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Join Jorge, the alcoholic and blacklisted Bat Segundo, and our Young, Roving Correspondent for erudite interviews with the contemporary authors of our time. Recent interviews have included David Mitchell and Jonathan Ames.

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David Rees (BSS #248)

Just in time for Election Day! David Rees is most recently the author of Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror: 2001-2008. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Struggling to cast his vote. Author: David Rees Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: I wanted to also ask about the use of white space, and [...]...

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[ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:58:39 +0000 ]

David Heatley (BSS #247)

David Heatley is most recently the author of My Brain is Hanging Upside Down. Condition of Mr. Segundo: On the waiting list for a brain transplant. Author: David Heatley Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: I wanted to also talk with you about your “Family History” strip. I mean, it’s probably the closest thing in this collection [...]...

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[ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:56:42 +0000 ]

Alec Foege (BSS #246)

Alec Foege is most recently the author of Right of the Dial. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Defying the maker of rules and dealing with fools. Author: Alec Foege Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: I wanted to ask you about the subject of payola, which comes up multiple times in this book. Eliot Spitzer is, of course, [...]...

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[ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:06:22 +0000 ]

Neal Stephenson (BSS #245)

Neal Stephenson is most recently the author of Anathem. It is not known whether or not he “likes cake a lot.” Condition of Mr. Segundo: He likes cake a lot. Author: Neal Stephenson Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: Going back to the idea of the general reader, or the common reader — whatever we want to [...]...

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[ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:25:12 +0000 ]

Charlie Kaufman (BSS #243)

Charlie Kaufman recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #243. Kaufman is most recently the writer-director of Synecdoche, New York, now playing in limited theaters. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Lost in the endless ebb and flow of emotional and cerebral ideas. Guest: Charlie Kaufman Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: It’s safe to say that you are [...]...

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[ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:47:50 +0000 ]

Pale Young Gentlemen (BSS #242)

Pale Young Gentlemen is a band from Madison, Wisconsin that is currently touring across the United States, and has just released its second album, Black Forest (tra la la). Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contending with unexpected discrimination during the economic crisis. Guest: Michael Reisenauer (of Pale Young Gentlemen) Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Reisenauer: We’ll actually write through [...]...

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[ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:45:04 +0000 ]

Megan Hustad (BSS #241)

Megan Hustad is most recently the author of How to Be Useful Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating the usefulness of political candidates. Author: Megan Hustad Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Hustad: The book is, in part, a survey of the genre of success literature. And I spent a year of my life holed up in the [...]...

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[ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:42:23 +0000 ]

Marilynne Robinson (BSS #240)

Marilynne Robinson is most recently the author of Home. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Avoiding the relationship potential of malfunctioning XLR cables. Author: Marilynne Robinson Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: I wanted to ask you about the tale of the prodigal son, which of course comes from Luke 15:11. The onus of guilt in that parable, [...]...

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[ Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:50:41 +0000 ]

Jerzy Skolimowski (BSS #239)

Jerzy Skolimowski is a filmmaker, and is most recently the director of Four Nights with Anna, which is currently playing at the New York Film Festival. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Waiting for the fifth night. Guest: Jerzy Skolimowski Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Skolimowski: For me, the most important thing is the story. I’m telling the story. [...]...

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[ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:01:50 +0000 ]

Mike 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: [List forthcoming when I return from screenings!] EXCERPT [...]...

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[ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:12:59 +0000 ]

Bonnie Tyler (BSS #237)

Bonnie Tyler is the legendary singer behind such tracks as “Vernal Equinox of the Mind” and “Holding Out for a Supervillain.” Condition of Mr. Segundo: Nothing he can say, a total eclipse of the Bat. Guest: Bonnie Tyler Subjects Discussed: Tyler co-writing most of the tracks on the album, Wings, singing vs. songwriting, breaking up with managers, shyness, [...]...

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[ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:20:38 +0000 ]

Markos Moulitsas (BSS #236)

Markos Moulitsas is most recently the author of Taking on the System. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Refusing to cut and run from Kenny Loggins and company. Author: Markos Moulitsas Subjects Discussed: Speculation on the effectiveness of protests, influencing the gatekeepers, Amy Goodman and other journalists arrested in St. Paul, small-time bloggers, Cindy Sheehan, “Free Mumia” promoters and promoting [...]...

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[ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:46:52 +0000 ]

Daniel Levitin (BSS #235)

Daniel Levitin is most recently the author of The World in Six Songs. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Recalling a traumatic musical episode from his marriage. Author: Daniel Levitin Subjects Discussed: Songs that straddle multiple categories within Levitin’s taxonomy, neurological response vs. societal perception of a song, the original eight categories, oxytocin, “I Walk the Line,” Nine Inch Nails, [...]...

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[ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:37:26 +0000 ]

Courtney Humphries (BSS #234)

Courtney Humphries is the author of Superdove Condition of Mr. Segundo: Severely underestimating the carnivorous impulses of pigeons. Author: Courtney Humphries Subjects Discussed: Eating squab, pigeon dining options in restaurants, Robert Dunn’s pigeon paradox, urban forms of nature, pigeons as an ineluctable aspect of the city, people’s attitudes towards wildlife, the pigeon’s place in the food chain, pigeons [...]...

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[ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:59:51 +0000 ]

Brent Spiner (BSS #233)

Brent Spiner is most recently a producer and performer on the album, Dreamland. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Ducking his head and dodging paranoid crooners. Guest: Brent Spiner Subjects Discussed: Natural reverb, conversational limitations, co-owning a recording studio with Dave Way, being a control freak, the shaky profitability of the music industry, self-distributing a CD through Bellarama, David [...]...

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[ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:25:16 +0000 ]

Sarah Manguso (BSS #232)

Sarah Manguso is most recently the author of The Two Kinds of Decay. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating fifty-five additional states of decay. Author: Sarah Manguso Subjects Discussed: David Markson, sentences that originate in other formats, fan mail, whether a paragraph is truly a paragraph, problems with typesetting nomenclature, remembering personal moments at 1,000 words a day, word [...]...

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[ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:17:56 +0000 ]

Paul Auster (BSS #231)

Paul Auster is most recently the author of Man in the Dark. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Opening himself up to explanation. Author: Paul Auster Subjects Discussed: Starting a novel from a title, the advance titles contained within The Book of Illusions, the working title of The Music of Chance, Mr. Blank, the relationship between Travels in the Scriptorium [...]...

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[ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:36:24 +0000 ]

Jenny Davidson (BSS #230)

Jenny Davidson is most recently the author of The Explosionist. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Investigating the veracity of explosions. Author: Jenny Davidson Subjects Discussed: Coincidental run-ins, the necessity of war, Edmund Burke, philosophical asides, a novelist’s use of argument, Agatha Christie novels, John Buchan, ending chapters on cliffhangers, early 20th century British adventure fiction, alternate universes, Tolstoy [...]...

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[ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:40:58 +0000 ]

Ross Raisin (BSS #229)

Ross Raisin is the author of God’s Own Country (UK title)/Out Backward. (Please note: This discussion deals at length with many of the Yorkshire terms that Mr. Raisin uses within his novel. Please consult this lexicon if you’d like to know more.) Condition of Mr. Segundo: Abdicating to a helium-impaired fill-in host. Author: Ross Raisin Subjects Discussed: Schizophrenia, [...]...

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[ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:35:47 +0000 ]

Ethan Canin (BSS #228)

Ethan Canin is most recently the author of America America. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Examining his miserable relationship with America. Author: Ethan Canin Subjects Discussed: Neil Diamond’s “America,” the stuttering titular impulse, the Corvair, journalists as heroes, intentional vs. unintentional symbols, the reporter’s instinct, “the ingenuity of the working man,” ideology, the politics of generosity, didacticism in fiction, [...]...

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[ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:09:18 +0000 ]

Kathryn Harrison (BSS #227)

Kathryn Harrison is most recently the author of While They Slept. Condition of Mr. Segundo:: Grappling with death and emergencies. Author: Kathryn Harrison Subjects Discussed: Opening the novel with a stark transcript of a 9/11 call, exchange incongruities, differences between text and spoken word, lack of annotation, true crime as a writing choice, the Keddie murders, not [...]...

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[ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:05:24 +0000 ]

The Save Segundo Campaign

First off, I want to thank all of the people who have written with their concerns and kind words about The Bat Segundo Show. I have received messages from listeners all over the world — including France, Sweden, Japan, and Norway. I was also extremely honored by Colin Marshall’s kind writeup at The [...]...

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[ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:17:20 +0000 ]

Mike Edison (BSS #226)

Mike Edison is the author of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go. Condition of the Show: Reinvestigating the purported death of Bat Segundo. (See also Show #199.) Author: Mike Edison Subjects Discussed: Writing a memoir predicated upon shit-talking, sticking with the details, the lack of composite characters, compressed chronology, Heeb editor Josh Neuman vs. Screw art director [...]...

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[ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:49:49 +0000 ]

Peter David (BSS #225)

Peter David is most recently the author of Tigerheart. Condition of the Show: Investigating claimed nemeses of Goliath. Author: Peter David Subjects Discussed: On being prolific, producing work quickly, writing stories set in expansive universe, reacting to a universal construct, working with mythos, the Fallen Angel universe, the Star Trek: New Frontier books, Joseph Campbell and Star [...]...

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[ Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:01:19 +0000 ]

Sen. Mike Gravel & Joe Lauria (BSS #224)

Senator Mike Gravel and Joe Lauria are the co-authors of A Political Odyssey. Gravel was a candidate for the 2008 U.S. presidential race. Lauria is an investigative journalist who writes for The Sunday Times. Condition of the Show: Delving into the complexities of the military industrial complex. Authors: Senator Mike Gravel and Joe Lauria. Subjects Discussed: [...]...

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[ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:24:33 +0000 ]

Faye Flam (BSS #223)

Faye Flam is most recently the author of The Score. Condition of the Show: Attempting to contend with gender generalizations. Author: Faye Flam Subjects Discussed: Boot Seduction Camp as the prism with which to approach evolutionary science, the Mystery Method, crude philosophical rules vs. scientific rules, the SRY gene, masculinity’s backup gene, genetics and the delineation between [...]...

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[ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:16:12 +0000 ]

Nam Le (BSS #222)

Nam Le is the author of The Boat. Condition of the Show: Attempting to find classification within the media industrial complex. Author: Nam Le Subjects Discussed: On writing about panna cotta before experiencing it, plausibility and aesthetics, subjectivity, the dangers of autobiographical connections and personal experience perceived by readers and critics, why fiction needs to be influenced by [...]...

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[ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:03:40 +0000 ]

Grandmaster Flash & Karen Abbott (BSS #221)

Grandmaster Flash is most recently the author of The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash (with David Ritz). Karen Abbott is most recently the author of Sin in the Second City. Condition of the Show: Marinating in urban culture. Authors: Grandmaster Flash and Karen Abbott SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Using “adventures” in a book title, cutting, rubbing and scratching, finding obscure [...]...

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[ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:23:31 +0000 ]

Mark Kurlansky (BSS #220)

Mark Kurlansky is most recently the author of The Last Fish Tale. Condition of the Show: Moving forward after unexpected losses. Author: Mark Kurlansky Subjects Discussed: Mark Kurlansky’s wonderful dog, coming into Gloucester from an outsider’s perspective, possible solutions to global fishing problems, the close parallels between bottom dragging and the decline in fish stocks, ineffective methods [...]...

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[ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:44:26 +0000 ]

Thomas M. Disch (BSS #219)

To my great shock, the late, great Thomas M. Disch committed suicide on July 4, 2008. This was his last face-to-face interview before his death, conducted on June 25, 2008 at his apartment. For more on Disch, start here. His most recent book was The Word of God. Condition of the [...]...

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[ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:52:15 +0000 ]

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