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Jesse Erickson

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 60:40


A conversation with Jesse Erickson, the Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.

Becca Stevens

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2023 26:13


A conversation with Becca Stevens, writer, priest, justice entrepreneur, and President of Thistle Farms. Becca's most recent book is "Practically Divine."

BBAF 2022 – The Wine’d Down

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2022 37:20


"The Wine'd Down" panel from the 2022 Boerne Book & Arts Festival, moderated by Matt Boutte, host of The Deckle Edge Podcast.

Boerne Book & Arts Festival 2022

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2022 44:40


A collection of author interviews recorded at the 2022 Boerne Book & Arts Festival in Boerne, TX.

Radney Foster

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2022 55:48


A conversation with the singer, songwriter, and author, Radney Foster. We talk about his life and work, his writing process, his music, and more.

Sophfronia Scott

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2022 47:36


A conversation with Sophfronia Scott. Sophfronia is a novelist, essayist, and leading contemplative thinker whose work has appeared in numerous publications and received a 2020 Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Office of the Arts. Her book The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton received the 2021 Thomas Merton "Louie" Award from the International Thomas Merton Society. She is the founding director of Alma College's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing, a low residency graduate program based in Alma, Michigan.

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Jim Tolpin

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2022 45:45


A conversation with Jim Tolpin. Since 1970 Jim has worked professionally in woodworking as a timber framer, boat finish carpenter, and custom cabinet maker. He's also been a teacher and a writer, co-founding the Port Townsend School of Woodworking in 2007. Jim has written articles for most of the major woodworking magazines including Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding. He's also written feature length articles for Coastal Living and Cottage Living magazines. Additionally, he's written eighteen books that together have sold nearly a million copies. Jim's latest book, Euclid's Door, is due out this fall from Lost Art Press.

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Travis Helms

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 65:42


A conversation with the poet and Episcopal priest, Travis Helms. Travis is the author of the book, "Blowing Clover, Falling Rain" and is the founder and curator of the LOGOS reading series, as well as executive director of EcoTheo Collective.

Elizabeth Miki Brina

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 33:14


A conversation with Elizabeth Miki Brina, author of the recent book, "Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir."

L. M. Browning

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2022 40:11


A conversation with LM (Leslie) Browning, the author of numerous books including the recent, "Drive Through the Night." Additionally, Leslie is the founder of Homebound Publications.

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Boyce Upholt

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 34:57


A conversation with Boyce Upholt, a freelance journalist based in New Orleans. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, The Atlantic, and Mother Jones, among other outlets, and he received the 2019 James Beard Award for investigative journalism for his feature story in The New Republic about the farm chemical dicamba. His forthcoming book about the Mississippi River will be published by W.W. Norton.

Brendan Slocumb

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2022 32:25


A conversation with Brendan Slocumb. Among his many gifts, Brendan is a performing violinist and teacher, as well as the author of the debut novel, "The Violin Conspiracy."

Esteban Rodriguez

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2021 43:51


A conversation with Esteban Rodriguez. Esteban is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Valley and the essay collection Before the Earth Devours Us both of which were released in 2021. He is the Interviews Editor for the EcoTheo Review, Senior Book Reviews Editor for Tupelo Quarterly, and Associate Poetry Editor for AGNI.

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Roy Underhill

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2021 46:45


A conversation with Roy Underhill. Roy is best known as the host of the PBS series The Woodwright's Shop and the many books that followed. While working in television he also served as Master HouseWright for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where he and his crew recreated the work of 18th century carpenters and joiners - much like playing early music on the original instruments. Roy now runs The Woodwright's School in North Carolina, dedicated to historically-informed woodworking.

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Boerne Book & Arts Festival 2021

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2021 39:26


Today's episode is a little different and features short conversations with several authors about their most recent book and involvement with the 2021 Boerne Book & Arts Festival. For those that don't know, Boerne is a beautiful bedroom community just north of San Antonio, Texas, and the book festival takes place each year on Main Plaza on the first Saturday in October. This year's event featured authors such as John Erickson and James Wade, as well as author panels with topics such as Heroines of WWII, Texas Ranches and Texas Rangers, and Early Roads and the Old Spanish Trail.

James Wade

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2021 53:28


A conversation with the novelist, James Wade. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and daughter. His debut novel, All Things Left Wild, won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Historical Novel and the MPIBA's Reading the West Award for Best Debut Fiction. His second novel, River, Sing Out, was released in the summer of 2021. James is also a winner of the Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest, and a finalist of the Tethered by Letters Short Fiction Contest.

Jonathan Merritt

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2021 71:54


A conversation with Jonathan Merritt. Jonathan is one of America's most popular writers on issues of faith and culture. He is author of several critically-acclaimed books, including Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words are Vanishing - and How We Can Revive Them, named “Book of the Year” by the Englewood Review of Books.

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The Dharmadillo Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2021 64:21


A crossover episode featuring an interview with me, Matt Boutte, on The Dharmadillo Podcast. We talk about Jimmy Buffett as a business, about my spiritual life, and about some of my reading and writing practices, among other things.

Ariel Sabar

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2021 59:01


A conversation with Ariel Sabar. Ariel won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his debut book, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq. His second book, Heart of the City, was called a "beguiling romp" by the New York Times and an "engaging, moving and lively read" by the Toronto Star. His Kindle Single, The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker, was a best-selling nonfiction short and adapted for the radio program This American Life. His latest book, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best true-crime book of the year and for the Investigative Reporters & Editors Book Award.

Daniel Lassell

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2021 57:13


A conversation with Daniel Lassell. Daniel is the author of Spit (July 2021), winner of the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Emerging Poetry Prize and a poetry finalist for the 2021 International Book Awards, as well as Ad Spot (April 2021), a chapbook from Ethel Zine & Micro Press. His recent poetry can be found in the Colorado Review, Southern Humanities Review, River Styx, Grist, and Prairie Schooner. He raised llamas and alpacas while growing up on a farm in Kentucky.

Asako Serizawa

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 50:19


A conversation with Asako Serizawa. Asako has ASAKO SERIZAWA was born in Japan and grew up in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo. A graduate of Tufts University, Brown University, and Emerson College, she has received two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a fiction fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first book, INHERITORS, won the 2021 PEN/Open Book Award and The Story Prize Spotlight Award. It was also longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.

John Phillip Santos

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2021 79:43


A conversation with John Phillip Santos; a writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker from San Antonio, Texas.  His two memoirs, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation (a National Book Award Finalist) and The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire, together tell the ancestral stories of his mother and father's families, an American origin story of the centuries-long migrations that emerged out of Spain, Mexico, and the lands that became South Texas.  His book of poems is Songs Older Than Any Known Singer.  

Alexandra Fuller

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2021 97:05


A conversation with Alexandra Fuller. Alexandra is a novelist, a journalist, and a memoirist whose most recent book, "Travel Light, Move Fast" was published in 2020. In this conversation we discuss her childhood in Rhodesia, racism, grief, loss, joy, and hope.

Michael Kleber-Diggs

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 84:22


A conversation with Michael Kleber-Diggs. Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. His debut poetry collection, Worldly Things, won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and will be published by Milkweed Editions in June of this year and his essay "On the Complex Flavors of Black Joy," is included in "There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis," edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman. This is an important, if at times painful, discussion about race, community, and hope. I'm grateful to Michael for having it with me.

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Katie Peterson

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2021 66:38


A conversation with Katie Peterson. Katie is a poet and directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at UC Davis. Her most recent book is, "Life in a Field," and was selected for the 2020 Omnidawn Open Book Prize.

Laura Van Prooyen

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2021 65:40


A conversation with the poet Laura Van Prooyen, the author of three collections of poetry including "Inkblot and Altar," "Our House Was on Fire," and the recently released "Frances of the Wider Field."

Jason Myers

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 73:43


A conversation with Jason Myers. Jason is a poet, a minister, and the Editor-in-Chief of the EcoTheo Review.

Allison Seay

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 56:32


A conversation with Allison Seay, author of the poetry collection "To See the Queen," and Associate for Religion and the Arts at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA.

Daniel Slager

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021 72:49


A conversation with Daniel Slager, Publisher & CEO of Milkweed Editions, about the interplay between publishers, authors, and readers. We talk about independent bookstores and the impact of Amazon on the entire industry. I learned so much in this conversation about the independent publishing and book businesses. If you're at all interested in books, writers, publishers, or even the evolving nature of retailing in the era of Amazon, I think you'll get a lot from this episode.

David Allen Sibley

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 55:36


A conversation with the artist and author David Allen Sibley. David is a giant in the world of birding and is perhaps best known for his eponymous "Sibley Guide to Birds." His most recent book is "What It's Like to Be a Bird."

Leah Naomi Green

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 53:50


A conversation with the poet and writer Leah Naomi Green. Leah's most recent book is "The More Extravagant Feast" and she is the recipient of the 2021 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award.

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Terry Tempest Williams

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 90:17


Terry Tempest Williams is a writer, a teacher, a naturalist, and environmentalist. Terry is a force of nature and views and voice are needed now, more than ever.

Jordan Scott

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 55:38


An interview with the author and poet, Jordan Scott. Jordan is the author of five books including recent "I Talk Like a River," "Silt," "Blert," "Decomp," "Night & Ox." This is an important discussion that delves deep into Jordan's work and the experience of stuttering.

Todd Davis & Noah Davis

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 88:39


Todd Davis and Noah Davis are both published poets, men sensitive to the land and our home ground. They are also father and son, which made for a fascinating and engaging discussion.

Rick Bass

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2021 66:38


Rick Bass is a prolific writer of essays, short stories, and long form fiction, many of them about nature and his adopted home in the Yaak Valley. Rick is also an outspoken environmental activist. His most recent book is called, "The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes."

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Joshua Klein

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2020 66:35


Joshua A. Klein is editor-in-chief of Mortise & Tenon Magazine. He has been selected for the Early American Life Directory of Traditional American Crafts from 2015-2020 for his authentic approach to period furniture making, and has presented about historic craftsmanship at museums around the United States. He has written articles for Popular Woodworking and American Period Furniture, and is … Continue reading Joshua Klein

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Roger Hutchison

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2020 85:11


Roger is the #1 Bestselling author and illustrator of five books including, The Painting Table, My Favorite Color is Blue. Sometimes., and the upcoming Faces: A Love Story. Following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, Roger had the privilege of painting with children who witnessed this tragic event. The experience profoundly affected him and … Continue reading Roger Hutchison

Chris Dombrowski

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2020 67:13


An interview with Chris Dombrowski, author of three books of poetry and the memoir, "Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World's Most Alluring Fish."

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Khawaja Azimuddin, MD

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2020 56:30


Dr. Khawaja Azimuddin is a gastro-intestinal surgeon in Houston, TX. When he was a young boy, Dr. Azimuddin along with his family was incarcerated in a refugee/civilian prisoner of war camp for two years following the India-Pakistan War of 1971. After almost fifty years he is finally telling his story though his book, The Boy Refugee: A Memoir From a Long-Forgotten War. In this episode, the shares his life and experiences.

Brendan Bernhardt Gaffney

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 70:11


An interview with Brendan Bernhard Gaffney about his upcoming book, "James Krenov: Leave Fingerprints" published by Lost Art Press.

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Ep. 0 – Introducing The Deckle Edge Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 2:08


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