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.
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Alison Bechdel II (BSS #250)
Alison Bechdel is most recently the author of The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For. To listen to our previous interview with Bechdel, check out The Bat Segundo Show #63. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Overly concerned with modifiers attached to artists. Author: Alison Bechdel Subjects Discussed: The relationship between visual developments and storyline developments, how […]
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MoreAlison Bechdel (BSS #63)
Author: Alison Bechdel Condition of Mr. Segundo: Revealing his political idiosyncracies. Subjects Discussed: The meaning of “tragicomic,” Nabokov, Charles Addams, on how the funeral home component of Fun Home has been overlooked, on hitting a wall with words, the advantages of “visual writing,” Michael Lesy’s Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures, Fun Home as […]
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MoreGuests A-Z
A Karen Abbott (Sin and the Second City, #221) Megan Abbott (The End of Everything, #404) Megan Abbott II (Dare Me, #474) Diana Abu-Jaber (Birds of Paradise, #419) Eric Adams (Alternative Press Expo 2006, #31) Chimamanda Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun, #141) Terrie Akers (BEA 2006, #45) Phillip Alcabes (Dread, #303) Ken Alder (The […]
MoreBat Segundo DVDs Now on Sale!
We’ve received a few requests from listeners asking us how they can get DVD-ROMs of the show. And since Christmas shopping has started, and some of you out there may be on the lookout for a literary stocking stuffer, we’ve decided to begin offering DVD-ROMs of the first 250 shows of The Bat Segundo Show […]
MoreSegundo Torrents
The first 200 shows of The Bat Segundo Show are now available in torrent form. There were initially six torrent packs that were released last year. But a hard drive crash wiped those files. I have repacked the first six packs, and added four more. You can download these files using any torrent client. If […]
MoreCharles Burns (BSS #177)
Charles Burns is the author and illustrator of Black Hole. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Avoiding conspiracy theorists. Author: Charles Burns Subjects Discussed: Responding to Vanessa Raney’s comparison between Black Hole and Sartre’s No Exit, anatomical closeups, World War II venereal disease films, intuitive artistic choices, the influence of postwar culture vs. personal experience, half-naked girls […]
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MoreThe Bat Segundo Archive
Notes from a Brooklyn Bunker: In the summer of 2020, while editing The Gray Area, Edward Champion re-emerged from podcasting retirement to begin a series of ten to twenty minute improvised riffs during the pandemic on a variety of topics. There were thirty-four episodes in all that aired through September 2020. These wre removed on […]
MoreYet More Bat Torrents
Another quick little offering: Torrent Packs #4 and #5 of The Bat Segundo Show have been released to The Pirate Bay. Pack #4 contains Shows #61-80, and features interviews with Alison Bechdel, Daniel Handler, Tommy Chong, Nora Ephron, Scott Smith, Richard Dawkins, and many others. You can download the torrent here. Pack #5 contains Shows […]
MoreMike Leigh (BSS #238)
Mike Leigh is the filmmaker behind Naked, Life is Sweet, Vera Drake, and, most recently, Happy-Go-Lucky, which is currently playing the New York Film Festival (among many others) and opens in the United States on October 10. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Too unhappy and too unlucky. Guest: Mike Leigh Subjects Discussed: Vocational symmetries within Leigh’s […]
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