Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column
Episodes
1017: A 2011 Interview with Teresa Strasser
31 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...and I just thought, 'Really? Do you have to bum me out? 'Cos this is pretty much no backsies."
1016: Chuck Palahniuk Interviewed on Stage at Cafe du Nord on May 20, 2010
27 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"..now we're sophisticated enough to recognize the language of movies...."
1014: A 2011 Phone Interview with Sionhan Fallon
25 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I really liked that idea of one of the characters eavesdropping and the things that she would be aware of in that housing community."
1013: A 2011 Interview with Paul Pierson
24 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"There's a particular story that's going on here."
1015: Dale Pendell Reads at SF in SF on November 13, 2011
19 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"The Great Bay"
1012: Steven R. Boyett Reads at SF in SF, on November 13, 2011
18 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I am sorry to have to tell you this."
1010: Steven Boyett Reads at SF in SF on November 13, 2011
14 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Elegy Beach
1009: Ray Garton Interviewed at SF in SF on October 23, 201
13 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"For me, I have to discover something as it unfolds."
1008: An Interview With John Shirley at SF in SF on October 23, 2010
12 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...you can go back to the Marquis de Sade for some of it, though I'm not a big fan of his...."
1011: Chuck Palahniuk Reads at Cafe du Nord
10 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Knock Knock"
1007: A 2010 Interview With Chuck Palahniuk
10 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"We kind of assemble ourselves from this buffet of other people's selves."
1006: Ray Garton Reads "Second Opinion" at SF in SF on October 23, 2010
07 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Do you know what it's like to cut up your best friend with a hacksaw?"
1005: John Shirley Reads at SF in SF on October 23, 2010
06 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"What could be glowing, sulfurous yellow, within the water of a pool hidden beneath a lighthouse?"
1004: Rain Graves Reads Poetry at SF in SF for Halloween, 2010
05 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I've decided to let you all in on a little secret that I'm working on."
1003: A 2010 Interview with Mike Brown, Part 2
03 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I meant to spend all of November and December search through the old data sets, and I will admit to having looked at baby name books and developmenta...
1002: A 2010 Interview with Mike Brown, Part 1
03 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I meant to spend all of November and December search through the old data sets, and I will admit to having looked at baby name books and developmenta...
1001: A 2010 Interview with Mike Brown, Complete
03 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I meant to spend all of November and December search through the old data sets, and I will admit to having looked at baby name books and developmenta...
1000: A 2010 Interview With Jeffrey Rossman
29 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...give it a rest, go out and do something..."
999: A 2010 Interview with Erwin Chemerinsky
27 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I think it was so important to articulate at that point the rule of law."
998: Special Podcast Extra : Jeffrey Rossman on 'The Mind-Body Mood Solution'
24 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Take Heed of that message that we're getting from somewhere deep inside of us that something needs to change..."
997: Nick Mamatas Reads at SF in SF Halloween Celebration, October 23, 2010
22 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...you are going to ruin zombies forever..."
996: A 2010 Interview with David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill
20 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"..this young suicide bomber, I asked, 'Are you ready to die?' and he said, 'Absolutely.'" David Rohde "He was literally in a foreign country and I w...
995: Karen Joy Fowler Interviewed at SF in SF on October 16, 2010
16 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...usually, I like to be the person who has the great idea and somebody else does the work of making it happen..."
994: Claude Lalumiere Interviewed at SF in SF on October 16, 2010
15 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...they're very primal...and they refer to an instinctual memory that me might have ..."
993: SF in SF, October 16, 2010 : Terry Bisson, Karen Joy Fowler and Claude Lalumière
14 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I think that I'm involuntarily very imitative of voice and rhythm..." - Karen Joy Fowler
992: A 2010 Interview with Syed Afzal Haider
13 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...there was no coming back, and yet we were storing our stuff..."
991: Karen Joy Fowler Reads at SF in SF on October 16, 2010
09 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Booth's Ghost"
989: A 2010 Phone Interview with David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill
09 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...my brother-in-law, Lee, alerted me to the fact that David had been kidnapped.."
990: Claude Lalumiere Reads at SF in SF on October 16, 2010
08 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Big Sister Eye Loves to Watch" and "The Ethical Treatment of Meat"
988: A 2010 Interview with Tim Powers
06 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"It just struck me, pirates, mixed with Voodoo in the Caribbean; it just seemed like that would be a rich field to play in..."
987: Three Books with Alan Cheuse
03 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
'The Poet Laureates Anthology' edited by Susan Schmidt, 'All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost' by Lan Samantha Chang and 'The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey' ...
986: A 2010 Interview with Guillermo Del Toro in Bleak House, The Haunted Mansion
29 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I was always worried about where Godzilla left his droppings..."
985: A 2010 Interview with Guillermo Del Toro at the Kabuki Theater on October 13, 2010
29 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Did I say..."
984: A 2010 Interview with Adam Carolla
26 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"First off ... the terrorists have won."
983: A 2010 Interview with Adam Levin
24 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...he's like a really tough, pissed-off dad...he's not perfect, and he's not all-powerful, either...."
982: A 2010 Interview with Michele Norris
20 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"People think the most important thing I do on the radio is talk ... but actually, the most important thing I do is listen..."
981: A 2010 Interview with Matt Taibbi
16 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I had a friend who worked for a Sovereign Wealth Fund in the Middle East..."
980: A 2010 Interview with Laurie David
15 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"It's important to take a moment, take a beat, and express gratitude."
979: A 2010 Conversation with Daniel Pinchbeck
13 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...corrupt left-wing intelligentsia ... baby-boomer parasites who have been feeding off the fat of the land..."
978: A 2010 Interview with S. G. Browne
12 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"It was actually fun creating the dynamic between Destiny and Fate."
977: A 2010 Interview with Kevin Kelly
09 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"... and this, I have to say, is controversial, a minority view in evolutionary biology, but it is a view I find persuasive..."
976: A 2010 Interview with Myla Goldberg
08 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"The atmosphere of that age is still palpable in my mind."
975: A 2010 Interview with Gary Young on Morton Marcus
04 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...scanning the heavens in our solitary vigil for words that will redeem us..." from "Radio" by Morton Marcus, as read by Gary Young
974: Agony Column Live Preview : Paul McHugh and Wallace Baine on Writing, Journalism and the Future of the Newspaper
03 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Newspapers have geography on their side."-Wallace Baine "Why isn’t the paradigm shifting even faster?"-Paul McHugh
973: A 2010 Interview with Charles Burns
02 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I remember having this feeling of literally wanting to slip out of my skin, shed my skin and turn into someone else."
972: Podcast Extra: A 2010 Phone Interview with Charles Burns
01 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"That this disease manifested itself in very physical, very intense terms, was something that was interesting to me."
971: A 2010 Interview with Graham Hancock
01 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Ayahuasca doesn't always give you what you want ... but she usually gives you what you need."
970: Cara Black Interviewed at SF in SF October 6, 2010
28 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I get to go to Paris twice a year for research."
969: SF in SF Meets Litquake, October 6, 2010
27 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Kurland's The Maltese Omelet
968: Three Books With Alan Cheuse
26 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
'What I Didn't See' by Karen Joy Fowler, 'Our Kind of Traitor' by John Le Carre and 'Nemesis' by Philip Roth
967: A 2010 Interview with Philip Roth
25 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...it devastates the people around the polio victim..."
966: A 2010 Interview with Belle Yang
22 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"In Chinese, the language itself is visual poetry."
965: A 2010 Interview with Charles Yu
21 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I really was searching for a frame, a different vocabulary to talk about what I hope are pretty universal emotions."
964: The Agony Column Live, October 9, 2010: Panel Discusion
20 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A Conversation With Graham Hancock and Jim Nisbet: MATURE CONTENT ADVISORY
963: The Agony Column Live, October 9, 2010: Readings
19 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Readings by Graham Hancock and Jim Nisbet: MATURE CONTENT ADVISORY
962: A 2010 Interview with Karen Joy Fowler
18 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Quote"
961: Mark L. Van Name Interviewed at SF in SF on September 11, 2010
15 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I spent three years in a paramilitary group from ages ten to thirteen learning to kill."
960: Amelia Beamer Interviewed at SF in SF on September 11, 2010
14 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"The sexuality of zombies has been in the background long enough."
959: SF in SF panel from August 21, 2010, with Amelia Beamer, Terry Bisson, Mark L. Van Name and Gary K. Wolfe
13 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Those zombies were metaphors for slavery."
958: A 2010 Interview with Darin Straus
12 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"For me, therapy was the book, really."
957: A 2010 Interview with Stephen Kotler
11 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"..we wanted to combine our packs and combine our lives and they sold our house out from under us..."
956: Mark L. Van Name Reads at SF in SF on August 21, 2010
09 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Children No More"
955: Amelia Beamer Reads at SF in SF on August 21, 2010
08 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"The Loving Dead"
954: The Agony Column Live, October 2, 2010
06 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Broadbent and Martin Cruz Smith
953: A 2010 Conversation with Monique Truong
04 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"..the physical return is actually something that I did in the process of writing this book..."
952: A 2010 Interview With Al Astrella and James Greene
01 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"It'd be Freddy Krueger right next to a picture of Bela Lugosi."
951: A 2010 Interview with Dan White
29 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I thought, that looks pretty cool, and it actually looked pretty easy."
950: Speaking Frankly with Thomas Frank
29 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast
949: A 2010 Interview with Susan Casey
28 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"That was something I never understood until I saw a 70 foot wave."
948: A 2010 Interview with Laura Davis
22 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
: "You're giving them light and color and a story, and in doing so they begin to transform."
947: A 2010 Interview with Lauren Mari-Navarro on Writing, Memoir and Therapy
21 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...after they did this four consecutive days of writing, they found that people had fewer visits to the hospital..."
946: A 2010 Interview With John Brandon
20 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"There's just tons of great writing about New York, but if I step out of a cab in Manhattan, the energy is so strong and finished, and I just feel lik...
945: Mary Robinette Kowal Interviewed at SF in SF on August 21, 2010
17 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Trying to figure out how you can get around the restrictions is what makes fantasy and the Regency for me very interesting."
944: Cecelia Holland Interviewed at SF in SF on August 21, 2010
16 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...a free woman like that in a society which was really very cramped and really very limited would just be like a phoenix..."
943: Panel Discussion for SF in SF on August 21, 2010: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cecelia Holland and Terry Bisson
15 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Cecelia has built a whole career out of historicals; your first is sort of a historical; is that the direction you're going in, or just something you...
942: Cecelia Holland Reads at SF in SF on August 21, 2010
14 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Keep going with me and everything will be fine."
941: A 2010 Interview with William Gibson
13 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I might be one of the first generation of science fiction writers to come to the writing of it with a head full of academic critical theories..."
940: Mary Robinette Kowal Reads and Gives a Puppet Show at SF in SF on August 21, 2010
08 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Jane Austen was kind of British."
939: Two Books With Alan Cheuse
07 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
'Freedom' by Jonathan Franzen and 'The Fall' by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
938: A 2010 Interview with Guy Gavriel Kay
06 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm telling myself you bloody well better figure out where this is going because you have to start heading there sometime around now."
937: Bruckner Chase at Blue Ocean Film Festival
03 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...a breath to your right and look at the moonset over the Pacific, and a breath to your left and see the sun rise over the mountains..."
936: BLUE Ocean Film Festival Interview with Ed Lyman and Lou Douros
02 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"In the Wake of Giants"
935: A 2010 Interview with Dan Basta at the Blue Ocean Film Festival
01 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Experiential learning is the way we learn best."
934: A 2010 Interview with Jean-Michel Cousteau
31 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"We need to change. And we can."
933: A 2010 Interview With David Doubilet
30 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Everything people have always feared about photography comes true underwater."
932: A 2010 Interview With David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes
30 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Everything people have always feared about photography comes true underwater."
931: A Live Reading with Vendela Vida At Bookshop Santa Cruz
25 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"Yvonne seemed to be emerging above the surrounding mountains."
930: A Live Interview with Vendela Vida At Bookshop Santa Cruz
25 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...there was an owl that came into this place we were renting one day..."
929: Paul McHugh on the Short Memoir
24 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Writing Your Own Story
928: A 2010 Interview with Mary Roach
23 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"There was a second hoax about a shuttle mission..."
927: On the Phone with Vendela Vida
21 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"You do all this background information, most of which never makes it into the book."
926: Gary Shteyngart Live Reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz
19 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...please like me, this will make up for Hebrew school if all of you like me.."
925: Gary Shteyngart Live Interview at Bookshop Santa Cruz
19 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...please like me, this will make up for Hebrew school if all of you like me.."
924: David Corbett and Barry Eisler for The Agony Column Live at Capitola Book Cafe, August 7, 2010 Q and A
18 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"This is NewSpeak."
923: A 2010 Interview with Howard Norman
16 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"I'd wanted to write from the beginning an epistolary novel; this is just an epistolary novel that's consisting of one letter."
922: Barry Eisler and David Corbett Live at Capitola Book Café on August 7, 2010
14 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"If anyone thinks it's absurd that the government might assassinate the founder of WikiLeaks, it's quite a bit less absurd than I wish it were..." -- ...
921: Barry Eisler Reads at The Agony Column Live, August 7, 2010
11 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...they'll pick up that angle and run interference for us..."
920: David Corbett Reads at The Agony Column Live on August 7, 2010
10 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"These Families are making incredible sacrifices..."
919: A 2010 Interview with David Mitchell
09 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"The periodic table of the human heart is still the same now as it was then."
918: A 2009 Interview with Tim Powers
06 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
"...twenty things that are too cool not to use..."