<p>Hello Listeners, </p><br><p>It’s been going on two years since the last new episode, and I really wasn’t sure if there was going to be another one, but I came across someone whom I just had to invite on, and she said yes, and we had a lovely chat in July, and here we are! Whether this will be a coda or a reboot, we shall see - I’d love your input on that</p><br><p>From <a href="http://ayunhalliday.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ayun Halliday’s website</a>: “I was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and came of age at the height of the preppy craze. For some unfathomable reason, my grandparents had a subscription to <em>The New Yorker. </em>Every week, I’d paw through it, daydreaming of a glamorous future in which I’d be a celebrated stage actress, living in sin with some hot, devoted trumpet player in a Greenwich Village loft with a skyline view I’ve since learned is possible only from downtown Brooklyn or the western shores of New Jersey.”</p><br><p>Ms. Halliday is a writer, actor, performance artist, zinester, the list goes on and on! She pubilshes the Zine <em>The East Village Inky. </em>It was and still is written and illustrated entirely by hand. </p><br><p>I could spend a good while longer discussing some of her many other theatrical and publishing achievements, but what brought her to my attention this spring was the publication of her latest (7th) book, <a href="http://ayunhalliday.com/small-potato-manifesto/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto</em></a>, a compendium of Halliday’s words and illustrations along with input from a variety of creative people (I just can’t get myself to take the noun “creatives” seriously) who comprise “99.9% of all humans who … have not been and will never be rich as a result of their art. Nor will we be famous…at least not as famous as we deserve.”</p><br><p>I heartily encourage you to look up any of the artists mentioned in our conversation and, especially if you’re a lil spud, to pick up a copy of the Small Potato Manifesto, available through Ayun’s site or wherever books are purveyed. </p><br><p>For all episodes of this show, from small fries to Sedarises, please find us on the social mediae (insta/twitter) at 15minsjamieb, on facebook by just looking for the name of the show, or at <a href="15minutesjamieberger.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">15minutesjamieberger.com</a>, or email me at [email protected]</p><br><p>-Jamie</p><br><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
