Actor, Performer, Activist, and now Author, Harvey Fierstein is making the rounds promoting his new book, I WAS BETTER LAST NIIGHT: A MEMOIR (Knopf). Here he is as a special guest on Marc Maron’s Podcast, WTF!! They talk about his life, his hopes, his dreams, his new book…. you know the drill. Listen to it right here & please be sure to share it on your favorite social platform.
In a recent episode of the CHASE JARVIS LIVE Podcast, Debbie Millman talks with Chase about her life, career & her new book, “WHY DESIGN MATTERS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE WORLD’S MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE”. At a certain point in our careers, there are no more promotions to seek. No more pay raises to demand. No more competition to be had…. At the peak of our careers, a sense of achievement can be offset by the sheer terror of falling down […]
Former world tennis champion and social activist Billie Jean King is one of the most iconic athletes in American history. With 39 Grand Slam titles and 20 career wins at Wimbledon, King was named one of the “100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century” by LIFE magazine. King joins Washington Post opinions writer Jonathan Capehart to share stories from her remarkable life and her ongoing commitment to equality, penned in her new book, “All In: An Autobiography.” […]
Please be sure to check out the YouTube Video down below where we share the conversation/interview that James Ellroy had recently with the Mysterious Bookshop’s Tom Wickersham. At that event James Ellroy discusses his new book, WIDESPREAD PANIC: A NOVEL (Knopf).
In this latest episode of THE BOOK SHOW PODCAST we get to hear from the Modern Master of Noir, James Ellroy. He talks about his new novel “Widespread Panic” (Knopf) which is mostly about the malevolent monarch of the 1950’s Hollywood Underground. This book has just been released & is in Bookstores right now! The novel is a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with Communist Conspiracies, FBI Finks, Celebrity Smut Films, and Strange Bedfellows… Classic Ellroy!! […]
SPARK & FIRE PODCAST recently did a profile on the Designer who created the Iconic “Jurassic Park” Book Cover. Back in the day, a Designer named Chip Kidd got a dream assignment: Create an iconic book cover for a soon-to-be-blockbuster: Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. And when the pressure to perform is that high, it’s easy to get creatively paralyzed. SPARK & FIRE follows Chip on his journey in and out of stuck-ness as he creates one of […]
On the final day of CCXP Worlds (Dec. 6th, 2020), Bruno Porto interviewed New York-based Graphic Designer, Writer and Editor Chip Kidd about Comic Books, Graphic Design, & Book Production. Anyway, here it is, please be sure to check it out! ————————————————————————————————————
Here’s a very recent video published on YouTube where the Graphic Designer Chip Kidd gets to talk with Students from all over the world. There is also a Q & A section, Check it out! ————————————————————————————————————
Mark Laliberte, over at the CAROUSEL Magazine Blog, recent published an exclusive interview they did back in 2013 with Author & Graphic Designer Chip Kidd. In the discussion, they talk about Chip’s long career at Penguin Random House (Then, just “Random House”) & the State of Graphic Design today. They also discuss such issues as: BAT-MANGA (Chip’s Book celebrating Jiro Kuwata’s Batman Art from the 1960’s), WATCHING THE WATCHMEN (Another Book by Chip where he documents the making of THE […]
As a part of the “Book Your Summer” Program over at Penguin Random House, Graphic designer and editor Chip Kidd gets the inside story from some of our favorite graphic novelists: Pat Dorian (Lon Chaney Speaks), Reza Farazmand (City Monster), Liana Finck (Excuse Me), Deena Mohamed (Shubeik Lubeik), Tom Scioli (Jack Kirby), and David F. Walker (The Life of Frederick Douglass). If a picture is worth a thousand words, the amazing blends of art and storytelling crafted by these talented […]