Andy Gottschalk
Andy Gottschalk is a writer and artist from Kansas, living in New York. His films have been exhibited at the Yale Student Film Festival and GIPHY Film Festival. His prose appears or is forthcoming in Rougarou, Sage Cigarettes, and Post Road, among others.
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The Inheritance
1. The mortician covered the self-inflicted gunshot wound in my brother’s chest so we could say goodbye to his face. When they turned him to ashes, I expected charcoal-like fragments and chunks of bone, but instead received a plastic bag of him powdered and fine, like white sand. My father had already instructed my brother […]
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Getting to Know Andy Gottschalk, Author of “The Inheritance”
In an interview with student interns Jed Heald and Eli Hirshberg, Andy Gottschalk offers an inside look into his creative practice and shares more about “The Inheritance,” his piece in the current issue of Shenandoah. We explore different themes in his writing, his influential studio art practice and recent essays he’s been working on. […]