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interviews/art talk/Russian poems from painter/writer Dmitry Samarov ——theme music by Bill MacKay ——a new one most Wednesdays.
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who you knowGint Aras
A talk with writer Gint Aras. Learn more about him at his site and read my review of The Fugue . Theme music, forever, by Bill MacKay. Subscribe at Apple or…
who you knowKathleen Rooney
A talk with Chicago writer Kathleen Rooney. We discuss teaching, competing generations, and our bizarre cultural moment. Learn more about Rooney at her site…
who you knowRick Rizzo
A talk with Rick Rizzo of Eleventh Dream Day about his music career, teaching, working for AC Nielson, collecting records, and a whole lot more. Buy Eleventh…
who you knowKat Sachs
A talk with film writer Kat Sachs. We discuss how her love of cinema was born at drive-ins in Ohio, auteur theory, our odd cultural moment, and more. Learn…
who you knowEmmett Kelly
A talk with musician Emmett Kelly about Chicago, LA, art, the state of the recording industry, and much more. Check out Kelly’s cassette label and his old…
who you knowGil Roth
I talk to podcaster, pharma trade guru, and novice artist Gil Roth about podcasting, his day job, getting into visual art at 50 and more. Listen to Gil’s great…
who you knowAdam Gnade
I talk to writer, farmer, and cassette-label mogul Adam Gnade about writing, living, off the land, releasing cassettes, and more. Learn about him at his site…
who you knowPoems in Russian
I read some poems in Russian. Selected a few dozen that my father sent me during the plague. 00:00— “New Year’s Eve” by Boris Ryzhy 01:00— two poems by Boris…
who you knowOld Style
Recorded readings (circa 2020) of rough drafts of chapters from my 2021 book, Old Style. 00:52 —”Flyover” (music by the Dick Slessig Combo) 08:30—”Don Lived…
who you knowDon DeLillo’s Underworld
Four excerpts from Don DeLillo’s Underworld, which I reread during plague lockdown in 2020. 00:00—”Waste” (music by Charles Mingus) 06:00—”An American Sort of…
who you knowFrank Spidale
I talk to one of my oldest friends, Chicago painter Frank Spidale. We talk art, music, jobs, living in Chicago, and more. See Spidale’s work at his site and…
who you knowLucy Sante
A talk with writer Lucy Sante. We discuss immigration, her upcoming trip to her native Belgium, transitioning, and more. Learn about Sante at her websiteand…
who you knowMallory Smart
I talk with Chicago writer Mallory Smart about writing, publishing, and a lot more sometime in 2021.
who you knowThe Green Arcade (2021)
Ben Terrall talks with me about All Hack, Old Style, and more at The Green Arcade in San Francisco in December 2021.
who you knowJohn Vernon Forbes
I talk with musician/artist John Vernon Forbes about Tijuana Hercules, art, music, and more.
who you knowThe Green Arcade (2020)
Ben Terrall talks with me about Soviet Stamps and more at San Francisco's The Green Arcade in 2020.
who you knowSoviet Stamps w/ Kyle Beachy
Kyle Beachy talks to me about Soviet Stamps at City Lit Books in 2020.
who you knowSoviet Stamps w/ Christian TeBordo
Christian TeBordo talks to me about Soviet Stamps at the late lamented Dial Bookshop in 2020.
who you knowFilmfront
I talk with Alan Medina, Malia Haines-Stewart, and Ashley Cooper about their storefront cinema in Pilsen for a 2018 Chicago Reader article.
who you knowBrian Wells
I talk to Chicago painter Brian Wells about his work for a Chicago Reader article in 2018.
who you knowChristian TeBordo (2019)
I talk to Christian TeBordo at the Rainbo Club about Ghost Engine and more.
who you knowThe Green Arcade (2019)
Ben Terrall interviews me about Music to My Eyes at the Green Arcade in San Francisco in 2019.
who you knowCTA drawings interview
Bill Savage interviews me at Firecat Projects about my show of CTA drawings there in September 2018.
who you knowOld Fashioned Days
I talk to filmmaker John McNaughton and photographer/musician Paul Petraitis about the 1970 student film they shot in their Roseland neighborhood and plans to…
who you knowPeter Prescott
I talk to Peter Prescott about his time in Mission of Burma, Volcano Suns, and more. Read the article I wrote for Aquarium Drunkard and listen to Prescott's…
who you knowFilm Talk w/ Don De Grazia
In 2018, Don De Grazia and I attempted to start a movie podcast. We covered four films: Lowlife (2017), You Were Never Really Here (2017), First Reformed…
who you knowJitney (2018)
My first bit of podcastage. A reading of a thing that wound up in my 2020 book All Hack about the rideshare racket and how it resembled an older type of public…