who you know

who you know

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who you know episodes

  • Gint Aras

    A talk with writer Gint Aras. Learn more about him at his site and read my review of The Fugue .

    Theme music, forever, by Bill MacKay.

    Subscribe at Apple or the other usual places.

    1 hr 45 min
  • Kathleen Rooney

    A talk with Chicago writer Kathleen Rooney. We discuss teaching, competing generations, and our bizarre cultural moment. Learn more about Rooney at her site, the press she co-runs, and her poetry-typing concern.

    Theme music by Bill MacKay, natch.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Rick Rizzo

    A talk with Rick Rizzo of Eleventh Dream Day about his music career, teaching, working for AC Nielson, collecting records, and a whole lot more. Buy Eleventh Dream Day albums on Bandcamp and follow them on Instagram.

    Theme music by Bill MacKay, of course.

    1 hr 31 min
  • Kat Sachs

    A talk with film writer Kat Sachs. We discuss how her love of cinema was born at drive-ins in Ohio, auteur theory, our odd cultural moment, and more. Learn more about Sachs at Cinefile and the Chicago Reader. Read her great essay on Jane Campion too.

    Theme music by Bill MacKay, as ever.

    1 hr 33 min
  • Emmett Kelly

    A talk with musician Emmett Kelly about Chicago, LA, art, the state of the recording industry, and much more.

    Check out Kelly’s cassette label and his old band, the Cairo Gang. Kelly also plays with Will Oldham, Ty Segall, and many others.

    Theme music by Bill MacKay.

    2 hr 32 min
  • Gil Roth

    I talk to podcaster, pharma trade guru, and novice artist Gil Roth about podcasting, his day job, getting into visual art at 50 and more. Listen to Gil’s great Virtual Memories show and see a bunch of his drawings and paintings.

    Theme music by Bill MacKay.

    1 hr 28 min
  • Adam Gnade

    I talk to writer, farmer, and cassette-label mogul Adam Gnade about writing, living, off the land, releasing cassettes, and more. Learn about him at his site  and all the usual social media places.

    Theme music by Bill MacKay.

    1 hr 26 min
  • Gil Roth
    I talk to podcaster, pharma trade guru, and novice artist Gil Roth about podcasting, his day job, getting into visual art at 50 and more. Listen to Gil's great Virtual Memories show: http://chimeraobscura.com/vm and see a bunch of his drawings and paintings: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chimeraobscura/albums/72157719080284754. Episode art by Gil Roth.Theme music by Bill MacKay (https://billmackay.com/)
    1 hr 28 min
  • Adam Gnade
    I talk to writer, farmer, and cassette-label mogul Adam Gnade about writing, living, off the land, releasing cassettes, and more. Learn about him at his site: https://adamgnade.com/ and all the usual social media places.Theme music by Bill MacKay (https://billmackay.com/)
    1 hr 26 min
  • Poems in Russian

    I read some poems in Russian. Selected a few dozen that my father sent me during the plague.

    1. 00:00— “New Year’s Eve” by Boris Ryzhy
    2. 01:00— two poems by Boris Ryzhy
    3. 02:51 —”A Winter Night” by Boris Pasternak
    4. 04:00—untitled poem by Sergey Gandlevsky
    5. 07:30—several by Lidia Zaozerskaya
    6. 12:00—”Neznakomka” by Alexander Blok
    7. 15:00—”Mirror” by Arseniy Tarkovsky
    8. 17:57—”From a Poet” by Arseniy Tarkovsky

    Take a look at the limited edition folder of typed-out Russian poems with notes in English, illustrations, and collaged covers.

    20 min

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interviews/art talk/Russian poems from painter/writer Dmitry Samarov ——theme music by Bill MacKay ——a new one most Wednesdays.

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