Books in the Wild
Books in the Wild is a podcast investigating the hidden stories behind books and printed matter. Instead of reviewing books for solely on their written content, we try to offer varying perspectives on everything from conception to creation to reception. This is a podcast about book arts: letterpress printing, bookbinding, artists' books, small press and independent publishing, and stories from book history.
- Website
- https://www.booksinthewild.com/episodes/
- Description
- Books in the Wild is a podcast investigating the hidden stories behind books and printed matter. Instead of reviewing books for solely on their written content, we try to offer varying perspectives on everything from conception to creation to reception. This is a podcast about book arts: letterpress printing, bookbinding, artists' books, small press and independent publishing, and stories from book history.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-02 06:35
- last episode published
- 2021-02-15 03:23
- publication frequency
- 72.97 days
- Contributors
- Keri Schroeder
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 21
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Literature Design History Arts
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Episodes
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| 2021-02-15 | Dictionaries are an ever-changing record of language, constantly being updated, amended and added to. This goes for all dictionaries: Merriam-Webster, Oxford English Dictionary, Collin’s. Updates to the dictionary can be new words entirely, or amend... |
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| 2021-01-25 | Talk with filmmaker James Kennard and book maker Mark Sarigianis about the documentary film The Book Makers |
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| 2021-01-11 | Today I talk a little about pandemic projects, zines, and artist’s books, and have a wonderful discussion with the Quarantine Public Library. The Quarantine Public Library (QPL) is a collaborative project dreamed up by artists Katie Garth and Tracy H... |
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| 2020-12-08 | In 1917, a new novella was published by Mark Twain. The weird part? Twain died in 1910 and the book was purportedly written by his ghost. |
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| 2020-11-23 |
Episode 16: Bookworms, Printer's Devils, and Type Lice, Oh My! Follow the process of making a book while we cover specialized book terms, and some surprising idioms with bookish origins that we use in daily language. |
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| 2020-11-11 | Interview with Mary Baughman, co-founder of the Austin Book Arts Center about the history of book arts in Austin, and the vision of the ABAC |
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| 2020-10-26 | This episode covers the true story of James Cook, a bookbinder who murdered tool engraver John Paas the town of Leicester, bookbinder James Cmurdered tool engraver John Paas over a dispute about brass finishing tools. The tale is particularly gruesome... |
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| 2020-10-12 | Willard Library is the oldest library in Evansville, IN, established in 1885. There have been reports of apparitions and poltergeist activity from patrons and employees of the library since 1937 that continue to this day. In this episode we will discus... |
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| 2019-03-04 | Books in the Wild is back! It’s been a wild year, friends! For a brief recap, I now live in Texas and work at BookLab2, a limited-edition bookbindery, though I still sometimes work for Flying Fish Press and am still producing my own work under the imp... |
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| 2018-03-13 | If you've ever watched any television shows or movies ever, you may have seen a familiar looking newspaper read by many fictional characters for decades. This exact same newspaper has been spotted in Scrubs, Modern Family, No Country for Old Men, Ev... |
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