On today's 14th Anniversary episode, I talk to MacArthur Genius Grant-winning author Jonathan Lethem. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Jonathan at first thought he was going to be a visual artist until some existential realizations about class and art in college in the early 1980s left him disillusioned. He dropped

On today's episode, I talk to writer and comedian Jordan Morris. Originally from Mission Viejo, Jordan attended UC Santa Cruz, where he met his future podcasting partner Jesse Thorn, and in 2007, the two started one of the longest-running podcasts still going, Jordan, Jesse, Go! on the Maximum Fun network. As a writer,

Our old pal Aparna Nancherla - surely you know her from her stand-up or from [REDACTED] or [REDACTED] which we can't really mention because of the ongoing SAG strike - just wrote a book! That's right Unreliable Narrator is available now! And y'all should buy it tout de suite! While Aparna's been on the show before, onc

On today's episode, I talk to musician and painter Andrew Savage. Originally from Denton, TX, Andrew began playing music seriously when he formed the band Teenage Cool Kids in college in 2006. By the time the group officially disbanded in 2011, Andrew had already been writing music in a new band, Parquet Courts, which

One of our best pals just published her first novel, that's right, Jo Firestone is a published author, and we've got her on the show today! Let's see here, WGA strike is over, so we can mention something, I think, Jo is a wonderful stand-up, she was the head writer for Ziwe's show, and yeah, like we said, she just wrot

You know her, you love her, that's right, writer, producer and friend Emily Gordon returns to the show for a solo outing so we can REALLY get to know her! Now, of course you know Emily from a number of Oscar and Emmy nominated things that we will not name because we are ON STRIKE, but feel free to look them up or look