Episode 578 - Japan

Essayist Sven Birkerts, one of my favorite past pod-guests, welcomes me back to the mic for a conversation about writing, art, mortality, resistance, technology, and selling rare books! We talk about what he's learned about writing from his Substack essay-experiment, how he redis ...  Show more

Essayist Sven Birkerts, one of my favorite past pod-guests, welcomes me back to the mic for a conversation about writing, art, mortality, resistance, technology, and selling rare books! We talk about what he's learned about writing from his Substack essay-experiment, how he redis ...  Show more

In this episode…Post-bubble Japan.The history of socially-conscious Japanese literature.And Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station, a powerful examination of Tokyo by one of the most invisible people imaginable—the ghost of a homeless day laborer.Notes and sources at the podcast episode we ...  Show more

On this special episode of The One Piece Podcast we have our norm: some News, an Anime Recap of Episode 505, a Manga Recap of Chapter 630, some Piece Together, and more. This time, however, we have an interview with veteran seiyuu (Japanese voice actor) Toshiyuki Morikawa. He has ...  Show more

Katsuhiro Otomo’s vast magnum opus ‘Akira’ (1982-90) is one of the landmarks of late 20th century science fiction — a story of psychic battles, youth counterculture and technology run out of control — all set in Neo-Tokyo, a vast megastructure in the Tokyo bay. If you’ve only eve ...  Show more

[removed]Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton join Jim for a rousing discussion of a Kaiju film celebratin ...