The Office Hours Interview w/ Ernest Wilkins

The Office Hours Interview: Lauren Sherman

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The Office Hours Interview: Jack L. Carlson (of Rowing Blazers)

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The Office Hours Interview - Maria Cristina Sherman

Maria Cristina Sherman is a music writer and culture critic currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked as a senior writer at Jezebel, managing editor at Gizmodo Media Group, senior correspondent at Fuse TV, and contributor at BuzzFeed Music. You may have seen her work at NPR and in Billboard, SPIN, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and many other quality publications. Her debut book, LARGER THAN LIFE: A History of Boy Bands, NKOTB to BTS, was published by Hachette imprint Black Dog and Leventhal in July 2020. If she were in a boy band, she’d be the bad boy. This one is an absolute hoot. I reveal the story of the time I met Harry Styles, we talk all about Maria's amazing book, masculinity, criticism, and what we want young writers to know. This episode also contains the only Baldwin/Buckley-style debate about B2K EVER.

The Office Hours Interview: Folu Akinkuotu

Folu Akinkuotu [http://twitter.com/notfoluhttp://twitter.com/notfolu] is a home cook, prolific baker and rare snack aficionado. Her newsletter Unsnackable [http://www.unsnackable.substack.com/] features rare snacks, drinks and fast food from around the world and has been in The New Yorker [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/is-substack-the-media-future-we-wan], SBS Australia [https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2020/12/01/discover-worlds-cuisines-your-inbox] and The Face Magazine [https://theface.com/culture/best-substack-newsletters-subscribe]. Folu is one of those world-class talents that manages to hide in plain sight. With one tweet almost a year ago, she’s influenced some of the biggest names in the cultural industry of food and drink media, despite you likely never hearing her name until now.

The Office Hours Interview: Simon Owens

Simon Owens covers the media industry for his Substack newsletter and podcast The Business of Content. He writes about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content. There's this misconception that the average newsletter reader is clamoring to pay for content, when in reality converting a free reader into a paid subscriber is like pulling teeth. We discuss this, tactics that newsletter operaters should think about, where we think Substack is going, and the state of the newsletter business in 2021.