Best Skylight Books Podcasts (2023)

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The Native Cats reflect on 2018 release John Sharp Toro - ABC listen

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Driving beats laced with synth fuel The Native Cats 2018 album John Sharp Toro, a creative and personal journey mapped through songs.https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hobart-sundays/native-chats-john-sharp-toro/102895244By Lach on Huffduffer

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Episode 97 / Geoff McFetridge

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Better Than the Movie, Ep. 6: MISERY w/ Mark Rennie 1:10:55

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She's his number one fan. The hilarious and well-read Mark Rennie (TWO OLD QUEENS podcast) joins a reduced BTTM crew to discuss MISERY, the Stephen King novel and the Oscar-winning film from screenwriter William Goldman and director Rob Reiner. (And cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld!!) With a new documentary about King adaptations out in theaters, K…

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The Comics Question with Michael Fikaris

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This episode is the fourth instalment of The Comics Question series. In these podcasts, Bernard Caleo and Nico Callaghan discuss comics, graphic novels, and the place they inhabit within the broader books and publishing world. For this episode, Bernard and Nico sat down with Michael Fikaris, a central figure in both the comic book and street art mo…

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SKYLIT: Elliott Kalan, MANIAC OF NEW YORK 1:09:43

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Hello listeners! In this episode, Tyler chats with Elliott Kalan, co-host of wildly successful bad movie podcast The Flop House, Emmy Award winning head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the creative force behind the comics MANIAC OF NEW YORK and MANIAC OF NEW YORK: THE BRONX IS BURNING. Elliott discusses his earliest inspirations for …

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Robin Sloan on Social Media After Twitter ‹ Literary Hub

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Bestselling novelist and former Twitter employee Robin Sloan joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about how Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter and the rise of new platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Meta’s Threads are shaping a new ecosystem of social media. The co-hosts and Sloan grapple with the unruliness of Twitter ove…

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Coffee Sprudgecast: Sprudgecast SXSW Mini-sode 01 - Stumptown Coffee Roasters

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Hey Sprudgecast listeners! This is a very special series of mini-episodes from SXSW. This episode features Liz Turner of Stumptown Coffee Roasters. For more about Sprudge + SXSW, visit http://sprudgelive.com. Sprudge Media Network's SXSW coverage is made possible by Falcon Coffee.https://coffeesprudgecast.libsyn.com/sprudgecast-sxsw-mini-sode-01-st…

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SKYLIT: Warren Zanes, DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE 1:08:11

2M ago1:08:11

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Calling all fans of The Boss! In this episode, Tyler Austin sits down with Warren Zanes, writer of Petty: The Biography, Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis (33 1/3), and, most recently, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. Tyler and Warren talk about Bruce’s seminal album, the singular vision necessary to create it…

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Better Than the Movie, Ep. 5: JAWS w/ Kristen Lopez 1:11:30

2M ago1:11:30

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Just when you thought it was safe to download a podcast... The BTTM fellas are back to talk JAWS with film writer and podcaster Kristen Lopez (who discussed her book about 52 classic film adaptations BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK? on a recent Skylit episode). Steven Spielberg's film has become an American classic, but what about Peter Benchley's origi…

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SKYLIT: Artem Mozgovoy, SPRING IN SIBERIA 54:49

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Artem Mozgovoy discusses his debut novel, Spring in Siberia, with the managing editor of Red Hen Press, Dr. Kate Gale. The work has been praised by Publishers Weekly as a "superb debut", "touching and well written, genuinely compelling and convincing" by Sir Stephen Fry, and "a capacious work of vision, courage, and thoroughness" by Ocean Vuong. Ar…

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SKYLIT: Millie De Chirico & Quatoyiah Murray, TCM UNDERGROUND 50:03

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Cinephiles, tune in! In this episode, Tyler Austin hosts Millie De Chirico and Quatoyiah Murray, co-writers of TCM Underground, a movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see. Millie and Quatoyiah take the Ty-Guy through the cult classics of the Turner Classic Movie series, and dis…

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SKYLIT: Charles Ardai of Hard Case Crime 1:04:00

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Listen here, gumshoes and femme fatales, we’re gonna give you the straight story on the QT and very hush hush. Skylight’s own torpedo, Tyler, tangles with Charles Ardai, mystery writer and founder of Hard Case Crime, a publishing imprint re-releasing classics of the pulp underworld and modern takes on the time-tested genre. Charles spills the beans…

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SKYLIT: Alex Pappademas, QUANTUM CRIMINALS 1:22:14

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Fire in the hole! Any major dude will tell you that this podcast is a hit. Were you thinking of skipping? Only a fool would say that! That's pretzel logic. On this episode, we host king of the world Alex Pappademas as he discusses his new Steely Dan book QUANTUM CRIMINALS with the razor boy himself, Tyler Austin. Hop in your midnite cruiser, turn t…

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TDF Talks With Jeremy Wortsman Of The Jacky Winter Group

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This incredibly inspiring creative entrepreneur reflects on building community around business, expanding from Oz to the US, and what's next.https://thedesignfiles.net/2019/08/podcast-tdftalks-jeremy-wortsman-jackywinter-melbourneBy Lach on Huffduffer

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Better Than the Movie, Ep.4: ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET 1:06:33

4M ago1:06:33

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It's Three Men and a Little Lady! Allan, Justin, and Tyler tackle the long-delayed feature film adaptation of the iconic "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" by legendary children's author Judy Blume. The flick has got a great creative team, including director Kelly Fremon Craig ("The Edge of Seventeen") and Oscar-winning producer James L. Brooks…

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SKYLIT: Kristen Lopez, ”But Have You Read the Book?” 43:34

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One-third of the Better Than the Movie gang, Tyler Austin, sits down with Kristen Lopez to talk about her book of 52 essential page-to-film adaptations. In But Have You Read the Book?, presented by Turner Classic Movies, Lopez explores just what makes these works classics of both the page and screen, and why each made for an exceptional adaptation—…

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Podcast 380: Bill Orcutt - Fretboard Journal

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Guitarist and composer Bill Orcutt has always worked on the fringes of music: He’s crafted noisy punk as a guitarist in Harry Pussy, served raw blues-inspired acoustic music as a solo artist, and has even composed computer music. With his new album, Music for Four Guitars, he creates something completely different: 14 compositions for a guitar quar…

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Better Than the Movie, Ep. 3: THE SISTERS BROTHERS w/ Alena Saunders 1:08:48

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It's Guest O'Clock, pardners! Skylight's own Alena Saunders (of LIT ANGELES fame) drops in to the back room to talk about one of her favorite books, The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, and its 2018 film adaptation directed by Jacques Audiard. The conversation gets heated in this one...Conflict between the BTTM Boys?? Say it ain't so! __________…

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Better Than the Movie, Ep. 2: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1:07:24

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The boys are back! Justin, Allan, and Tyler return for the second episode of Better Than the Movie. This time, they're going over not one, but TWO adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque's war classic All Quiet on the Western Front: the 1930 Best Picture winner, directed by Lewis Milestone, and the 2022 German-language version directed by Edward Berger…

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Episode 8 • Memory • A Life Well Wasted

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Robert Ashley finds out what it takes to speedrun games in a blindfold, visits a museum in Moscow dedicated to Soviet-era arcade machines, and talks to a group of friends about a childhood summer spent dreaming up a game of their own.https://alifewellwasted.com/By Lach on Huffduffer

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How to Wrap Our Heads Around These New Shockingly Fluent Chatbots | KQED

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The latest generation of chatbots, powered by their ingestion of huge chunks of writing from the internet, have continued to wow and frighten. ChatGPT and an experimental bot from Microsoft’s Bing are shockingly fluent in English. And being humans, we struggle to imagine anything that could master our language without tremendous intelligence. So, w…

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SKYLIT: Michael Schulman, ”OSCAR WARS” w/ Alex Ross 54:43

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It's Oscar season! Join us for a deep dive into the Academy Awards as Michael Schulman discusses his new book, Oscar Wars, with fellow New Yorker writer Alex Ross. They discuss the Academy's dark history with union busting, its philosophical struggles in awarding spectacle vs. intimacy, and the lessons Michael learned while writing this book that h…

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TAMARA SHOPSIN DISCUSSES HER GRAPHIC MEMOIR ARBITRARY STUPID GOAL | Skylight Books Podcast Series

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In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center of Tamara’s universe is Shopsin’s, her family’s legendary greasy spoon, aka “The Store,…

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Better Than the Movie, Ep. 1: CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD/KNOCK AT THE CABIN 1:17:58

7M ago1:17:58

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This episode contains spoilers of both Paul Tremblay's book The Cabin at the End of the World and its 2023 film adaptation, Knock at the Cabin. Proceed with caution! Welcome to our first new Bookseller Special Series of 2023! Three of Skylight's biggest CinemaHeads, Justin, Tyler, and Allan, will get together once a month to discuss their favorite …

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Rolling the dice on race in Dungeons & Dragons : Code Switch : NPR

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Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular tabletop roleplaying games of all time. But it has also helped cement some ideas about how we create and define race in fantasy — and in the tangible world. We take a deep dive into that game, and what we find about racial stereotypes and colonialist supremacy is illuminating.https://www.npr.org/section…

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SKYLIT: Karen Han, ”Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema” 27:40

8M ago27:40

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We welcome the incomparable Karen Han to the podcast to chat with Justin Remer about her new book Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema. She discusses how she examined the career of the South Korean writer/director and chats about coining "#BongHive" on Twitter. She's a delight and so is this ep!_______________________________________________ Produced and…

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SKYLIT: Jessica Johns, ”Bad Cree” 36:53

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It's our first episode in the New Year! Did you miss us? In our 2023 debut episode, Nat Freeman talks to Jessica Johns about her debut novel Bad Cree, hailed by Paul Tremblay as "a mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart."_______________________________________________ Produced by Nat Freeman & Mick Ko…

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Long Player: Pumice 'Phylis'

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Dungeons & Dragons can be a lucrative side hustle - Marketplace

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Some enterprising dungeon masters charge up to $500 per session.https://www.marketplace.org/2019/07/22/dungeons-and-dragons-master-lucrative-side-hustle/By Lach on Huffduffer

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