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Lev Grossman Talks The Magicians, Fantasy and Modernism, Meeting JK Rowling, Reads from The Magician King Lev Grossman is a bestselling novelist and journalist. His books include: Warp, Codex, The Magicians, and his forthcoming The Magician King (Amazon links). He is also a senior writer and book critic for Time Magazine. We talked about how the Codex, The Magicians came to be, the influence of his twin brother, Lev’s upcoming sequel [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grey and Yarn are now Audiobooks at Audible.com! This show is a behind-the-scenes peek at the people behind the audio book versions of my two novels: Grey and Yarn. First I speak with Steve Feldberg who is Senior Director, Editorial Business Development at Audible.com about what they do and how they select books. I then speak with the narrators for Grey and Yarn, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website M. D. Lachlan Talks Norse Myth, Magic, Stand-Up Comedy, Pen Names M. D. Lachlan is the pen name of British writer Mark Barrowcliffe. After working as a journalist, and also as a stand-up comedian he started wrote his first novel, Girlfriend 44 and achieved early success in the late 1990s as part of the Lad Lit movement. His latest work, Wolfsangel (Amazon), is quite different from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Douglas Lain Talks Urban Foraging, Memoir, Mystical Experiences, Young Adult Novels Douglas Lain is the author of Last Week’s Apocalypse (Amazon) which was published by Night Shade Books. Most recently, he completed a new book, Pick Your Battle: Your Guide to Urban Foraging, Hollywood Movies, Late Capitalism, and the Communist Alternative (a memoir) (Amazon). He is also the host of The Diet Soap Podcast. We talk about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will McIntosh Talks Soft Apocalypse, Internet Dating, Proposing and Collapsing Will McIntosh, who won a Hugo Award for best short story, has just published his first novel, Soft Apocalypse (Amazon). Set in a near future collapse where the protagonist trades charged batteries for food and wanders the Georgia countryside, dodging local cops and designer diseases. Will is a psychology professor at Georgia Southern University who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Dean Foster Talks Lions, Sharks, and Tsetse Flies. Oh My! Alan Dean Foster is the author of more then one hundred science fiction and fantasy books. He is best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, many of which feature Philip Lynx (Flinx), and his constant companion Pip, a flying snake. Alan’s latest book, Predators I Have Known (Amazon), is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alex O. Smith Talks Harmony, Translating, Japanese, and JRPG This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. I am interviewing all of the other nominees of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. Alexander O Smith is the translator of Project Itoh’s Harmony (Amazon) a dystopian novel set in a medical nanotechnology future. Alexander is founder of Kajiya Productions and has been [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Bear Talks Chill, Titles, Philip K Dick Award, Science Fiction, Word Count This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. I am interviewing all of the other nominees of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. Elizabeth Bear is the author of Chill, (Amazon) a science fiction novel about a generation ship. It is part of her Jacob’s Ladder Trilogy (Dust, Chill, and Grail). Elizabeth [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Knapp Talks Revivors, Reading, Writing at Night, Scary Book Signings This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. Over the next month or so, I’ll be interviewing all of the other nominees of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. James Knapp is the author of State of Decay (Amazon) is a science fiction thriller with a twist on zombies. James is a computer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sara Creasy Talks Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Biology, Nationality, Dead Bodies This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. Over the next month or so, I’ll be interviewing all of the other nominees of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. Sara Creasy is the author of Song of Scarabaeus (Amazon) is a science fiction adventure story with a romantic twist. For several years she [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Hodder Talks Selling A Novel You Haven’t Written, Spain, Ghosts This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. Over the next month or so, I’ll be interviewing all of the other nominees of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. Mark Hodder is the author of The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Amazon) a Victorian-set steampunk novel. A former BBC writer, editor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alden Bell Talks Zombies, Bonding with Dad, Prep School, Writing, Philip K Dick Award This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. Over the next month or so, I’ll be interviewing all of the other nominees of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. My first is Alden Bell, which is actually the pen name of Joshua Gaylord. His book, The Reapers Are the Angels, (Amazon) is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Look Back. Clips and Outtakes from Previous Shows For this special show, I replay some clips from the past year (or so), and also find a few extras that hadn’t quite made it before. It’s a smorgasbord! Guests (In Order of Appearance): Lou Anders is the editorial director of Prometheus Books’ science fiction and fantasy imprint Pyr, as well as several anthologies. David [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book Reviewer Paul Goat Allen Talks Great Books, SciFi, Fantasy, Genre, Rereading, and His 6,000 Reviews! Paul Goat Allen has been a full-time book reviewer specializing in genre fiction for almost the last two decades. He has written more than 6,000 reviews for companies like Publishers Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, and BarnesandNoble.com. Paul and I discussed how he became a reviewer, changes in the industry, his basement full of books, writers: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthony Palumbo Talks Painting, The Process of Producing Book Cover Art, Yarn Anthony Palumbo graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2002 and has been exhibiting in fine art galleries in Philadelphia, New York, and Connecticut since. His work as a freelance illustrator has appeared in publications by Night Shade Books, Wizards of the Coast, and Heavy Metal Magazine [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthony Palumbo Talks Painting, The Process of Producing Book Cover Art, Yarn Anthony Palumbo graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2002 and has been exhibiting in fine art galleries in Philadelphia, New York, and Connecticut since. His work as a freelance illustrator has appeared in publications by Night Shade Books, Wizards of the Coast, and Heavy Metal Magazine among others. I spoke with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leanne Prain Talks Yarn Bombing (Knit Grafitti) and Her Attempted Tag of the FBI Building Leanne Prain is the co-author of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti. Her book as been called the definitive guide to knit street art. and has participated in her own knit graffiti projects. Leanne co-founded a stitch and bitch called Knitting and Beer in order to expand her skills while knitting at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leanne Prain Talks Yarn Bombing (Knit Grafitti) and Her Attempted Tag of the FBI Building Leanne Prain is the co-author of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti. Her book as been called the definitive guide to knit street art. and has participated in her own knit graffiti projects. Leanne co-founded a stitch and bitch called Knitting and Beer in order to expand her skills while knitting at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Joseph Adams Talks The Living Dead, Zombies and More Zombies, and Fire Bombing Threats John Joseph Adams is a best selling editor of the anthologies: Wastelands, The Living Dead, By Blood We Live, Federations, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. His latest is the The Living Dead 2 (Amazon Link) . John is the fiction editor of the science fiction magazine Lightspeed and the co-host of The Geek’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Joseph Adams Talks The Living Dead, Zombies and More Zombies, and Fire Bombing Threats John Joseph Adams is a best selling editor of the anthologies: Wastelands, The Living Dead, By Blood We Live, Federations, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. His latest is the The Living Dead 2. John is the fiction editor of the science fiction magazine Lightspeed and the co-host of The Geek’s Guide [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Joseph Adams Talks The Living Dead, Zombies and More Zombies, and Fire Bombing Threats John Joseph Adams is a best selling editor of the anthologies: Wastelands, The Living Dead, By Blood We Live, Federations, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. His latest is the The Living Dead 2 (Amazon Link) . John is the fiction editor of the science fiction magazine Lightspeed and the co-host of The Geek’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary Robinette Kowal talks her new novel: Shades of Milk and Honey, Jane Austen, and Not-Safe-for-Work-Puppets Mary Robinette Kowal is an author and puppeteer. Her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey (Amazon link) was recently published. If you’ve listened to this podcast for a while, she was on when she was nominated (along with myself and others) for the Campbell Award. Since that time I have gotten to know Mary and have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary Robinette Kowal talks her new novel: Shades of Milk and Honey, Jane Austen, and Not-Safe-for-Work-Puppets Mary Robinette Kowal is an author and puppeteer. Her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey (Amazon link) was recently published. If you’ve listened to this podcast for a while, she was on when she was nominated (along with myself and others) for the Campbell Award. Since that time I have gotten to know Mary [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Tremblay Talks Narcolepsy, Nose Operations, Writing, and His Dislike of Me Paul G. Tremblay has written two novels, more than fifty short stories, and has a new collection of short stories out titled: In the Mean Time. His novels are The Little Sleep, and No Sleep till Wonderland, which both feature his narcoleptic detective, Mark Genevich. Along with his novels, he is the author of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Tremblay Talks Narcolepsy, Nose Operations, Writing, and His Dislike of Me Paul G. Tremblay has written two novels, more than fifty short stories, and has a new collection of short stories out titled: In the Mean Time. His novels are The Little Sleep, and No Sleep till Wonderland, which both feature his narcoleptic detective, Mark Genevich. Along with his novels, he is the author of the short [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ReaderCon Revisted: Rose Fox and Graham Sleight Talk The Year’s Best Books I attended ReaderCon for the first time this year and (among many others) attended a panel titled: “The Year In Novels”. I was able to get two of the panelists, Rose Fox and Graham Sleight, to recreate some of what they said for this special edition of the podcast. Rose Fox is a longtime book [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ReaderCon Revisted: Rose Fox and Graham Sleight Talk The Year’s Best Books I attended ReaderCon for the first time this year and (among many others) attended a panel titled: “The Year In Novels”. I was able to get two of the panelists, Rose Fox and Graham Sleight, to recreate some of what they said for this special edition of the podcast. Rose Fox is a longtime book reviewer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Di Filippo Talks Readercon, Fandom, Music, and Samuel R. Delany I met Paul De Filippo at ReaderCon just a week ago and recorded this conversation. Paul talked about the rise of Fandom, ReaderCon, being on discussion panels, music, and about meeting one of his favorite authors, Samuel (Chip) Delany. Paul has been working as a freelance writer since the early 80s. He is a novelist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Di Fillipo Talks Readercon, Fandom, Music, and Samuel R. Delany I met Paul De Fillipo at ReaderCon just a week ago and recorded this conversation. Paul talked about the rise of Fandom, ReaderCon, being on discussion panels, music, and about meeting one of his favorite authors, Samuel (Chip) Delany. Paul has been working as a freelance writer since the early 80s. He is a novelist (including: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Hand Talks, Illyria, Theater, Terrible Auditions, Naming Chracters. The award-winning Elizabeth Hand is that special kind of writer who can seemingly do anything. She’s written novels (including: Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and most recently, Illyria), short stories, comics (Anima), and movie and television spin-off novels (including: Boba Fett: Maze of Deception and12 Monkeys). We talked about her wonderful new YA novel, Illyria, terrible [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Hand Talks, Illyria, Theater, Terrible Auditions, Naming Chracters. The award-winning Elizabeth Hand is that special kind of writer who can seemingly do anything. She’s written novels (including: Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and most recently, Illyria), short stories, comics (Anima), and movie and television spin-off novels (including: Boba Fett: Maze of Deception and12 Monkeys). We talked about her wonderful new YA novel, Illyria, terrible [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amelia Beamer Talks Zombies, Trader Joes, Nightmares, Writing, and Her Novel The Loving Dead Amelia Beamer works as an editor, reviewer, and photographer for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field. She has published fiction and poetry in Interfictions 2, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Red Cedar Review, and other venues, but the big news is that her novel, The Loving Dead, (Night Shade Books, July 2010) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amelia Beamer Talks Zombies, Trader Joes, Nightmares, Writing, and Her Novel The Loving Dead Amelia Beamer works as an editor, reviewer, and photographer for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field. She has published fiction and poetry in Interfictions 2, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Red Cedar Review, and other venues, but the big news is that her novel, The Loving Dead, (Night Shade Books, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Ford Talks Writing, Making Things Up, Book Covers, Teaching. Technically, Jeffrey Ford has been on before, but that was a reading and QA. This is an interview. Jeffrey Ford is the author of such novels as: The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Shadow Year, and the Well-Built City Trilogy. He has written numerous short stories, including the collections: The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Ford Talks Writing, Making Things Up, Book Covers, Teaching. Technically, Jeffrey Ford has been on before, but that was a reading and QA. This is an interview. Jeffrey Ford is the author of such novels as: The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Shadow Year, and the Well-Built City Trilogy. He has written numerous short stories, including the collections: The Empire [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Preview of Jon Armstrong’s Upcoming Yarn from the NYRSF Reading Series Paul Witcover graciously asked me to read for the May 5th New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series.I brought two short selections from my upcoming novel, Yarn. What is Yarn? you ask. The following is from my wonderful agent, Ginger Clark: Set in the future, it’s a kind of SF that has been called “fashionpunk.” It’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Preview of Jon Armstrong’s Upcoming Yarn from the NYRSF Reading Series Paul Witcover graciously asked me to read for the May 5th New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series.I brought two short selections from my upcoming novel, Yarn. What is Yarn? you ask. The following is from my wonderful agent, Ginger Clark: Set in the future, it’s a kind of SF that has been called [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Author and Podcaster Douglas Lain Talks Activism, Home Schooling, Noam Chomsky, and the Time Box Douglas Lain is the author of dozens of short stories and two novels. His work appeared in nationally distributed literary magazines and journals such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Amazing Stories since 1999. His first book Last Week’s Apocalypse was a collection of these stories published by Night Shade Books. His first novel, entitled [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Author and Podcaster Douglas Lain Talks Activism, Home Schooling, Noam Chomsky, and the Time Box Douglas Lain is the author of dozens of short stories and two novels. His work appeared in nationally distributed literary magazines and journals such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Amazing Stories since 1999. His first book Last Week’s Apocalypse was a collection of these stories published by Night Shade Books. His [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Editor Juliet Ulman Talks Editing, Writing, Red Ink, Her Moods, and Yarn Juliet Ulman took her first job as an editorial assistant at Bantam Dell in 1998. She edited numerous books including: The Etched City by K.J. Bishop, Light by M. John Harrison, and City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer. In 2009, as a senior editor, she left to pursue other opportunities. She is now [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Burger Lab Podcast with Chef James Kenji Lopez-Alt This week I took my microphone and headed to the Brooklyn apartment of chef and food-blogger James Kenji Lopez-Alt. He is a contributing editor to Cook’s Illustrated and on-screen test cook for America’s Test Kitchen. For SeriousEats.com he has produced a number of Food Lab and Burger Lab pieces that feature his scientific approach to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Burger Lab Podcast with Chef James Kenji Lopez-Alt This week I took my microphone and headed to the Brooklyn apartment of chef and food-blogger James Kenji Lopez-Alt. He is a contributing editor to Cook’s Illustrated and on-screen test cook for America’s Test Kitchen. For SeriousEats.com he has produced a number of Food Lab and Burger Lab pieces that feature his scientific approach to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Author Trevor Corson Talks Lobster Sex, MSG, Japan, Sushi, and More I met Trevor Corson’s Literary Agent a few years ago. She had the first iPhone I ever saw. And what did she have on it to listen to? The podcast of my novel! When I ran into her last last year, we talked and I asked if she had any clients who would be good [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cities: Real and Unreal a discussion of Architecture and Fiction with Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Ford, Geoff Manaugh This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. I had the pleasure of attending a reading and discussion at a Borders in New York a few weeks ago and recorded the event. This is the discussion part of the program, which was hosted by Ron Hogan. The three members of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “My T-Shirt Says It All” A Documentary about Life Death and T-Shirts My guest this show is Jacob Fenston. He’s a freelance journalist in Oakland, California, whose work has appeared on NPR, KQED, and Public Radio Stations across America. I heard Jacob’s excellent (and often hilarious) piece “My T-Shirt Says It All” and wanted to talk to him about it. This show features many cuts from that work, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Author Paul Witcover talks writing, publishing, golf, and more. Paul Witcover is the author of three novels, several non-fiction books, many short stories and is the co-creator, with Elizabeth Hand, of the cult comic book series Anima. He has served as the curator of the New York Review of Science Fiction reading series. His new collection is titled Everland and Other Stories. We talk about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Menswear designer Jhane Barnes talks Star Trek, Secret Japanese Technology, and Fashion Jhane Barnes designs men’s sportswear, casual, and tailored clothes. Besides menswear, she also designs eyewear, textiles, furniture, carpets, and more. She was recently on NOVA to talk about how she uses fractals in her designs. I recently visited Jhane’s design offices in New York, and we talked about being a fashionable nerd, fractals, secret Japanese factories, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Horror Author Lee Thomas Lee Thomas is the award-winning author of Stained, Parish Damned, Damage, and The Dust of Wonderland. He has won both the Bram Stoker Award and the Lambda Literary Award. We talked about his three (count them: three) pen names, influential teachers, and his family among other things. Lee’s website is: LeeThomasAuthor.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Author Catherynne M. Valente Catherynne M. Valente graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan. Her writing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Typography, Wood Type, and Monsters! An interview with Nick Sherman. Nick Sherman, a designer, musician, and skateboarder living in Boston. He works for MyFont.com and once spent an entire semester to produce one single type block — a single letter! We talked about that project and his trip to the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. We finished the interview talking about his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Author J. Robert Lennon John Robert Lennon is a writer, novelist, composer, musician, professor, and former theremin builder. His most famous novel, Mailman, was released 2003 and concerns a mail-carrying protagonist named Albert Lippincott who is losing his mind. His fourth novel, Castle, coming 2009, is about a man who buys a large plot of wooded land in upstate New [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Russ Armstrong - Playing Jazz in Vietnam Russ Armstrong (my dad) was in the Vietnam War and played jazz at a club in Saigon. In this interview we talk about his time in the war and the weekends he spent playing at a club called The Dai Nam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Malcolm Azania � er � Minister Faust Minister Faust is the author of two satiric science fiction novels, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad and From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain. The later won the Special Citation at this year’s Philip K. Dick Awards. He is also a teacher, radio host, community activist, and political aspirant. We spoke about his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Lassen: Editor, Publisher and Zoot Suit Aficionado Jeremy Lassen is the chief editor and part owner of Night Shade Books. If you’ve attended a science fiction convention and glanced a man in a long dark pin-striped suit, a bright red shirt, a fedora, and a two-foot long feather that was Jeremy. In this week’s show he talks about how he came to wear his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Vending Machine for Crows - An Interview with Joahua Klein Joahua Klein describes himself as practiced and trained, both formally and informally, in hacking - social systems, computer networks, institutions, consumer hardware, animal behavior, and, most recently, the publishing industry. The goal of his Vending Machine for Crows is to create a device that will autonomously train crows to find lost [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Musician Anthony Newman Anthony Newman, an active harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor, composer, writer and recording artist, is one of the world’s premier baroque interpreters. He has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Leonard Bernstein and Wynton Marsalis. The New York Times stated, “He has the virtuoso command of fingerwork to achieve brilliant distinctness at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The High Ranking Google Jon Armstrongs Have you ever Googled yourself? Sure you have. In this podcast I talk to two other high ranking Jon Armstrongs. We discuss googling, whether we’re rivals, and what we have in common … which would seem like a lot. Links: The query that launched this show. Jon Armstrong the Magician. Jon Armstrong the Designer. And his wife’s site, Dooce.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can I Get An Amen? And an Interview with Nate Harrison Can I Get An AmenNate Harrison is an artist, writer, and the creator of “Can I Get An Amen?” Nate has produced projects and exhibited for The American Museum of Natural History, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Kunstverein in Hamburg and The Museum of Contemporary [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Death and Typos Last summer Jeff Johnson and Jessica Cowley produced a piece about a man who works on the Death Notices Desk for a newspaper. After the piece, I speak with the death notices man about the job and some very unfortunate typos. Please note, this podcast episode contains adult language. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The College Point Massacre: Interview with Ray Burke Ray Burke is a retired New York Police Detective. In 1995, he was one of the first to see the horrific scene of a crime that came to be known as the College Point Massacre. I speak with Ray about that case, writing, and all that’s wrong with those cop shows on TV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Marina Budhos Marina Budhos is an author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction who frequently writes about the collision of cultures. She has published two novels, The Professor of Light (Putnam, 1999) and House of Waiting (Global City Press, 1995), and a nonfiction book, Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers (Henry Holt, 1999). Ask Me No Questions (Simon & [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Michael Dory Michael Dory is the creator of Concrete Crickets. What are concrete crickets? I met him at the Concrete Crickets in Williamsburg. This interview took place a little later, after his project was BoingBoinged and on NPR. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website