My New Podcast: Apples to Giraffes

The cover art for the podcast Apples to Giraffes, featuring the title text and a collaged image of a giraffe's head and neck constructed from scraps of paper including apple patterns and excerpts from old texts.

“We’re all products of pop culture. Hard to escape it. Film and books, though, are as different as apples and giraffes…” —Dennis Lehane

That’s right! My long-time friend (and brilliant cartoonist) Jonas Madden-Connor and I are launching our very own podcast! Our new show is called Apples to Giraffes and it’s all about the art of adaptation: The transmutation of novels into films, movies into comics, video games into TV shows, and anything else we decide we want to discuss! Each episode Jonas and I will take a deep dive into a piece of narrative art (upcoming episodes tackle works by Richard Stark, Ursula K. LeGuin, Donna Tartt, and more), successes and failures in previous adaptations, and what we think we might do with it if we were in charge.

The first episode is out now and features a look at Ken Grimwood’s never-adapted, highly underrated, and extremely influential 1986 novel Replay! You can also find Apples to Giraffes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever else you get your podcasts. Please give it a listen, subscribe, and rate & review! You can also follow along on Twitter and Instagram.

The cover to Replay by Ken Grimwood