Katha Pollitt (BSS #143)
Katha Pollitt is most recently the author of Learning to Drive. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Dwelling on legal inconsistencies. Author: Katha Pollitt Subjects Discussed: The pragmatism in learning to...
View ArticleSarah Manguso (BSS #232)
Sarah Manguso is most recently the author of The Two Kinds of Decay. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating fifty-five additional states of decay. Author: Sarah Manguso Subjects Discussed: David...
View ArticleLaurie Sandell (BSS #306)
Laurie Sandell is the author of The Impostor’s Daughter. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if the coalminer was an impostor. Author: Laurie Sandell Subjects Discussed: Chicken recipes, the quest for...
View ArticleKevin Sampsell (BSS #322)
Kevin Sampsell is most recently the author of A Common Pornography. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Airing his dirty laundry. Guest: Kevin Sampsell Subjects Discussed: Maintaining an emotional spectrum...
View ArticleAnder Monson II (BSS #338)
Ander Monson appeared is most recently the author of Vanishing Point, as well as a poetry collection called The Available World, which nobody had thought to send to Mr. Segundo’s motel room. Contrary...
View ArticleVincent Cassel & Rachel Shukert II (BSS #351)
Vincent Cassel stars in Mesrine: Killer Instinct, which opens in limited release on August 27, 2010, followed by Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 on September 3, 2010. Rachel Shukert is most recently the...
View ArticleEmma Forrest (BSS #403)
Emma Forrest is most recently the author of Your Voice in My Head. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Fearing the arrival of kneeling supplicants. Author: Emma Forrest Subjects Discussed: Occupying the insides...
View ArticleSara Benincasa (BSS #436)
Sara Benincasa is most recently the author of Agorafabulous. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering whether or not he has actually left the house. Author: Sara Benincasa Subjects Discussed: How to get out...
View ArticleJeanette Winterson (BSS #451)
Jeanette Winterson is most recently the author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Condition of Mr. Segundo: Reconsidering the ever-shifting happy/normal life spectrum. Author: Jeanette Winterson...
View ArticleAlison Bechdel III (BSS #460)
Alison Bechdel is most recently the author of Are You My Mother? She has previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #63 and The Bat Segundo Show #250. [PROGRAM NOTE: Because this show is so unusual,...
View ArticleBenjamin Anastas (BSS #495)
Benjamin Anastas is most recently the author of Too Good to Be True. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wrestling with failure. Author: Benjamin Anastas Subjects Discussed: Memoirs devoted to literary failure,...
View ArticleAnchee Min (BSS #507)
Anchee Min toiled in Chinese labor camps, was punished and labeled as an outcast, and escaped to America. This one hour conversation covers how she overcame hardships, stared down loneliness, found...
View ArticleJesmyn Ward II (BSS #516)
In the aftermath of Trayvon Martin, why do so many young black men continue to die? Why are we doomed to repeat a savage American cycle? Jesmyn Ward's new memoir, MEN WE REAPED, tries to answer this...
View ArticleDorthe Nors, Save NYPL, and Blake Bailey (BSS #538)
In this triple-decker edition of Bat Segundo, we talk with author Dorthe Nors about Denmark, emotional connections to animals, the dangers of self-destruction and how folks songs fused with Swedish...
View ArticleMimi Pond (BSS #548)
Cartoonist Mimi Pond spent a good chunk of 1978 working as a dishwasher and a waitress in an Oakland diner. Thirty-six years later, she's collected her experiences in the graphic novel, OVER EASY. This...
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