A Low Chuckle is Enough With John Hodgman

First Draft Episode #251: John Hodgman

John Hodgman, comedian and author of The Areas of My Expertise,
More Information Than You Require, and That is All, as well as
collections of humorous essays Vacationland: True Stories From
Painful Beaches and Medallion Status: True Stories From Secret
Rooms. John is also the host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast as
well as I, Podius with Elliott Kalan.


This episode was sponsored by HIGHLAND 2, a better way to write,
and The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly by Jamie Pacton,
out from Page Street Books now!


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




The Dead Pilots Society production of “Only Child”




Ben Acker (listen to his First Draft here)




Don Faulkner, writing instructor and poet who taught John at
Yale




Lee K. Abbott, short story writer with collections such as
All Things, All At Once




Raymond Carver, author of short story collections Will You
Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk
About Love and Cathedral




John Hodgman’s episode of Fresh Air with Terry Gross




Geoffrey Kloske is the President and Publisher of Riverhead
Books




Dave Eggers, author of The Circle, A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius, and founder of McSweeny’s Internet
Tendency




Ben Schott Schott’s Original Miscellany




George Plimpton, writer and editor of The Paris Review




Writer’s House is the literary agency where John worked




Mark Adams (travel books) Meet Me In Atlantis and Tip of the
Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska




Jesse Thorn, co-host of John’s Judge John Hodgman, and host
of Bullseye




George Saunders, author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in
the Bardo




The A.V. Club




John wrote Dicktown with his friend, fellow podcaster and
writer David Rees




John’s interview in Publisher’s Weekly, in which he was
interviewed by Elaine Szewczyk




 


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