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We're joined by author and publisher Deborah Shapiro for conversation about working within limitations, publishing on your own terms, and even Columbo!

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.

Episode artwork: Book Manufacturing—Typesetting [cropped], Rand McNally and Company. Public domain image courtesy Newberry Library and Wikimedia Commons.

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A. R.  Ammons
The Snow Poems

Roland Barthes
Mythologies

Walter Benjamin
The Arcades Project

John Berger
Bento's Sketchbook

Brian Blanchfield
Proxies

Marianne Brooker
Intervals

B-Side Editions

James M. Cain
Mildred Pierce

Elias Canetti
Auto-da-Fé

Wah-Ming Chang

Robert Cochrane / Joel Surnow
24

Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes

Brian Dillon
Essayism

George Eliot
Middlemarch

Peter Falk
Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes

Gustave Flaubert

Heinrich Heine
"Die Lorelei"

Hercule Poirot

Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci

Matthew Jacobson

Immanuel Kant

Jack Kerouac

John Le Carré

Nathalie Léger
Suite for Barbara Loden

Jonathan Lethem

Richard Levinson / William Link
Columbo

Barbara Loden
Wanda

Donato Loia
1095 Short Sentences

David Lynch
Twin Peaks

Herman Melville
"Billy Budd"

Henry Miller
Black Spring

Errol Morris
The Pigeon Tunnel (John Le Carré documentary)

Ian Penman
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time

Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time

Rob Reiner
The Princess Bride

Theodore Roszak
Flicker

Theodore Roszak
The Making of a Counter Culture

W. G. Sebald
The Rings of Saturn

Deborah Shapiro
Consolation

Deborah Shapiro
The Summer Demands

Deborah Shapiro
The Sun in Your Eyes

Matthew Specktor
The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood

Helen Vendler
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar

Wim Wenders
Wings of Desire

Nathanael West
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

Anthony E. Zuiker
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation