Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 404, in which I review A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan biopic, which my wife and I went to see on its opening day, Christmas, in New York.

Relevant links:

• my written review of A Complete Unknown
• Frank LoBuono's podcast interview with Terri Thal, Dylan's first manager
• my written review of Jack Dann's The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History ... my podcast interview with Jack Dann
• my video interview of Sarah Seltzer, author The Singer Sisters, a novel about a folk-singing family
• It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles (my novel)

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 403, in which I interview Jared Moshe about his movie Aporia, a time-travel movie on Hulu that explores, in a way I've never seen before, the wrenching ethical dilemmas that arise when you try to change the past.

Relevant links:

• my written review of Aporia
• Aporia on Hulu
• more about Jared Moshe here
• my best-known time travel novel
• my best-known alternate history novel

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 402, in which I review Dexter: Original Sin on Paramount+Showtime.

Relevant links:

• written reviews of Dexter: Original Sin 1.1 and 1.2-1.3 (with links to written reviews of all episodes of Dexter: New Blood and all eight seasons of the original Dexter) 
• audio podcast reviews of Dexter: New Blood 1.1 ... 1.2 ... 1.3 ... 1.4 ... 1.5-1.6 ... 1.7-1.8 ... 1.9-1.10

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 401, in which I interview Dan Abella about The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, NYC, 14 Dec 2024. (Kendall Brown, Operations Manager for the Festival, joins us in the interview.)

Relevant links:

• The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival
• written interview with me by Evan Levine, in which I discuss Hegel's "spirit of an age" (see 10th question in the interview)
• Dan Abella's play, "Timothy X’s Journey from PTSD to Wholeness," to be performed live at the Festival [scroll down]
• McLuhan in an Age of Social Media
• Lioness (streaming on Paramount+)

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 400, in which I review the Beatles '64 documentary that just went up yesterday on Disney+.

Here are links to some of the many people and things I discuss in the podcast:

• my written review of Beatles '64
• my 1972 article about  Murray the K in The Village Voice
• my 1971 article about Paul McCartney in The Village Voice
• the song I wrote and recorded about Murray the K
• my podcast reviews of Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back
• my podcast review of Maestro
• McLuhan in an Age of Social Media
• It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles
• Evan Levine's 25 November 2024 written interview with me

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 399, in which I review Dune: Prophecy 1.1-1.2 on HBO Max.

• written review of Dune Prophecy 1.1-1.2

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 398, in which I interview Andrew Hoskins about the new book he is writing, The Deadbot Society: AI and the End of the Human Past.

Relevant links:

• "AI and Memory" an article by Andrew Hoskins
• the AI-created video I mentioned in our conversation
• more about McLuhan in an Age of Social Media

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 397, in which I interview Gerrit Van Houtenberg about his new multiple universe feature film, Quantum Suicide, debuting on Amazon Prime Video on October 18.

Relevant links:

• my review of Quantum Suicide
• The Chronology Protection Case movie on Amazon Prime Video
• The Chronology Protection Case novelette

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 396, in which I interview Bob Hutchins about AI.  My guess is you'll find this discussion much more optimistic about AI than what you'll usually hear.

Discussed or mentioned in this interview:

• "On Behalf of Humanity: The Technological Edge" my 1996 article
• The Media Ecology Association
• New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication
• my review of Confronting the Presidents

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 395, in which Patrick Rands interviews me about It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles on his WZBC Radio program Abstract Terrain.

• more about It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles here
• say hello at the Meet and Greet at Big Red Books, 120 Main Street, Nyack, NY, Sunday, October 6, 12noon-2pm 
• It's Real Life radioplay on Killerwatt Radio
• Anne Reburn's cover of Real Love
• my interview with Anne Reburn
• Yoko Ono's Cambridge 1969