Andrew Leland Really Specific Stories

Andrew is a writer, audio producer, editor and teacher, who, in this episode, reflects on his love for writing and his lifelong journey with audio. This ranges from his experimentation with tape recorders as a child, through to his experience in college radio and his role as host and producer of the arts-and-culture podcast The Organist, working with KCRW in Los Angeles. Andrew then shares the story of how he came to write his first book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, and how that has led him to be featured as a guest in various podcasts.


Podcast case study: Parallel (guest)


Find Andrew at andrewleland.org.


Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.


Links and Show Notes

Left the Lens Cap On 00:00:00


Campus radio
Internet radio
The Organist
KCRW
Compact disc (CD)
This American Life
Camcorder


Conversation and Narrative 00:05:48


Desktop publishing
Cable television
Tape recorder
Joe Frank
Paraliterature
Shotgun microphone


Writing 00:14:34


The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (2023) by Andrew Leland
The New Yorker


DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch by Andrew Leland



Accessibility Sprinkles 00:20:59


Visual impairment (including more precise references to blindness and low vision)
Screen reader
Accessibility and more specifically, computer accessibility and Web accessibility
Parallel
Shelly Brisbin
Find Andrew's guest appearance in #86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind.
Louis Braille
Hacker
Braille
Extended reality (XR) (including more precise references to augmented, mixed and virtual reality)


It Feels Like a Gift 00:29:33


Liminality
Ryan Knighton


Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio





Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion


Contact


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Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
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