Description:
A podcast about books, culture, media, ideas, and cheese. You know, the important things.
10 Podcasts:
 1. Russ_Armstrong(If_Youre_Just_Joining_Us).m .. (played 15 times)
2. Mary_Robinette_Kowal(If_Youre_Just_Joining .. (played 8 times)
3. Joe_Abercrombie(If_Youre_Just_Joining_Us). .. (played 8 times)
4. David_Edelman(If_Youre_Just_Joining_Us).mp .. (played 15 times)
5. Jeri_Smith_Ready(If_Youre_Just_Joining_Us) .. (played 18 times)
6. David_Durham(If_Youre_Just_Joining_Us).mp3 (played 20 times)
7. Jonathan_Bender(If_Youre_Just_Joining_Us). .. (played 15 times)
8. Lauren_Mclaughlin(If_Youre_Just_Joining_Us .. (played 15 times)
9. john_Robert_Lennon(If_Youre_Just_Joining_U .. (played 12 times)
10. nick_sherman(If_Youre_Just_Joining_Us).mp3 (played 5 times)
Content:
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Interview with the author of “Cycler” Lauren McLaughlin
Lauren McLaughlin spent 10 years in the film industry writing and producing films, but then abandoned her screen ambitions to write novels. Her first is titled: Cycler and is published by Random House Books for Young Readers.
We talked about actors behaving badly, her need for symmetry, teen and gender issues, the medicinal uses of marijuana, [...]
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Interview with Journalist Jonathan Bender about Legos
Jonathan Bender is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Post, ESPN.com, The New York Metro, The Kansas City Star, and AOL.com, among others. Currently he is working on a book about Adult Fans of LEGO and is spending a year immersed in the culture of LEGO fans to understand their drive [...]
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Interview with David Anthony Durham - Campbell Nominee
David Anthony Durham has published four acclaimed books including: Gabriel’s Story, Walk Through Darkness, Pride of Carthage, and Acacia. The first three are historical novels; Acacia is epic fantasy and it earned him the Campbell Nomination for Best New Writer in SF/F. David and I talked about his youth, his experience with Outward Bound, [...]
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Interview with Author Jeri Smith-Ready
Jeri Smith-Ready has been writing fiction since the night she had her first double espresso. She holds a master’s degree in environmental policy and lives in Maryland with her husband, cat, and the world’s goofiest greyhound.
She is the author of four novels, the newest is Wicked Game. Jeri and I talked about vampires, people who [...]
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Interview with David Louis Edelman Campbell Award Nominee
David Louis Edelman is a science fiction novelist, blogger, and web programmer. His first book, Infoquake, was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel and named Barnes & Noble’s Top SF Novel of 2006. His latest novel, MultiReal, was released by Pyr in Summer 2008. He is a finalist for the John [...]
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Interview with Joe Abercrombie Campbell Award Nominee
Joe Abercrombie is the author of an trilogy of epic fantasy novels based around the misadventures of the thinking man’s barbarian, Logen Ninefingers. Joe was nominated for the Campbell Award for the best new writer in science fiction and fantasy.
We spoke about his family editorial help, role-playing games, violence, bad reviews, and Google.
This is the [...]
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Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal - Campbell Award Nominee
Mary Robinette Kowal is a professional puppeteer who does more than just moonlight as a writer. This year she had been nominated for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award.
Mary has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures and founded Other Hand Productions. Her design work has garnered two [...]
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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.
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