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Maggie O’Farrell (The Bat Segundo Show #511) 22 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Maggie O’Farrell is most recently the author of Instructions for a Heatwave. Author: Maggie O’Farrell Subjects Discussed: People who went crazy during the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, John Cleese’s det...
Travis Nichols (The Bat Segundo Show #510) 22 Aug 2013 | 03:10 am
Travis Nichols is most recently the author of The More You Ignore Me. Author: Travis Nichols Subjects Discussed: Comparing smells in Washington DC and New York City, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yon...
Mark Slouka (The Bat Segundo Show #509) 15 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am
Mark Slouka is most recently the author of Brewster. Author: Mark Slouka Subjects Discussed: Gandhi’s pacifist maxims, Wilifred Owen, World War I poets, Vietnam, violence in fiction, Brewster in rel...
Lose Your Own Adventure: Who Killed John F. Kennedy? 14 Aug 2013 | 06:56 am
A few weeks ago, I received a package in the mail from an outfit titled Despair, Inc. I was certain that the flaps would be lacquered with ricin or that the envelope would include some VHS tape contai...
Boris Kachka: The Inspector Clouseau of Cultural Journalism 4 Aug 2013 | 12:11 am
“He said that, as a literary biographer, he’d been asked to talk about Peter’s literary interests, which of course was absurd in a mere seven minutes: Peter deserved a literary biography of his own, a...
Gabriel Roth (The Bat Segundo Show #508) 26 Jul 2013 | 12:20 am
Gabriel Roth is most recently the author of The Unknowns. Author: Gabriel Roth Subjects Discussed: Leaving San Francisco for Brooklyn, observing the two dot com booms, how moving away from a city of...
A Brief Sabbatical 17 Jul 2013 | 06:25 am
The summer heat has seared into the cultural fabric, smoking out closet racists among op-ed hash slingers, unmasking literary grand dames as xenophobic attention whores, and revealing other minds ligh...
On George Zimmerman: Why Racist “Stand Your Ground” Laws Must Be Challenged 15 Jul 2013 | 12:40 am
We believed we were long past the point where an unarmed boy would be gunned down because of his race. We were told by dulcet-voiced television pundits soothing us from their comfortable chairs that e...
Anchee Min (The Bat Segundo Show #507) 10 Jul 2013 | 02:06 am
Anchee Min is most recently the author of The Cooked Seed. Author: Anchee Min Subjects Discussed: Visiting Houston, Mary McCarthy, being the heroes of our own stories, writing Red Azalea as a way to...
Matt Bell (The Bat Segundo Show #506) 3 Jul 2013 | 11:26 pm
Matt Bell is most recently the author of In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods. Author: Matt Bell Subjects Discussed: Attempts to abridge a rather lengthy book title, House Party...
