Origin Stories

Campside Media

Have you ever wondered exactly how your favorite movie or book –– or podcast, TV series, documentary film, or magazine article –– got made? Origin Stories has you covered. Each week, veteran journalist Matthew Shaer talks to a different writer or director about the creation of a work close to their own hearts (and to ours). Nothing is off the table: not the frustrations and the joys, not the setbacks and the successes. Intimate and incisive, instructive and eye-opening, Origin Stories is the ultimate podcast for anyone curious about the workings of the creative mind. New episodes every Wednesday! To connect with the team...

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Origin Stories

Episodes (33)

Wednesday Lizzy Goodman on Meet Me In the Bathroom
Wed Feb 4th Brad Lichtenstein on American Reckoning
Jan 28th Alexis Coe on You Never Forget Your First

Origin Stories

Feb 11, 2026
39¼ minutes
36 MB

Lizzy Goodman is a longtime music journalist whose work has helped shape how the early-2000s indie rock era is understood and remembered. Over the past two decades, she’s written for Rolling Stone, Spin, New York Magazine, Nylon, and The New York Times Magazine, profiling artists from MIA to Conor Oberst to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She writes incisively about individual musicians and albums while situating them inside a larger cultural moment — part journalist, part historian. In this episode, she talks to Matthew about Meet Me in the Bathroom, her oral history of New York’s indie scene in the...

Origin Stories

Lizzy Goodman on Meet Me In the Bathroom

Campside Media

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