Attention — Sep 16, 2026

Interview with Nigel Beale, critic and rare book specialist

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:38

This interview, conducted by Cory Doctorow with rare book specialist and literary critic Nigel Beale, explores how books, bookselling, and copyright are being reshaped by digital technology. The conversation begins with Doctorow’s award-winning novel Little Brother and the idea that publishing is entering a period of permanent technological revolution rather than a temporary transition. The speake…

Martian Chronicles, Part 03

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:42

This podcast episode is the third part of Cory Doctorow’s serialized reading of Martian Chronicles, a young adult story written for Jonathan Strahan’s anthology Life on Mars. Doctorow begins with personal updates: he is sick after touring and catching a cold from his wife and daughter, has finished corrections for his next YA novel For the Win, mentions the Boing Boing Annual Gift Guide, and says…

Makers, the DRM-free audiobook

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:44

The transcript is an excerpt from the DRM-free audiobook of Cory Doctorow’s novel Makers, read by Bernadette Dunne. It opens with Suzanne Church, a business journalist, returning to a formal press conference in Silicon Valley after years of working in casual home-office attire. The event centers on Landon Kettlewell, the new chief executive of a merged Kodak and Duracell company, whom reporters mo…

Martian Chronicles, Part 02

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:48

This video transcript is part two of Cory Doctorow’s podcast reading from his story-in-progress Martian Chronicles, written for Jonathan Strahan’s young-adult Mars anthology Life on Mars. Doctorow opens with a personal update after returning from an overnight flight and a successful appearance at Philcon, the Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention. He thanks convention organizers, fans, podcaster…

Radio Berkman interview

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 21:58

In this Radio Berkman interview, David Weinberger talks with author Cory Doctorow about copyright, digital books, and the future of ownership. Doctorow, known for science fiction novels such as Little Brother and Makers and for releasing many works under Creative Commons licenses, argues that copyright law is a public bargain that balances rights holders with the public. He distinguishes between r…

Martian Chronicles, Part 01

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:04

This podcast episode opens with Cory Doctorow recording from his parents’ basement in Toronto while on tour, apologizing for possible audio problems because he lost his microphone windsock. He thanks listeners who attended a recent signing at the Merrill Collection, notes upcoming appearances in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and PhilCon, and directs listeners to his website for media appearances…

Reading from last night

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:08

This video captures Cory Doctorow’s first public reading from his novel Makers, delivered at the MAKERS launch event. The excerpt was crowdsourced from Twitter suggestions and introduces a scene in which a journalist named Suzanne visits two inventors, Perry and Lester, who have been funded to create new machines from discarded objects. The setting is a barn inside a dead mall in Hollywood, Florid…

Makers reading

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:13

The transcript is a public reading from Cory Doctorow’s novel Makers, delivered at the book’s launch event. The narrator thanks the audience and explains that the passage was chosen through crowdsourced suggestions from Twitter, marking the first time he has read from the book publicly. The excerpt follows a journalist, Suzanne, visiting two inventors, Perry and Lester, who have received funding a…

Audio and photos from MAKERS launch in Toronto

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:26

The transcript captures a Q&A session at the Toronto launch of Cory Doctorow’s novel Makers, recorded by Andrew Schwab. Doctorow discusses his practice of offering books for free online, arguing that copying is inevitable and that DRM cannot stop determined readers. He prefers to provide a clean digital copy rather than force fans to spend dozens of hours retyping or scanning his work, and he beli…

Epoch, Part 08

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:31

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with the host discussing technical setup, upcoming appearances, and community events, including a film featuring Gilberto Gil, Larry Lessig, and Girl Talk, a Toronto launch of Makers in Canada, inscribed book copies, and a U.S. tour through New Jersey, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. He also mentions an essay in Tin House titled “Predicting the Pre…

Interview with Off the Hook/WBAI about Makers

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:47

This transcript captures a WBAI Off the Hook radio program that includes a phone/Skype interview with Cory Doctorow about his novel Makers, maker politics, and the broader state of technology and activism. Doctorow explains that Makers is a near-future novel about a world in which inexpensive fabrication and digital networks make it possible for individuals and small communities to create technolo…

Epoch, Part 7

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:54

This episode opens with Cory Doctorow’s usual podcast introduction, where he discusses a microphone sensitivity issue caused by Ubuntu’s PulseAudio, promotes upcoming talks in Cambridge and Sheffield, and mentions signed copies of his novel Makers available through independent bookstores in London and Toronto. He also notes his ongoing work on a Mars story and introduces the seventh installment of…

Epoch, Part 6

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:57

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast presents part six of the story-in-progress Epoch, read aloud by the author. The narrator, Odell, returns to his workspace to find that the artificial intelligence known as Big Mac has sent an urgent message containing his network map, master keys for firmware updates, and a long list of administrative passwords. Big Mac explains that giving this information…

Epoch, Part 5

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:02

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with a personal update about his busy autumn schedule. He describes attending O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference in Frankfurt, where he discussed what happens when e-book and audiobook sales replace copyright with restrictive user agreements, and mentions his German publishers and upcoming Little Brother tour. He also talks about a librarianship con…

Epoch, Part 4

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:06

This video is an episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast in which he introduces a rushed reading of the fourth installment of his story-in-progress Epoch, commissioned for the forthcoming collection With a Little Help. Doctorow explains that he is recording early because he is traveling to Frankfurt for the Tools of Change conference, where he plans to discuss how proprietary formats and unfair contrac…

Epoch, Part 3

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:12

This podcast episode opens with Cory Doctorow returning to London after a Canadian tour and describing the paperwork, editing, and publishing obligations that follow a writer on the road. He mentions technical edits for For the Win, early copies of Makers, a London launch at Forbidden Planet, and the possible loss of his office space, before introducing a short reading from Epoch, Part 3, a story-…

Epoch, Part 2

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:16

This episode is the second installment of Cory Doctorow’s story-in-progress Epoch, framed by a podcast introduction in which Doctorow mentions traveling across Canada for lectures and festivals and announces that Little Brother has won the Sunburst Award for Best Canadian Young Adult Novel. The narrative then follows a technician or researcher, Odell, who is responsible for maintaining an aging ar…

Epoch, Part 1 — New story

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:20

This podcast episode opens with Cory Doctorow explaining that he has finished reading his novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town and is now moving on to new material. He describes a busy week of travel and administrative tasks, contrasting the paperwork that surrounds creative work with the creative writing he cares about. He then introduces Epoch, a story-in-progress from his forthcomin…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 036 — CONCLUSION

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:29

This episode is the final installment of Cory Doctorow’s serialized podcast reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Doctorow begins with personal updates: he is traveling to Norway for the launch of Little Brother, lecturing in Ottawa, working on a new short story called Epoch, receiving favorable early responses to For the Win, and celebrating a starred Publishers We…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 035

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:37

This episode begins with Cory Doctorow’s podcast introduction, where he explains that he is recording early before taking a day off after finishing a novel. He discusses upcoming personal and professional plans, including caring for his child while his partner Alice is away, completing the short story Epoch, receiving Jonathan Colton’s introduction for a collection, preparing a Publisher’s Weekly…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 034

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:40

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with a personal update recorded on a London Bank Holiday. Doctorow explains that he has just finished a new novel after nine months of work, submitting a 165,000-word draft to his editor and preparing copies for first readers. He also reports that his novella Chicken Little, written for the Frederick Pohl tribute anthology Gateways, has been approved.…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 033 FIXED

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:44

This podcast episode is part thirty-three of Cory Doctorow’s reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Doctorow begins with a personal update, explaining that he has just returned from Toronto to London after an overnight flight and briefly praises Air India’s low-cost business class despite the aircraft’s age and his own poor sleep because of sciatica. He also mentions…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 033 — IGNORE THIS ONE!

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:47

This episode is a short podcast recording made by Cory Doctorow from his parents’ basement in Toronto while on holiday with his family. He begins by updating listeners about his trip to the World Science Fiction Convention, noting that he lost two Hugo Awards but won a Prometheus Award and a Golden Duck Award, and that his partner Alice became ill with strep throat during travel. He says the holid…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 032

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:50

This episode is part thirty-two of Cory Doctorow’s serialized audio reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Doctorow opens with a personal update from his parents’ basement in Toronto, explaining that he is on holiday with family after attending the World Science Fiction Convention, where he lost two Hugo Awards but won a Prometheus Award and a Golden Duck Award. He m…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 031

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:57

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast introduces part 31 of his reading of the 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Doctorow begins with personal and professional updates: he is preparing to leave London for Toronto and then Montreal for the World Science Fiction Convention, where he has a busy schedule and hopes to attend the Hugo Awards. He mentions his recent family news, in…