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:

• Ametora: How Japan Saved American Fashion
• AMETORA(アメトラ) 日本がアメリカンスタイルを救った物語
• Néojaponisme
• @wdavidmarx on Twitter
• A Bathing Ape Takes a Final Bath
• Brift H shoe shine master
• David’s recent writing about obscurity in the Internet Age
• Scarcity Makes the Heart Grow Fonder - early nytimes piece on BAPE, David quoted
• American Truck Simulator

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.

Show notes:

• 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."

As always, a full transcript is available at: https://craigmod.com/onmargins/s02e02/

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/