Jonathan Coulton

I tip my hat to friend and fellow traveller Francis Heaney, who in addition to being a very clever man who writes music and words and cartoons (and who knit himself a vest at least once), also understands how to work it. Francis has written a book called “Holy Tango of Literature,” a collection of [...]

Traditionally I post these things the day of the event, which I know doesn’t help anyone, so I’m getting a bit of a head start this time. John Hodgman and I will be doing our book reading thingie at Pianos this Friday 12/16 at 7PM as part of the One-Story reading series. Martini drink specials [...]

By request, this one comes from the book tour I’ve been doing with John Hodgman. In the book, there’s this very funny history of the lobster in America, in which John explains that what we think of as lobsters today really were not the first animal to be called “lobster.” In fact, the old kind [...]

Back in town again after a fantastic tour with John Hodgman and David Rees. Thanks to everyone who came out to see us - it was a rare and beautiful thing: an unbroken series of large, appreciative audiences. And David and John of course were most excellent. Buy their books.
There’s an editorial in the NY [...]

I did an interview yesterday for Mark Forman’s Free Culture News podcast. Mark’s a good guy, and has lots of great guests and content about all this creative commons stuff. Give him a listen.
In a couple hours I’m off for Baltimore etc. on the next leg of the John Hodgman book tour. We’re traveling and [...]