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Last 20 Shows Christian Berger (BSS #321) Christian Berger recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #321. Berger is the cinematographer for The White Ribbon and was, most recently, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
This conversation is related to The Bat Segundo Show #316, in which writer-director Michael Haneke was interviewed.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering why so many moviegoers [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sue Grafton (BSS #320)Sue Grafton is most recently the author of U is for Undertow.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Looking for a man named Snake to help him escape from Santa Teresa.
Author: Sue Grafton
Subjects Discussed: Kinsey Millhone’s early announcement to the readers regarding the bad guys, foreshadowing murder, not writing the same book twice, the ethics of investigation, the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Gail Godwin (BSS #319)Gail Godwin is most recently the author of Unfinished Desires.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Combating an uncertain relationship with the faith.
Author: Gail Godwin
Subjects Discussed: [list forthcoming]
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Correspondent: I’m curious where the punishment that Ravenel ekes out in relation to a sanitary pad came from. The idea of having to research the inner workings [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Peniel Joseph (BSS #318)Peniel Joseph is most recently the author of Dark Days, Bright Nights.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if he lands on Plymouth Rock, or Plymouth Rock lands on him.
Author: Peniel Joseph
Subjects Discussed: Whether or not the bold declarations within Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech has been entirely heeded, the progress of African-American [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Katharine Weber II (BSS #317)Katherine Weber is most recently the author of True Confections. She previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #130 with Levi Asher. Ms. Weber and Mr. Asher will be appearing at the Greenlight Bookstore on January 11, 2009 at 7:30 PM.
(Please note: The Bat Segundo Show has discovered a rare and rather [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Haneke (BSS #316)Michael Haneke is most recently the director of The White Ribbon, which opens in theaters on December 30th.
The Bat Segundo Show expresses profuse gratitude and thanks to translator Robert Gray for assisting in this conversation, which is presented here in German and English.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Tying a white ribbon ’round the old oak [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ken Auletta (BSS #315)Ken Auletta is most recently the author of Googled and writes the “Annals of Communication” column for The New Yorker.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if his Chinese food takeout history can be Googled.
Author: Ken Auletta
Subjects Discussed: Clarifying Auletta’s theory of Sergey Brin and Larry Page as “cold engineers,” responding to Nicholson Baker’s review, whether an [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Terry Teachout (BSS #314)Terry Teachout is most recently the author of Pops.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Playing for handy water closets.
Author: Terry Teachout
Subjects Discussed: Managing professional duties, the exigencies of sifting through 650 reels of Louis Armstrong’s tapes, Armstrong’s encounters with the mob, Armstrong’s relationship with manager Joe Glaser, the aborted Duke Ellington collaborative album, Pierre “Frenchy” Tallerie’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Laurel Snyder (BSS #313)Laurel Snyder is most recently the author of Any Which Wall.
Subjects Discussed: The extraordinary conditions in which Any Which Wall was written, the flexibility that comes from being a small fish, a writing identity tied to poetry and waitressing, the tendency for books to come quicker in the children’s market, financial experiments that involve finishing [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Rebecca Solnit (BSS #312)Rebecca Solnit is most recently the author of A Paradise Built in Hell.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Finding hostility within legitimate clarification.
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Subjects Discussed: William James’s second treatise on pragmatism, the alternative notion which means the same as a preexisting notion, General Funston’s martial response to the 1906 earthquake vs. Pauline Jacobson’s push for camaraderie, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Marjorie Rosen (BSS #311)Marjorie Rosen is most recently the author of Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town Into an International Community.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Kicked out of bed.
Author: Marjorie Rosen
Subjects Discussed: The white and non-Hispanic white majority in Bentonville, Arkansas, numerous houses of worship, multiculturalism, the largest population of Marshall Island immigrants in the United States, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nicholas Meyer (BSS #310)Nicholas Meyer is perhaps best known for his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He is most recently the author of The View from the Bridge.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Ah, listener my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish best served cold?
Author: Nicholas [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Brian Evenson (BSS #309)Brian Evenson is most recently the author of Fugue State and Last Days.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Latching onto toccata.
Author: Brian Evenson
Subjects Discussed: Knowing when a story concept has legs, ideas that never come to anything, the origins of “A Pursuit,” The Open Curtain, maintaining surprise, text sources vs. personal experience, writing fiction moments that hit [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Muhammad Knight (BSS #307)Michael Muhammad Knight is most recently the author of Impossible Man and Osama Van Halen.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Expressing forceful words about his distinct identity.
Author: Michael Muhammad Knight
Subjects Discussed: Knight’s powers of prescience, Muslim punk, fictional suicide as a form of personal critique, the fictional character Mike Knight vs. the real Mike Knight, the Amazing [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lawrence Block (BSS #308)Lawrence Block is most recently the author of Step by Step.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Ruminating upon a life of exquisite indolence.
Author: Lawrence Block
Subjects Discussed: Step by Step as an anti-memoir, exploring childhood experience in print, randomness and finding connections, writing with a greater degree of freedom, Random Walk, concerns about a limited audience, earlier attempts [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Laurie Sandell (BSS #306)Laurie Sandell is the author of The Impostor’s Daughter.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if the coalminer was an impostor.
Author: Laurie Sandell
Subjects Discussed: Chicken recipes, the quest for truth within memoir, how narrative shapes and stretches truth, subjective vs. objective accounts, the essay written anonymously for Esquire, memory vs. concrete evidence, emails from Ashley Judd, how [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dick Cavett (BSS #305)Dick Cavett’s column, “Talk Show,” regularly appears at the New York Times.
(PROGRAM NOTE: During the course of our conversation, a “Professor Robert Costelli from John Jay College” — who apparently has a background in law enforcement — pushed in Mr. Cavett’s chair, causing Mr. Cavett to accost him. This unusual social moment, which was [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Maggie Estep (BSS #304)Maggie Estep is most recently the author of Alice Fantastic.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Hoping to see Alice at the next opportunity.
Author: Maggie Estep
Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming; lots of nutty topics, including speculation on Uma Thurman's activities in Woodstock]
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Estep: “Our love of animals is directly proportionate to our indifference to human beings.” It’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Philip Alcabes (BSS #303)Philip Alcabes is most recently the author of Dread.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Attempting to understand the certainty of certain dread, and the dread of dreadful certainty.
Author: Philip Alcabes
Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming, but here is a fun-filled conversation on plague, perception, scientific ethics, linguistics, balancing public response with science, and attempts to combat sexism, racism, and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Richard Russo II (BSS #301)Richard Russo is most recently the author of That Old Cape Magic. He previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #152.
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Shoving Cape Cod mackerel down his throat.
Author: Richard Russo
Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming, but lots in the latter half of the show about the Newsweek piece and the perceptive problems with [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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