15 Minutes: a podcast about fame, with Jamie Berger

Tom Pappalardo is a writer, comicsmaker, graphic designer, musician, and, well, a lot of other great stuff you can learn about at http://tompappalardo.com/The Hampshire Gazette calls him "a pretty well-known name in these parts." We talked about the usual famey stuff, and coffee, and he read from his new and much heralded book, "One More Cup of Coffee." I asked Tom his thoughts about that particular beverage and YOU WON’T BELIEVE HIS RESPONSE!! Wait, that’s clickbait without a link to click. I wish I had asked Tom more about his absolutely amazing rock-show and other posters and the bands and other entities he made them for, but I forgot - next time! But see them here!https://standard-design.squarespace.com/print/Last, buy many great items Pappalardo here:http://tompappalardo.com/buy/***Also, in the episode, as much as I cringe at doing, I make a plea for you yes YOU to help us survive, grow, thrive using your ability to click stuff and/or money! by going to http://patreon.com/15minutesjamiebergerOr here:http://www.15minutesjamieberger.com/news/2016/10/24/two-ways-to-chip-inOr by just sending a donation to [email protected] via Paypal.Please please like us and follow us and review us and subscribe to us here or on fricking iTunes or wherever you cast your pods!Thanks!Happy March!-jamie

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Shonali Bhowmik https://shonalibhowmik.com/does a LOT:She’s the leader of the indie rock band Tigers and Monkeys (http://tigersandmonkeys.com) for which she is the songwriter, singer, and guitar player. She was one of the leaders of Atlanta’s Ultrababyfat which was featured on tour with David Cross in the DVD “Let America Laugh.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_America_LaughIn the past, her bands have shared the stage with PJ Harvey, Ted Leo, Pavement, The Shins, and Sleater Kinney. Based in NYC for the past several years, Shonali cohosts the Podcast We Don’t Even Know (http://wedontevenknow.libsyn.com/)with her friend Christian Felix, which they record monthly in front of a live audience at Hifi in the East Village. Guests - as on this here show - range from the supercool unfamous to more recognizable names such as Jeneane Garafalo, Ambery Tamblyn, Starlee Kine, David Cross, Amy Ryan, Todd Barry, Jena Friedman . . . .She has a comedy web series called “Shayla Hates Celebrities”https://shaylahatescelebrities.com/She’s also a corporate lawyer by day, which also comes up. She’s also met Barack Obama a few times - no big deal - she tells us about the first.I neglected to ask Shonali about whether she’s had any success in keeping her New Year’s resolution to get more sleep. Considering all she does, I doubt it.Also, I also butcher my wife Anja’s meeting-Howard-Stern story herein.Topics: music, Maron, Terry Gross, Gene Simmons excitement at his Kiss credit card, Trump, David Cross, podcasting, wanting attention from friends and strangers, the list goes on!P.S. It was photographer Nat Finkelstein who Andy Warhol supposedy stole his famed (15 minutes of) fame quote from. (Listen and you'll know why I'm mentioning this here).P.S. Two great songs are also included, for the same low price of FREE, unless you’d like to CONTRIBUTE via Patreon or Paypal - which, if you enjoy this show and want it to continue, you should do, if you can, by clicking:http://www.15minutesjamieberger.com/news/2016/10/24/two-ways-to-chip-inJoin our email list for monthly updates?http://www.15minutesjamieberger.com/news/2017/1/23/join-the-monthly-tiny-15-minutes-letter-email-listFollow us on Facebook?https://www.facebook.com/15minutesjamieberger/Or instagram or Twitter? @15minsjamiebFind ALL 28 EPISODES! Here (or on iTunes or Stitcher or . . . .)http://15minutesjamieberger.comLAST, if you have iTunes, even if you don’t listen to us there, please please please rate and review us on there. It’s not worth explaining why, but it’s really important.THANKS!!!!

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George Saunders is as famous as contemporary literary fiction (let alone short-story) writers get, to the extent of being named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013. His first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” comes out February 14th, 2017 and is receiving glowing reviews. The audio version of the novel is read by an unarguably star-studded cast of 166, including Susan Sarandon, Jeff Tweedy, David Sedaris, Ben Stiller, Lena Dunham, Keegan Michael-Key, Julianne Moore, and Saunders’ parents.He’s also one of my favorite writers ever. I’ll let his short autobiography on his site tell you more about him.http://www.georgesaundersbooks.com/about/We talked about fame’s perks and pitfalls, artmaking, humility, kindness, the president (just for a minute, promise), beans, and much, much, so much more.Here are the two nonfiction pieces of his we referred to in our conversation: “Congratulations, by the Way” (a graduation speech from 2013 on kindness - also available as a lovely audio minibook on Audible) https://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/george-saunderss-advice-to-graduates/andSaunders’ New Yorker piece from pre-election time last year, “Who Are All These Trump Voters?”http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/george-saunders-goes-to-trump-ralliesFind all of our episodes at http://15minutesjamieberger.cominstagram & twitter @15minsjamiebOn iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and everywhere podcasts are cast.Thanks!

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Mystery writer, journalist, satirist Neal Pollack and Jamie talk about everything from Hollywood to Gawker, with a little weed, Jeopardy, Hipsters and McSweeneys in between.Neal Pollack has written ten bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction that have been published in multiple languages around the world. A 1992 graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School Of Journalism, Pollack spent seven years as a staff writer at the Chicago Reader. In 2000, he published his first book, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, as the inaugural volume in Dave Eggers’ McSweeneys book imprint, and started satirically calling himself The Greatest Living American Writer.Believing his own press, Pollack quit his job and embarked on a successful freelance career. His articles, satire, and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Esquire, The New Republic, The Nation, and pretty much every other American publication except for The New Yorker. Pollack has since been a columnist for Vanity Fair, The New York Press, Parents.com, and other publications which no longer exist.Among other projects, he’s written a bestselling detective series set in the L.A. yoga scene. He currently writes a car column called “The Unenthusiast” for Time, Inc.’s The Drive, continues to write as The Greatest Living American Writer at Salon, and works as the Texas Correspondent for The Cannabist, an online marijuana newspaper.Pollack is also the host, with his 14-year-old son Elijah, of Extra Credit, a “Channel” (aka a podcast) on Audible.com, where Pollack tries to teach Elijah dubious lessons that he won’t get in school. He has been a guest on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and was featured on an early episode of This American Life.Pollack recorded a disastrous but entertaining album, Never Mind The Pollacks, with his band, The Neal Pollack Invasion, which was recently re-released on vinyl by Chicken Ranch Records. The Neal Pollack Invasion played South By Southwest many times, and Pollack has performed his spoken-word act at cultural festivals around the world, playing on bills with David Byrne, They Might Be Giants, John Doe, and many others.Pollack loves cheese, marijuana, Boston Terriers, the Los Angeles Dodgers, classic cinema and you.As Ever please find and rate and review us on iTunes and wherever else you listen to podcasts. We're also on twitter and instagram @15minsjamiebComing soon, 15 Minutes 2nd conversation with WFMU's Hearty white, and then fiction writer George Saunders!See you there!Thanks for listening.

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David C. Brock is an historian of technology, and Director of the Center for Software History at the Computer History Museum. He focuses on histories of computing, electronics and instrumentation, as well as on oral history. He's also my (Jamie here) friend and from a town over, who's so unassuming I didn't know what he did for a living for the first five years or so I knew him. He has fascinating thoughts on fame and acclaim in the world where all but a few (Jobs, Ellison, Gates, Zuckerberg, . . . ) who've make huge changes in our world remain anonymous.

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Maeve Higgins has performed all over the world, including in Edinburgh, Melbourne and, most recently, Erbil. Now based in New York, she’s made a name for herself there too. In a good way! She co-hosts Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk on National Geographic and has appeared in Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer. Maeve hosts a live show every month with author Jon Ronson and is a frequent guest at the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival. She is writing a book of funny essays for Penguin, due for publication in late 2017 (or perhaps a bit later). Maeve also makes great radio and is currently hosting a terrific(!) podcast about immigration called ‘Maeve In America’ for First Look Media. You can find out more about all that stuff at http://maevehiggins.comShe'll also be performing at the Shea Theater in Turners Falls, MA (where this podcast just so happens to be based) on February 9th. For info and tickets (which are going FAST), see http://sheatheater.org.For the rest of our minutes: http://15minutesjamieberger.comEd Patenaude, as always, makes the sound sound good.

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Cameron Bossert is a filmmaker. His first full-length directorial debut (also his and friends' production company Third Wing, LTD's feature debut, "Jewtah," will be out in 2017. We talked about that film, Cameron's ambitions for it, and about everything from the etymology of "fame" to working among celebrities (Denzell Washington and Sharon Stone, to namedrop just a couple) and the difference between film and stage actors, to the magic of charisma in the super-famous, to online success versus the satisfaction of the response from a live audience.

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Gordon Gebert is my friend D'arcy Gebert's father. He's the Dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York. But, more interesting for 15 Minutes purposes, he was also a child film actor in the 1950s. See clips and links to Gordon Gebert films and more at http://15minutesjamieberger.com.

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Nora Murphy is a member of the former-Pioneer Valley now Boston-area band Bulldog, and a friend whom I first met at the legendary Lady Killigrew Cafe (at the Montague Bookmill) when it was under the management of the legendary Jason Tuttle, whom we briefly discuss, among other notables.Find more about Bulldog, the picture of Nora and Ben and their pal Marc M., and the track by Ainslie Wills of which Nora spoke at http://15minutesjamieberger.comBulldog!http://www.getembulldog.com/Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/15minutesjamiebergerHelp us make this our JOB!Call the!Fameline!(872) 215-6467THANKS!

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Conversation with Tina Antolini, a Peabody-Award-winning storyteller and radio producer. She serves as the host and producer of Gravy, a podcast with the Southern Foodways Alliance, which was named the James Beard Foundation's Publication of the Year for 2015.Tina's worked in public radio for more than 10 years, including NPR’S State of the Re:Union (SOTRU), where she won a Peabody and a national Edward R. Murrow Award, and New England Public Radio.

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