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Podcast title	If You're Just Joining Us with Jon Armstrong
Website URL	http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu...
Description	A podcast about books, culture, media, ideas, and cheese. You know, the important things.
Updated	Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:44:08 +0000
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Category	Arts Writing Science
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1. The Burger Lab Podcast with Chef James Kenji Lopez-Alt http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 27.99Mb) Description: 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 [...]
2. Author Trevor Corson Talks Lobster Sex, MSG, Japan, Sushi, and More http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 24.34Mb) Description: 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 [...]
3. Cities: Real and Unreal a discussion of Architecture and Fiction with Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Ford, Geoff Manaugh http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 34.10Mb) Description: 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 [...]
4. Richard Wax discusses the Mindy Blake Golf Swing, or what I like to call The Golf Swing of the Future http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 20.46Mb) Description: Richard Wax is a land surveyor who has been helping to design golf courses for decades. We talk about a relatively obscure, yet fascinating golf swing invented in the 70’s by a man named Mindy Blake. Richard met Mindy, became one of his protégés, learned the swing, and has been golfing to great success since. A [...]
5. Author Cherie Priest talks Steampunk, Seattle Underground, her new novel, Boneshaker, and the ritual of dressing up. http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 18.99Mb) Description: Cherie Priest is a novelist based in Seattle, Washington. Her novels include: Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Not Flesh Nor Feathers, Fathom, and her newest, Boneshaker. (All Amazon links.) Boneshaker is something of a departure from her Southern Gothic and horror roots. The setting is post Civil War Seattle and combines pulp and steampunk elements. Cherie and [...]
6. Campbell Award Winning Author, David Anthony, Durham Talks Books and Writing http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 30.58Mb) Description: David Antony Durham is the author of Gabriel’s Story: A Novel, Walk Through Darkness, Pride of Carthage, Acacia: The War with the Mein (Acacia, Book 1), and his latest, The Other Lands (Acacia, Book 2). (All Amazon links.) David won the Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer in 2009. We [...]
7. Fantasy and SciFi Literary Agent, Ginger Clark, Talks Agents, Publishing, and the Future http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 27.53Mb) Description: Ginger Clark has been in publishing for eleven years. She has been a literary agent with Curtis Brown since 2005, and has been my agent since 2004. We talked about how to get an agent, how not to approach an agent, several agent myths, the future of publishing, and a little about how we met. If you’re [...]
8. Author Jeff VanderMeer talks fantasy, noir, writing, book covers, and a wild boar charge. http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 30.11Mb) Description: Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning writer, editor, and publisher. His books include: City of Saints and Madmen, Veniss Underground, and Shriek: An Afterword. In this podcast, we talk about his upcoming novel, the fantasy noir, Finch. (All links to Amazon) Jeff reviews and essays have appeared in The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, and many [...]
9. Building a Toaster From Scratch Might Sound Fairly Easy. It wasn’t. Just ask Thomas Thwaites. http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 18.23Mb) Description: When I first I saw Thomas’s project on-line, it seemed funny maybe even frivolous — and there are humorous moments in his telling, like when he calls British Petroleum and tries to get a barrel of oil from them to try and make plastic — but below his near-futile exercise, is a thought provoking experiment [...]
10. TV Writer and Producer Rob Long Talks about Hollywood, Cheers, Humor, and Writing on a Container Ship http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 27.47Mb) Description: Rob Long is a TV writer and producer who wore and produced the hit show Cheers among others. He hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood life radio commentary: Martini Shot. (It’s also a podcast. - iTunes link). He is also a contributing editor for the National Review and Newsweek International and others. Rob and I talked [...]
11. Author Richard Kadrey Talks about Fantasy, George Bush, and Heavy Drinking http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 19.23Mb) Description: Richard Kadrey is a novelist, freelance writer, and photographer based in San Francisco. Starting over 20 years ago as one of the first major writers of cyberpunk, with the classic Metrophage, his other novels include Kamikaze L’Amour, Butcher Bird and his latest, Sandman Slim. Richard and I talk about his transition from cyberpunk to fantasy, George [...]
12. “My T-Shirt Says It All” A Documentary about Life Death and T-Shirts http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 19.07Mb) Description: 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, [...]
13. Author Paul Witcover talks writing, publishing, golf, and more. http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 22.19Mb) Description: 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 [...]
14. Menswear designer Jhane Barnes talks Star Trek, Secret Japanese Technology, and Fashion http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 25.97Mb) Description: 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, [...]
15. Fantasy Author, James Enge, talks about writing, unicorns, talking squids and more… http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 19.96Mb) Description: James Enge’s fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Flashing Swords, and everydayfiction.com. He is an instructor of classical languages at a Midwestern university. His first novel, Blood of Ambrose, was just released by Pyr Books. James and I talked about his pseudonym, sci-fi and fantasy, writing, unicorns, and talking squids. His website is www.jamesenge.com. Pyr Book’s page [...]