Conversations about books, music, movies, shows, tech, culture, and more. Jim is a songwriter and leader of the band Jim’s Big Ego. He is also an author of The Wakeful Wanderer’s Guide series. Lionel Cassin is an IT security specialist and a voracious reader of Science Fiction and History. They enjoy lively conversations with each other and interesting guests and are sharing those exchanges with you.
A podcast about music, literature, and more.
Hosted by Jim Infantino and Lionel Cassin
updated: 2 months ago
a conversation with Lionel and Jim
Episode 27: “Imperfect people being uncomfortable”
Friday, July 29, 2022
Lionel and Jim talk about what makes a great character in a story. What works? What appeals? Why do some fall flat? Why do some capture us? They also speak a little about their upcoming discussion of The Ministry For [...]
a conversation with Sarah Elkins
Episode 26: “It’s only time travel”
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Sarah Elkins has been in science fiction fandom since putting on a Doctor Who convention in the 80s. She joins the podcast this week to continue our coversation about science fiction and feminism. We discuss books by Vonda Macintyre, Ann [...]
A conversation with Amy Robinson
Episode 25: “Anything you can pick up and bring to life”
Monday, July 11, 2022
Amy Robinson is our guest on the pod this week. Amy is a creator of puppets, an engineer, a mom person, a creative thinker and maker of things, and a knower of cool books and refined queries, a frequent guest [...]
Lionel & Jim
Episode 24: “We fill in the blanks”
Friday, July 1, 2022
Thank you to Patron Sarah Elkins for suggesting the book The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood to us. We spend most of our time trying to suss out the meaning of that tremendous book [...]