Month: February 2007

Ngugi wa Thiong’o & Carrie A.A. Frye (BSS #97)

Ngugi wa Thiong’o is most recently the author of Wizard of the Crow. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Avoiding impostor kings. Guests: Carrie A.A. Frye and Ngugi wa Thiong’o Subjects Discussed: Satirical plausibility, Wordsworth’s willing suspension of disbelief, narrative explanation and interconnectedness, queuing, The Wizard of the Crow as a history of Africa and a global […]

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Neal Pollack (BSS #96)

Neal Pollack is most recently the author of Alternadad. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating the litigious aspects of fatherhood. Author: Neal Pollack Subjects Discussed: The stigma against father memoirs, the Neal Pollack persona vs. the real Neal Pollack, neighborhood activism, politics, writing a book to “feed my family,” balancing art and commerce, the Chicago theatre […]

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Heidi Julavits (BSS #95)

Heidi Julavits is most recently the author of The Uses of Enchantment. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Enchanted with sobriquets. Author: Heidi Julavits Subjects Discussed: Heidi’s middle name, the psychotherapeutic muse, Michelle Stacey’s The Fasting Girl, Mollie Fancher, science vs. faith, Freud’s Dora study, responding to Marisa Meltzer’s claims of conservatism, the pros and cons of […]

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Stephen Graham Jones & Scott McKenzie (BSS #94)

Stephen Graham Jones is most recently the author of Demon Theory. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Not sacrificing time for horror. Guests: Scott McKenzie and Stephen Graham Jones Subjects Discussed: Approachable authors in the frozen food section, the implementation of pre-2000 references into narrative, the lineage of horror films, screenplay terminology, the relationship between Demon Theory‘s […]

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Nick Mamatas (BSS #93)

Nick Mamatas is most recently the author of Under My Roof. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Introspective about his long lost lawn gnome. Author: Nick Mamatas Subjects Discussed: The X+Y book formula, H.P. Lovecraft, Jack Kerouac, Aristophanes’ The Acharnians, telepathy, garden gnomes, radioactive fallout, conspiracies, Elián González , Littleton, Under My Roof as allegory, the influence […]

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