The guest this week is the author and podcaster Jon Armstrong. Jon Armstrong is a novelist. His first novel, Grey, was published in 2007 and was short-listed for the Philip K Dick Award. That same year, Jon was also nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer, and this year Jon's first short story entitled "Aisle 1047" was published in the esteemed genre digest Fantasy and Science Fiction. The story explores the plight of a far future Mouthwash Girl who has to learn to put the product first, and it fits in nicely with the Late Capitalist theme of the Diet Soap podcast.
I want to thank Jason C and Babafemi M for donating to the podcast this week. Their copies of my surrealist memoir Pick Your Battle are in the mail and jetting their way. And for now I'm no longer asking for donations to the podcast. If you'd like to help the show you'll find links to my various books on Amazon, including my newest novella "Wave of Mutilation." Later on, in the new year, I'll put the donate button back but for now I'm giving it a rest on that front. However, I'd still ask you to follow me on twitter, to find me on Facebook, to stumble-upon my podcasts, and to use the wayback machine to find the first version of my blog at douglaslain.com.
The music you're listening to right now is the Vitamin String Quartet covering Nirvana's hit Come as you Are, but in just a moment you'll be listening to Jon Armstrong discuss his Mouthwash Girl.
The sound and music clips this week include a segment from Daft Punk's Technologic, Steve Reich's Drum Music, and the Boards of Canada's Aquarius. You also heard an excerpt from my novella "Wave of Mutilation."
This week I took a break from Occupying Wall Street but that subject will return in the weeks to come. For now though I'll just say that the music you're listening to right now is Glenn Gould performing Bach's Fugue of Praeludium No.22 in B flat minor, but in just a moment you'll be listening to another Titanic Factoid from my wife Miriam.