Paul Witcover is the author of three novels, several non-fiction books, many short stories and is the co-creator, with Elizabeth Hand, of the cult comic book series Anima. He has served as the curator of the New York Review of Science Fiction reading series. His new collection is titled Everland and Other Stories.
We talk about his writing, his writing career, publishing, an odd job writing about golf, and more.
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Author Paul Witcover talks writing, publishing, golf, and more. [24:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadMenswear designer Jhane Barnes talks Star Trek, Secret Japanese Technology, and Fashion
May 21st, 2009
Jhane Barnes designs men’s sportswear, casual, and tailored clothes. Besides menswear, she also designs eyewear, textiles, furniture, carpets, and more. She was recently on NOVA to talk about how she uses fractals in her designs.
I recently visited Jhane’s design offices in New York, and we talked about being a fashionable nerd, fractals, secret Japanese factories, and Star Trek.
Show notes:
In the second half of the podcast, she shows me her top-of-the-line shirt, titled Dentrite. See it here.
Jhane’s website is JhaneBarnes.com. I also mentioned her slightly hidden outlet store, which is called JBXtras.com, where you can pick up extras and last-season’s items at a discount.
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Menswear designer Jhane Barnes talks Star Trek, Secret Japanese Technology, and Fashion [28:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadFantasy Author, James Enge, talks about writing, unicorns, talking squids and more…
April 10th, 2009
James Enge’s fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Flashing Swords, and everydayfiction.com. He is an instructor of classical languages at a Midwestern university. His first novel, Blood of Ambrose, was just released by Pyr Books.
James and I talked about his pseudonym, sci-fi and fantasy, writing, unicorns, and talking squids.
His website is www.jamesenge.com. Pyr Book’s page for James Enge’s book has free sample chapters. Blood of Ambrose at Amazon.
(Author photo: ©J. M. Pfundstein)
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Rowenna Davis is freelance journalist from north London. As a features writer, she specializes in social and political affairs, and has written opinion pieces for the The Independent, The Guardian, the New Internationalist, and many other publications.
She and I discuss several recent articles were she explored the murky world of “Gold Farming,” which is the illegal world of video game cheating - often for the very popular World of Warcraft.
Link to her article: Welcome to the new gold mines: Being paid to play games all day long sounds like a dream job – but for thousands of Chinese ‘gold farmers’, the virtual reality is sheer hard graft.
More Guardian.co.uk articles by Rowenna Davis.
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Lou Anders is the editorial director of Prometheus Books’ science fiction and fantasy imprint Pyr, as well as several anthologies. In 2000, he served as the Executive Editor of Bookface.com, and before that he worked as the Los Angeles Liaison for Titan Publishing Group. He is the author of The Making of Star Trek: First Contact (Titan Books, 1996), and has published over 500 articles in such magazines as The Believer, Publishers Weekly, Dreamwatch, DeathRay, free inquiry, Star Trek Monthly, Star Wars Monthly, Babylon 5 Magazine, Sci Fi Universe, Doctor Who Magazine, and Manga Max.
Lou and I talked about the iPhone, tricorders, the batmobile, writing, errings, and his wife’s cooking among other things.
Professor Robert Beaulieu teaches textile science and development at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. This is the second part of our talk.
This time he discusses wool, those labels in all our shirts and clothes, distressing leather jackets, and case of about a mouton collar.
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Interview with Textile Scientist, Robert Beaulieu Part Two [25:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Professor Robert Beaulieu teaches textile science and development at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. I took an introduction to textile science class more than ten years ago, but I think about the class often and have told stories borrowed from Robert’s lectures at cocktail parties.
We talk about Levis Strauss, jeans, denim, polyester leisure suits, pills, and more. And this is part one of the interview, which will continue soon.
FIT’s Textile Development and Marketing home page.
A link to the YouTube movie of the guitar prodigy who plays Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.
Alexander Grecian left a successful advertising career, representing clients as diverse as Sprint and Harley-Davidson, to become a freelance writer. He’s been published in several indy comics anthologies, including Negative Burn (Image) and one of the 24-Hour Comics books (the one that also included stories by Neil Gaiman and Steve Bissette). He wrote the critically acclaimed original graphic novel, Seven Sons (AiT/Planet Lar) and he currently writes and letters the comic book series Proof (Image Comics).
He’s also created numerous typefaces for his own foundry, Elemeno, storyboarded and directed television commercials and designed logos for many companies and publications. Alex’s site is http://alexandergrecian.com/
Charlie Huston is the author of the Hank Thompson trilogy which includes the Edgar-nominated “Six Bad Things,” the Joe Pitt Casebooks, the Los Angeles Times bestseller, and “The Shotgun Rule.” I spoke to him between readings for his new book titled, “The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.” We spoke about sports, giving away books, writing, and eavesdropping among other things.
Charlie Huston’s web-site is PulpNoir.com. Click here for the Wikipedia entry about him.
Mark Okrant is a professor of tourism management at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. A few years ago, when the University cut back on his classes field trips, Mark wrote a murder mystery at a resort that dealt with tourism issues and now he and other schools use his novel as a textbook.
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