Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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Bullseye is a celebration of the best of arts and culture in public radio form. Host Jesse Thorn sifts the wheat from the chaff to bring you in-depth interviews with the most revered and revolutionary minds in our culture. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world."
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Nov 3, 2011 • 7min
Comedy: Rob Baedeker's Chemistry Lecture
Rod Baedeker from Kasper Hauser drops by The Sound of Young America to share with us his ground-breaking lecture he gave at Cal Tech.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 31, 2011 • 34min
Kate Beaton, Author of Hark! a Vagrant
Kate Beaton authors the webcomic Hark! a Vagrant. The comic strips mine history and literature for figures to be reimagined and skewered as petulant children, jaded superheroes and Victorian dude-watchers, accented by a very expressive drawing style. Her comics have recently been collected into a book, also called Hark! a Vagrant.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 28, 2011 • 24min
Jeanne Darst, author of Fiction Ruined My Family
Jeanne Darst is a writer and performer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and This American Life. She recently published her first book, Fiction Ruined My Family, about her literary family who spent more time drinking than writing.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 26, 2011 • 3min
Comedy: Jordan Ranks America, October 2011
Don't know where to turn, or who to believe? Try our correspondent Jordan Morris, who brings you the best of America every month.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 24, 2011 • 29min
Marc Maron
Comedian and comedy-inquisitor Marc Maron talks about turning it all around, doing standup and hosting his smash podcast (turned public radio show) WTF. His new comedy album is "This Has to Be Funny".Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 17, 2011 • 59min
Rin Tin Tin with Susan Orlean
Bestselling nonfiction author and The New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean talks to us about the fascinating life of the dog and the character Rin Tin Tin, plus much more. Her new book is Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 13, 2011 • 20min
AV Club Picks: Fall TV
Today's guests from the AV Club are TV Editor Todd VanDerWerff and Assistant Editor Erik Adams. They drop by to discuss their TV picks for the Fall season from Showtimes 'Homeland' to NBCs 'Up All Night' running through the hits and misses with Host Jesse Thorn.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 10, 2011 • 45min
Bootsy Collins
The legendary funk bassist joins us to talk about creating the persona of Bootsy, playing music with two very different band leaders, James Brown and George Clinton, and more.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 5, 2011 • 6min
John Roderick: The Song That Changed My Life
The Long Winters' frontman, John Roderick, talks to us about the song that changed his life: ZZ Top's Gimme All Your Lovin'.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 3, 2011 • 41min
Jonathan Coulton & John Flansburgh
For Jonathan Coulton, success as a musician has come with recording music himself, releasing individual songs online one-at-a-time, and even selling his catalog on a USB drive. So in a way, his new album Artificial Heart is a terrifying turn to the traditional, and a creative risk. It was produced with They Might Be Giants' John Flansburgh in a studio with a full band, the old-fashioned way. Jonathan and John talk to us about that process.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
