Episode 695 - Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
She's been on the show to talk about her essays, novel, and memoir, and now Wallis Wilde-Menozzi gets to talk about translation! With Emergi...
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Episode 694 - Nate Powell
With DIANA (Abrams ComicArts), Nate Powell has completed his "accidental triptych" of Ozark horror & the punk scene. During SPX weekend, he...
Episode 693 - Karl Christian Krumpholz
With his amazing IN THE CITY comics (self-published), cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz manages to capture the ephemerality and dynamism o...
Episode 692 - Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand
Let's celebrate a New Orleans legend with Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand 's fantastic new book, BUNNY MATTHEWS: HIS LIFE, ART, AN...
Episode 691 - Emil Wilson
With his fantastic debut graphic novel, THE NIGHTINGALES (Avid Reader Press), Emil Wilson tells a heartbreaking and beautiful coming-of-age...
Episode 690 - Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames returns to celebrate his fantastic new crime novel, A PAST WITHOUT PICTURES (Mysterious Press). We talk about his obsession wi...
Episode 689 - Dash Shaw
With his new book, LIKE SWIMMERS (New York Review Comics), Dash Shaw brings us a supernatural murder mystery set in COVID-era Richmond, VA....
Episode 688 - Phillip Lopate
Five-Timer Club Alert! Essayist Phillip Lopate rejoins the show as we celebrate his wonderful new book, A WASHINGTON IRVING SKETCH BOOK (Pri...
Episode 687 - Ida Kao
"There are ways to downsize a college, but with Hampshire it felt more like a hollowing-out." Our latest installment of The Hampshire Tapes...
Episode 686 - Halstead York
"The core Hampshire experience was figuring out how to do things for myself and figuring out how to excite other people about what I wanted...
Episode 685 - Sarah Minor
With her amazing new book, CAROUSEL: An Essay On Seeing (Yale University Press), Sarah Minor offers a multi-threaded exploration — lecture,...
Episode 684 - Ali Trotta
With her debut poetry collection, OFFERINGS FOR ORDINARY GODS (Clash Books), Ali Trotta brings myth, magick, tarot, and ritual to bear on th...
Episode 683 - R Sikoryak
Let's celebrate/commemorate America's independence with an amazing new double book, DECLARATION ILLUSTRATED / EMANCIPATION ILLUSTRATED (Draw...
Episode 682 - Katie Skelly
After a 12-year Virtual Memories gap, Katie Skelly is back to celebrate her fantastic new graphic novel, HEAVEN (Fantagraphics)! But that's...
Episode 681 - Colin Asher
With his amazing new book, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: The Secret Prison History of American Music (WW Norton), author Colin Asher explores how th...
Episode 680 - Kate Maruyama and Me
During my recent LA weekend, I asked author, pal, and past guest Kate Maruyama if she'd be interested in interviewing me , and for some craz...
Episode 679 - Heather Cass White
"A letter is a joy of Earth — It is denied the Gods —," sez Emily Dickinson (#1672), and THE MAN WHO READ EVERYTHING: The Literary Letters o...
Episode 678 - Paul Gravett
Happy Pride! Let's get Queer As Comics! Writer, critic, curator, publisher and broadcaster Paul Gravett rejoins the show to talk about curat...
Episode 677 - Luis Mendo
Welcome to Mundo Mendo! I visited artist and writer Luis Mendo in Karuizawa, Japan for a wide-ranging conversation about art, creativity, co...
Episode 676 - Benoit Denizet-Lewis
Can people change? How continuous is identity? With YOU'VE CHANGED: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation (William Morrow), Benoit De...