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Alternative Press Expo 2007, Part Two (BSS #125)

This is the second of three shows devoted to Alternative Press Expo 2007. CONDITION OF MR. SEGUNDO: Longing for phone numbers and fistfights. INTERVIEW GUESTS: Julia Wertz, Julie Walker, Levni R. Yilmaz, Bill Morse, Neil Fitzpatrick, Brandon Bird, Ming Doyle, John Rivera, Steve Fuson, Zack Corzine, Christopher Perguidi and Keith Knight SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Comics inspired […]

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Alternative Press Expo 2007, Part One (BSS #124)

This is the first of three shows devoted to Alternative Press Expo 2007. INTERVIEW GUESTS: Carmen Ogden, Heather Morgan, Jess from CW, Sacha Arnold, Stephen Notley, Sarah Weinman, Jacquelyn Mentz, Tammy Stellanova and booth babe, Gabriel Martinez, Brian Andersen and Preston (cheerleader), Alex Cahill and Jad Ziade the laconic writer, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Tessa Brunton, […]

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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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Berkeley Breathed, Part One (BSS #119)

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 second part is available here. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Jittery of Gittis. Author Interview: Berkeley Breathed Subjects Discussed: The disparity between illustrating a daily strip and audience […]

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A.M. Homes II (BSS #115)

AM Homes is most recently the author of The Mistress’s Daughter. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Remarkably terse. Author: A.M. Homes Subjects Discussed: Expanding the New Yorker piece to book form, the rules of memoir, inventing deposition testimony, being “dished up” by the Roiphe sisters, the false connection between Homes’ novels and the memoir, Joan Didion, […]

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Charlie Anders & Annalee Newitz (BSS #104)

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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Ron Jeremy (BSS #103)

Ron 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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Jane Ganahl (BSS #102)

Jane 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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David Lynch (BSS #100)

David 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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Neal Pollack (BSS #96)

Neal Pollack is most recently the author of Alternadad. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating the litigious aspects of fatherhood. Author: Neal Pollack Subjects Discussed: The stigma against father memoirs, the Neal Pollack persona vs. the real Neal Pollack, neighborhood activism, politics, writing a book to “feed my family,” balancing art and commerce, the Chicago theatre […]

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Nina Hartley (BSS #89)

Nina Hartley is most recently the author of Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Harried and henpecked. Author: Nina Hartley Subjects Discussed: The meaning of “total sex,” vanilla vs. “alternative” sex, basics vs. options, self-acceptance, foreplay, the relationship between sexual realities and porn film fantasies, the “three position” proclivity, swinging, sexual […]

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Amy Sedaris (BSS #88)

Amy Sedaris is most recently the author of I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Ready to party in the Biblical sense. Author: Amy Sedaris Subjects Discussed: The lost art of hospitality, Martha Stewart, party theme taxonomy, entertaining old people, profiting from party guests, having a first date in your apartment, […]

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