Attention — Sep 17, 2026

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 027

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:25

This episode is part twenty-seven of Cory Doctorow’s serialized reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Doctorow opens with a brief personal update, explaining that he is recording late because his baby has been sick and his day has been disrupted. He mentions upcoming travel to Chicago for a successful production of his play Little Brother, then to Kansas City and La…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 025

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:29

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with publishing and personal news: Doctorow notes he is nearing completion of the novel reading, reports that Little Brother’s film rights have been optioned to producer Don Murphy, and mentions strong foreign-rights sales, a reader’s Slovak translation, a Chicago stage adaptation, upcoming appearances at the Campbell and Sturgeon Awards in Kansas City…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 024

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:33

This podcast episode opens with Cory Doctorow’s personal update about a weekend outing with his child, including a picnic at Bun Hill Cemetery and a trip to the zoo, followed by commentary on a cinema premiere in Leicester Square where attendees were asked to surrender mobile phones. Doctorow questions the security implications of leaving phones with cinema staff, noting phones contain payment, au…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 023

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:37

This video is part twenty-three of Cory Doctorow’s reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. It opens with Doctorow’s podcast-style update: he has returned from Oslo, praises the Norwegian public broadcaster’s open, Creative Commons, BitTorrent-based approach to sharing publicly funded media, and mentions upcoming appearances in Norway and Latin America related to Littl…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 022

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:40

This episode is part twenty-two of Cory Doctorow’s reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. It opens with a personal podcast introduction in which Doctorow describes a pleasant weekend in London celebrating his wife’s birthday, including a hotel stay, a movie, dim sum, breakfast in bed, coffee, shopping, swimming, and a visit to a city farm. He also discusses his writi…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 021

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:44

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with a brief holiday greeting and updates about recent events, including a steampunk club night in London, a new short story for a Mars anthology, and an appearance at NorWesCon. The main content is part twenty-one of Doctorow’s reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. In the excerpt, Alan and Mimi flee together after an in…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 020

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:49

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast begins with personal and professional updates: he has returned from Toronto, is recovering from jet lag, discusses his baby’s sleep and illness, and announces winning the White Pine Award for best young adult novel, voted by Ontario high school students. He mentions meeting readers and nominees, a stop-motion animation reel, completing taxes and passport pap…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 019

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:52

This episode opens with Cory Doctorow recording from his parents’ home in Toronto and sharing personal and professional updates. He describes a family Mother’s Day brunch, visits a community-oriented free-software café, and mentions upcoming appearances for the Ontario Library Association’s White Pine Award, where he will discuss Little Brother and lead a workshop on critically examining school fi…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 018

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

In this episode, Cory Doctorow records part eighteen of his reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town from home on a UK Bank Holiday Monday while preparing for a trip to Minneapolis and Toronto. He explains that he is keeping his voice down because his baby is asleep nearby, and he mentions upcoming appearances, including an award event and a school talk about Little Bro…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 018

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 22:56

This episode is part eighteen of Cory Doctorow’s serialized reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Doctorow opens from home on a UK Bank Holiday Monday, explaining that he is recording quietly because his baby is asleep and he is preparing to travel to Minneapolis and Toronto for literary events, including an award appearance and a school talk about Little Brother. H…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 017

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:00

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with personal and professional updates. Doctorow discusses upgrading to Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, praising its smooth system-wide application updates despite a minor Amarok issue, and mentions recording a video for a European Union media-literacy conference in Rome rather than traveling. He previews upcoming appearances at a Young Adult Reading Festival…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 016

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:08

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with personal and professional updates before part sixteen of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town. Doctorow discusses publishing news, including HarperCollins’ upcoming UK editions of several novels, his work on For the Win, a short-story collection self-publishing project, and his upcoming talk at the London Book Fair. He mentions…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 015

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:11

This podcast episode opens with Cory Doctorow apologizing for a late and short recording after returning from Eastercon, the British science fiction convention in Bradford. He describes the convention as pleasant but spoiled by a bad curry that left him and his family ill, while also noting the pleasure of spending time with Tim Powers, his wife, friends, and readers. Doctorow then updates listene…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 014

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:15

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with a personal update: Doctorow is tired after an exhausting trip to Berlin for the Republica conference, where he gave a well-received talk but had little time to see friends. He also explains that his young daughter is ill with a gastrointestinal virus, keeping the family home for a few days. He mentions upcoming plans, including attending Eastercon…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 013

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

This episode is part thirteen of Cory Doctorow’s reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Before the reading, Doctorow shares personal and professional updates: he is tired after a benefit at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, missed writing time during the Game Developers Conference, plans to speak at Republika in Berlin, and praises Lulu’s print-on-…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 012

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

This podcast episode opens with Cory Doctorow introducing the reading from San Francisco during the Game Developers Conference, mentioning his family’s difficult travel and his upcoming benefit reading. He also announces that Little Brother and the short story True Names have received Hugo Award nominations. The main content is part twelve of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves To…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 011

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:26

In this episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast, the host opens with personal and professional updates recorded while he is a single dad during Alice’s trip to South by Southwest. He describes bonding with his child, visiting Speaker’s Corner, and joking about heckling a nativist speaker. He then discusses the copy-editing process for his upcoming novel Makers, explaining the cumbersome workflow of pri…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 010

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:31

This episode opens with Cory Doctorow’s personal podcast update. He explains that he is tired after returning from Milan, where he was guest of honor at Meet the Media Guru, gave a talk at a digital library, met bloggers and journalists, and spent time with his family. He promotes a Creative Commons audio adaptation of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, notes that his wife Alice is leaving for Sou…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 009

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:35

This video is part nine of Cory Doctorow’s audio reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, preceded by a personal podcast update. Doctorow describes an unusually busy week: he debated copyright reform at the Policy Exchange with representatives from the British Phonographic Institute and the Open Rights Group, criticizing the industry’s focus on rhetoric rather than sub…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 008

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:39

This episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast opens with a personal update recorded from home before a busy week. Doctorow discusses his recent adoption of Twitter, where he crowdsources article ideas and accidentally inspired the Backflick meme, a hashtag for humorous backwards movie plot summaries. He promotes upcoming Hugo Award nominations, noting that several of his works are eligible, and mentions…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 007

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:43

This video is part seven of Cory Doctorow reading his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. It begins with Doctorow’s podcast-style update about attending the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference in New York, where he discussed Amazon’s control over digital book distribution and its mandatory DRM policy, coining Dr. O’s Law: when someone puts a lock on something you…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 006

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

In this sixth part of Cory Doctorow’s podcast reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Doctorow begins with a personal update from a New York hotel room. He describes severe jet lag, a smooth customs experience, and filming interviews with Anonymous protesters outside the Church of Scientology for Boing Boing Video. He mentions attending the O’Reilly Tools of Change co…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 005

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:52

This episode is part five of Cory Doctorow’s reading of his 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Before the reading, Doctorow gives a personal update: he was delayed by severe snow in London, spent time with family, celebrated his daughter’s first birthday at Disneyland Paris, and is preparing for upcoming speaking engagements in New York, Canada, and Toronto. He also discusses s…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 004

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:55

This episode opens with Cory Doctorow recording from his parents’ basement in Toronto after attending Confusion in Troy, Michigan, where he was guest of honor. He mentions signed copies of his novel available at a Toronto bookstore, upcoming family travel to Disneyland Paris for his daughter’s first birthday, progress on his new novel For the Win, and Hugo Award nominations for several of his work…

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 003

Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com · 23:59

This podcast episode begins with Cory Doctorow’s personal update: he is sick with a cold, credits Buckley’s Mixture for making the recording possible, and mentions his baby’s nursery-school germs. He discusses progress on his next novel, For the Win, and upcoming appearances at Confusion and Tools of Change, where he plans to warn publishers about allowing DRM platforms such as Amazon, Sony, or Au…