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Episode 96: A. L. Kennedy
9 hours ago
9 hours ago
A. L. Kennedy is a Scots writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns and reviews to European newspapers.
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Episode 95: Ben Johnson
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Ben Johnson is a Canadian former sprinter. During the 1987–88 season he held the title of the world's fastest man, breaking both the 100m and the 60m indoor World Records. He won the 100 metres at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics; and at the 1988 Summer Olympics, but was disqualified for doping and stripped of the gold medal.
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Episode 94: Michael Azerrad
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Michael Azerrad is an American author, music journalist, editor, and musician. A graduate of Columbia University, he has written for publications such as Spin, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. Azerrad's 1993 biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana was named by Q as one of the 50 greatest rock books ever written.
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Episode 93: Andrew Hammel
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Andrew Hammel holds law degrees from the University of Houston and Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar of the State of Texas in 1996. He is a former death-row defense lawyer and law professor. He is the author of Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in Global Perspective (2010) and many scholarly articles. He is fluent in English and German. His long-form journalism on famous true crime cases has appeared in Quillette, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Berliner Zeitung, and other outlets.
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Episode 92: Ric Burns
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Ric Burns is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey Ward.
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Episode 91: Nick McDonell
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Nick McDonell is an American writer who has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, producer, novelist and researcher.
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Episode 90: Kim Cross
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Kim Cross is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction. A full-time freelance writer, she has bylines in the New York Times, Nieman Storyboard, Outside, Bicycling, Garden & Gun, CNN.com, ESPN.com, and USA Today.
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Episode 89: Slavoj Žižek
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy.
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Episode 88: Christopher L. Miller
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Christopher L. Miller is retired professor in the Department of French and the Department of African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French, published by the University of Chicago Press.
His new book "Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity" examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation.
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Episode 87: Charles Leerhsen
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Charles Leerhsen is a former executive editor at Sports Illustrated. He has written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The New York Times. His books include Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty; Crazy Good: The Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America; Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500; and Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw.
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Sarah Saffian. Visit him at Leerhsen.com