Really Specific Stories

Andrew Leland


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Andrew is a writer, audio producer, editor and teacher, who, in this episode, reflects on his love for writing and his lifelong journey with audio. This ranges from his experimentation with tape recorders as a child, through to his experience in college radio and his role as host and producer of the arts-and-culture podcast The Organist, working with KCRW in Los Angeles. Andrew then shares the story of how he came to write his first book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, and how that has led him to be featured as a guest in various podcasts.

Podcast case study: Parallel (guest)

Find Andrew at andrewleland.org.

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Links and Show Notes
Left the Lens Cap On 00:00:00
  • Campus radio
  • Internet radio
  • The Organist
  • KCRW
  • Compact disc (CD)
  • This American Life
  • Camcorder
  • Conversation and Narrative 00:05:48
    • Desktop publishing
    • Cable television
    • Tape recorder
    • Joe Frank
    • Paraliterature
    • Shotgun microphone
    • Writing 00:14:34
      • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (2023) by Andrew Leland
      • The New Yorker
        • DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch by Andrew Leland
        • Accessibility Sprinkles 00:20:59
          • Visual impairment (including more precise references to blindness and low vision)
          • Screen reader
          • Accessibility and more specifically, computer accessibility and Web accessibility
          • Parallel
          • Shelly Brisbin
          • Find Andrew's guest appearance in #86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind.
          • Louis Braille
          • Hacker
          • Braille
          • Extended reality (XR) (including more precise references to augmented, mixed and virtual reality)
          • It Feels Like a Gift 00:29:33
            • Liminality
            • Ryan Knighton
            • Credits

              Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio

              Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion

              Contact
              • Website: rsspod.net
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