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Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for August 7, 2009
Howdy! Today’s podcast is hosted by Marit Mitchell because I was at my grandmother’s 90th birthday in Thunder Bay. (Stephen Harper signed a certificate for her. It was nice.) On today’s podcast Mitchell and crew talk about “The Making of an Agent” from the Washington Post.
Show notes:
• Toronto had a garbage strike. Because Toronto is… »
Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for July 31, 2009
Howdy! This week at the Saloon we discuss Citizen Hern by Charles Montgomery. After you’ve read it (it’s short) listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, directly downloading it or by subscribing through iTunes.
Show notes:
• We talk about a lot of videogames on this podcast including PixelJunk Monsters.
• Here is some of the… »
Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for July 24, 2009
Howdy! On today’s podcast we talk about “What Makes Us Happy?” by Joshua Wolf Shenk. You can access the podcast by using the embedded player below, downloading it directly or by subscribing on iTunes.
Show Notes:
• The blog I talked about is There, I Fixed It. That’s where the post image is from too.
• The article… »
Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for July 3, 2009
Howdy! On this week’s episode of the Saloon we talk about “A Deadly Crossing” by David Leach. You can listen to the podcast below (either using the player or right clicking to download) or you can subscribe via iTunes.
Show notes:
• Here is the surprisingly hard to navigate webpage of Clay Shirky.
• The female tennis player… »
Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for June 27, 2009
Howdy! On this week’s better-late-than-never episode we talk about Malcolm Gladwell’s “How David Beats Goliath” from the New Yorker. Listen to it below or subscirbe to our podcast via iTunes.
Show notes:
• Early on I mention that I couldn’t get into The Big Bang Theory because the main characters had Asperger syndrome. I want to… »
Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for June 19, 2009
On this week’s episode we look at Jonah Lehrer’s New Yorker article “Don’t.”
Show Notes:
• The Julia Solis photo slide show of Detroit that Marit talked about.
• “The Case for Working With Your Hands” by Matthew Crawford which Carolyn mentions.
• I was in error during the podcast: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance came out… »
Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for June 12, 2009
This week on the podcast the topic is “A new model for a broken motor city” by Megan O’Toole, a story of new communities emerging from the skeleton of abandoned Detroit. Supplemental to that is the news story “An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It.”
Show notes:
• It should be noted that I work… »
Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for June 5, 2009
This week on the podcast the topic is “La Vida Robot,” by Joshua Davis, which is the story of four boys from poorer backgrounds who team together to build an underwater robot. Click through to listen, read the show notes and to find out what we’re reading next week… »
Ms Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for May 22, 2009
After a lot of time and effort, the pilot episode of Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon is ready for download.
For those of you who want to subscribe to the podcast through iTunes (or just want a podcast RSS feed), that’s coming on Saturday. Click for show notes…. »