RiYL
Recommended if You Like: longform conversation with musicians, cartoonists, writers and other creative types.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 726
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Episode 166: Rob Crow
When you write an open letter on your Facebook page about quitting the music business forever, it’s bound to be the opening line of every review of your next record. It’s just the way of of the world…
00:44:56 |
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Episode 165: Adam Green
Aladdin is a crowd-sourced paper mache fever dream. It’s both completely singular in Adam Green diverse portfolio of work and perfectly representative of an artist who has made a career or tearing do…
01:17:30 |
Tue 19 Apr 2016
Episode 164: Glen Weldon
You don’t know Batman like Glen Weldon knows Batman, and the frequent NPR contributor has the book to prove it. Out now on Simon & Schuster, The Caped Crusader is a fascinating examination of one of …
00:57:06 |
Wed 13 Apr 2016
Episode 163: Eszter Balint
I didn’t recognize Eszter Balint’s name when I got a PR pitch about her Airless Midnight, but I the record a quick listen anyway and shot her representation a note about getting her on the show. Luck…
01:09:14 |
Mon 11 Apr 2016
Episode 162: Lloyd Kaufman
The real Tromaville is an unassuming place. Located a few blocks from the East River, in an industrialized section of Long Island City still untouched by the rapidly encroaching gentrification of art…
01:04:48 |
Tue 05 Apr 2016
Episode 161: Stern Pinball CEO Gary Stern
Note: Hey listeners, we’re launching a Patreon. Please consider supporting the show to help keep us afloat. By the 80s, the pinball machine had seemingly been all but replaced, making way for machine…
00:49:53 |
Wed 30 Mar 2016
Episode 160 (Bonus): The Dead Ships
Sometimes things just come together. Sometimes one of the geniuses behind Broken Social Scene catches one of your ramshackle live shows and decides you’re the first outside band he wants to produce. …
00:56:52 |
Wed 23 Mar 2016
Episode 159: Eleanor Friedberger
I first saw Eleanor Friedberger solo back in 2013, shortly after falling head over heels for her second solo album, Personal Record. Her band was an opener (for The Long Winters, featuring past guest…
00:54:41 |
Mon 21 Mar 2016
Episode 158: Chip Zdarsky and Matt Kindt
Chip Zdarsky wore a felt crown during our interview because he was promoting his new Jughead series for Archie — and because he’s Chip Zdarsky, and that’s just like a thing Chip Zdarsky does. The car…
00:58:21 |
Fri 18 Mar 2016
Episode 157: Dan Friel
When I first met Dan Friel, he was working the front desk at The Onion. I was but lowly intern and he was tasked with, among other things, handing me a list of the newspaper boxes around the city tha…
00:51:18 |
Tue 15 Mar 2016
Episode 156: Douglas Rushkoff
There’s an art to interviewing Douglas Rushkoff — and really, “interview” isn’t the right word. It’s akin of offering suggestions and watching him takeoff, explore an idea, and just blow the thing wi…
00:51:50 |
Mon 07 Mar 2016
Episode 155: Tom Hart
Rosalie Lightning is one of this year’s most difficult and most important books. It’s the story of a parent grieving the death of his young daughter the best way he knows how — through making a comic…
00:56:40 |
Mon 29 Feb 2016
Episode 154: Brooke Arnold
“Other ATI beliefs that I learned range from utterly bizarre to downright barbaric,” Brooke Arnold writes in the essay, I Could Have Been a Duggar Wife, “like the creator of Cabbage Patch Kid dolls i…
01:05:07 |
Tue 23 Feb 2016
Episode 153: Gene Luen Yang
Not too long before our conversation, the Library of Congress appointed Gene Yang its “Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.” It’s the kind of announcement that makes everyone around the comics c…
00:44:19 |
Thu 18 Feb 2016
Episode 152: Nicole Georges (Bonus)
Friend of the podcast Nicole Georges joins us via Skype to discuss her brand new show, Sagittarian Matters, which combines her love of conversation, advice and eating food products past their expirat…
00:55:42 |
Wed 10 Feb 2016
Episode 151: Noah Van Sciver, Derf and Tommi Musturi
We kick things off Noah Van Sciver, one of comics’ most exciting — and prolific — young talents. Last year alone, the Denver cartoonist released three books, all of which made their way to various be…
01:11:46 |
Tue 09 Feb 2016
Episode 150: Bill Griffith
It’s been several years since I last spoke to Bill Griffith. I’m fairly certain I spent much of that last interview attempt to talk the cartoonist into drawing a full length book — and while I certai…
01:06:46 |
Mon 01 Feb 2016
Episode 149: Josie Long
“It’s woven very densely into the fabric of my life,” explains Josie Long. “It happens when you do your accounting every year. You look at your receipts, and everything there you’ve written about.” T…
00:55:20 |
Tue 26 Jan 2016
Episode 148: Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian is not an easy interview — but he’s a good one. I came ready to discuss his recently published book on the Armenian genocide, Operation Nemesis — but the writer quickly made it known th…
01:06:59 |
Tue 19 Jan 2016
Episode 147: Walter Martin (of The Walkmen)
Walter Martin and I keep getting kicked out of coffee shops. It’s a strange thing. Over the course of the 50 minute interview, we close out two places in Manhattan. But as romantic as getting kicked …
00:49:54 |
Tue 12 Jan 2016
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