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The Bat Comes Back. Again.

February 12, 2008 admin 0

Ed Champion and Bat Segundo have released another quartet of interviews in podcast form on the Bat Segundo show. Here’s the 411: These shows include a conversation with Charles Burns, the man behind Black Hole, a discussion with writer-director Eran Kolirin about his film The Band’s Visit in which Kolirin discusses the importance of static shots, a talk about topographical narrative with Ellington Boulevard author Adam Langer. We also learn why Charles Bock took eleven […]

David Rakoff and the Bat

January 5, 2008 admin 0

With all of our own end of year madness to get through, we took our time about noticing that Bat Segundo had posted not one, but two interviews with essayist, journalist and NPR correspondent David Rakoff, who we interviewed ourselves in this space several years ago. “I’m very indulged,” Rakoff says to Segundo at one point, “I am allowed to be at least 50 per cent of the story, which is a weird thing to […]

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Lipton and Pinker and Wolf, Oh My

October 29, 2007 admin 0

And even more on the five most recent installments of Ed Champion’s wonderful Bat Segundo Show featuring literary podcast interviews with some really terrific authors: The latest five installments (Shows #146-150) of The Bat Segundo Show … are now up. These shows include Inside the Actors Studio’s James Lipton as you haven’t heard him before, talking candidly about his work as one of the leading television interviewers (#150), a heady discussion about thought and language […]

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Beam Me Up, China

April 11, 2007 admin 0

Like a lot of people, I just can’t get enough of China Miéville, so when I heard that The Bat Segundo Show had added a podcast interview with the author, I beamed on over. It was worth the ’Net sweat. From the podcast: When we say “world-building,” we tend to think of that D&D-esque kind, which is not a diss incidentally. It’s just a description. It’s sort of a consolidation between the geography and the […]