Notebook on Cities and Culture
(Formerly The Marketplace of Ideas.) Colin Marshall sits down for in-depth conversations with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene all around Los Angeles and beyond.
Literary blogger Maud Newton A conversation about the rise of cultural blogs, using one’s own life as novel source material and the genius of Rupert Thomson with literary blogger Maud Newton, founder of MaudNewton.com. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Direct download: MOI_Maud_Newton.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:31am UTC

Novelist, essayist and poet Alexander Theroux A conversation about the encyclopedic novel, female creativity and Rush Limbaugh with novelist, essayist and poet Alexander Theroux, author of Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Direct download: MOI_Alexander_Theroux.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:00am UTC

Part two of our special series on the future of books and reading: conversations with writer, thinker, entrepreneur and maker of mischief Kevin Smokler [site] and Dave Weich, director of marketing and development at Portland, Oregon's Powell's Books.
Direct download: MOI_Smokler-Weich.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:33am UTC