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William Kennedy (BSS #427) William Kennedy is most recently the author of Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes. For related material, you can read my Modern Library Reading Challenge essay on Ironweed. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Caught in a migratory comedy of errors. Author: William Kennedy Subjects Discussed: Resonances in historical fiction that align with the present day, the William [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Joyce Carol Oates (BSS #426)Joyce Carol Oates is most recently the author of The Corn Maiden and the editor of New Jersey Noir. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contending with needless tempers and false heaters. Author: Joyce Carol Oates PROGRAM NOTE: For many years, I had hoped to schedule Joyce Carol Oates on this program. And the opportunity at long [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dennis Cooper (BSS #425)Dennis Cooper is most recently the author of The Marbled Swarm. Subjects Discussed: Cannibalism, worming, BDSM, “industriously garbled syntax,” reconciling confusion within literature, being a Francophile, Rimbaud, irritating certain readers, attempts to tame language, Alain Robbe-Grillet, de Sade, Cooper’s efforts to disguise his own voice, violent metaphors as a writing strategy, shock value, listening to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Charles Yu (BSS #424)Charles Yu is most recently the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Saying goodbye before saying hello. Author: Charles Yu Subjects Discussed: Accusations of egomania, Abbott and Costello, the real Charles Yu vs. the fictive Charles Yu, writing a novel in a nonlinear fashion, how time [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Wayne Koestenbaum (BSS #423)Wayne Koestenbaum is most recently the author of Humiliation. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Fully considering the witnesses. Author: Wayne Koestenbaum Subjects Discussed: Whether a deliberate slander of a surname is a humiliation, the three components of humiliation (victim, abuser, and witness), the differences between recorded humiliation and experiential humiliation, spectacles of martyrdom, preexisting humiliation and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Alan Hollinghurst (BSS #422)Alan Hollinghurst appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #422. He is most recently the author of The Stranger’s Child. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Pondering a new career that has nothing to do with literary biography. Author: Alan Hollinghurst Subjects Discussed: Ivy Compton-Burnett, attention to character panoramas in 21st century literature, the appeal of huge gaps [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Téa Obreht (BSS #421)Téa Obreht is most recently the author of The Tiger’s Wife, winner of the Orange Prize and finalist for the National Book Awards (to be announced on Wednesday: check out Reluctant Habits and the Twitter feed for live coverage from the floor that evening). Condition of Mr. Segundo: Pondering a future in which writers are [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lawrence Weschler (BSS #420)Lawrence Weschler is most recently the author of Uncanny Valley. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Feeling 95% himself, wondering why he recoils at his mirror image. Author: Lawrence Weschler Subjects Discussed: Masahiro Mori’s “uncanny valley,” Zeno’s paradox, the difficulties of animating the face, getting past the uncanny valley in our lifetime, Quidditch matches, the human face [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Diana Abu-Jaber (BSS #419)Diana Abu-Jaber is most recently the author of Birds of Paradise. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Salivating in tandem with his diminishing wallet. Author: Diana Abu-Jaber Subjects Discussed: The dangers of French pastries, Abu-Jaber’s propensity for describing food in lurid terms, growing up with food-obsessed parents, wooing people and readers with food, Abu-Jaber’s former life as [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Weird Al Yankovic (BSS #418)Weird Al Yankovic’s most recent album is Alpocalypse. Many thanks to Jay Levey for helping to make this unlikely conversation happen. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Got skills, he’s a champion of D&D. Guest: Weird Al Yankovic Subjects Discussed: Whether most people in the world are doing okay, Weird Al’s longevity, a fastidious concern for the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Anne Enright (BSS #417)Anne Enright is most recently the author of The Forgotten Waltz. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Troublesomely willing to sign on the dotted line. Author: Anne Enright Subjects Discussed: Writing a novel as a minute allegory of the Celtic Tiger, Gresham’s law, books with shifting moral alignment, marriage as a financial relationship, punctuation and subordinate clauses [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Roger Corman (BSS #416)In addition to directing some of the most memorable and entertaining drive-in movies of the 20th century (among many other accomplishments), Roger Corman is most recently the subject of a new documentary called Corman’s World, which is now playing film festivals and is set for release on December 16. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Not of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Susan Orlean (BSS #415)Susan Orlean is most recently the author of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Pondering an alternative timeline with the golden retriever rising as the heroic dog of choice. Author: Susan Orlean Subjects Discussed: Rin Tin Tin references in Finnegans Wake, Rinty’s indefinable charm, Jack London, dogs in World [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Yannick Murphy III (BSS #414)Yannick Murphy’s most recent novel is The Call. She has previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #158 and The Bat Segundo Show #41. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Terrified of picking up the telephone. Author: Yannick Murphy Subjects Discussed: Chatty people named Ed, imagining the proper format for an illusory veterinary log, husbands who claim [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nick Broomfield (BSS #413)Nick Broomfield is most recently the co-director of Sarah Palin: You Betcha. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if he has gone rogue or rouge. Guest: Nick Broomfield Subjects Discussed: Being attracted to conservative politicians with big hair, Christopher Hitchens’s sexual fantasies about Margaret Thatcher, Frederick Wiseman and Errol Morris, contending with publicists and press agents, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sheila McClear (BSS #412)Sheila McClear is most recently the author of The Last of the Live Nude Girls. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Embracing the diminishing returns of Old New York. Author: Sheila McClear Subjects Discussed: Peter Pan Donuts as a point of meaning in one’s life, Hunter S. Thompson and breakfast, Old New York, staying in New York [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Alexander Maksik (BSS #411)Alexander Maksik is most recently the author of You Deserve Nothing. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Staring into unreliable news outlets for confirmation of existence. Author: Alexander Maksik Subjects Discussed: Writing an anti-Parisian novel in Paris, experiential qualities that find their way into fiction, being seduced by a cliche, reading Camus in the original, English prose [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Alex Shakar (BSS #410)Alex Shakar is most recently the author of Lumanarium. Condition of Mr. Segundo: In search of a zendo to teach him a few cheap tricks. Author: Alex Shakar Subjects Discussed: Splitting novelists into scientists and mystics, how location and characters transmute over multiple drafts, novelists who are prescient about their health, spirituality, writing about the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lauren Beukes (BSS #409)Lauren Beukes is most recently the author of Zoo City. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Avoiding roaming urban animals. Author: Lauren Beukes Subjects Discussed: Jet lags and hangovers, cultural references, I Can Haz Cheeseburger, whether or not books should be of their time, American Psycho and Phil Collins, violence and cheeseball songs, hyper-specific description, William Gibson, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dana Spiotta II (BSS #408)Dana Spiotta is most recently the author of Stone Arabia and previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #28. This particular conversation was recorded before a packed audience at McNally Jackson on July 20, 2011. My thanks to Michele Filgate and Katie Monaghan for their help in organizing this event. For additional details about Stone [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
John Banville/Benjamin Black (BSS #407)John Banville is most recently the author of The Infinities. Benjamin Black is most recently the author of A Death in Summer. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Doubting that his alter ego is the work of a craftsman. Author: John Banville (aka Benjamin Black) Subjects Discussed: Efforts to sandwich two men into one voice, why John [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jesús Ángel García (BSS #406)Jesús Ángel García appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #406. He is most recently the author of badbadbad. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Hoping not to confuse his relationship pursuits with his research ones. Author: Jesús Ángel García Subjects Discussed: Whether Mr. Garcia has a real name and a criminal record, deflecting charges of narcissism and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Miranda July (BSS #405)Miranda July is most recently the writer, director, and star of The Future, which opens in theaters on July 29, 2011. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Seeking further bifurcations between art and commerce. Guest: Miranda July Subjects Discussed: People in their mid-thirties who are crippled by their own self-judgment, empathy and resentment, workaholicism, feeling paralyzed, kidults [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Megan Abbott (BSS #404)Megan Abbott is most recently the author of The End of Everything. For more on Megan Abbott, you can read Edward Champion’s essay “Megan Abbott: Literary Criminal” at The Millions, Condition of Mr. Segundo: Pondering unanticipated carnal connections with peach cobbler. Author: Megan Abbott Subjects Discussed: The need for dramatic emphasis, basing novels on real [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Emma Forrest (BSS #403)Emma Forrest is most recently the author of Your Voice in My Head. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Fearing the arrival of kneeling supplicants. Author: Emma Forrest Subjects Discussed: Occupying the insides of planes, positive mania, Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: A History, novels as a dress rehearsal for a memoir, troublesome aspects of being a young female [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Edie Meidav (BSS #402)Edie Meidav previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #51 in a tag-team interview with Scott Esposito. She is most recently the author of Lola, California. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Been all around this great big world. Author: Edie Meidav Subjects Discussed: Returning to old neighborhoods, whether or not the first-person perspective as the most [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
James Marsh (BSS #401)James Marsh is most recently the director of Project Nim, which opens in theaters on July 8, 2011. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Pondering unethical experiments that might slide by today’s authorities. Guest: James Marsh Subjects Discussed: States of exhaustion, Project Nim’s purported origins of the 1970s hippie residue, scientific ethics and Columbia code of conduct, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Aimee Bender (BSS #400)Aimee Bender is most recently the author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. She previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #16. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Feeling his inner cake and eating it too. Author: Aimee Bender Subjects Discussed: Fantasy and magical realism being contingent upon reader belief, domestic realism and fantasy, The Particular [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Janet Reitman (BSS #399)Janet Reitman is most recently the author of Inside Scientology. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Always on the run. Author: Janet Reitman Subjects Discussed: Scientology and cults, the way Scientology works, Orthodox Judaism, Michael Sklar, tax-exempt religions, the religious elements used to form Scientology, esoteric religious movements in early 20th century Los Angeles, L. Ron Hubbard’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mara Hvistendahl (BSS #398)Mara Hvistendahl is most recently the author of Unnatural Selection. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Considering cold water solutions if he attempts to sire sons. Author: Mara Hvistendahl Subjects Discussed: Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 address on the occasion of the UN’s 20th anniversary, the relationship between birth rate, sex selection, and development, the history of amniocentesis in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
James Gleick (BSS #397)James Gleick is most recently the author of The Information. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Giving little bits of your entropy. Author: James Gleick Subjects Discussed: Claude Shannon, the origin of the byte, Charles Babbage and relay switches, measuring information beyond the telegraph, bit storage capacity, being right about data measurement, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Adam Hochschild (BSS #396)Adam Hochschild is most recently the author of To End All Wars. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Conscientiously objecting and objectifying consciousness. Author: Adam Hochschild Subjects Discussed: What is considered morally permissible in war, mustard gas, deadly military technology, Ray Bradbury’s “The Flying Machine,” the women’s suffrage movement and World War I, Emmeline Pankhurst and the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tayari Jones II (BSS #395)Tayari Jones is most recently the author of Silver Sparrow. She previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #99. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Resisting the creative death knell kickstarted by marketing forces. Author: Tayari Jones Subjects Discussed: The limitless stories contained within any one city, writing about Atlanta, not living in a place you’re writing [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Daniel Clowes (BSS #394)Daniel Clowes recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #394. He is most recently the author of Mr. Wonderful. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Uniting with the bald community. Author: Daniel Clowes Subjects Discussed: Moments of simultaneous consciousness, creative methods of beating imposed deadlines, being intrigued by thought balloons, Superman and narrative urgency, formal lettering, what [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ross Perlin (BSS #393)Ross Perlin is most recently the author of Intern Nation. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if he somebody signed him up for an unpaid internship. Author: Ross Perlin Subjects Discussed: Economic origins of the intern, Gary Becker and human capital theory, how economics contribute to intern culture, humane paid internships and varying definitions of “investment,” [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lynne Tillman (BSS #392)Lynne Tillman is most recently the author of Someday This Will Be Funny. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if he should laugh today or five years from now. Author: Lynne Tillman Subjects Discussed: Giddy book titles, William S. Burroughs as a slob, Flaubert’s writing maxim, how writers stay adolescent, the soul-sucking atmosphere of Forbes magazine, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jaimy Gordon (BSS #391)Jaimy Gordon appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #391. She is most recently the author of Lord of Misrule. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Praying to equine gods for a better motel room. Author: Jaimy Gordon Subjects Discussed: Dancing with award winners, the Gargoyle interview from 1983, how “the best young writers” change in an instant, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ian Rankin (BSS #390)Ian Rankin is most recently the author of The Complaints. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Playing good cop and bad cop with his interlocutory approach. Author: Ian Rankin Subjects Discussed: The benefits of talking with a Scotsman on St. Patrick’s Day, sartorial description in prose, pleated miniskirts, balancing descriptive detail against dialogue, people who are intended [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Carol Emshwiller & Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (BSS #389)Today is Carol Emshwiller’s 90th birthday. She is the author of Carmen Dog, The Mount, and numerous stories. Nonstop Press has recently issued The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller. Her work can be thoroughly investigated through The Carol Emshwiller Project. (Many thanks to Gavin Grant for his assistance in setting up this conversation.) Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Holly Tucker (BSS #388)Holly Tucker is most recently the author of Blood Work. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering why his bank statements come back bloody. Author: Holly Tucker Subjects Discussed: Early philosophical notions of blood, ill humors, whether science without the scientific method can be adequately called science, the Royal Society, William Harvey and the discovery of circulation, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Crummey (BSS #387)Michael Crummey is most recently the author of Galore. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if you can rent a motel room in the whale of a belly. Author: Michael Crummey Subjects Discussed: Childbearing in poor families, grisly deaths and irresponsible life decisions, infant mortality in the early 20th century, the relationship between historical investigation and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Deb Olin Unferth (BSS #386)Deb Olin Unferth appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #386. She is most recently the author of Revolution. PROGRAM NOTE: Just before the tape rolled, Our Correspondent, who met with Deb Olin Unferth at a Vegan restaurant, had casually mentioned (in an entirely different context) that he was a meat eater. Our Correspondent’s revelation was [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TC Boyle IV (BSS #385)TC Boyle is most recently the author of When the Killing’s Done. This is his fourth appearance on the program. He has previously appeared on The Bat Segundo #273, The Bat Segundo Show #70, and The Bat Segundo Show #10. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Considering a savage swim to the Channel Islands. Author: T. Coraghessan [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Insulted by Authors (BSS #354)Bill Ryan is the proprietor of the website Insulted by Authors. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Insulted by humorless people. Guest: Bill Ryan Subjects Discussed: Taking unexpected tumbles in life, why insults are the best way to pop the cherry of the author-reader relationship, being the son of a scientist, dodging dodgy publicists, being identified as [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Aminatta Forna (BSS #383)Aminatta Forna is most recently the author of The Memory of Love. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Trying to remember where his lost car keys are so he can learn to love again. Author: Aminatta Forna Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: I wanted to talk about Albert Dada, who is a figure in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Adrian Tomine (BSS #382)Adrian Tomine is most recently the author of Scenes from an Impending Marriage. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Attempting to reconcile the impending with illustrations depicting events from years ago. Author: Adrian Tomine Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: I wanted to get into the ineluctable autobiographical angle through a different mechanism. Interviewers, critics [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Eduardo Porter (BSS #381)Eduardo Porter is most recently the author of The Price of Everything. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Shopping for a new religion. Author: Eduardo Porter Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Porter: In the mid-1990s, a study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tried to come up with an early estimate of the economic [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Toby Ball (BSS #380)Toby Ball is most recently the author of The Vaults. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Spilling green ink all over the public records. Author: Toby Ball Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: It is interesting how the voice — somebody’s voice — tends to be imposing. More so than the bigness of Big Henry [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Karen Rusell (BSS #379)Karen Russell is most recently the author of Swamplandia! Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wrestling alligators that the mean men left in his motel room. Author: Karen Russell Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Russell: The sprawl. This mimetic mangrove sprawl! I really got carried away with that place. I loved that setting and could [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |