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Episode 110: Thomas Kohnstamm
Thomas Kohnstamm is the author of three books, most recently Supersonic.
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Episode109: Chris Jones
Chris Jones, a former writer-at-large for Esquire, has won two National Magazine Awards. His new memoir, Legs Hearts Minds: Loss and Its Remedies, was recently…
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Episode 108: On ANTHONY BOURDAIN’S 70th Birthday.
On what would have been Bourdain's 70th birthday, we are doing something a little different. We are doing an audio read of a piece titled Giving Up the Ghost…
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Episode 107: Tom Junod
Tom Junod is an American journalist who is currently a senior writer for ESPN.com. He is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards from the American…
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Episode 106: Brendan O'Meara
Brendan O'Meara is the host and founder of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, the show he started in 2013 to speak with people about the art and craft of telling…
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Episode 105: Rich Cohen
Rich Cohen is an American non-fiction writer. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. He is co-creator, with Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger…
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Episode 104: Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business…
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Episode 103: Jim Shepard
Jim Shepard is an American novelist and short story writer who teaches creative writing and film at Williams College.
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Episode 102: Cian O'Clery
Cian O'Clery is a director and producer of unscripted television. He is the co-creator and series director/producer of 'Love On The Spectrum'. His series have…
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Episode 101: David Gessner
David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including the New York Times bestselling, All…
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Episode 100: David Nasaw
David Nasaw is an American author, biographer and historian who specializes in the cultural, social and business history of early 20th Century America. Nasaw…
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Episode 99: Ada Ferrer
Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is a professor of history and Caribbean Studies at Princeton University. She won the 2015 Frederick Douglass…
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Episode 98: Rodney Ascher
Rodney Ascher is an American film director, best known for Room 237 (2012), A Glitch in the Matrix (2021) and The Nightmare (2015).
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Episode 97: Spencer Kornhaber
Spencer Kornhaber is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic as an editor in 2011, he was a staff writer at OC Weekly, an editor at Patch…
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Episode 96: A. L. Kennedy
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…
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Episode 95: Ben Johnson
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…
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Episode 94: Michael Azerrad
Michael Azerrad is an American author, music journalist, editor, and musician. A graduate of Columbia University, he has written for publications such as Spin…
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Episode 93: Andrew Hammel
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…
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Episode 92: Ric Burns
Ric Burns is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his…
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Episode 91: Nich McDonell
Robert Nicholas McDonell is an American writer who has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, producer, novelist and researcher.
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Episode 90: Kim Cross
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…
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Episode 89: Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities…
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Christopher L. Miller
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…
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Episode 87: Charles Leerhsen
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…
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Episode 86: Lori Grinker
Lori Grinker is an American documentary art photographer and filmmaker from New York City. She is best known for her self-directed, long-term documentary…
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Episode 85: Rachel Monroe
Rachel Monroe is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, where she covers Texas and the Southwest.
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Episode 84: Gary Smith
Gary Smith is an American sportswriter. He is best known for his lengthy human interest stories in Sports Illustrated, where he worked from 1983 to 2013.
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Episode 83: Alexander Wolff
Alexander Wolff spent thirty-six years on staff at Sports Illustrated. He is author or editor of nine books, including the New York Times bestseller Raw…
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Episode 82: Dan Reed
Dan Reed is a British documentary director and producer, known for Leaving Neverland (2019), The Valley (2000) and Terror in Mumbai (2009).
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Episode 81: Paul Cantor
Paul Cantor is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New YorkMagazine, Rolling Stone, XXL, Esquire, Billboard, MTV News, Vice, FADER…
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Episode 80: Joanna Rakoff
Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction…
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Episode 79: Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing…
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Episode 78: Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth is a Scottish-American political scientist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of…
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Episode 77: Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business…
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Episode 76: Laurie Woolever
Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. Her most…
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Episode 75: Jenny Valentish
Jenny Valentish is a journalist and author. Her latest books include 'Woman of Substances' and 'Everything Harder Than Everyone Else'
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Episode 74: Tim Hayward
Tim Hayward is a writer, broadcaster, restaurateur and unrepentant food geek. He writes a column and criticises restaurants for the Financial Times and his…
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Episode 73: Maria Bustillos
Maria Bustillos is the founding editor of Popula, an alternative news and culture magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker…
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Episode 72: Leon Gast
Leon Gast was an American documentary film director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. His documentary, When We Were Kings depicts the iconic heavyweight…
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Episode 71: Tom Vitale
Tom Vitale is a producer and director, known for Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
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Episode 70: Kevin Draper
Kevin Draper is a sports business reporter for The New York Times, covering the leagues, federations, owners, unions, stadiums and media companies behind the…
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Episode 69: Randy Roberts
Randy Roberts is the distinguished professor of history at Purdue University and an award-winning author. He has written thirteen books on sports history, the…
Tourist InformationEpisode 64: Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield is an English documentary film director. His self-reflective style has been regarded as influential to many later filmmakers.
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Episode 53: Jerry Izenberg
Jerry Izenberg is a sports journalist with The Newark Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey. Izenberg has covered many memorable sporting events and figures of the…
Tourist InformationEpisode 52: Dan Roberts
Dan Roberts is an attorney and has written about boxing, law, violence against women and - occasionally - good champagne for Deadspin (RIP), Splinter, and…
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Episode 50: Gay Talese
Gay Talese is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, Talese helped to define contemporary literary…
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Episode 49: Alex Vadukul
Alex Vadukul is a city correspondent for The New York Times. He writes for Metropolitan and is a two-time winner of the New York Press Club award for city…