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Podcast title	If You're Just Joining Us
Website URL	http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu...
Description	A podcast about books, culture, media, ideas, and cheese. You know, the important things.
Updated	Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:39:06 +0000
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Category	Arts Writing Science
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1. Part One of How I Became a Phone Phreak by Evan Doorbell http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 23.53Mb) Description: Evan Doorbell was the pseudonym used by a well-known but somewhat mysterious phone phreak of the 1970s. His claim to fame is the vast archive of high-quality tape recordings he made of the telephone network of the period, many of which have in recent years been edited and narrated by Doorbell himself, and presented on [...]
2. Interview with Photographer David Friedman http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 23.40Mb) Description: David Friedman is a professional photographer based in New York. For several years he was the staff photographer for Ralph Lauren. We talked about his visit to a denim distressing factory in Kentucky where they take new jeans, wash, bleach, tear and shred them. We also spoke about his own photography, a story about a [...]
3. Interview with author Nathan Singer http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 17.71Mb) Description: Nathan Singer is a novelist, playwright, composer, and experimental performing artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novels A Prayer for Dawn, Chasing the Wolf, and In the Light of You. He teaches writing at Northern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati. Nathan and I spoke about writing workshop cliches, [...]
4. Interview with Nutritional Anthropolgist, Deborah Duchon, from Good Eats http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 23.40Mb) Description: Deborah Duchon is a noted nutritional anthropologist, teacher, author and speaker, best known for her work on the hit TV show, Good Eats. She served as director of the Nutrition Education for New Americans Project at Georgia State University, in Atlanta. These days, she is studying the exotic origins of everyday foods, by investigating their [...]
5. Interview with Horror Author Lee Thomas http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 18.06Mb) Description: 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
6. Interview with Author Catherynne M. Valente http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 19.28Mb) Description: 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 [...]
7. Typography, Wood Type, and Monsters! An interview with Nick Sherman. http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 21.96Mb) Description: 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 [...]
8. Interview with Author J. Robert Lennon http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 21.88Mb) Description: 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 [...]
9. Interview with the author of “Cycler” Lauren McLaughlin http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 20.14Mb) Description: 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, [...]
10. Interview with Journalist Jonathan Bender about Legos http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 27.37Mb) Description: 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 [...]
11. Interview with David Anthony Durham - Campbell Nominee http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 20.05Mb) Description: 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, [...]
12. Interview with Author Jeri Smith-Ready http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 17.33Mb) Description: 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 [...]
13. Interview with David Louis Edelman Campbell Award Nominee http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 18.94Mb) Description: 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 [...]
14. Interview with Joe Abercrombie Campbell Award Nominee http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 16.56Mb) Description: 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 [...]
15. Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal - Campbell Award Nominee http://www.ifyourejustjoiningu... download (audio/mpeg, 20.20Mb) Description: 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 [...]