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On Margins

Craig Mod

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Frequency: 1 episode/240d. Total Eps: 14

On Margins is a podcast about making books and "book shaped" things. Hosted by Craig Mod.

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https://craigmod.com/onmargins/003/
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http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
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https://craigmod.com/onmargins/s02e02/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Tillman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kruger
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W. David Marx — Blank Space: A Cultural History of the 21st Century

Season 2 · Episode 4

Thursday, November 27, 2025 • Duration 01:51:56

Guest & Book

W. David Marx — Website | Newsletter: Culture: An Owner's Manual | Twitter/X
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the 21st Century — Penguin Random House | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads
Status and Culture (David's previous book) — Hachette Book Group

People & Cultural Figures

Jordan Peterson — Wikipedia
Boots Riley — Director of Sorry to Bother You, member of The Coup
David Solomon (DJ D-Sol) — CEO of Goldman Sachs and EDM DJ
- NME: Goldman Sachs CEO to DJ at Lollapalooza
- Fox Business: Solomon Gives Up DJ Gigs
Joseph Kony / Kony 2012 — Wikipedia | Invisible Children Official Page | Slate: What We Learned from Kony 2012 | PBS NewsHour Analysis | Ethan Zuckerman: Unpacking Kony 2012

Cultural References

The Coup - Party Music album cover controversy — Wikipedia: Party Music | Snopes Fact Check | CNN Coverage (2001)
9/11 and cultural shifts — Discussion throughout the transcript about post-9/11 cultural changes
K-pop and Korean Wave (Hallyu) — Discussion in transcript about Korean cultural strategy
White Lotus Season 3 — HBO series (benzodiazepines reference)

Concepts & Frameworks

"The Long Twentieth Century" — Giovanni Arrighi's book on historical periodization
Post-practice culture — The 21st century ideology that practice/expertise is unnecessary (central theme of Blank Space)
The Perpetual Present — The sense that nothing begins or ends in digital culture

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W. David Marx — The Culture of Fashion in Japan

Season 2 · Episode 3

Friday, September 3, 2021 • Duration 01:53:37

W. David Marx and I talk about his book Ametora, Japanese culture, and books in translation.

Full transcript is available online:

https://craigmod.com/onmargins/s02e03/

Noted:

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Elena Favilli, the making of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

Season 1 · Episode 4

Monday, April 9, 2018 • Duration 56:12

An extended interview with Goodnight Stories for Rebel girls co-creator, Elena Favilli.

Co-founder of Timbuktu Labs, Elena Favilli, delves into how the company went from an award winning but ultimately unprofitable children's magazine app company, to an international bestselling publisher of physical books around the world.

We dig into why the iPad is perhaps not the best platform for publishers. How everything seemed so rosy back in 2011 for digital publishing. And how, ultimately, to build a strong and engaged community, they had to print a physical book.

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Full transcript and audio online at: https://craigmod.com/onmargins/004/

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Kevin Kelly, Photographing and Backpacking Asia in the 1970s

Season 1 · Episode 3

Sunday, October 22, 2017 • Duration 01:00:36

Technologist, futurist, author, and photographer Kevin Kelly discusses traveling during the golden age of global exploration.

We cover how photography has changed over the years, his decades investigating Asia in the 1970s and 80s, and how he self-produced (eventually getting it published by Taschen!) his Asia Grace book in the 90s.

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Full transcript and audio online at: https://craigmod.com/onmargins/003/

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Frank Chimero

Season 1 · Episode 2

Friday, July 14, 2017 • Duration 49:50

Designer and author Frank Chimero discusses the process behind his book, "The Shape of Design." We also dig into the normalization of paying creative people to make things via crowdfunding or patronage platforms, and why there's never been a better time to make books.

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Full transcript and audio online at: https://craigmod.com/onmargins/002/

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Jan Chipchase

Season 1 · Episode 1

Saturday, May 13, 2017 • Duration 44:48

Episode 001 of On Margins — a podcast discussing the margins of making books — with Craig Mod and Jan Chipchase.

Researcher, ethnographer, and author Jan Chipchase has a new book — "The Field Study Handbook." We discuss how he came to produce this 500+ page magnum opus — a distillation of his life's work — and why he is self publishing.

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Sam Anderson (Part 2)

Season 2 · Episode 2

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 • Duration 01:26:21

Sam Anderson is back, 10 months later, discussing his 2020 pandemic writing life. We cover his Weird Al essay, his NBA bubble excursion, how closely observing something makes for a wonderful writing exercise, and! we reveal our extremely obvious One Wild Trick to getting everything done in life.

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Sam Anderson on Twitter
Boom Town, Sam Anderson
Descript, visual podcast editing
"The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic", Sam Anderson
"What I Learned Inside the N.B.A. Bubble", Sam Anderson
The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth, Sam Anderson
"Watch This Snowball Fight From 1897 for a Jolt of Pure Joy", Sam Anderson
"I Recommend Eating Chips", Sam Anderson
Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin illustrated by t-shirt
Audrey Lorde, "Anger is loaded with information and energy."

Sam Anderson (Part 1/2)

Season 2 · Episode 1

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 • Duration 01:30:16

Sam Anderson is a New York Times Magazine staff writer and the author of Boom Town, a book about the "great minor city of America" — Oklahoma City. This is part one of a two part interview. We recorded this conversation in March, 2020, just as the first lockdown of the pandemic had gone into effect.

Sam Anderson on Twitter
Boom Town, Sam Anderson
New Sentences
Annie Dillard (Author)
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
The Abundance, Annie Dillard
John McPhee (Author)
"The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami"

Full transcript online at: https://craigmod.com/onmargins/s02e01/

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Gray318 (Jon Gray)

Season 1 · Episode 10

Monday, July 8, 2019 • Duration 01:37:17

An extended interview with Jon Gray, aka Gray318, the award winning, London based, book designer. Gray318 has designed covers for William Gibson, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, David Foster Wallace, Robin Sloan, and perhaps most famously, for Jonathan Safran Foer.

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Lynne Tillman and What She Would Do

Season 1 · Episode 9

Thursday, April 11, 2019 • Duration 01:30:06

An interview with novelist, essayist, and cultural critic, Lynne Tillman.

Craig Mod sits down with Lynne Tillman at her apartment in Manhattan and they go through the covers of her novels, essay collections, and non-fiction books.

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Lynne on Twitter
Lynne's Books
Lynne's Wikipedia
Artist Babara Kruger
Artist Nan Goldin
Artist Peter Drerer
Artist Sadie Benning
Artist Barbara Ess
Charles Orr, designer
Soft Skull Press
Publisher / Editor Richard Nash
What Would Lynne Tillman Do, the website
3am Magazine interview with Lynne
"On Lynne Tillman" by Colm Toibin for The New Yorker
An Interview With Lynne Tillman, Believer Mag

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