UNLOCKED: Jason Adam Katzenstein on OCD and cartooning

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We're unlocking this bonus episode because we love Jason and we love his book and you should get his beautiful book. Today we're talking to Jason Katzenstein, cartoonist for Current Affairs and The New Yorker, about his new book Everything is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words and Pictures. Pre-order Jason's book (at your local bookstore if possible!): https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062950079/everything-is-an-emergency/ Jason's livedrawings and other works for Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/author/jason-adam-katzenstein This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Hello, Bird Feed. We are here today with an extremely special guest. I am so, so excited to introduce them to you.
0:08.2	Before we get to that, though, I'm going to introduce my other co-interviewers today. This is Leida Goldier
0:12.8	and Newsmanaging Editor, of course. But my other co-editors today are Allegra Silcox, our business manager,
0:20.1	Leger Say Hi. Hi, everyone. And we have Nathan
0:23.1	J. Robinson himself, the editor, Angie. Hello. And a very, very special guest is Jason Adam
0:29.8	Katzenstein. You may be familiar with Jason as a illustrator, a regular illustrator for us at
0:35.4	Current Affairs, is one of our very, very favorites.
0:41.3	Less importantly, you may know that he also does some cartoons for the New York or whatever,
0:42.3	it's a garbage publication.
0:47.3	But what you probably don't know, well, you might know a little bit about, is that he has a book coming out very, very soon.
0:48.7	It is called Everything is an Emergency, and it's illustrated, its words and pictures.
0:53.3	It is really wonderful.
0:54.7	It is this terrifying, intimate, very, very funny self-portrait of being a cartoonist with OCD.
1:00.3	Jason, thanks for joining us today to talk about your book.
1:02.6	Thank you so much for having me.
1:04.4	Yay.
1:05.0	So we all fucking love this book.
1:06.6	It's like...
1:07.5	It's so good.
1:08.5	It's so good.
1:09.1	It's so good.
1:09.1	It's so good. It's so good. It's so good. It's so charming.
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