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Episode 102: Sarah Bodman

The Small Machine Talks, Episode 102 with Sarah Bodman UWE Bristol Book Arts Newsletters by Sarah Bodman http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ Artists’ Book Year Books This is another episode in the extra-literary, page-adjacent thread of 2023. I speak to artist and researcher Sarah Bodman about artist books and her work. We discuss the definition and examples of artists’…

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Episode 100: Christine McNair

Recorded on Friday, March 17, 2023 I speak to Christine McNair: book doctor, writer and dear friend as part of the page-adjacent, extra-literary thread this year. We are celebrating our 100th episode of the Small Machine Talks. She tells us she lives a life of books. We learn about her job as a book conservator…

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Episode 99: Johanna Drucker

Thursday, February 23, 2023 http://www.johannadrucker.net/ https://johannadrucker.substack.com/ Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2022) In our continued thread of extra-literary / page-adjacent topics, I speak to writer, scholar and artist Johanna Drucker about the origins of the alphabet which she wrote about in her latest book,…

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