On Margins

On Margins episodes:

• 09.03.2021

  W. David Marx — The Culture of Fashion in Japan

  W. David Marx and I talk about his book Ametora, Japanese culture, and books in translation. Full transcript is available online: https://craigmod.com/onmargins/s02e03/ Noted:   Ametora: How Japan Saved American Fashion AMETORA(アメトラ) 日本がアメリカンスタイルを救った物語 Néojaponisme @wdavidmarx on Twitter A Bathing...

  
• 02.09.2021

  Sam Anderson (Part 2)

  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 writing exercise, and! we reveal our extremely obvious One...

  
• 02.03.2021

  Sam Anderson (Part 1/2)

  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 recorded this conversation...

  
• 07.08.2019

  Gray318 (Jon Gray)

  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 Wallace, Robin Sloan, and perhaps most famously, for Jonathan Safran Foer. Show...

  
• 04.11.2019

  Lynne Tillman and What She Would Do

  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, essay collections, and non-fiction books.  Show Links: Lynne...

  
• 03.09.2019

  Jessica Hische, Tomorrow I'll Be Brave

  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 Jessica's work. She refreshed logos for MailChimp, Southern Living, Eventbrite. She did...

  
• 01.24.2019

  Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the designing and writing of Small Fry

  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, and growing up in Palo Alto as the daughter of...

  
• 06.05.2018

  A walk in the woods with Craig Mod discussing his book Koya Bound

  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 economics and production of his...

  
• 04.30.2018

  Jason Kottke and Twenty Years of kottke.org

  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 consistently updated for twenty years....

  
• 04.09.2018

  Elena Favilli, the making of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

  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 but ultimately unprofitable children's magazine app company, to an international bestselling publisher...

  
• 10.22.2017

  Kevin Kelly, Photographing and Backpacking Asia in the 1970s

  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 decades investigating Asia in the 1970s and 80s, and how he self-produced (eventually getting...

  
• 07.14.2017

  Frank Chimero

  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 patronage platforms, and why there's never been a better...

  
• 05.13.2017

  Jan Chipchase

  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 Field Study Handbook." We discuss how he came...