Labor: A Podcast By The Caribbean (dc)

Perhaps my favorite Labor episode yet.  Ted is endlessly kind, funny, and insightful.  This was a great and highly engaging conversation.  Live from Brooklyn’s Fire Proof East.

We did a live podcast event with Rafael at Atomic Books in Baltimore, a fantastic store that now has a great bar in the back.  Rafael is always insightful, and, decked out in full Orioles’ regalia, has Baltimore, and storytelling,… Continue Reading →

We met with Johnny Temple at Akashic Books’ Brooklyn office for a conversation that covered noir, curating, selling books, the current state of affairs in print media (not the usual opinion you’d expect), and Akashic’s unique vision for what a… Continue Reading →

Like so many really funny people I know, I found Jeff Lyons via Twitter, and I’ve got to say, his batting average on there is in the .900 range.  Even his tweet from the night of our interview, posted on… Continue Reading →

Back to Brooklyn’s Splitty for another installment of Labor.  This time we were joined by Heba Kadry, who’s been making a name for herself as go-to mastering engineer, helming numerous releases on Thrill Jockey records, and who recently made her major… Continue Reading →

This episode finds us again in Brooklyn on the back patio of Splitty, a fine, feels-like-home place in Fort Greene.  Ian joined us late afternoon and we chatted for over an hour about video editing (both above and a little… Continue Reading →

Once again into the breach, or at least Brooklyn.  This time to chat with Kristopher Jansma, whose debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots Of Leopards, has been garnering ample and well-earned praise.  It’s a globetrotting affair, taking up residence on four continents.… Continue Reading →

Chicago author Joe Meno joined us for a live recording of Labor at Chicago’s City Lit Books in Logan Square on a gorgeous Saturday, August 3rd.  Joe is a highly-regarded author whose novels have garnered acclaim from the New York Times,… Continue Reading →

On an incredibly hot night in July, Michael, Dave, and Matt sat down with author Jesse Jarnow at Splitty in Brooklyn and talk about writing, the New York Mets, Yo La Tengo, the Dead, Johnny Bench, and socialism, in no… Continue Reading →

Michael and author Jonathan Evison sit down at DC’s Comet Ping-Pong and discuss, amongst other things, songwriting vs. writing novels, community and how it’s better than fascism, drinking, first novels not actually being your first novel, ADD, and how failure is more… Continue Reading →