The Bat Segundo Show

Reluctant Habits is devoted to books, films, arts, technology, and culture. It has been singled out by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Telegraph, Details, and numerous other outlets of questionable repute. Reluctant Habits often includes 3,000 word essays on books, film reviews that often contain strange digressions, breaking journalism, and long-form conversations with the writers, artists, and cultural figures of our time. A new conversation - part of The Bat Segundo Show, averaging at about 40 minutes - is released every Tuesday for your listening pleasure. And on Friday, you will often find a film review or two. On January 10, 2011, Managing Editor Edward Champion initiated The Modern Library Reading Challenge, an ambitious attempt to read the top 100 novels, as decided upon by the Modern Library of America, from #100 to #1 and write at least 1,000 words for each title. These essays are included within all the coverage. Mr. Champion is presently working on #89: Henry Green's Loving. Past contributors have included Levi Asher, Nicholson Baker, Nigel Beale, Michael Czobit, Richard Grayson, Sarah Hall, Erin O'Brien, Richard Powers, and Brian Francis Slattery.