Weekend at Bernie’s (The Podcast)

After a brief hiatus the Dark Sky Podcast has returned! This time, your humble hosts are interviewing Robert Yune, editor of The Fourth River, about his story “Dear Katie” forthcoming from The Wascana Review. For added flavor, we make Robert answer all of his questions while playing Bit.Trip Runner, a notoriously difficult Wii game.

We also highlight Amber Sparks’ wonderful story “Until Your Carcass Hits the Canvas” published right here at DSM along with Nick Spencer and Christian Ward’s brand new comic book Infinite Vacation. There’s a lot of drunken gushing over Amber. And many unnecessary explanations of how we got into comics (or didn’t).

And of course, there’s a running commentary track for Weekend at Bernie’s II starting with Part 2 of the podcast. Just fire up this cinema classic on Netflix Instant Watch and sync it up. Mostly, it’s people yelling, “Bernie! Fucking Bernie!”

Part 1

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Part 2

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Part 3

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– Steve Gillies is the co-fiction editor of Hot Metal Bridge (hotmetalbridge.org). He was born in Brazil, grew up in Alabama and spent most of his adult life in Chicago. Now he’s in Pittsburgh, pursuing an MFA in Fiction at the University of Pittsburgh and trying to keep David Keaton out of trouble. So far unsuccessfully.

– Christopher M. Lee grew up as a TV kid in West Virginia. Today he’s an MFA candidate at the University of Pittsburgh and alternates his time between writing stories, playing the saxophone, and stealing anything that isn’t bolted down.

– Salvatore Pane’s fiction has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and DZANC’s Best of the Web anthology and has appeared, or is forthcoming, in PANK, Hobart, Flatmancrooked, Quick Fiction, Annalemma and others. He is Short Fiction Editor of Corium Magazine. He blogs for The Rumpus, BOMB, Pank and Dark Sky, teaches fiction at the University of Pittsburgh and can be found online at www.salvatore-pane.com.

– Robert Yune was born in Seoul, South Korea.  Due to his father’s job, his family had moved 11 times by the time he turned 18.  He is the fiction editor of The Fourth River and his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Connecticut Review, and Green Mountains Review.  In 2009, he received a fiction writing fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.  He can be found online at www.robertyune.com