{"id":493,"date":"2014-06-15T23:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T03:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2014-06-15T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T01:36:30","slug":"david-giffels-so-much-more-than-devo-and-beavis-and-butthead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"David Giffels: So Much More than Devo and Beavis and Butthead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"color: #ff4b33; line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GiffelsHeadShot.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-494\" alt=\"GiffelsHeadShot\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GiffelsHeadShot-300x300.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GiffelsHeadShot-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GiffelsHeadShot-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GiffelsHeadShot.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalist and essayist David Giffels has written for the <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, <em>Grantland<\/em>, and <em>Redbook<\/em> among others. His most recent book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Hard-Way-Purpose-Dispatches\/dp\/1451692749\/\">The Hard Way on Purpose<\/a>, a collection of essays about growing up near Akron and Cleveland,\u00a0an area he sees as embodying a sense of place, but &#8220;a weird, surreal place,&#8221; The Rust Belt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Craft_2014-6-18_Giffels.mp3\">We discussed The Rust Belt, shared stories of destroyed places of our youth<\/a> (his in Cleveland, mine in Toledo), and ended with a look at his experiences writing for Bevis and Butthead and a book on Devo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2268\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-493-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Craft_2014-6-18_Giffels.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Craft_2014-6-18_Giffels.mp3\">http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Craft_2014-6-18_Giffels.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Craft_2014-6-18_Giffels.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=493-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Craft_2014-6-18_Giffels.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2014-6-18_Giffels.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist and essayist David Giffels has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Grantland, and Redbook among others. 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