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: martin@loungeruminator.net


• Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld


• Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld