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Antoine Wilson (BSS #136)

Antoine Wilson is most recently the author of The Interloper. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Finding creative ways of using Photoshop. Author: Antoine Wilson Subjects Discussed: Tonal beacons within The Interloper, Martin Amis, stifling the Nabokovian influence, frisbees and sex, conformist thinking, allusions to Sisyphus, technical writing, emotional candor, psychological experiments, generic establishments, reflection vs. invention, […]

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Marianne Wiggins (BSS #134)

Marianne Wiggins is most recently the author of The Shadow Collector. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Responding to the recent allegations concerning Bat Segundo and Vanessa Hudgens. Author: Marianne Wiggins Subjects Discussed: Fictive alter egos, Philip Roth’s The Counterlife, James Frey, Kurt Vonnegut, Hemingway’s screenplays, Edward Curtis, ephemera, patriarchy, W.G. Sebald, 20th century photographers, The Man […]

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William Gibson (BSS #133)

William Gibson is most recently the author of Spook Country. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Puzzled by cyberspace. Author: William Gibson Subjects Discussed: Coats, blankets, and carapaces in Gibson’s fiction, textures, characters with shaved heads, on not having technological issues, the Apple Store, cell phones and the natural street state, obsolete technology and thrift shops, ZX81s, […]

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Matthew Sharpe & Megan Sullivan (BSS #132)

Matthew Sharpe is most recently the author of Jamestown. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Denied a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Guests: Megan Sullivan and Matthew Sharpe. Subjects Discussed: Post-apocalyptic novels with a sense of humor, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, allegorical representations of Jamestown, John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor, Afghanistan, parallels to Iraq and other military […]

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Kate Christensen (BSS #131)

Kate Christensen is most recently the author of The Great Man. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating his biographical legacy. Author: Kate Christensen Subjects Discussed: First-person vs. third-person narration, Hugo from The Epicure’s Lament vs. Oscar in The Great Man, dead men, dying women, being obsessed with death, the sex lives of older women, the difficulties […]

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Katharine Weber and Levi Asher (BSS #130)

Katharine Weber is most recently the author of Triangle. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Fleeing the Bolsheviks. Guests: Katharine Weber and Levi Asher Subjects Discussed: Fibonacci spirals and Sierpinski triangles, Fibonacci sidewalks, the unknown etymological origins of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, interview transcripts and excised questions, designing the Esther and Ruth Zion vernaculars, colloquies within the […]

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Katherine Taylor & Mindy Schneider (BSS #128)

Katherine Taylor is most recently the author of Rules for Saying Goodbye. Mindy Schneider is most recently the author of Not a Happy Camper. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Smitten with literary Kates. Authors: Katherine Taylor and Mindy Schneider Subjects Discussed: The similarities and differences between Taylor the person and Taylor the character, declarative dialogue, MFA […]

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Michelle Richmond (BSS #127)

Michelle Richmond is most recently the author of The Year of Fog. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Stumbling upon 21st century technologies. Author: Michelle Richmond Subjects Discussed: The relationship of research to plotting, author character qualities and protagonist character qualities, Alabama, San Francisco landmarks, the Richmond District, emasculated men who live in restored Victorians, using simple […]

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Steven Hall (BSS #123)

Steven Hall is most recently the author of The Raw Shark Texts. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Revisiting his flipbook-authoring hobby. Author Interview: Steven Hall Subjects Discussed: The relationship between narrative and text design, textual malapropisms, speculating upon “wooden” dialogue, multiple Eric Sandersons and the Matrix trilogy, narrative onslaughts against institutions, on balancing postmodernism with an […]

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Richard Flanagan (BSS #122)

Richard Flanagan is most recently the author of The Unknown Terrorist. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Attempting to understand Tasmanians. Author Interview: Richard Flanagan Subjects Discussed: The novel as a warning, interviews with overly serious journalists, the novel as a mirror to the world, the inspiration of Heinrich Böll’s The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, the […]

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Gary Shteyngart (BSS #121)

Gary Shteyngart is most recently the author of Absurdistan. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating an ethnic switch to Russian. Author Interview: Gary Shteyngart Subjects Discussed: Prince Myshkin and Misha Vainberg, Doestoevsky as a muse, fat man fiction, getting inside a corpulent character, Biggie Smalls, hip-hop traditions in other countries, technological references in satire, the apocalyptic […]

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Berkeley Breathed, Part Two (BSS #120)

Berkeley Breathed is the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of Bloom County, Opus, and the author of many children’s books. This is the second part of a two-part interview. The first part is available here. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Searching for penguin brides. Author Interview: Berkeley Breathed Subjects Discussed: The rising sales of graphic novels, the future […]

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