Podcasts

In February 2017, I heard an advertisement for an upcoming podcast by the makers of Serial, the show that introduced me to the podcast form. For those that haven’t heard…

  Remember when Serial came out and everyone was like, “Oh my God, have you heard of podcasts? They’re amazing!” True, this may not have been the case for you—by…

While podcasts have been a popular form of expression for over a decade, many people first became fans of the ever-popular first season of Serial, with its inimitable investigation into…

There is a moment in Brad Listi’s Other People interview with David Shields (Episode 454) when Shields and Listi riff on Bill Murray anecdotes, where instantly, I wanted to sit…

As a lifelong science fiction devotee raised on Ray Bradbury, Star Trek, John Wyndham, Doctor Who, and Douglas Adams, if I wasn’t this podcast’s target audience, no one was. I…

A Phone Call from Paul at Literary Hub is a mashup of the intimate, spontaneous phone conversation with the polished pre-recorded podcast interview. Paul is Paul Holdengräber, the well-read and…

For the past three years, Greta Johnsen and Tricia Bobeda have been producing Nerdette, a podcast in which they talk to “people we like about the stuff that they make.”…

Early in 2016, I heard the creators of Book Fight!, Tom McAllister and Mike Ingram speak on a panel about producing podcasts. I knew Mike’s name from the excellent journal…

The Bindercast is billed as the only podcast exclusively devoted to female and gender non-conforming writers who are working across genres and fields of writing. At first I thought, seriously? It’s…

The Classic Rock and Metal Podcast: The 70s, 80s and Now! By Rich Stim classicrockpodcast.com stitcher.com/podcast/classic-rock-and-metal itunes.Podcast While searching for Guns N’ Roses at the iTunes store, I stumbled on The Classic…

Reply All is, by its own description, “a show about the internet.” While this may sound both drab and vague, the program is neither. Together, hosts PJ Vogt and Alex…

And Now… As of this writing, there are some 115,000 podcasts available for download. The exponential growth of the medium is due, I suspect, to relatively inexpensive production costs, as…