Episode 20: Dictionary Words for 2020
Dictionaries are an ever-changing record of language, constantly being updated, amended and added to. This goes for all dictionaries: Merria...
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Books in the Wild is a podcast investigating the hidden stories behind books and printed matter. Instead of reviewing books for solely on their written content, we try to offer varying persp...
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Episode 19: The Book Makers Film
Talk with filmmaker James Kennard and book maker Mark Sarigianis about the documentary film The Book Makers
Episode 18: Quarantine Public Library, Zines, and Time
Today I talk a little about pandemic projects, zines, and artist’s books, and have a wonderful discussion with the Quarantine Public Library...
Episode 17: Jap Herron and Mark Twain's Ghost
In 1917, a new novella was published by Mark Twain. The weird part? Twain died in 1910 and the book was purportedly written by his ghost.
Episode 16: Bookworms, Printer's Devils, and Type Lice, Oh My!
Follow the process of making a book while we cover specialized book terms, and some surprising idioms with bookish origins that we use in da...
Episode 15: Blue Skies for Austin Book Arts Center
Interview with Mary Baughman, co-founder of the Austin Book Arts Center about the history of book arts in Austin, and the vision of the ABAC
Episode 14: James Cook, Bookbinder & Murderer of John Paas, Tool Maker
This episode covers the true story of James Cook, a bookbinder who murdered tool engraver John Paas the town of Leicester, bookbinder James...
Episode 13: The Grey Lady of Willard Library
Willard Library is the oldest library in Evansville, IN, established in 1885. There have been reports of apparitions and poltergeist activit...
Episode 12: Book Talk with BookLab II
We at BookLab II have just returned from a fabulous but exhausting trip to the CODEX Symposium and Book Fair, held every other year in the B...
Episode 11: Fake News(papers)!
If you've ever watched any television shows or movies ever, you may have seen a familiar looking newspaper read by many fictional characters...
Episode 10: Unreadable Books
Today’s episode is all about unreadable books. What does it mean to read? How do we garner read meaning from text written in a language that...
Episode 9: A Guide to Witch Hunting - The Malleus Maleficarum
Now that we are in October, we are getting into the Halloween spirit by talking about an infamous book called The Malleus Maleficarum, also...
Episode 8: Book Art Basics Trivia
What is book art exactly? What is an artist book? Are all art books book art? What do you mean by "codex"? Or livre d'artiste? Are you makin...
Episode 7: An Interview with Lyall Harris
Lyall Harris is a book artist, writer and painter who lives and works in Charlottesville, VA, and Florence, Italy. Lyall's artwork has been...
Episode 6: Detective Pilcrow and the Search for Missing Punctuation
Today we are on the hunt for missing punctuation. Like many letters and even entire words, quite a few good punctuation marks have been lost...
Episode 5: The Sleeper Hoax Booklet
For his 90th birthday in February 1913, renowned British naturalist and evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace received a mysterious p...
Episode 4: A Commonplace Audiobook / Overcoming Creative Block
A commonplace audiobook
Episode 3: Artist Talk with Julie Chen
Artist Talk with Book Artist Julie Chen at University of Washington on March 16, 2017 during the reception for "Every Moment in a Book: Thre...
Episode 2: The Wipers Times - Newspapers from the Trenches
In early 1916 on an excursion through the ruined city of Ypres, Belgium, British soldiers came across a damaged letterpress machine in a bom...
Episode 1: A Brief History of Reading
Today's episode is all about reading - what it means to read, how we read, and a brief history of reading. I'll talk about literacy rates, t...