Zan Romanoff

Sep 4, 2024 | descript.com | Zan Romanoff

Husband-and-wife team Fern Diaz and Matt Kagen started their first podcast together in 2017. Matt is a playwright and theater producer, so naturally, they focused on people in that world. The Quickening asked a series of theater professionals “What was it like making your first show in New York?” Then, in early 2020, Matt began collaborating on an Audible Original called Six Sermons with his friend Asa Merritt. But of course, it—and everything—was put on hold by the pandemic.

Aug 25, 2024 | descript.com | Zan Romanoff

Dan Delgado started his first audio project in 2006. It was his take on a talk radio show, focused on entertainment news. He called it Radio Dan, and broadcast it through some public radio stations as well as online and, eventually, as a podcast. Radio Dan was something like podcasting grad school. There, Dan learned how to produce audio and how to host and be an on-air presence. And it also became an incubator: his next show, The Industry, actually started as a segment on Radio Dan.

Aug 25, 2024 | descript.com | Zan Romanoff

Most podcast listeners have entertained an idle daydream about befriending the hosts of our favorite shows. Maybe they see our clever tweets and start following us; maybe we hit it off at a meet and greet and somehow manage to transcend our fan status. Colin Honigman is one of the rare few who has actually pulled off the fan-to-friend move. Not only that, he now co-hosts one of the shows he used to just listen to. It all started with the trading card game Flesh and Blood.

Aug 13, 2024 | latimes.com | Zan Romanoff

Book Review Earth to Moon By Moon Unit ZappaDey Street Books: 368 pages, $29.99If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. One night in 1979, 11-year-old Moon Unit Zappa falls asleep to the sound of her parents arguing. They argue plenty, so this isn’t unusual. Her father, Frank, is a musician and composer with a knotty, complex aural style and a seemingly insatiable appetite for sleeping with his fans.

Aug 12, 2024 | descript.com | Zan Romanoff

In 2016, Brennan Storr published a book called “A Strange Little Place: The Paranormal Secrets of Revelstoke, British Columbia.” Through that work, he met another author, Ian Gibbs, and together, they started a paranormal podcast called The Ghost Story Guys. That partnership didn’t last, but the show did; Brennan is still involved, now with co-host Paul Bestall at his side. Paul is also a podcast veteran with an indie show of his own, Mysteries and Monsters.