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Longform conversation with musicians, cartoonists, writers and other creative types.

Episode 485: Guy Delisle

The press copy describes Factory Summers as Guy Delisle’s “most personal book.” It’s a strange phrase for a cartoonist whose work often tends toward t...
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Episode 484: Joe Ollmann

Fictional Father begins with an apology of a kind — or, at very least, an acknowledgement. Told as a self-effacing autobiographical strip, the preface...
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Episode 483: Dar Williams

2017’s What I Found in a Thousand Towns finds Dar Williams tackling urban studies. It’s new territory for the singer-songwriter, but one that builds o...
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Episode 482: José González

“We are the apes that are starting to understand the universe and our place in it,” José González says in a statement released ahead of his latest alb...
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Episode 480: Azure Ray

The success of Azure Ray’s self-titled debut seemingly took everyone by surprise — not least the band itself. Following the breakup of their group Lit...
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Episode 479:Mary Roach

Every time I speak to Mary Roach, I invariably get hung up on some minor detail — some story or person she’s teased out to unlock a fascinating new wo...
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Episode 478: Ben Snakepit

For 20 years, Ben Snakepit has been building a magnum opus. Day in, day out, the musician-turned-cartoonist draws another daily strip recounting a sce...
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Episode 476: Shary Flenniken

More than 30 years after Trots and Bonnie ended its decades-long run in National Lampoon, the strip finally gets a worthy collection. Shary Flenniken ...
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