{"podcast":{"title":"Bingo Is Life: A Post-Bingo Harrisonburg Podcast","slug":"bingo-is-life-a-post-bingo-harrisonburg-podcast-6401130","podcast_index_feed_id":6401130,"rss_url":"https://brothershowdyshell.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://brothershowdyshell.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16506039/001_-_Hburg_podcast_cover7e3ac.png","author":"Brothers Howdyshell","episode_count":100,"summary":"Join Mike and Chris Howdyshell with Jay Zehr, and Britney ”Mumshackles” Mongold each week in a post-Bingo Harrisonburg Podcast. We discuss, music, theater, comedy, the Harrisonburg scene, and course the Bingo Gameshow! Links to our topics will be in the show notes.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bingo-is-life-a-post-bingo-harrisonburg-podcast-6401130"},"episode":{"title":"144 - Sofia Samatar - Local Writer - December 2, 2025","slug":"144-sofia-samatar-local-writer-december-2-2025","published_at":"2025-12-03T05:00:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bingo-is-life-a-post-bingo-harrisonburg-podcast-6401130/144-sofia-samatar-local-writer-december-2-2025","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bingo-is-life-a-post-bingo-harrisonburg-podcast-6401130","url":"https://brothershowdyshell.podbean.com/e/144-sofia-samatar-local-writer-december-2-2025/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/6pzkxj96psrw3j7w/25-12-02_Bingo_Podcast_-_12_2_25_1146_PMblzir.mp3","summary":"Sofia Samatar returns to the podcast to talk to us about her new book, Friendly City: A Year of Walks. She shares some of her writing strategies, some behind-the-scenes of book publishing, and of course - why this town is worth writing about in the first place! “Anyone can write about a large city—large cities are open to everyone—but small cities can only be portrayed by people who love them.” A few mentions: Ruby’s Arcade - A Harrisonburg original. - https://rubysarcade.com/ About Sofia: https://www.sofiasamatar.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Samatar https://www.jmu.edu/english/people/samatar-sofia.shtml Parentheses - A Harrisonburg Bookstore: (Sofia's book launch is on December 5, 2025 at 5pm.) https://www.parenthesesbooks.com/ If you don’t buy the book at Parentheses in person, you can still support the store by ordering it here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/friendly-city-a-year-of-walks-sofia-samatar/18c3d453de56a69e?ean=9781680600056&next=t","meta_description":"Sofia Samatar returns to the podcast to talk to us about her new book, Friendly City: A Year of Walks. She shares some of her writing strategies, some beh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2888,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bingo-is-life-a-post-bingo-harrisonburg-podcast-6401130/episodes/144-sofia-samatar-local-writer-december-2-2025/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/bingo-is-life-a-post-bingo-harrisonburg-podcast-6401130/144-sofia-samatar-local-writer-december-2-2025.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}