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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Guy Maddin (BSS #293)Guy Maddin is most recently the author of My Winnipeg, a book version of the film of the same name. For listeners who are fans of reading and watching films, this conversation accounts for all experiences and contains more than a few prevarications.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Reconsidering the veracity of his topography.
Guest: Guy Maddin
Subjects [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mark Kurlansky II (BSS #292)Mark Kurlansky recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #292.
Mark Kurlansky is most recently the translator of Emile Zola’s The Belly of Paris and the editor of The Food of a Younger Land. He previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #220.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Pushing past the patois of a forgotten linguistic formation.
Author: [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Laila Lalami (BSS #291)Laila Lalami is most recently the author of Secret Son. She previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #11.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Unpersuaded by fictive convictions.
Author: Laila Lalami
Subjects Discussed: Interviewing enthusiasm, similarities between Secret Son and Richard Wright’s Native Son, Invisible Man, the original title of The Outsider, Ayelet Waldman’s similar title, the maximum [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Kathleen Collins (BSS #290)Kathleen Collins is most recently the author of Watching What We Eat.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contending with traumatic cooking show associations.
Author: Kathleen Collins
Subjects Discussed: TK
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Correspondent: I should probably start this conversation off by confessing something to you. I think that Rachael Ray is a bit on the crazy side. She’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Javier Calvo and Mara Faye Lethem (BSS #289)Javier Calvo is the author of Wonderful World. Mara Faye Lethem is the translator.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Considering the unseen cantaloupe.
Guests: Javier Calvo and Mara Faye Lethem
Subjects Discussed: TK
EXCERPT FROM SHOW:
Correspondent: I must ask then, Mara Faye, if you had read any other books to get the idiom right in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Arthur Phillips (BSS #288)Arthur Phillips is most recently the author of The Song is You.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Reconsidering the playlists and those who play him.
Author: Arthur Phillips
Subjects Discussed: Characters who are enslaved to culture, partisan positions in relation to hoarding facts, being in denial about larger arguments within novels, Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature, aesthetic concerns, muses and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sarah Waters II (BSS #287)Sarah Waters is most recently the author of The Little Stranger.
To listen to our previous interview with Sarah Waters, check out The Bat Segundo Show #37.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Creeping into the dark shadows of fabricated identities.
Author: Sarah Waters
Subjects Discussed: Research involving poltergeists, country doctors, and other topics, lingering interests from The Night [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michelle Goldberg (BSS #286)Michelle Goldberg is most recently the author of The Means of Reproduction.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if there’s any fate in what we make.
Author: Michelle Goldberg
Subjects Discussed: [TK]
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Correspondent: You use the words — the modifier “seemingly liberated’ — to describe this educated Indian woman who goes and, of her own volition, says, “I [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nelson George (BSS #285)Nelson George appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #285.
Nelson George is most recently the author of City Kid.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Drowning in the inevitable tide of gentrification.
Author: Nelson George
Subjects Discussed: George’s thoughts on Fort Greene, gentrification, black artists and real estate, the inevitable nature of change, finding a balance between the personal and the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blake Bailey (BSS #284)Blake Bailey is most recently the author of Cheever and the editor of the two-volume John Cheever set recently issued by Library of America.
Subjects Discussed: Eponymous titles, Cheever as a brand name, whether literary biographies are needed, contending with Updike’s review, the hard things that Cheever said about Updike, the literary biography as a history [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Atom Egoyan (BSS #283)Atom Egoyan is most recently the writer and director of Adoration, which opens in limited release on May 8, 2009. He is also a very friendly and interesting Canadian who does not bite people, but who somehow frightens the MPAA.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Pondering whether he is adored.
Guest: Atom Egoyan
Subjects Discussed: Scenes in airports, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
John Wray (BSS #282)John Wray is most recently the author of Lowboy.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Searching for those who will listen to him in the subway.
Author: John Wray
Subjects Discussed: The ABAB narrative of Lowboy, mirroring schizophrenia within a narrative structure, a sane perspective that assists the reader, subway details, Franz Kafka’s Amerika, real vs. imaginary details, Jonathan Zizmor, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Alex Rivera (BSS #281)Alex Rivera is the director and co-writer of Sleep Dealer, which is scheduled for limited release on April 17, 2009.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Hoping to avoid Morpheus’s maquiladoras.
Guest: Alex Rivera
Subjects Discussed: David Riker’s La Ciudad, splitting screenwriting/directing duties, the collaboration process, the dynamics of globalization, labor and New World Order, the importance of having [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Laura Lippman (BSS #280)Laura Lippman is most recently the author of Life Sentences.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Frightened of sleazy and opportunistic biographers.
Author: Laura Lippman
Subjects Discussed: Cassandra Fallows vs. Kathryn Harrison, writers with peculiar personalities, the memoir dictating the memoirist, Hegelian synthesis, the Quarter Pounder and Proustian comparisons, philosophical modifiers, the inauthentic self, stereotypes of NPR listeners, book smart [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Carl Wilson (BSS #279)Carl Wilson is the author of Let’s Talk About Love and reports indicate that he is loved, in turn, by the actor James Franco.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Evading the pomp and circumstance of cultural taxonomies.
Author: Carl Wilson
Subjects Discussed: Celine Dion and incompatible tastes, Elliott Smith, the questioning of canonical knowledge, Paul Valery’s concept of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Esther Rots and Dan Geesin (BSS #278)Esther Rots is the writer, director, editor, and producer of is most recently the director of Can Go Through Skin. Dan Geesin is the sound designer and music composer of the film. The film is presently playing at the New Directors/New Films series, which is running between March 25 and April 5 at MOMA [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ursula Meier (BSS #277)This particular discussion was conducted in French and English. Many thanks to Aurélie Godet, who kindly assisted us in our conversation.
Ursula Meier is most recently the director of Home. The film is presently playing at the New Directors/New Films series, which is running between March 25 and April 5 at MOMA and the Film [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Heather Armstrong (BSS #276)Heather Armstrong is most recently the author of It Sucked and Then I Cried.
[This is the first show in which a guest's Twitter feed emerges during the course of the conversation! This historical moment can be found at the 13:05 mark.]
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Pondering his deficient parental duties.
Author: Heather Armstrong
Subjects Discussed: Kurt Vonnegut’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tatia Rosenthal (BSS #275)Tatia Rosenthal is is most recently the director of $9.99. The film is presently playing at the New Directors/New Films series, which is running between March 25 and April 5 at MOMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. It is also scheduled for limited release on June 17, 2009.
Condition of Mr. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Adam Del Deo (BSS #274)Adam Del Deo is most recently the co-director of Every Little Step. The film is presently playing at the New Directors/New Films series, which is running between March 25 and April 5 at MOMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. It is also scheduled for limited release on April 17, 2009. You [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
T.C. Boyle III (BSS #273)T.C. Boyle is most recently the author of The Women. To listen to our previous interviews with Mr. Boyle, check out The Bat Segundo Show #70 and The Bat Segundo Show #10.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Pondering new author taxonomies.
Author: T.C. Boyle
Subjects Discussed: How to conquer jet lag, Ellen Key’s The Woman Movement, the individual [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Andrea Peyser (BSS #272)Andrea Peyser is most recently the author of Celebutards.
[PROGRAM NOTE: At the 22 minute mark, while the conversation concerned itself with the dangers of generalization, a woman, who was sitting at a table located a good seventy-five feet away from them, gave Ms. Peyser and Our Young, Roving Correspondent a note. The note read: [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tony Stone (BSS #271)Tony Stone is the director, writer, producer, editor, and actor of Severed Ways, a film about Vikings that opens in limited release on March 13, 2009.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Unsure of whether he wants to be a Viking or not.
Guest: Tony Stone
Subjects Discussed: The many crew positions that Tony Stone worked, music clearance people who [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Eric Kraft, Part Three (BSS #270)Eric Kraft is most recently the author of Flying. This is the third of a three part conversation with Kraft about all of his Peter Leroy books, an epic of more than a million words which Our Young Roving Correspondent was insane enough to read. These podcasts tie in with a roundtable discussion [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Eric Kraft, Part Two (BSS #269)Eric Kraft is most recently the author of Flying. This is the second of a three part conversation with Kraft about all of his Peter Leroy books, an epic of more than a million words which Our Young Roving Correspondent was insane enough to read. These podcasts tie in with a roundtable discussion [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Eric Kraft, Part One (BSS #268)Eric Kraft is most recently the author of Flying. This is the first of a three part conversation with Kraft about all of his Peter Leroy books, an epic of more than a million words which Our Young Roving Correspondent was insane enough to read. These podcasts tie in with a roundtable discussion [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Charlie Huston II (BSS #267)Charlie Huston is most recently the author of The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. To listen to our previous interview with Mr. Huston, check out The Bat Segundo Show #98.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Looking for an efficient and affordable cleanup service.
Author: Charlie Huston
Subjects Discussed: Huston’s concern for locative detail, unusual sentence [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Catherynne M. Valente (BSS #266)Catherynne M. Valente is most recently the author of Palimpsest.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Looking for a way into a secret city.
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Subjects Discussed: Writing a novel with four character perspectives, how structure influences perspective, the importance of numbers, color theory, thriving on restriction, Neal Stephenson, the importance of flow and reading out loud, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Neil deGrasse Tyson (BSS #265)Neil deGrasse Tyson is most recently the author of The Pluto Files.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Reconfiguring his planetary paradigm, with the aid of minatory electrodes.
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Subjects Discussed: The Great Planet Debate, sensible classification systems, “reorganizing” the solar system, why the International Astronomical Union wasn’t approached before the Rose Center display was established, the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robert G. Kaiser (BSS #264)Robert G. Kaiser has worked at the Washington Post since 1963. He is most recently the author of So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Still waiting for the lobbyists to work out a deal with him.
Author: Robert G. Kaiser
Subjects Discussed: Obama’s first executive [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
