DUNCAN CRARY LIVES, WORKS AND PLAYS in Troy, New York. He is your host and producer of A Small American City podcast.

From 2008 to 2012, Crary was the host and producer of The KunstlerCast, a weekly talkshow podcast featuring urban polemicist James Howard Kunstler. In 2011, Crary authored a book based on the series: The KunstlerCast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler…the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl (New Society Publishers).

He has also recorded face-to-face podcast interviews with many notable personalities, including Sir Salman Rushdie, E.O. Wilson and Christopher Hitchens. He has worked as a reporter for newspapers and magazines, and was a founding editor of Salvage, a newsprint magazine of literature and art. He now hustles for a modest livelihood as an author, podcaster and independent publicist/new media consultant.

He is currently working on a multi-media project and book to document the lives of New York’s tug boat sailors.

For a selection of articles about Crary’s more kooky adventures in Troy, NY and the surrounding region, click here.

PRAISE FOR CRARY’S PREVIOUS WORK

“Duncan Crary wrangles these free-wheeling conversations masterfully,” — STEPHEN J. DUBNER, co-author of Freakonomics  and SuperFreakonomics.

“…some of the smartest, most honest urban commentary around—online or off.”
— MICHELE WILSON, Columbia Journalism Review.

“After several years in serious conversation with guru Kunstler, it’s clear that Crary has more than earned his chops in the peak oil and resource-lifestyle conversation…With his smooth on-air voice and relaxed yet informed demeanor, I hope we’ll hear more from this rising cultural observation star in the future.”
— LINDSAY CURREN, Transition Voice