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Where I talk to interesting people. Each series has its focus and questions: different angles on books, reading, making things, and life online. Browse and enjoy!
Worlds Built With Words
An ongoing project. Each sub-series focuses on a different community of people who think about stories and what that work looks like from the inside.
What connects them: the worlds we build with words.
Between The Notes
Interviews with musicians who write songs. This series treats lyrics as writing and composition as authorship: asking songwriters about their craft with the same seriousness every literary form deserves.
Where does a song come from, and what does it take to finish one?
More coming soon!
Cut And Paste
Interviews with zinemakers. This series looks at the practice of making small, handmade, self-published things: the scissors and staplers and photocopiers, the distros and the swaps, the politics and the pleasure.
What keeps people making physical objects in a digital world?
More coming soon!
Other Peoples' Worlds
Interviews with fanfiction writers. This series takes the work seriously: the craft, community, and the creative freedom.
What does it mean to love a world someone else made enough to keep building it yourself?
More coming soon!
Shelf Source
Some of the most interesting people on the web are readers who talk about the books they love on their sites. This series talks to those folks, exploring how the passions intersect.
What does a reading life look like when you have a place online to think out loud about it?
Interview Questions
Each interviewee can choose from the following:
- What book changed how you think about the internet or consumer technology?
- When you finish a book that moves you, what's your first instinct?
- Has a book ever inspired you to build or change something on your site?
- What's a book you've recommended the most, and what does that say about you?
- How do you decide which books deserve a place on your site versus staying private?
- What's something you believe about reading most would disagree with?
- If you could design a library that reflected your site's ethos, what would it look like?
- What's a genre or type of book you used to dismiss but now love?
- How has having a personal website changed the way you read?
- What's a book you wish more people would read, and why?
Listed below are their responses. More every Saturday-ish.
- Ben Overmyer (4 Apr 2026)
- Mortaki (28 Mar 2026)
The Long Sentence
Interviews with authors. This series sits with writers across genre, career stage, and publishing path: asking about the work itself, not just the book.
What does it take to write something, and what do you do with it once it exists?
More coming soon!
The Stacks
Interviews with librarians, archivists, and people studying the profession. This series goes into the cataloging, the reading rooms, the vaults, and the stacks to ask what this work is and what it demands.
What does it mean to spend your working life in service of other people's access to knowledge?
More coming soon!
Participate
Want to be featured in one of these series? Here's how it works:
- You fit the focus of at least one series above.
- You're happy to answer a handful of questions in writing.
- Get in touch and tell me which series interests you.
- I'll send you the questions. You reply however you like.
That's it! I'll let you know when your interview is live. Pseudonyms are welcome! Just tell me what name you'd like used.
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