What's Kraken?
Tonya Todd — Banned Books and Re-Visioning Dracula
This Tonya Todd interview is about the right to read and what it costs when that right gets chipped away. Tonya is an author, actress
September 29, 2026
Pop culture, dissected and unfiltered. The rise and fall of Jo Szewczyk.
This Tonya Todd interview is about the right to read and what it costs when that right gets chipped away. Tonya is an author, actress
This Eric Miller interview is about the thirty years of Hollywood that went into a novel. Eric is a screenwriter, a Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthology
The Mark Blacknell interview. Mark Blacknell grew up in working-class Philly in the ’70s — the son of an atheist socialist union organizer who had
This Raymond Creamer interview catches the writer-director on press day for Goody Goody, his feature debut and a Shudder original, a home birth that goes
The Camille Ellis interview. Grief coach Camille joins Jo Szewczyk on What’s Kraken? for one of the most open conversations this show has had. After
The Mark Steven Porro interview. Mark Steven Porro was a carefree LA bachelor — never married, no kids — when his mother stopped eating at
When he’s not dissecting other people’s stories, Jo writes his own.
“Fearless and unsparing… makes Less Than Zero seem like Goodnight Moon.”
— BookLife Prize Judge
