A talk with Marc Fischer about his many varied activities. For more, start here and here.
Theme music, forever, by Bill MacKay.
talk show—Wednesdays
A talk with Marc Fischer about his many varied activities. For more, start here and here.
Theme music, forever, by Bill MacKay.
A talk with the writer Tobias Carroll about the publication of his new novel, Ex-Members (Astrophil Press), New Jersey, punk bands, Vol.1 Brooklyn, et al. Learn more about Carroll here and read my review of his book.
Theme music, as ever, by Bill MacKay.
A talk with writer Lindsay Hunter about Florida, podcasting, being okay with not becoming Claire Danes, and more.
Get her books and follow her on Twitter.
Music today, tomorrow, and the days after that by Bill MacKay.
A talk with writer and professor Sonia Weiner. We discuss migratory literature, the time she wrote about me, her family’s move from the US to Israel, and more. More about her here.
Theme music today, tomorrow, and all the other tomorrows by Bill MacKay.
A talk with writer and artist Sam Pink. Before we talk, I read Pink’s story. “Move in With Me”. Follow Pink on Twitter and Instagram.
Episode art by Sam Pink. Theme music forever by Bill MacKay.
A talk with musician Jonathan van Herik about Wicker Park in the 90s, being in bands like Joan of Arc, Boas, Disappears, and Facs, self-doubt, and a whole lot more. Follow van Herik on Instagram.
Theme music, eternally, by Bill MacKay.
A talk with writer Gint Aras. Learn more about him at his site and read my review of The Fugue .
Theme music, forever, by Bill MacKay.
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A talk with Chicago writer Kathleen Rooney. We discuss teaching, competing generations, and our bizarre cultural moment. Learn more about Rooney at her site, the press she co-runs, and her poetry-typing concern.
Theme music by Bill MacKay, natch.
A talk with Rick Rizzo of Eleventh Dream Day about his music career, teaching, working for AC Nielson, collecting records, and a whole lot more. Buy Eleventh Dream Day albums on Bandcamp and follow them on Instagram.
Theme music by Bill MacKay, of course.
A talk with film writer Kat Sachs. We discuss how her love of cinema was born at drive-ins in Ohio, auteur theory, our odd cultural moment, and more. Learn more about Sachs at Cinefile and the Chicago Reader. Read her great essay on Jane Campion too.
Theme music by Bill MacKay, as ever.
A talk with musician Emmett Kelly about Chicago, LA, art, the state of the recording industry, and much more.
Check out Kelly’s cassette label and his old band, the Cairo Gang. Kelly also plays with Will Oldham, Ty Segall, and many others.
Theme music by Bill MacKay.
I talk to podcaster, pharma trade guru, and novice artist Gil Roth about podcasting, his day job, getting into visual art at 50 and more. Listen to Gil’s great Virtual Memories show and see a bunch of his drawings and paintings.
Theme music by Bill MacKay.
I talk to writer, farmer, and cassette-label mogul Adam Gnade about writing, living, off the land, releasing cassettes, and more. Learn about him at his site and all the usual social media places.
Theme music by Bill MacKay.
I read some poems in Russian. Selected a few dozen that my father sent me during the plague.
Take a look at the limited edition folder of typed-out Russian poems with notes in English, illustrations, and collaged covers.
Recorded readings (circa 2020) of rough drafts of chapters from my 2021 book, Old Style.
Four excerpts from Don DeLillo’s Underworld, which I reread during plague lockdown in 2020.
00:00—”Waste” (music by Charles Mingus)
06:00—”An American Sort of Thing” (music by Miles Davis)
10:50—”Quotidian” (music by Ornette Coleman)
17:25—”Denizens” (music by Endless Boogie)
A talk with writer Lucy Sante. We discuss immigration, her upcoming trip to her native Belgium, transitioning, and more. Learn about Sante at her websiteand follow her on Instagram. Read my reviews of The Other Paris and Maybe the People Would Be the Times and a newsletter about a lunch we shared in May, 2021.
I talk with Chicago writer Mallory Smart about writing, publishing, and a lot more sometime in 2021.
Ben Terrall talks with me about All Hack, Old Style, and more at The Green Arcade in San Francisco in December 2021.
I talk with collector Daniel X. O’Neil about street art, etc.
I talk with musician/artist John Vernon Forbes about Tijuana Hercules, art, music, and more.
I talk with Chicago musician Skyler Rowe about art, life, etc.
I talk collage, art, etc with Chicago artist Rebekka Federle.
Ben Terrall talks with me about Soviet Stamps and more at San Francisco’s The Green Arcade in 2020.