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Notebook on Cities and Culture — 362 episodes
A Year in Seattle Preview: The Young Cynic with Peter Bagge
Notebook on Culture's year in Seattle Kickstarts now (for five days only)!
Korea Tour: Opting for Korea with Brother Anthony
Korea Tour: The Style of the Time with Matt VanVolkenburg
Korea Tour: Concrete Utopia with Minsuk Cho
Korea Tour: It Takes a Lifetime with Michael Elliott
Korea Tour: Ruled by the Heart with Andrew Salmon
Korea Tour: Gangbuk Style with Daniel Tudor
Korea Tour: One Long Bike Party with Coby Zeifman
Korea Tour: ¿Por Qué Corea? with Sofía Ferrero Cárrega
Korea Tour: The Biggest Small Town with Jeff Liebsch
Korea Tour: Midnight Riding with Chad Kirton
Korea Tour: Sexy Concepts with James Turnbull
Korea Tour: Outsider Status with B.R. Myers
Korea Tour: Taking the Stage with Bruce Fulton
Korea Tour: Telling the Grayness with Krys Lee
Korea Tour: Cool Koreania with Barry Welsh
Korea Tour: Eating It All Together with Daniel Gray
Korea Tour: Korean Dreams with Alex Jensen
Korea Tour: Cowboys and Yangban with Charles Montgomery
Korea Tour: Dive Right In with Steve Miller
Korea Tour: Humans of Seoul with Keith Kim
Korea Tour: Doing Korea with Chance Dorland
Korea Tour: Why Is This Here? with Nikola Medimorec
Korea Tour: Forbidden Places with Jon Dunbar
Korea Tour: Shapeshifter with Stephane Mot
Korea Tour: The Jokes Come Last with Darcy Paquet
Korea Tour: Stickers, Starcraft, Success with Danny Crichton
Korea Tour: Wormholing with Charlie Usher
Korea Tour: Literary Aejeong with Gregory Limpens
Korea Tour: Itaewon Freedom with Stephen Revere
Korea Tour: Watch the Man, Not the Light with Michael Breen
Korea Tour: Plenty to Offer with Adrien Lee
Korea Tour: Men, Women, and Society Behaving Badly with Marc Raymond
Korea Tour: Out of Excuses with Mipa Lee
Korea Tour: De-Terriblization with Mark Russell
Korea Tour: Assume the Impossibility with Laurence Pritchard
Korea Tour: Sonic Bibimbap with Bernie Cho
Korea Tour: Everything I Learned Was Wrong with Hyunwoo Sun
S4E67: Extremely Permanent with Doug Pray
S4E66: Who Am I? with Craig Davidson
S4E65: Unerotic City with Mark Kingwell
S4E64: The Greatest Point of Relevance with Alex Bozikovic
S4E63: Mementos Mori with Keith McNally
S4E62: Nothing to Declare with Amy Lavender Harris
S4E61: Publishing Crushing with Alana Wilcox
S4E60: Having the City for Dinner with Corey Mintz
S4E59: Walk, Don't Brunch with Shawn Micallef
S4E58: Things Truly Torontonian with Denise Balkissoon
S4E57: The Magnet with Russell Smith
S4E56: All In with Dylan Reid
S4E55: The Rules of the Game with Jaime Woo
S4E54: The Freedom to Be Foolish with Mark Frauenfelder
S4E53: A Certain Inertia with James Steele
S4E52: The Big Pond with Pete Mitchell
S4E51: "Just" Mexican Food with Javier Cabral
S4E50: Something Like a Bohemia with William E. Jones
S4E49: The Micro and the Macro with Noé Montes
S4E43: Baby with an iPad with Jason Boog
S4E48: No One Place to Eat with Matthew Kang
S4E47: Waking Up in the Unknown with Jim Benning
S4E46: Mar Incognita with Geoff Nicholson
S4E45: A State Apart with Jon Christensen
S4E44: Fertile Dystopia with Matt Novak
S4E42: The New Guy with Eric Nakamura
S4E41: Born Worn Down with Geoff Dyer
S4E40: Eyes on the Streets with Damien Newton
S4E39: The LAleph with Edward Soja
S4E38: East- and West-Coastification with Madeleine Brand
S4E37: Closed Worlds with Mark Edward Harris
S4E36: Los Angeles by Rail with Ethan Elkind
S4E35: Path and Place with Doug Suisman
S4E34: The Tangible and the Intangible with Andrew Tuck
S4E33: Avoiding Disposability with Jacques Testard
S4E32: Culture Over Class with Melvyn Bragg
S4E31: Is This London? with Iain Sinclair
S4E30: Masters of the City with PD Smith
S4E29: This Used to Be the Future with Owen Hatherley
S4E28: Partially Inside, Partially Outside with Jack Hues
S4E27: London Rambling with John Rogers
S4E26: New Meant Better with Jonathan Meades
S4E25: Legitimate Media with Neil Denny
S4E24: The Widening Landscape with Robin Rimbaud, a.k.a. Scanner
S4E23: The Gentrifier's Dilemma with Euan Mills
S4E22: Los Angeles Music with Dan Kuramoto
S4E21: This Is Home Now with Melanie Haynes
S4E20: A Man Alive with Per Šmidl
S4E19: On the Wallpaper with Louise Sand
S4E18: Where Your Nails Are with Thomas E. Kennedy
S4E17: Off Cinema on Rådhusstræde with Jack Stevenson
S4E16: Baby Steps Begone with Mikael Colville-Andersen
S4E15: We Form Cities, They Form Us with Jan Gehl
S4E14: The Good, the Bread, and the Ugly with Sandra Høj
S4E13: Homo Jovialis with Lars AP
S4E12: Put a Little Salt on It with Tim Halbur
S4E11: Style Guide with Charles Phoenix
S4E10: Everybody's a Foreigner with Jordan Harbinger
S4E9: Unriotous Forms with Stephen Gee
S4E8: MNL-LAX with Carren Jao
S4E7: The Impossible Overarching Narrative with Nathan Masters
S4E6: Badge of Convenience with Caleb Bacon
S4E5: The Great Wrong Place with Richard Rayner
S4E4: What Do People Really Eat? with Besha Rodell
S4E3: Constellation of Villages with Lynn Garrett
S4E2: Prada and Fallas-Paredes with Brigham Yen
S4E1: An American Rediscovery with City Walk
S3E31: Heightened Rootlessness with Timothy Taylor
S3E30: A Little Bit Wet with Dave Shumka
S3E29: That's Livin' with Gordon Price
S3E28: Aesthetic Moments with JJ Lee
S3E27: No Mo' Po-Mo with Paul Delany
S3E26: Fifth-Generation "Japanese" with Leslie Helm
S3E25: A Fine and Private Place with Joseph Mailander
S3E24: Aftershave Smile with Jeff Weiss
S3E23: Cut-Rate Crematorium with Patt Morrison
S3E22: Battle Damage with Chris Gore
S3E21: High-Functioning Freak (HFF) with Tyson Cornell
S3E20: Traitor to Genre with Gabriela Jauregui
S3E19: Nothing Works, Everything Moves with Juan Carlos Cano and Paloma Vera
S3E18: First-Rate "Second World" Eating with Nicholas Gilman
S3E17: Youth Is Overrated with Brenda Lozano
S3E16: Autobiology with Kurt Hollander
S3E15: The Mexican Reality with Diego Rabasa
S3E14: New York, Tokyo, and Back Again with Roland Kelts
S3E13: Negative Appeal with Vincent Brook
S3E12: Freaks and Outcasts with Kevin Smokler
S3E11: Sad Characters with Clive Piercy
S3E10: Trouble Sparks Creativity with Christopher Stephens
S3E9: The Poet's Peak with Stephen Gill
S3E8: Pyongyang Style with Rob Montz
S3E7: The Accidental Japanophile with Christopher Olson
S3E6: Form Over Function with John Dougill
S3E5: A Decent Banger with Josh Parkin
S3E4: Ashukurafuto with Brian Ashcraft
S3E3: "The Foreign Guy" with Michael Lambe
S3E2: The Temple Next to the Love Hotel with Tim Olive
S3E1: Buoyancy and Poignancy with Pico Iyer
S2E27: A Productive Obscurantism with Tom Lutz
S2E26: Dial M for Murderousness with Jay Caspian Kang
S2E25: Feel Literary with Adrian Todd Zuniga
S2E24: Every Part of the Pig with Camas Davis
S2E23: Stumptown Shaolin with Dan Halsted
S2E22: Uncaptive Rider with Jarrett Walker
S2E21: Grittiness and Heart with Kevin Sampsell
S2E20: Conservatively Progressive with Carl Abbott
S2E19: Small Town Cop with Matt Haughey
S2E18: 200% Happier with Mia Birk
S2E17: Grueling Whittling with Mike Russell
S2E16: Reality's More Interesting with Thom Andersen
S2E15: Places are People with Ben Casnocha
S2E14: Next Year, Jerusalem with Peter Orner
S2E13: Greatly Great Music with Cariwyl Hebert
S2E12: Good Old Shareware with Stan James
S2E11: Authenticity v. Utopia with Jonathon Keats
S2E10: Eco Chamber with Ethan Nosowsky
S2E9: Beautiful Abstractions with Josh Kornbluth
S2E8: Paris Legitimizes with Daniel Levin Becker
S2E7: Corporate Refuge with Christin Evans and Praveen Madan
S2E6: Inconsiderable Things with Steve Roden
S2E5: The "Kiss Me, Stupid" Date with Karina Longworth
S2E4: The Maybe Pile with Carolyn Kellogg
S2E3: Jetpacks and Flying Cars with Chris Nichols
S2E2: The Crushing Burden of History with Frances Anderton
S2E1: Affinity for the Dead with Nate DiMeo
S1E32: Genuine New York Novelist with Joshua Henkin
S1E31: Freedom and Ugliness with Christopher Hawthorne
S1E30: The Stories of Los Angeles with David Kipen
S1E29: Great Mistakes with Alissa Walker
S1E28: No Such Thing as Free Parking with Donald Shoup
S1E27: Spoiled By San Francisco with Jesse Thorn
S1E26: Multiplicity with David C. Sloane
S1E25: Paradise of the Ordinary with D.J. Waldie
S1E24: Japanese International Style with Todd Shimoda
S1E23: The Music Nerd Ghetto with Hollywood Steve Huey
S1E22: The Discerning Cosmopolitan Cartographer with Eric Brightwell
S1E21: Connoisseur of Silence with Todd Levin
S1E20: All the Single Ladies with Tony Pierce
S1E19: DJing the DJs with Mark "Frosty" McNeill
S1E18: Historic Détente with Andy Bowers
S1E17: Food, Film, and Frugality with 99-Cent Chef Billy Vasquez
S1E16: Cavalcade of Marvels with Michael Silverblatt
S1E15: Your Own Pimp and Your Own Whore with Molly McAleer
S1E14: Fathers Chosen and Unchosen with Pico Iyer
S1E13: The Trash Compactor of Reality with Scott Jacobson
S1E12: We Care About Everyone with William Flesch
S1E11: How Serious Are You? with Megan Ganz
S1E10: A Roomful of Strangers with Wade Major
S1E9: Suggested User with Alison Agosti
S1E8: Can We Talk About Driving? with John Rabe
S1E7: Geographical Verisimilitude with David Bax
S1E6: Discernment with Tyler Smith
S1E5: The City in 2D with Glen Creason
S1E4: Chitlin' Circuit with Eliza Skinner
S1E3: Family-Guyization with Jordan Morris
S1E2: "Graduate Education" with David L. Ulin
S1E1: Shinin' with DC Pierson
Sound, food, performance, Japan, and the world city: multi-disciplinary artist Alan Nakagawa
In Mexico City with David Lida
To come to terms in L.A.: Slake founding editors Laurie Ochoa and Joe Donnelly
When Cold War cinema began: film critic J. Hoberman
Who is César Aira?: translators Chris Andrews, Katherine Silver, and Rosalie Knecht
Black dog, disgust, or watery house: Peter Toohey, scholar of boredom
To Japan by cow: Nick "Momus" Currie, musician, writer, and artist
The world dreamed but not judged: traveler and writer Pico Iyer
The surreal life of Mexico City: bilingual bicultural binational journalist Daniel Hernandez
We have ham radios: Merlin Mann on media, fear, and caring about what you make
Trial, error, and economics: Tim Harford, Undercover Economist
The modern decorative hermit: novelist Steve Himmer
A dozen years of particularly gripping cinema: film critic Dave Kehr
The literary in-between: translator Susan Bernofsky
Portland noir: filmmaker Aaron Katz
Boredom, the vital subject of our time: novelist Lee Rourke
Literary auteurhood: Geoff Dyer, writer and intellectual gatecrasher
Michel de Montaigne's examined life, re-examined
You got arthouse film in my experimental literature!: novelist Jeffrey Deshell
The original king of conversation: David Susskind biographer Stephen Battaglio
David Markson is not a tragedy: Françoise Palleau-Papin studies an uncompromising novelist
Gape into the void: cartoonist and entrepreneur Hugh MacLeod
The quest for seriousness, trammeled by idiocy: philosopher-novelist Lars Iyer
Toro y Moi y moi: Chaz Bundick's experimental pop
The reader's best time ever: The Millions founding editor C. Max Magee
In search of lost modernism: novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici
The consummate cinephile: Jonathan Rosenbaum on the changing film culture
Adventures in modern fiction: The Quarterly Conversation editor Scott Esposito
From Ernst Lubitsch to Bill Murray: Saul Austerlitz on American film comedy
The friendliest experimental music in L.A.: Lucky Dragons' Luke Fischbeck
Podcasting philosophically: Philosophy Bites' David Edmonds
The rise of Korean cinema: film critic Darcy Paquet
Staying literarily immersed: book critic David L. Ulin
The aesthetic lens: design philosopher Leonard Koren
Getting between language, technology, art, and philosophy: artist/philosopher Jonathon Keats
Failures, fiascos, and secret successes: A.V. Club critic Nathan Rabin
Trailing the honorable "Chinese" detective: Charlie Chan scholar Yunte Huang
Our symbiosis with technology: Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly
Against (wrongheaded) reading: literature professor and psychotherapist Mikita Brottman
Capturing the image of capturing the sound: documentarian Nicholas Sherman on field recordist Gordon Hempton
For adventurous cinema, whether making or watching: film critic David Sterritt
Southern California's radio pointillist: Off-Ramp host John Rabe
Changing yourself by doing it yourself: Boing Boing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder
Life as invention: blogger/entrepreneur/non-conformist Chris Guillebeau
Personal aesthetics and internet culture: Put This On creators Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor
Authenticity and the last Jew on Earth: novelist Joshua Cohen
The cinephile's conversation in new media: Battleship Pretension hosts Tyler Smith and David Bax
Transcending the eighties: Wang Chung lead singer Jack Hues
Cultural critic Greil Marcus: Van Morrison's moments of disbelief
Historian of the novel Steven Moore: in search of history's most innovative fiction
Latin American fiction translator Suzanne Jill Levine: the Borges behind the fiction
Five days with David Foster Wallace: author and journalist David Lipsky
Experimental poet Tan Lin: ambiently breaking reading conventions
Sonic curator David Toop: the sound of silent art
Experimental novelist Todd Shimoda: seeking mono no aware in and with literary art
Buddhist atheist Stephen Batchelor: the road to "belief"
Filmmaker Andrew Bujalski: the cinema of recontextualized relationships
Creative Nonfiction editor Lee Gutkind: Living it is writing it is living it
On breaking form and genre boundaries with David Shields
On John Cage and 4'33" with composer, educator and new-music journalist Kyle Gann
On the films of Michael Haneke with Peter Brunette
Thinker, writer, and "Agent of Change" Seth Godin
Chris Bohn, editor of The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music
On Romantic music, poetry and philosophy with James Donelan
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll on time's arrow
On the North Korean worldview with B.R. Myers
Musician, artist, journalist and ex-blogger Nick Currie, a.k.a Momus
On the cinema of Errol Morris with journalist and curator Livia Bloom
Economist, rationalist and blogger Robin Hanson
On advertising, marketing and narrative with Rob Walker
Economist Steven Landsburg takes on philosophy
On the Middle Ages with Chris Wickham
Mayan Cycle composer Jeremy Haladyna
Documentarian of documentarians Pepita Ferrari
On the badness of the legal profession with The Philadelphia Lawyer
Laurie Brown and Andy Sheppard of CBC Radio 2's The Signal
Comic artist and comic journalist Peter Bagge
Treeless Mountain director So Yong Kim
On the craft of freeform radio with WFMU's Ken Freedman
On French cuisine's decline with Michael Steinberger
On Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left with Trevor Dann, Patrick Humphries and Peter Hogan
On religion and falsity with Joel Grus
Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen on personal economies
On recorded music's history with Greg Milner
On Shohei Imamura with The Criterion Collection's Kim Hendrickson
FORA.tv founder Brian Gruber
Traveler and journalist Lawrence Osborne on Bangkok
On Brian Eno with David Sheppard
On Hume and Rousseau's quarrel with John T. Scott
Philosophical journalist Alain de Botton
On the vinyl LP with Travis Elborough
43Folders founder Merlin Mann
On publishing with Richard Eoin Nash
Author and screenwriter Jon Raymond
Podcaster, blogger, critic and intellectual shock jock Edward Champion
Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani
Electro-acoustic musician Ethan Rose
ZBS Foundation president Thomas Lopez
Electronic musician Tim Hecker
Denis Dutton on aesthetics and evolution
Novelist and journalist Ian Buruma
Sound artist Lawrence English
Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt
Jesse Thorn, host of The Sound of Young America
Jonathan Gottschall on science and the humanities
Physicist and anthropologist Gregory Cochran on human evolution
Science journalist Jonah Lehrer on decisionmaking
On gardens and broadcasting with Robert Harrison
Mathematician Keith Devlin on probability
Writer and cultural polymath Clive James
On the Great Books with Alex Beam
On David Hume with Simon Blackburn
On Margaret Thatcher with Claire Berlinski
Physicist Alan Sokal
On art markets with Don Thompson
On possible futures with David Friedman
On Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance with auto journalist Mark Richardson
Political statistician Andrew Gelman
Wine educator and blogger Tyler "Dr. Vino" Colman
New Yorker book critic James Wood
Charles Murray on American education
Mathematical journalist Brian Hayes
Reading the OED with Ammon Shea
Novelist and former CBC film critic David Gilmour
Tom McCarthy on Tintin
Artscience impresario David Edwards
War Nerd Gary Brecher
Literary blogger Maud Newton
Novelist, essayist and poet Alexander Theroux
Kevin Smokler and Dave Weich
Graphic designer and novelist Chip Kidd
Daniel Menaker and Odile Isralson, Titlepage
Arts & Letters Daily's Denis Dutton
NPR's Peter Sagal
Urban theorist Richard Florida
Experimental philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
Japan expert John Nathan (part two)
Japan expert John Nathan (part one)
Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak
The Marketplace of Ideas live in Los Angeles
Undercover economist Tim Harford
Comic artist Peter Bagge
On globalization with Pietra Rivoli
Essayist, film writer, novelist and poet Phillip Lopate
On book reviewing with Gail Pool
Skeptic Michael Shermer
On early modern science and poetry with Angus Fletcher
Deep historian Daniel Lord Smail
Economist and blogger Tyler Cowen
Los Angeles Times Book Review editor David L. Ulin
Science journalist Jonah Lehrer
Novelist Joshua Henkin
The Smart Set editor Jason Wilson
Evolutionary biologist David P. Barash
Law professor and economist Ian Ayres
On political division with David Starkey
On 20 years of The Closing of the American Mind with Roger Kimball
On Barry Goldwater with CC Goldwater
Something Awful editor Zack Parsons
1960s radical Cathy Wilkerson
On human rights with Lynn Hunt
Bookslut founder Jessa Crispin
Wine journalist George M. Taber
Entrepreneur and blogger Ben Casnocha
Spy-fi novelist Josh Conviser
Litblogger and novelist Mark Sarvas