Amis and Jeremy and Lynch, Oh My!

You’ve got to pay close attention to what’s going on at the Bat Segundo Show over at Ed Rants or you’re likely to miss something. For instance, this past weekend was a jackpot for interview lovers, as new interviews were posted with Martin Amis, Charlie Anders and Annalee Newitz, Ron Jeremy and Jane Ganahl.

Ed Champion, the primary perpetrator of Segundo and Ed Rants, has this to say about their latest crop of literary podcasts:

The latest batch features a little bit of something for everybody: Martin Amis, in one of our best interviews, discusses his latest novel, House of Meetings, and confesses to us his crisis in confidence; journalist and memoirist Jane Ganahl searches for love in middle age; the infamous Ron Jeremy reveals a lot more than you might expect; and the whip-smart Annalee Newitz returns to discuss the geek gender divide with the divine Charlie Anders.

And still another important interview we’ve missed until now: on March 8th, Bat Segundo released a podcast interview with David Lynch (yes: that David Lynch). “Let’s talk about suffering,” Lynch says at one point. “Like in movies, people die. Well, you say, you don’t have to die to show a death. And there’s all kind of suffering and torment and all these things in a story. And, for me, those things come from ideas. Now when you catch an idea, you see the thing. You hear the thing. You feel and see and hear the mood of it. And you see the character. You almost see what the character wears. And you see what the character says and how they say it. That it’s an idea that comes all at once. And you know that idea.”

You can catch up with all of these great interviews -- and more and more and more -- here.