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  • RadioWest Interview with Doug Fabrizio

    by Ryan Michael Painter

    One of the things my mom frequently talked about over the years was me finishing The Unexpected Son so I could appear on RadioWest with Doug Fabrizio to talk about my father. 

    Well, somehow it happened. 

    Posted in Feature, Interview, Podcast

  • RadioWest Films: Remembering Michael

    by Ryan Michael Painter
    RadioWest Films has put together a short film featuring some of my favorite photographs and some audio excerpts we did for an upcoming radio show.
    Posted in Feature, Film, Interview, Podcast

  • Listen, Learn & Love Podcast with Richard Ostler

    by Ryan Michael Painter
    Richard Ostler reached out to me after reading Peggy Fletcher Stack's feature on The Unexpected Son in The Salt Lake Tribune. I've done numerous po...
    Posted in Interview, Podcast

  • The Salt Lake Tribune feature by Peggy Fletcher Stack

    by Ryan Michael Painter
    Reading Peggy Fletcher Stack's article was something like unwrapping a present. I really didn't know what I'd find inside. Stack interviewed my mot...
    Posted in Feature, Interview

  • f(r)iction interview with Carolyn Janecek

    by Ryan Michael Painter
    I'll spare you the hyperbole (for now), but Carolyn was the editor that I needed. We worked side by side for months without meeting (an oddity in the pre-pandemic world).
    When the smoke cleared, we explored the idea of doing an interview for
    Friction.
    I couldn't imagine what questions they might have left. What could I say that wasn't already in the book?
    Posted in Interview

  • City Weekly interview with Scott Renshaw

    by Ryan Michael Painter
    I've known Scott Renshaw as a film critic, writer, editor and book lover (you'll never see him without one) for years. Having him interview me for City Weekly was a little surreal. Sometimes a hallucinatory life is as good as reality gets.
    Posted in Interview