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Notebook on Cities and Culture: Episodes

<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Santa Monica with&nbsp;<a href="http://lesliehelm.com/">Leslie Helm</a>, former&nbsp;Tokyo correspondent for&nbsp;<em>Business Week</em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles Times</em>, editor of&nbsp;<i>Seattle Business</i>, and author of&nbsp;<i>Yokohama ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Feliz, Los Angeles with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.josephmailander.com/">Joseph Mailander</a>, who since 1981 has written&nbsp;fiction and poetry as well as political and cultural analysis in the city. His new collection is&nbsp;<i>Days Change at Night: Notes from Los ...
<p><span size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Los Angeles' Franklin Hills with Jeff Weiss, music writer for the&nbsp;<em>LA Weekly</em>&nbsp;and many other publications, editor of&nbsp;<a ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Pasadena with journalist Patt Morrison, best known for her "<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-columnist-pmorrison,0,1429581.columnist">Patt Morrison Asks</a>" column in the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, her years hosting <em>Life and Times</em> and <em>Bookshow ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Glassell Park with comedian and man of cinema&nbsp;<a href="http://thatchrisgore.tumblr.com/">Chris Gore</a>, who has talked movies on such television shows as&nbsp;<i>The X Show</i>,&nbsp;<em>The New Movie Show with Chris Gore</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Attack ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down above Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles with Tyson Cornell, proprietor of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rarebirdbooks.com/">Rare Bird Books</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Lit</a>, former longtime&nbsp;Director ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Condesa with&nbsp;<a href="http://gabrielajauregui.net/">Gabriela Jauregui</a>, writer, poet, and co-founder of the publishing collective&nbsp;<a href="http://surplusediciones.org/">sur+</a>. They discuss her childhood ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Condesa with Juan Carlos Cano and Paloma Vera, founders of the architecture and urbanism practice <a href="http://www.canovera.com/">CANO | VERA</a>. They discuss how everything in Mexico City's built environment exists "behind," being interesting ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Roma with Nicholas Gilman, author of the book and blog&nbsp;<em><a href="http://goodfoodmexicocity.blogspot.com/">Good Food in Mexico City: Fondas, Food Stalls, and Fine Dining</a></em>. They discuss the culinary importance ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Roma with novelist and essayist Brenda Lozano, author of the&nbsp;<em>Todo Nada</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.letraslibres.com/autores/brenda-lozano">contributor to&nbsp;</a><em><a href="http://www.letraslibres.com/autores/brenda-lozano">Letras ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Condesa with <a href="http://www.kurthollander.com/">Kurt Hollander</a>, photographer, filmmaker, magazine editor, and author of <em>Several Ways to Die in Mexico City: An Autobiography</em>. They discuss his microbiologically informed view of life; ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Roma with Diego Rabasa, co-founder of <a href="http://www.sextopiso.com/">Sexto Piso</a> press. They discuss why this might make for the most exciting moment in Mexican, or even Spanish-language, literature; Mexico's past era of invincible intellectual ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Echo Park, Los Angeles with <a href="http://www.japanamericabook.com/">Roland Kelts</a>, lecturer at the University of Tokyo, co-editor of the literary journal <em>A Public Space</em>, and author of the book <em>Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.</em> ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Silver Lake, Los Angeles with Vincent Brook, teacher at UCLA, USC, Cal State Los Angeles, and Pierce College, and author of books on Jewish &eacute;migr&eacute; directors and the Jewish sitcom as well as the new <em>Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles</em>. ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Westwood, Los Angeles with <a href="http://www.kevinsmokler.com/">Kevin Smokler</a>, author of <em>Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School</em>. They discuss what makes him think of Holden Caulfield as a Bing user; why we ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Santa Monica with Clive Piercy, founder and principal of design studio <a href="http://www.airconditionedla.com/">air-conditioned</a> and author of the photo book <em>Pretty Vacant</em>, an appreciation of Los Angeles "dingbat" apartments. They discuss Reyner Banham's enduring ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">&nbsp;Colin Marshall sits down in Nishinomiya, Japan with translator, writer, and former&nbsp;<em>Kansai Time Out</em>&nbsp;editor Christopher Stephens. They discuss whether higher Japanese skills get a foreigner more suspicion; the nearby presence and touristic effects ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down overlooking greater Kyoto on Mt. Ogura with Stephen Gill, poet, BBC radio scriptwriter, and executive director of <a href="http://www.ptogura.org/">People Together for Mt. Ogura</a>. They discuss the mountain's place in a traditional Japanese poetry card game; how, after scores ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Los Angeles' Koreatown with filmmaker Rob Montz, director of&nbsp;<em><a href="http://www.juchestrong.com/">Juche Strong</a></em>, a short documentary about North Korea and its propaganda. They discuss reaching the same age as Kim Jong-un ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down near Nara, Japan's Tōdai-ji temple with artist, critic, and teacher&nbsp;<a href="http://flavors.me/standardgrey">Christopher Olson</a>. They discuss his thoughts, as a Winnipegger born and raised, on Guy Maddin's&nbsp;<i>My Winnipeg</i>; the ...
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