Hilaritas podcasts: John Zerzan and Nick Tharcher

I have two Hilaritas podcasts to mention this time.

The newest, above, is with John Zerzan, here's the description: "Hilaritas host Mike Gathers chats with John Zerzan about anarchist Max Stirner, and John's interest in Anarcho-primitivism, in episode 53 of the Hilaritas Podcast."

With the excitement over Maybe Night, I managed to miss December's podcast announcement, but it sounds like an interesting one: "Hilaritas host Mike Gathers chats with Nick Tharcher, publisher at The Original Falcon Press, about his many years in the publishing of occult books, in episode 52 of the Hilaritas Podcast." Listen here.  I liked Tharcher's first appearance on the the podcast, I'll bet this one is good, too. 

Not too late to listen to the November podcast, on Robert Shea, featuring Mike Shea (with me in a supporting role). Mike tells great stories about his father. 

I've linked to the Hilaritas Press podcast pages, but you should be able to find these episodes on your favorite podcasting app. Fifty three episodes and counting, browse them here. 

Chicago area news site covers new Robert Shea book [UPDATED]

Robert Shea with a stack of pages from a novel manuscript. Photo provided by Mike Shea.

The Record North Shore, a Chicago area news site that covers the city's suburbs, has published a well written article on the new Robert Shea anthology, Every Day is a GOOD Day, put out by Hilaritas Press.

While I knew some of the information in the article written by Samuel Lisec, there were also some scoops. The photo, above, was one I hadn't seen before. And the article opens with an anecdote new to me:

One of Mike Shea’s favorite memories of his late father came from watching him write.

Robert Shea — the co-author of the popular series with a cult-following “Illuminatus!” and author of historical novels like “Shike” and “All Things Are Light” — drafted his works on typewriters before he purchased an early Apple IIe computer and backed up all his chapters on floppy disks, Mike recalled.

Once he completed a book, Shea would hand feed each page into a letter-quality printer over the course of two weeks to eventually produce a 10-inch stack of papers he could package and mail from his family’s home in Glencoe to his editor in New York. 

“I asked him, ‘God, isn’t this killing you?’” Mike said of his father’s printing process. “He said ‘No, this is the best part. This is the part where I take all of this stuff that’s been sitting in a computer, that doesn’t exist anywhere, and now I’m making it real, I’m physically making it real.’”'

Read the whole thing. 

UPDATE: I don't know what went wrong with my original links, but they are now fixed.