Podcasts by On Margins

W. David Marx — The Culture of Fashion in Japan from 2021-09-03T04:47:31

W. David Marx and I talk about his book Ametora, Japanese culture, and books in translation.

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Sam Anderson (Part 2) from 2021-02-09T05:25:54

Sam Anderson is back, 10 months later, discussing his 2020 pandemic writing life. We cover his Weird Al essay, his NBA bubble excursion, how closely observing something makes for a wonderful wri...

Sam Anderson (Part 1/2) from 2021-02-03T07:07:57

Sam Anderson is a New York Times Magazine staff writer and the author of Boom Town, a book about the "great minor city of America" — Oklahoma City. This is part one of a two part interview. We r...

Gray318 (Jon Gray) from 2019-07-08T10:53:23

An extended interview with Jon Gray, aka Gray318, the award winning, London based, book designer. Gray318 has designed covers for William Gibson, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, David Foster Wallac...

Lynne Tillman and What She Would Do from 2019-04-11T12:46:44

An interview with novelist, essayist, and cultural critic, Lynne Tillman.

Craig Mod sits down with Lynne Tillman at her apartment in Manhattan and they go through the covers of her novels...

Jessica Hische, Tomorrow I'll Be Brave from 2019-03-09T07:30:56

In this episode we're talking with designer and letterer, Jessica Hische, author of the New York Times best-selling children's book: Tomorrow I'll Be Brave. 

You've almost certainly seen ...

Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the designing and writing of Small Fry from 2019-01-24T06:21:22

An interview with Lisa Brennan-Jobs, author of the best selling memoir, Small Fry. Lisa and Craig Mod discuss the design, production, and writing of this fascinating book about family, identity,...

A walk in the woods with Craig Mod discussing his book Koya Bound from 2018-06-05T07:08:31

Craig Mod has been walking the historical mountains and paths of Japan for the last five years. In April of 2018 he went on a solo Kumano Kodo walk and made this recording discussing the economi...

Jason Kottke and Twenty Years of kottke.org from 2018-04-30T11:35:25

Kottke.org is a website. It is not an app. It is not a product. It is simply a static website, updated daily, running some rickety old blogging software.

As of March of 2018 it's been con...

Elena Favilli, the making of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls from 2018-04-09T06:28:33

An extended interview with Goodnight Stories for Rebel girls co-creator, Elena Favilli. 

Co-founder of Timbuktu Labs, Elena Favilli, delves into how the company went from an award winning...

Kevin Kelly, Photographing and Backpacking Asia in the 1970s from 2017-10-22T04:43:28

Technologist, futurist, author, and photographer Kevin Kelly discusses traveling during the golden age of global exploration.

We cover how photography has changed over the years, his deca...

Frank Chimero from 2017-07-14T13:16:04

Designer and author Frank Chimero discusses the process behind his book, "The Shape of Design." We also dig into the normalization of paying creative people to make things via crowdfunding or pa...

Jan Chipchase from 2017-05-13T03:00:58

Episode 001 of On Margins — a podcast discussing the margins of making books — with Craig Mod and Jan Chipchase. 

Researcher, ethnographer, and author Jan Chipchase has a new book — "The ...