill Henderson 

APOCALYPSE NOW dir by Francis Ford Coppola 

BUSINESS INSIDER 

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Chip Cheek 

Whitney Scharer 

Jenn DeLeon 

THE BODY PAPERS by Grace Talusan 

Franz Kafka 

James Joyce 

Bill Henderson

Buy THE PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY

Bill and James discuss: 

THE KID THAT COULD 

THE PUBLISH IT YOURSELF HANDBOOK by Bill Henderson 

The Pushcart Prize 

Anais Nin 

Buckminster Fuller 

Ralph Ellison 

Joyce Carol Oates 

Doubleday 

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 

Mattel Toys 

Random House 

WW Norton & Co. 

ESQUIRE 

Central Park 

ONCE MORE TO THE RODEO by Calvin Hennick

Little, Brown 

Millicent Bennett 

POETS & WRITERS 

Cooperstown 

Fenway Park 

Boston Red Sox 

WASHINGTON POST 

YOU ARE NOT A GADGET by Jaron Lanier 

GARDEN STATE by Rick Moody 

THE TALE OF THE RING: A KADDISH: A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF THE HOLOCAUST by Frank Stiffel 

A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER: THE GREAT HAMPTONS HURRICANE OF 1938 by Genie Chipps Henderson