Listen "Publishing and Craft: Deborah Shapiro"
Episode Synopsis
We're joined by author and publisher Deborah Shapiro for conversation about working within limitations, publishing on your own terms, and even Columbo! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Book Manufacturing—Typesetting [cropped], Rand McNally and Company. Public domain image courtesy Newberry Library and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! A. R. Ammons The Snow Poems Roland Barthes Mythologies Walter Benjamin The Arcades Project John Berger Bento's Sketchbook Brian Blanchfield Proxies Marianne Brooker Intervals B-Side Editions James M. Cain Mildred Pierce Elias Canetti Auto-da-Fé Wah-Ming Chang Robert Cochrane / Joel Surnow 24 Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Brian Dillon Essayism George Eliot Middlemarch Peter Falk Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes Gustave Flaubert Heinrich Heine "Die Lorelei" Hercule Poirot Walter Isaacson Leonardo da Vinci Matthew Jacobson Immanuel Kant Jack Kerouac John Le Carré Nathalie Léger Suite for Barbara Loden Jonathan Lethem Richard Levinson / William Link Columbo Barbara Loden Wanda Donato Loia 1095 Short Sentences David Lynch Twin Peaks Herman Melville "Billy Budd" Henry Miller Black Spring Errol Morris The Pigeon Tunnel (John Le Carré documentary) Ian Penman Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time Rob Reiner The Princess Bride Theodore Roszak Flicker Theodore Roszak The Making of a Counter Culture W. G. Sebald The Rings of Saturn Deborah Shapiro Consolation Deborah Shapiro The Summer Demands Deborah Shapiro The Sun in Your Eyes Matthew Specktor The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood Helen Vendler The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar Wim Wenders Wings of Desire Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust Anthony E. Zuiker CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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