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.

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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

• Website: rsspod.net
• Email: [e-mail]
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• Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld