Podcasts by Books in the Wild
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.
Further podcasts by Keri Schroeder
Podcast on the topic Bücher
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Episode 20: Dictionary Words for 2020 from 2021-02-15T03:23:59
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. Update...
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Episode 19: The Book Makers Film from 2021-01-25T20:44:58
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 from 2021-01-11T22:55:14
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 collaborativ...
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Episode 17: Jap Herron and Mark Twain's Ghost from 2020-12-08T07:10:14
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! from 2020-11-23T23:02:30
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 from 2020-11-11T03:44:49
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 from 2020-10-26T13:00
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 b...
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Episode 13: The Grey Lady of Willard Library from 2020-10-12T11:00
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 th...
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Episode 12: Book Talk with BookLab II from 2019-03-04T05:29:06
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 BookL...
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Episode 11: Fake News(papers)! from 2018-03-13T03:10:27
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 ...
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Episode 10: Unreadable Books from 2017-12-26T02:47:40
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 proce...
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Episode 9: A Guide to Witch Hunting - The Malleus Maleficarum from 2017-10-30T05:38:45
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 f...
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Episode 8: Book Art Basics Trivia from 2017-09-22T02:07:25
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 ...
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Episode 7: An Interview with Lyall Harris from 2017-08-18T05:48:01
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 ...
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Episode 6: Detective Pilcrow and the Search for Missing Punctuation from 2017-07-11T22:09:15
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...
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Episode 5: The Sleeper Hoax Booklet from 2017-05-28T03:49:13
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 Co...
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Episode 4: A Commonplace Audiobook / Overcoming Creative Block from 2017-04-25T02:56:51
A commonplace audiobook
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Episode 3: Artist Talk with Julie Chen from 2017-03-30T05:02:27
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 from 2017-03-12T08:36:30
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 Fred...
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Episode 1: A Brief History of Reading from 2017-02-16T20:31:02
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...
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Human Skin Books and Desert Rat Scrap Books from 2017-02-16T19:19:02
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 punish...
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