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Books in the Wild
by Keri Schroeder
Books in the Wild is a podcast investigating the hidden stories behind books and printed matter. Instead of reviewing books for solely on their written content, we try to offer varying perspectives on everything from conception to creation to reception. This is a podcast about book arts: letterpress printing, bookbinding, artists' books, small press and independent publishing, and stories from book history.
Episodes
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Episode 20: Dictionary Words for 2020
Dictionaries are an ever-changing record of language, constantly being updated, amended and added to. This goes for all dictionaries: Merriam-Webster, Oxford English Dictionary, Collin’s. Updates to the dictionary can be new words entirely, or amendments for new meanings of existing words. As you...
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Episode 19: The Book Makers Film
Talk with filmmaker James Kennard and book maker Mark Sarigianis about the documentary film The Book Makers
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Episode 18: Quarantine Public Library, Zines, and Time
Today I talk a little about pandemic projects, zines, and artist’s books, and have a wonderful discussion with the Quarantine Public Library. The Quarantine Public Library (QPL) is a collaborative project dreamed up by artists Katie Garth and Tracy Honn in May of 2020. QPL is an online book...
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Episode 17: Jap Herron and Mark Twain's Ghost
In 1917, a new novella was published by Mark Twain. The weird part? Twain died in 1910 and the book was purportedly written by his ghost.
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Episode 16: Bookworms, Printer's Devils, and Type Lice, Oh My!
Follow the process of making a book while we cover specialized book terms, and some surprising idioms with bookish origins that we use in daily language.
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Episode 15: Blue Skies for Austin Book Arts Center
Interview with Mary Baughman, co-founder of the Austin Book Arts Center about the history of book arts in Austin, and the vision of the ABAC
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Episode 14: James Cook, Bookbinder & Murderer of John Paas, Tool Maker
This episode covers the true story of James Cook, a bookbinder who murdered tool engraver John Paas the town of Leicester, bookbinder James Cmurdered tool engraver John Paas over a dispute about brass finishing tools. The tale is particularly gruesome and well-documented because James Cook was…
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Episode 13: The Grey Lady of Willard Library
Willard Library is the oldest library in Evansville, IN, established in 1885. There have been reports of apparitions and poltergeist activity from patrons and employees of the library since 1937 that continue to this day. In this episode we will discuss the history of the library and talk with...
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Episode 12: Book Talk with BookLab II
We at BookLab II have just returned from a fabulous but exhausting trip to the CODEX Symposium and Book Fair, held every other year in the Bay Area, California. Today I am joined by my fellow BookLab colleagues: Craig Jensen, conservator, master-binder and founder of BookLab, and Marc Hammonds,...
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Episode 11: Fake News(papers)!
If you've ever watched any television shows or movies ever, you may have seen a familiar looking newspaper read by many fictional characters for decades. This exact same newspaper has been spotted in Scrubs, Modern Family, No Country for Old Men, Everyone Hates Chris, Back to the Future…
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Episode 10: Unreadable Books
Today’s episode is all about unreadable books. What does it mean to read? How do we garner read meaning from text written in a language that we do not understand? Today We will talk about the process of reading, and I have some fun historical and contemporary examples of indecipherable books,...
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Episode 9: A Guide to Witch Hunting - The Malleus Maleficarum
Now that we are in October, we are getting into the Halloween spirit by talking about an infamous book called The Malleus Maleficarum, also known as The Hammer of Witches. A book responsible for fueling the heinous witch trials throughout medieval Europe for centuries. We delve into book history...
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Episode 8: Book Art Basics Trivia
What is book art exactly? What is an artist book? Are all art books book art? What do you mean by "codex"? Or livre d'artiste? Are you making these words up? I've been getting questions like these for the past seven episodes or so. So today we are starting at the beginning with Book Art Trivia…
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Episode 7: An Interview with Lyall Harris
Lyall Harris is a book artist, writer and painter who lives and works in Charlottesville, VA, and Florence, Italy. Lyall's artwork has been exhibited in more than one hundred solo and juried group shows and recognized with over twenty awards. She has been the recipient of fellowships at Virginia...
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Episode 6: Detective Pilcrow and the Search for Missing Punctuation
Today we are on the hunt for missing punctuation. Like many letters and even entire words, quite a few good punctuation marks have been lost to modern English. In this episode, we’re going to track down some forgotten and elusive marks, from the mysterious Pilcrow to the playful interrobang.…
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Episode 5: The Sleeper Hoax Booklet
For his 90th birthday in February 1913, renowned British naturalist and evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace received a mysterious package containing a small booklet called Shall We Have Common Sense. This booklet, dated 1849, contained essays on evolution through natural selection and…
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Episode 4: A Commonplace Audiobook / Overcoming Creative Block
A commonplace audiobook
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Episode 3: Artist Talk with Julie Chen
Artist Talk with Book Artist Julie Chen at University of Washington on March 16, 2017 during the reception for "Every Moment in a Book: Three Decades of Work by Julie Chen"
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Episode 2: The Wipers Times - Newspapers from the Trenches
In early 1916 on an excursion through the ruined city of Ypres, Belgium, British soldiers came across a damaged letterpress machine in a bombed out print shop. Over the next two years, Captain Frederick J. Roberts and his men produced twenty-three issues of gallows humor, poetry, and prose. In…
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Episode 1: A Brief History of Reading
Today's episode is all about reading - what it means to read, how we read, and a brief history of reading. I'll talk about literacy rates, the alphabetic principle, phonetics, and nonsense poems by Lewis Carroll.
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Human Skin Books and Desert Rat Scrap Books
Originally published as "Marginalia Podcast" in November 2016, this is the pilot episode of Books in the Wild Podcast. In this episode we cover the gruesome book of John Horwood, a man whose punishment for his crimes didn't stop at just execution. We also go into the tall tales of Harry Oliver,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Books in the Wild is a podcast investigating the hidden stories behind books and printed matter. Instead of reviewing books for solely on their written content, we try to offer varying perspectives on everything from conception to creation to reception. This is a podcast about book arts: letterpress printing, bookbinding, artists' books, small press and independent publishing, and stories from book history.
HOSTED BY
Keri Schroeder
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Books in the Wild is a podcast investigating the hidden stories behind books and printed matter. Instead of reviewing books for solely on their written content, we try to offer varying perspectives on everything from conception to creation to reception. This is a podcast about book arts:...
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