JOMAD
By Johannes Jakob and Madeleine Crofts
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Podcast Description
JOMAD I Heard You Like Books? is a fortnightly podcast about reading, writing, editing, publishing and friendship. With Johannes Jakob and Madeleine Crofts.
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ExplicitJOMAD 14: Non Secateurs | We’re joined by feminist writer, commentator and tweeter Clementine Ford. We talk about Golden Globe doubles, award thank yous, Junior III, Murakami recipes, Wittgenstein’s Mistress, Caitlin Moran’s How To Be a Woman, Half The Sky, Julian Fellowes, telegram questions, internet flamewars and trolls, not curing youth, green screen holidays, Veronica Roth’s Divergent, ladies in Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter and Twilight, Roller Derby and our upcoming frienemesis podcast collab! | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 13: Literary Broth | With Liticism’s Bethanie Blanchard! We copy Ira Glass and apologise for some stuff, talk about Bret Easton Ellis from a distance, novelty license plates, optical illusion dogs, our bullying legacy, the Miles Franklin longlist, feverish Will Smith raps, Charlotte Wood’s Animal People, Karin Altenberg, historical research, Etgar Keret, Romy Ash, accidental documentation, Game of Thrones, Chris Ware, Nicki Greenberg, not reading for a job, male senior critics and how huggable Stephen Fry is. | 4/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 12: Buff Point, Weep Hard | We’re joined by Voiceworks poetry editor, Daniel Hogan. We get really, really specific about the sexually aggressive geography of the Central Coast. We also talk about watermelon fights, Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie’s degenerating vocabulary, Chris Flynn’s Tiger in Eden, Google ebook privacy, the serial pest, guarding against demons, China Mieville’s The City & The City, mean neighbours, kind neighbours, and neighbours that steal lemons and underwear. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 11: Internet Porthole | We chat with Zoe/Zora Sanders, deputy editor of Meanjin. We discuss becoming one with Kanye West, zooming in on horses, Meanjin history, Tom Cho, Whitney’s spirit animal was a huntsman spider, Aaron Ramsey the celebrity killer, ranked Valentine’s cards, Skyrim widows, sandwich recipes, landing a plane on the Autobahn, Triple Town, Steph Bowe, Cath Crowley, fantasy baseball, Barry Hannah, David Grann, bizzaro Indiana Jones, Cake Off hype, Tim Schafer and let’s make out! | 2/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 10: Classic Paradise Toughness | Omar comin’ y’all! We kick it with the director of the Wheeler Centre, Michael Williams. We discuss adding a second room to the podcast house, intimidating footwear, ebook schemes, an overdue library books amnesty, lame namedrops, Chad Harbach, Friday Night Lights, netball pathos, laminated house rules, the Wheeler Centre ball pit, riding the power trip, a streak of not vomiting, Elizabeth Jolley, Marjane Satrapi, how we don’t know anything about My Drunk Kitchen and what have you heard about Costco? | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 9: Doing Australian Women | Starring the totally excellent Lefa Singleton Norton! We chat about the 99% at Express Media, rhyming comedy reviews, chicken periods, celebrity baby names, boarding schools, Ghost Girl, Star Girl, Girl Girl, loving JGL, voice in creative nonfiction and radio documentaries, Ira Glass talking out of his face, I gooded your post on Goodreads, Fune Home, medals for librarians, sock puppet anarchists, a rainbow-themed birthday party and old school basketball. | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 8: Show Don’t Estelle | We talk to Estelle Tang about high school magazines, Cake Off, severely embellished luxury cruise nonfiction, angry aardvarks alliterating, Jeffrey Eugenides’ face next to a ruler, fat on books, melancholy Mel and Kochie, pantening, Jennifer Egan, everything is related to David Foster Wallace, detailed discussion of Balthazar Getty’s accent, compufuckers, fantasy writers: don’t die, Lenny Kravitz dressed as a cow, a cease and desist from NPR, The Moat, Alan Davies and is everyone hanging out without us? | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 7: French for Synchrotron | JOMAD I heard you like science textbooks? We talk with Perth’s Phill English about fertility twitter bots, Jad Abumrad’s debt to us, Cosmos magazine, breaking physics, Thai cocktail science, Phill getting poisoned by his chemistry PhD, Albury-Wodongan funding grifters, bleeding nipples, William Gibson: three and a half stars, Zadie Smith’s autograph-based drama, a literary ending for flying wombats, ‘I like a good photo’, Train’s hit single ‘Storm Clouds on Jupiter’ and Apple’s hot new product, the iHYLB. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 6: The History Girls | Number one Bhakthi Puvanenthiran fancast! We talk about a stranger telling us our podcast is funny, Jojo definitely not getting the Adbusters job, Turkish food eating skills, The Underage catering, JODAD, generalising about young people, the healing powers of a Mexicana burger, not knowing everything about your parents’ lives, lost phones, what’s making us happy and how an emotionless literature robot has no non-gross outcomes. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 5: Professional Audience Member | Live and local from the National Young Writers Festival in Newcastle, with Alexandra Neill. Topics! The verisimilitude of getting interrupted by Ben Jenkins, writing for comedy shows, P McD ruining jokes, Maddie’s long awaited Tyra Banks verdict, relating to Tina Fey, book inscriptions, Jojo wishes he liked ebooks more, the glory of being right and how everyone loves sexy people. | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 4: Comics are from Mars, Women are from Comics | Joining us this episode is Ronnie Scott, editor of The Lifted Brow. We talk about how he’s going to be a doctor of comics, sex amnesia, accidentally hacking our own websites, the Brow’s change of format, jumping through an apple, radical writing, behavioural influences, and teaching creative writing by capping your enemies in the street. | 9/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 3: Eat Pray Bike | Our guest is the director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Lisa Dempster! We discuss: free food, Pigeons Projects, writing what you (don’t?) know, the importance of writers’ festivals, sexy John Marsden books, entering the safe zone with DH Lawrence, dreamy Tobias from Animorphs and the adventurous bike love trilogy. | 9/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 2: Space Pocahontas | This episode we chat to almost-Mexican writer Sam Rutter. We talk about Ibiza super clubs, Roberto Bolaño's hard knocks (to the face), reading long books, writing Australian vernacular, the places we like to read, space Pocahontas and pre-ordering Tyra Banks' Modelland in hardback. | 8/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJOMAD 1: The First One | Our very first podcast. Recorded rough and raw. We're joined by former Voiceworks poetry editor, bookseller and editing student Jodie Kinnersley. We talk about the origins of the podcast, trashy books, karaoke high school reunions and how Jojo doesn't know podcast etiquette. | 8/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 14 Episodes |
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