On Margins, the podcast about books and book-shaped things!
On Margins, the podcast about books and book-shaped things!

On Margins is a podcast about making books and "book-shaped" things, hosted by Craig Mod.

We're making a book.
The margins are important.
Do you know how important?

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Ametora: How Japan Saved American Fashion - cover

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W. David Marx — The Culture of Fashion in Japan

W. David Marx

Ametora: How Japan Saved American Fashion

W. David Marx and I talk about his book Ametora, Japanese culture, and books in translation.

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Sam Anderson (Part 2) — Pandemic Writing

Sam Anderson

Boomtown

Part two of our interview with award winning New York Times Magazine writer, Sam Anderson.

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Sam Anderson (Part 1) — Town of Booms

Sam Anderson

Boomtown

An interview with award winning New York Times Magazine writer, Sam Anderson.

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Gray318 — Jon Gray's Infinite Covers

Gray318

An interview with award winning book cover designer, Gray318 (Jon Gray).

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Lynne Tillman and What She Would Do

Lynne Tillman

Men and Apparitions

An interview with novelist, essayist, and cultural critic, Lynne Tillman.

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Jessica Hische and Tomorrow I'll Be Brave

Jessica Hische

Tomorrow I'll Be Brave

An interview with designer and letterer Jessica Hische, author of the best-selling children's book, Tomorrow I'll Be Brave.

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Lisa Brennan-Jobs and the design, production, and writing of memoir

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Small Fry

An interview with Lisa Brennan-Jobs, author of the best selling memoir, Small Fry. Lisa and Craig Mod discuss the design, production, and writing of this fascinating book about family, identity, and the complications of growing up in Palo Alto as the daughter of Steve Jobs.

Koya Bound: Eight days on the Kumano Kodo - cover

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To make a book, walk in the woods with a book

Craig Mod

Koya Bound: Eight days on the Kumano Kodo

A walk in the woods with Craig Mod, talking about the economics and production of his book made in collaboration with Dan Rubin, Koya Bound.

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Jason Kottke — Twenty Years of kottke.org

Jason Kottke

kottke.org

Jason Kottke has been distilling his brain into kottke.org for twenty years.

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls - cover

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The making of Rebel Girls

Elena Favilli

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

Elena Favilli is the co-creator (along with Francesca Cavallo) of Timbukutu Labs, a company that used to make apps and now makes international best selling books.

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Kevin Kelly, photographing and backpacking through Asia in the 1970s

Kevin Kelly

Asia Grace & Vanishing Asia

Technologist, futurist, author, and photographer Kevin Kelly discusses traveling during the golden age of global exploration. We cover how photography has changed over the years, his decades cavorting through Asia in the 1970s and 80s, and how he self-produced (eventually getting it published by Taschen!) his Asia Grace book in the 90s.

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The new golden age of bookmaking

Frank Chimero

The Shape of Design

Designer and author Frank Chimero discusses the process behind his seminal design book, "The Shape of Design." We dig into the normalization of paying creative people to make things via crowd funding and patronage platforms, and why there's never been a better time to make books.

The Field Study Handbook - cover

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The years-long road to the Field Study Handbook

Jan Chipchase

The Field Study Handbook

Researcher and author Jan Chipchase has a new book — "The Field Study Handbook." We discuss how he came to produce this 500+ page magnum opus — a distillation of his life's work — and why he is self publishing.