Podcastery | Small Beer Press
Stories, interviews, and various discussions beginning from the Small Beer Press office and heading off from there into the pages of some really good books. Hosted by Julie Day.
- Update frequency
- every 60 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2016
Small Beer Podcast 22: John Crowley & Jedediah Berry & The Chemical Wedding
Episode 22: In which Jedediah Berry and John Crowley discuss John’s new edition of The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days by Johann Valentin Andreae. The book is illus…
00:42:29 |
Mon 23 May 2016
Small Beer Podcast 21: Mary Rickert’s “Cold Fires”
Being the internet age, I’ve learned as much about Mary Rickert from her Facebook feed as I have from the biography on her website. These are the facts I am confident are true: Mary Rickert dislikes …
00:47:43 |
Wed 20 Jan 2016
Small Beer Podcast 20: Carmen Maria Machado’s “I Bury Myself”
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 33 is a strange and extremely personal cultivation. Guest edited by Michael J. Deluca, it themes and focuses and ponders on our ecological future in a way that d…
00:19:23 |
Tue 11 Aug 2015
Small Beer Podcast 19: Nathan Ballingrud’s “You Go Where It Takes You”
Nathan Ballingrud is one of those authors who should be far better known. Hopefully, this collection will do something to bridge that particular gap. I don’t write fan letters and I don’t read storie…
00:35:40 |
Tue 14 Jan 2014
Small Beer Podcast 18: Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals” & Cider
Old friends never go out of style. Yet, somehow, too often they manage to slip into the dusty corners of our lives. Each time one pops up and disrupts my helter skelter schedule, I feel a frisson of …
00:34:24 |
Tue 24 Sep 2013
Small Beer Podcast 17: Angélica Gorodischer’s “The González Family’s Fight for a Better World”
I don’t always take authors very seriously, but when Angélica Gorodischer indicated in Trafalgar’s foreword that the stories should be read in order, something in her tone made me pay attention. And …
00:59:17 |
Tue 19 Mar 2013
Small Beer Podcast 16: Kij Johnson’s “The Empress Jingu Fishes”
Hallelujah! Another podcast is neigh. And to everyone’s delight here at the Small Beer Studios, it’s another piece of fiction. Kij Johnson’s debut collection, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, came …
00:25:26 |
Tue 15 Jan 2013
Small Beer Podcast 15: Lydia Millet’s The Shimmers in the Night
These podcasts are special little moments that pop up in my life, but even when I’m not “on mic” I’m reading to an audience. Every day for almost a decade, I’ve sat with my children and read. Yes, we…
00:27:55 |
Tue 18 Dec 2012
Small Beer Podcast 14: Benjamin Parzybok’s “The Coder”
My podcastery life doesn’t get much better than this. Two of my favorites in one audio track: Benjamin Parzybok and Michael J. DeLuca. Benjamin Parzybok’s story “The Coder” was first published in La…
00:43:24 |
Tue 23 Oct 2012
Small Beer Podcast 13: Julie Day Interviews Jennifer Stevenson
Jennifer Stevenson is a fantasy author, a romance writer and a former roller derby queen, so it should be no surprise that our interview veered into a discussion of sex and sexual politics. When you …
00:40:52 |
Thu 27 Sep 2012
Small Beer Podcast 12: Benjamin Rosenbaum’s “Sense and Sensibility”
There are just so many lovely people in the world. That was my conclusion after talking with David Thompson, the co-editor and host of Podcastle. He just showed up one day and offered to read a story…
00:51:01 |
Tue 07 Aug 2012
Small Beer Podcast 11: Jennifer Stevenson’s Trash Sex Magic
I think the world should be filled with double features: double-dip ice cream cones, double copies of the books you’re likely to drop in the tub, bonus skirts given at the time of purchase. Sometimes…
00:24:06 |
Mon 04 Jun 2012
Small Beer Podcast 10: Julie Day Interviews John Kessel
Here at the Small Beer Studios, it’s Kesselmania! Between the reading of “The Last American” in Episode Nine and this week’s interview of the man himself, right now it seems that we have Kessel and n…
00:38:19 |
Fri 04 May 2012
Small Beer Podcast 9: John Kessel’s “The Last American”
I don’t know how many different people mentioned John Kessel to me before I ever read his work. Well, actually, that’s a lie. I know exactly how many people mentioned John Kessel: four. One of them w…
00:34:37 |
Fri 13 Apr 2012
Small Beer Podcast 8: Jenny Terpsichore Abeles’s “Three Hats”
I should be used to the Small Beer studios by now: the pictures on the walls of kimono-clad women selling insect repellent, the Studio Ghibli bag illustrated with a seaplane pirate from Porco Rosso, …
00:17:23 |
Thu 22 Mar 2012
Small Beer Podcast 7: Zombie Plans, Beer & Maureen F. McHugh’s “The Naturalist”
Here at the Small Beer studios we find there’s nothing like a great book and some damn fine beers to really get the conversation flowing. We’d already read Maureen F. McHugh’s zombie story “The Natu…
00:31:07 |
Thu 08 Mar 2012
Small Beer Podcast 6: In Which Julie reads Maureen F. McHugh’s “The Naturalist”
No, Robert Redford is not in this, neither are baseball games or family farms. This piece is not called The Natural. This story, “The Naturalist,” from Maureen’s collection, After the Apocalypse, is …
01:00:43 |
Mon 20 Feb 2012
Small Beer Podcast 5: Three Messages and a Warning
It turns out the gestation period for this podcast is somewhere between that of a lion and a wolf. At the beginning of November, Michael J. DeLuca, Gavin and I recorded the first ever Small Beer beer…
00:16:22 |
Thu 02 Feb 2012
Small Beer Podcast 4: Benjamin Parzybok’s Couch
Fiction. We love it. And this week’s Small Beer podcast is over thirty minutes of nothing but imagined words. Benjamin Parzybok’s Couch is damned funny. Well, his novel Couch is anyway. To celebrate …
00:39:09 |
Thu 17 Nov 2011
Small Beer Podcast 3: Michael J. DeLuca, Head Brewer and CTO
I’m thrilled to be back from wilds of Western Connecticut where I was billeted after the recent Nor’easter. Small Beer headquarters feels like a book-filled Shangri-La. I can’t believe I’ve returned.…
00:23:04 |
Thu 10 Nov 2011
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