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.
Torrent Packs #2 and #3 of The Bat Segundo Show have been released to The Pirate Bay. Pack #2 contains Shows #21-40, and features interviews with William T. Vollmann, Dana Spiotta, Erica Jong, Sarah Waters, Tom Tomorrow, Harvey Pekar, and many others. You can download the torrent here. Pack #3 contains Shows #41-60, and features […]
MoreIn response to several requests, the first torrent pack for The Bat Segundo Show is now available for your downloading pleasure at The Pirate Bay. Torrent Pack #1 contains the first twenty shows, including conversations with Jonathan Ames, Octavia Butler, T.C. Boyle, Bret Easton Ellis, Jennifer Weiner, and many more authors. Future torrent packs will […]
MoreDue to strange existential circumstances, only Shows #110 and #113 have been released when the producers intended a four-show bundle all at once. Show #111 is coming tonight. Show #112 is coming in a few days. To download Show #113 (featuring LBC nominee Mark Binelli and Jessica Stockton) in the interim period, use this link. […]
MoreHeidi 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 […]
Listen: Play in new window | Download (Running Time: 48:23 — 44.3MB)
MoreDue to an inflexible and unresponsive web host, our mailing list is temporarily out of commission. We hope to get an alternative up and running soon. If you need to modify or unsubscribe, send email directly to ed@edrants.com.
MoreDue to technical mishaps on our main workstation, the Bat Segundo production schedule has been delayed. But have no fear: we expect to be back next week with two fresh podcasts. There are some fantastic interviews coming up. And we’ve also landed a very special guest for Show #100. But we’ll leave you guessing as […]
MoreWe’re not sure how this happened. Mr. Segundo is hardly savvy with computers, but he’s somehow nabbed himself a MySpace page.
MoreCurrent Podcasts Available Online: 63 Current Interviews in the Can: 8 MacArthur Genius Fellows Interviewed: 3 National Book Award Winners Interviewed: 4 Granta “Young British Novelists 2003” Interviewed: 2 Interview Subjects Sadly No Longer Living: 1 Age of Oldest Guest to Appear on Segundo: 74 Age of Youngest Guest to Appear on Segundo: 29 Most […]
MoreWe’ve fixed the feed problems that many of you pointed out. And we’ve also added some navigational clarity (and some minor bells and whistles) for those who were perplexed by the bat images. Much appreciation to the PodPress plug-in, which helped us to streamline the RSS feeds.
MoreThis is a reminder to one and all that, as announced on The Bat Segundo Show #28, we’re still giving away a copy of Dana Spiotta‘s excellent novel, Eat the Document, which we raved about here. The book goes to the fourth person to answer the following question: “If you were a fish, what kind […]
More