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Laurel Snyder (BSS #313)Laurel Snyder is most recently the author of Any Which Wall.
Subjects Discussed: The extraordinary conditions in which Any Which Wall was written, the flexibility that comes from being a small fish, a writing identity tied to poetry and waitressing, the tendency for books to come quicker in the children’s market, financial experiments that involve finishing [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Rebecca Solnit (BSS #312)Rebecca Solnit is most recently the author of A Paradise Built in Hell.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Finding hostility within legitimate clarification.
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Subjects Discussed: William James’s second treatise on pragmatism, the alternative notion which means the same as a preexisting notion, General Funston’s martial response to the 1906 earthquake vs. Pauline Jacobson’s push for camaraderie, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Marjorie Rosen (BSS #311)Marjorie Rosen is most recently the author of Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town Into an International Community.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Kicked out of bed.
Author: Marjorie Rosen
Subjects Discussed: The white and non-Hispanic white majority in Bentonville, Arkansas, numerous houses of worship, multiculturalism, the largest population of Marshall Island immigrants in the United States, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nicholas Meyer (BSS #310)Nicholas Meyer is perhaps best known for his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He is most recently the author of The View from the Bridge.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Ah, listener my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish best served cold?
Author: Nicholas [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Brian Evenson (BSS #309)Brian Evenson is most recently the author of Fugue State and Last Days.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Latching onto toccata.
Author: Brian Evenson
Subjects Discussed: Knowing when a story concept has legs, ideas that never come to anything, the origins of “A Pursuit,” The Open Curtain, maintaining surprise, text sources vs. personal experience, writing fiction moments that hit [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Muhammad Knight (BSS #307)Michael Muhammad Knight is most recently the author of Impossible Man and Osama Van Halen.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Expressing forceful words about his distinct identity.
Author: Michael Muhammad Knight
Subjects Discussed: Knight’s powers of prescience, Muslim punk, fictional suicide as a form of personal critique, the fictional character Mike Knight vs. the real Mike Knight, the Amazing [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lawrence Block (BSS #308)Lawrence Block is most recently the author of Step by Step.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Ruminating upon a life of exquisite indolence.
Author: Lawrence Block
Subjects Discussed: Step by Step as an anti-memoir, exploring childhood experience in print, randomness and finding connections, writing with a greater degree of freedom, Random Walk, concerns about a limited audience, earlier attempts [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Laurie Sandell (BSS #306)Laurie Sandell is the author of The Impostor’s Daughter.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if the coalminer was an impostor.
Author: Laurie Sandell
Subjects Discussed: Chicken recipes, the quest for truth within memoir, how narrative shapes and stretches truth, subjective vs. objective accounts, the essay written anonymously for Esquire, memory vs. concrete evidence, emails from Ashley Judd, how [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dick Cavett (BSS #305)Dick Cavett’s column, “Talk Show,” regularly appears at the New York Times.
(PROGRAM NOTE: During the course of our conversation, a “Professor Robert Costelli from John Jay College” — who apparently has a background in law enforcement — pushed in Mr. Cavett’s chair, causing Mr. Cavett to accost him. This unusual social moment, which was [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Maggie Estep (BSS #304)Maggie Estep is most recently the author of Alice Fantastic.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Hoping to see Alice at the next opportunity.
Author: Maggie Estep
Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming; lots of nutty topics, including speculation on Uma Thurman's activities in Woodstock]
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Estep: “Our love of animals is directly proportionate to our indifference to human beings.” It’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Philip Alcabes (BSS #303)Philip Alcabes is most recently the author of Dread.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Attempting to understand the certainty of certain dread, and the dread of dreadful certainty.
Author: Philip Alcabes
Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming, but here is a fun-filled conversation on plague, perception, scientific ethics, linguistics, balancing public response with science, and attempts to combat sexism, racism, and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Richard Russo II (BSS #301)Richard Russo is most recently the author of That Old Cape Magic. He previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #152.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Shoving Cape Cod mackerel down his throat.
Author: Richard Russo
Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming, but lots in the latter half of the show about the Newsweek piece and the perceptive problems with [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lizzie Skurnick II (BSS #302)Lizzie Skurnick is most recently the author of Shelf Discovery. She previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #13.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Sacrificing his manhood to fight the patriarchal overlords.
Author: Lizzie Skurnick
Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming, but oh quite a strange potpourri! Everything from redheads, television rape, Jean Auel, whether patriarchy or elitism is [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Douglas Rushkoff (BSS #299)Douglas Rushkoff is the author of Life, Inc.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Surprised to discover someone more contentious than he is.
Author: Douglas Rushkoff
Subjects Discussed: The wage labor system established in Portugal in 1253, Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages, whether the day laborer can stand up, children and branding, people who attend Wealth [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
J. Robert Lennon (BSS #300)J. Robert Lennon is most recently the author of Castle and Pieces for the Left Hand.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating his surprising longevity after 300 shows.
Author: J. Robert Lennon
Subjects Discussed: Ending sentences with nouns, how location affects character description, objects and places as the territory of a story, how the land in upstate New York [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
China Mieville II (BSS #298)China Mieville is most recently the author of The City & The City. He previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #105.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Searching for the Mieville and the Mieville.
Author: China Mieville
Subjects Discussed: When The City & The City was written, speculating on the novel’s setting, ratty technology and shambolic modern [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Percival Everett (BSS #295)Percival Everett appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #295.
Percival Everett is most recently the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier.
[For related links, check out Percival Everett Week over at Emerging Writers Network, as well as my specific thoughts about Everett's most recent novel.]
Condition of Mr. Segundo: He is not Percival Everett.
Subjects Discussed: Name-related jokes, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan (BSS #296)Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #296.
Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan are most recently the authors of Beyond Heaving Bosoms. They are also the proprietors of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.
Subjects Discussed; Kathleen Woodwiss’s The Flame and the Flower, the beginnings of original paperback romance, genre respectability, romance’s profitability, the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ellen Ruppel Shell (BSS #297)Ellen Ruppel Shell is most recently the author of Cheap. On the main text-based site, the book was also featured in an in-depth five-part discussion with several thoughtful people, which you can investigate here: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Bargain hunting for alcohol.
Author: Ellen Ruppel [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Hal Niedzviecki II (BSS #294)Hal Niedzviecki most recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #294.
Hal Niedzviecki is most recently the author of The Peep Diaries. He previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #47.
[PROGRAM NOTE: At the 24:03 mark, a woman with a laptop demanded that Our Correspondent talk with less vivacity, suggesting that Our Correspondent was talking in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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