The Bat Segundo Show was a long-running cultural radio program devoted to quirky and very thorough long-form interviews with contemporary authors, idiosyncratic thinkers, and other assorted artists. Guests included David Lynch, Octavia Butler, John Waters, John Updike, Stephen Fry, Marilynne Robinson, Karen Russell, Weird Al Yankovic, Robert A. Caro, and more than 500 others. There was also a program called Follow Your Ears, which was a thematic investigative counterpart, in which I pursued a specific subject through several angles. The entire archive of what I did from 2005 to 2014 is included here.
Charlie Anders and Annalee Newitz are the co-editors of She’s Such a Geek. Authors: Charlie Anders and Annalee Newitz Condition of Mr. Segundo: Rethinking his views on women. Subjects Discussed: The gender divide in science and technology, whether empirical accounts can raise public awareness, present historical perceptions of gender in relation to past perceptions, female […]
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MoreRon Jeremy is the author of The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz. Author: Ron Jeremy Condition of Mr. Segundo: Filled with gushing admiration. Subjects Discussed: On being “the hardest working man in show business,” being covered by the New York Times Book Review, Eric Spitznagel as ghost writer, celebrity stories, Parkinson’s disease, Al Goldstein, on […]
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MoreJane Ganahl is most recently the author of Naked on the Page. Author: Jane Ganahl Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating older women. Subjects Discussed: Newsweek‘s controversial article about older women and marriage, the interrelationship between the “Single Minded” columns and Naked on the Page, why Ganahl left the Chronicle, how the book represented an effort […]
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MoreMartin Amis is most recently the author of House of Meetings. Author: Martin Amis Condition of Mr. Segundo: Inveighing against Stalinistic safeguards. Subjects Discussed: The relationship between Koba the Dread and House of Meetings, the Soviet experiment, the original format of House of Meetings, the critical reception of Yellow Dog, the effect of reviews upon […]
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MoreDavid Lynch is most recently the author of Catching the Big Fish. Author: David Lynch Condition of Mr. Segundo: In absentia, terrified of meditation. Subjects Discussed: Transcendental Meditation, true happiness, contending with stress, fear and anxiety, anger, the relationship between filmmaking and TM, inner happiness, walking vs. TM, Knut Hamsun, Einstein’s Theory of Everything, Dostoevsky’s […]
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MoreTayari Jones is most recently the author of Leaving Atlanta. Author: Tayari Jones Condition of Mr. Segundo: Caught in the act of untelling. Subjects Discussed: Drawing from personal experience, Atlanta, accessible metaphors, writing and throwing away many pages, conversational vs. literary tone, “This is not what Dr. King died for,” the West End neighborhood and […]
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MoreCharlie Huston is most recently the author of No Dominion. Author: Charlie Huston Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating the socialist qualities of the sun. Subjects Discussed: Dialogue vs. description, the influence of acting upon fiction writing, Raymond Chandler, dashes vs. quotation marks, Huston house style, Cormac McCarthy, one-word-one-period dialogue, indicative gestures, drinking and smoking, setting […]
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