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…
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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…
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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…
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InterviewPodcastsOTHERPPL with Brad Listi An interview with the interviewer of today’s leading writers
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…
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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…
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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…
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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.”…
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InterviewLiteraturePodcastsBook Fight! Books we love. Books we hate. Books that inspire us, baffle us, infuriate us.
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…