Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
Bullseye from NPR is your curated guide to culture. Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators, culture picks from our favorite critics and irreverent original comedy. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world." (Formerly known as The Sound of Young America.)

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Kate Beaton authors the webcomic Hark! a Vagrant. The comic strips mine history and literature for figures to be reimagined and skewered as petulant children, jaded superheroes and Victorian dude-watchers, accented by a very expressive drawing style. Her comics have recently been collected into a book, also called Hark! a Vagrant.

Direct download: tsoya111031_katebeaton.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:30pm EDT

Jeanne Darst is a writer and performer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and This American Life.  She recently published her first book, Fiction Ruined My Family, about her literary family who spent more time drinking than writing.

Direct download: tsoya111028_jeannedarst.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

Don't know where to turn, or who to believe? Try our correspondent Jordan Morris, who brings you the best of America every month.

Direct download: tsoya111026_jordanranks.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Comedian and comedy-inquisitor Marc Maron talks about turning it all around, doing standup and hosting his smash podcast (turned public radio show) WTF.  His new comedy album is "This Has to Be Funny".

Direct download: tsoya111024_marcmaron.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:01pm EDT

Bestselling nonfiction author and The New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean talks to us about the fascinating life of the dog and the character Rin Tin Tin, plus much more. Her new book is Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend.

Direct download: tsoya111017_susanorlean.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:30pm EDT

Today's guests from the AV Club are TV Editor Todd VanDerWerff and Assistant Editor Erik Adams. They drop by to discuss their TV picks for the Fall season from Showtimes 'Homeland' to NBCs 'Up All Night' running through the hits and misses with Host Jesse Thorn.

Direct download: tsoya111013_avclubfalltv.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:30am EDT

The legendary funk bassist joins us to talk about creating the persona of Bootsy, playing music with two very different band leaders, James Brown and George Clinton, and more.

Direct download: tsoya111010_bootsycollins1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:30pm EDT

The Long Winters' frontman, John Roderick, talks to us about the song that changed his life: ZZ Top's Gimme All Your Lovin'.

Direct download: tsoya111006_roderick.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:06pm EDT

For Jonathan Coulton, success as a musician has come with recording music himself, releasing individual songs online one-at-a-time, and even selling his catalog on a USB drive.  So in a way, his new album Artificial Heart is a terrifying turn to the traditional, and a creative risk.  It was produced with They Might Be Giants' John Flansburgh in a studio with a full band, the old-fashioned way.  Jonathan and John talk to us about that process.

Direct download: tsoya111003_coultonflansburgh.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:32pm EDT