Colin Marshall hosts and produces the podcast Notebook on Cities and Culture [RSS] [iTunes], a twice-weekly long-form conversation with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene around Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Osaka, Kyoto, and beyond. It evolved from the public radio program The Marketplace of Ideas, which aired on KCSB-FM in Santa Barbara from 2007 to 2011.
He also writes essays on on literature, film, cities, Asia, and aesthetics for the Los Angeles Reviews of Books, Bookforum, Open Culture, Put This On, The Japan Foundation, The Millions, 3Quarksdaily, The Quarterly Conversation, and Maximum Fun.
(He makes films and field recordings as well.)
contact: colinjmarshall at gmail
Recent essays:
- Los Angeles: Koreatown, La Brea Avenue, Little Tokyo, The Freeways, the Miracle Mile, The Subway, West Hollywood, The Fairfax District
- Japan: Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, and Japan, Four Western literary expats in postwar Japan, Isle of Dreams by Keizo Hino and The Paradise Bird Tattoo by Choukitsu Kurumatani, Take Ivy by Teruyoshi Hayashida, et al.
- Korea: Three novels by Kim Young-ha
- Men’s style: ABC of Men’s Fashion by Hardy Amies, Icons of Men’s Style by Josh Sims, Off the Cuff by Carson Kressley, Take Ivy by Teruyoshi Hayashida, et al., The Measure of a Man by JJ Lee, The Suit by Nicholas Antongiavanni
- Travel diaries: Mexico City 2013, Portland 2013, Kansai 2012, Seattle 2012, Portland 2012, San Francisco 2012, Mexico City 2011
Recent press and guest appearances:
- Conversation about Los Angeles with editor Andrew Tuck on Monocle magazine’s podcast The Urbanist (segment begins 22:27)
- Interview on Podcast Squared, and a review of Notebook on Cities and Culture
- 11 Points Countdown with Sam Greenspan, on underwhelming United States landmarks
- 11 Points Countdown with Sam Greenspan, on the benefits of high gas prices
- The Auteurcast with Rudie Obias and West Anthony on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
- 중앙일보 interview (Korean-language)
- Second, three-hour appearance on K-Town Tonight with Mike Kim
- Battleship Pretension with Tyler Smith and David Bax: a three-hour course in the nineties’ “Indiewood” movement
- The Criterioncast on Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- The Criterioncast on Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry
- G.I.O Get It On with Giovanni Giorgio the third time
- G.I.O Get It On with Giovanni Giorgio the second time (can’t find this one, for some reason)
- G.I.O. Get It On with Giovanni Giorgio
- K-Town Tonight on Radio Korea with Mike and Elli
- The Creative Community on Channel 21 with David Starkey
- Radio Causeway on KCSB with Tim Grigsby and Pav Aulakh
- Think Different TV with Ben Casnocha
- Full-Stop.net with Michael Schapira
- Broadcasting Brain with Mark Dykeman (this might not be on the net anymore)
- The People You Don’t Know with Eugene Ahn