If You're Just Joining Us with Jon Armstrong
By Jon Armstrong
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Podcast Description
Jon Armstrong interviews authors, artists, designers, thinkers, cooks. If You're Just Joining Us has a SciFi slant, but is never limits itself to the expected. Ultimately it's a show about what people do and what makes them special.
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Eugene Myers Talks His YA Novel Fair Coin, Fantasy and SciFi, Parallel Universes, Spoilers. | Eugene has published science fiction and fantasy short stories in a number of magazines and anthologies such as Sybil’s Garage, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. - Fair Coin (Amazon) is his first novel. In Fair Coin, | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Reviewer Paul Goat Allen Talks 2011′s Best Apocalyptic Fiction and Pajama Jeans | Paul Goat Allen has been a full-time book reviewer specializing in genre fiction for almost the last two decades. He has written more than 6,000 reviews for companies like Publishers Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and BarnesandNoble.com. | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Dempsey Talks Death, Noir, The Future, Writing for TV, and Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche | Michael Dempsey's first novel, Necropolis (Amazon), is not his first foray into writing. Not by a long shot. He's a veteran of Hollywood most notably CBS’s Cybill starring Cybill Shepherd and has sold and optioned screenplays and television scripts. | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Douglas Lain Talks His New Novella, Bizarro Writing, Philosphy, Publishing | Douglas Lain is the author of Last Week's Apocalypse, Fall Into Time, which are both short stories collections. Douglas returns to talk about his new novella, Wave of Mutilation (Amazon Link). - Jeffrey Ford said it's, "... | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lauren Beukes Talks Zoo City, Research, Slumlands of Johannesburg, Face Recognition | Lauren Beukes is the author of Zoo City, (Amazon) an alternate world thriller about crime, magic, the music industry, refugees and redemption set in a re-imagined Johannesburg. It won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award, | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Anthony Durham Talks Acacia, YA, Writing Rituals, Scottland | David Anthony Durham, who returns to the podcast for the third time, has just finished his fantasy trilogy with The Sacred Band: Book Three of the Acacia Trilogy (Amazon). - We talk about writing rituals, long walks, Scotland, the Acacia Trilogy, | 10/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jon Armstrong and Chris Moriarty Talk About Magic In Their Magic and Their Writing | - Jon Armstrong (besides having a killer name!) is an award winning magician who has performed worldwide. He gives his take on what magic is for him personally and professional. He also talks about how audiences and a comic book he's helping to write ... | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lev Grossman Talks The Magicians, Fantasy and Modernism, Meeting JK Rowling, Reads from The Magician King | Lev Grossman is a bestselling novelist and journalist. His books include: Warp, Codex, The Magicians, and his forthcoming The Magician King (Amazon links). He is also a senior writer and book critic for Time Magazine. We talked about how the Codex, | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grey and Yarn are now Audiobooks at Audible.com! | This show is a behind-the-scenes peek at the people behind the audio book versions of my two novels: Grey and Yarn. First I speak with Steve Feldberg who is Senior Director, Editorial Business Development at Audible. | 6/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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M. D. Lachlan Talks Norse Myth, Magic, Stand-Up Comedy, Pen Names | M. D. Lachlan is the pen name of British writer Mark Barrowcliffe. After working as a journalist, and also as a stand-up comedian he started wrote his first novel, Girlfriend 44 and achieved early success in the late 1990s as part of the Lad Lit moveme... | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Douglas Lain Talks Urban Foraging, Memoir, Mystical Experiences, Young Adult Novels | Douglas Lain is the author of Last Week's Apocalypse (Amazon) which was published by Night Shade Books. Most recently, he completed a new book, Pick Your Battle: Your Guide to Urban Foraging, Hollywood Movies, Late Capitalism, | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will McIntosh Talks Soft Apocalypse, Internet Dating, Proposing and Collapsing | Will McIntosh, who won a Hugo Award for best short story, has just published his first novel, Soft Apocalypse (Amazon). Set in a near future collapse where the protagonist trades charged batteries for food and wanders the Georgia countryside, | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alan Dean Foster Talks Lions, Sharks, and Tsetse Flies. Oh My! | - Alan Dean Foster is the author of more then one hundred science fiction and fantasy books. He is best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, many of which feature Philip Lynx (Flinx), and his constant companion Pip, | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alex O. Smith Talks Harmony, Translating, Japanese, and JRPG | This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. I am interviewing all of the other nominees of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. - Alexander O Smith is the translator of Project Itoh's Harmony (Amazon) a dystopian novel set in a medical nanotec. | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Bear Talks Chill, Titles, Philip K Dick Award, Science Fiction, Word Count | This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. I am interviewing all of the other nominees of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. - Elizabeth Bear is the author of Chill, (Amazon) a science fiction novel about a generation ship. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 15 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
everyone should know who this writer is!
i just discovered this podcast, but i recently read jon's novel Grey and it is so good! to provide a point of refrence, imagine michael chabon's eye for characterization, stephen king's dialouge, and stephen millhauser's sense of absurd whimsy. i can't wait for his next book!
The best interview podcast or radio show I know of (and I
Jon Armstrong is a novelist, but his abilities as an interviewer of an eclectic selection of authors and artisans demonstrate a fluency in intellectually rewarding yet unpretentious and warm conversation I wouldn't expect from someone who's devoted himself to that solitary trade. The audio editing on his podcast stands out as thoughtful and witty, with playful musical transitions (that often have me searching for more music by the musicians chosen) and subtly employed sound effects (in the author readings occasionally included in interviews). Only the meat of the conversations between the interviewer and subjects is presented; none of the rambling and self-indulgence that mars so many other interview podcasts is allowed here. This show is professional grade. It could -- and should -- replace any number of better-known interview programs on public radio.
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