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Learning America–Ep 96 with Luma Mufleh from 2022-03-31T00:07:12

It was a wrong turn that changed everything. WhenLuma Mufleh—a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan—stumbled upon a...

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The Kaiju Preservation Society–Ep 95 with John Scalzi from 2022-02-27T07:12:53

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what ...

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The Sleep Fix–Ep 94 with Diane Macedo from 2022-01-23T22:52:34

Roughly thirty percent of the population is estimated to be living with insomnia, while many more suffer from other sleep disorders. ABC anchor/correspondent Diane Macedo—a former insomniac hers...

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Read Until You Understand–Ep 93 with Farah Jasmine Griffin from 2021-12-14T09:33:10

Farah Jasmine Griffinis the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature atListen

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The Power of Nothing to Lose–Ep 92 with William L. Silber from 2021-09-07T05:57:43

Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its origins in sports to its applications to history, nature, ...

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Catch the Rabbit–Ep 91 with Lana Bastašić from 2021-08-07T23:46:53

Winner of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature, Lana Bastašić’s powerful debut novelCatch the Rabbitis a modern-day Ali...

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Ridgeline–Ep 90 with Michael Punke from 2021-07-06T13:38:46

Ridgelineis the thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author ofListen

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A Master of Djinn–Ep 89 with P. Djèlí Clark from 2021-06-16T05:09:09

Forty years ago in Egypt, the mystic and inventor Al-Jahiz pierced the veil between realms, sending magic into the world before vanishing into the unknown. Think steampunk meets history meets de...

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From PA to LA–Ep 88 with Yogi Roth from 2021-05-19T03:21:35

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Beloved Beasts–Ep 87 with Michelle Nijhuis from 2021-04-04T02:42:24


A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement―told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it.

In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to ...

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A Beginner’s Guide to America–Ep 86 with Roya Hakakian from 2021-03-12T02:57:02

A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Also, a mirror held up to America.

Into the maels...

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The Women’s History of the Modern World–Ep 85 with Rosalind Miles from 2021-02-06T23:54:10

The internationally bestselling author ofWho Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and tr...

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Mental Illness and Graphic Novel as Memoir–Ep 84 with Joshua Kemble from 2021-01-05T02:51:08

Josh thought he was living the artist’s dream. The young, ambitious comic book creator had a hip Portland apartment, an affectionate fiancé, and his whole life ahead of him. Until the night he f...

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Don’t Judge a College Athlete by Their Cover–Ep 83 with Corey Sobel from 2020-12-02T03:13:14

The Redshirtchallenges tenacious stereotypes, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. Over the course of...

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A Mayan Creation Story–Ep 82 with Ilan Stavans from 2020-11-01T18:03:38

Popul Vuh: A Retellingis an inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Mayan myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and s...

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Stories From a Syrian Refugee–Ep 81 with Perween Richards from 2020-10-15T18:25:49

Drawn from her experiences of growing up as a young woman in the ‘world’s largest prison’—Gaza—Nayrouz Qarmout’s stories inThe Sea Cloak(translated by Perwe...

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E.E. Cummings And The Great War–Ep 79 with Alison Rosenblitt from 2020-08-01T01:42:54

An incisive biography of E. E. Cummings’s early life, including his World War I ambulance service and subsequent imprisonment, inspirations for his inventive poetry.

E. E....

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Our Moral Character–Ep 78 with Christian B. Miller from 2020-07-16T15:49:37

We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. Author and philosopher Chri...

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In Praise of Walking–Ep 77 with Shane O’Mara from 2020-06-27T21:04:47

In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill...

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How To Get things DONE–Ep 76 with Ellen Goodwin from 2020-06-14T04:07:42

DONE: How To Work When No One is Watchingis a hands-on guidebook that teaches, through stories, examples, and activities how working with (and around) your ...

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Baseball’s Swing Kings–Ep 75 with Jared Diamond from 2020-05-25T18:09:30

From the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the ro...

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Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space–Ep 74 with Amanda Leduc from 2020-05-08T03:56:31

If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how th...

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Jimmy and the Kid–Ep 73 with Lee Silber from 2020-04-22T21:49:02

When a twelve year-old girl wants to play baseball with the boys, she’s lucky to have the help of Jimmy Parks, a former Major Leaguer and someone with the power to change her life forever.

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The Amateurs–Ep 72 with Liz Harmer from 2020-03-14T23:05:54

The Amateurs” is a speculative novel of rapture and romance in the vein of Margaret Atwood’s The Year o...

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A Flag of No Nation–Ep 71 with Tom Haviv from 2020-02-27T15:27:34

A meditation on world invention and collapse, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the 20th century, blind colonists in a white ocean, and performers enacting new rituals ar...

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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau–Ep 70 with Michael Zapata from 2020-02-13T05:37:25

The Lost Book of Adana Moreauis the mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writ...

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Always Blue–Ep 68 with John Dermot Woods from 2019-12-19T02:20:05

Always Blueis a work of literary science fiction that explores how our day-to-day struggles and inconveniences—irritating colle...

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The Friar’s Lantern–Ep 67 with Greg Hickey from 2019-12-06T01:14:15

You may win $1,000,000. You will judge a man of murder.
An eccentric scientist tells you he can read your mind and offers to prove it in a high-stakes wager. A respected college professor e...

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My Penguin Year–Ep 66 with Lindsay McCrae from 2019-11-21T04:01:31

For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin c...

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Caregiving and Caretaking–Ep 65 with Germ Lynn from 2019-10-16T22:00:24

What You Callis a glimpse into the future and part of theRadix Mediascience fiction...

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Landscape Architecture, California Style–Ep 64 with Kelly Comras from 2019-09-25T21:20:09

Landscape architect Ruth Shellhorn helped define the distinctive mid-century regional aesthetic of Southern California. Most well known for her work with Walt Disney on the original design of Di...

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French Youth Resistance in World War II–Ep 63 with Ronald Rosbottom from 2019-09-18T19:58:39

The author of the acclaimed When Paris Went Dark, longlisted for the National Book Award, returns to World War II once again to tell the incredible story of the youngest members of the French Re...

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Unlonely Planet–Ep 62 with Jillian Richardson from 2019-09-05T01:31:10

You can live the loneliest life while being surrounded by people. You can be the busiest person and still feel unfulfilled. In an age when individualism and self-reliance are prized above all ot...

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Family and Identity–Ep 61 with Hal Y. Zhang from 2019-08-21T20:38:52

In this episode Jon speaks with Hal Y. Zhang, author of Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother.Hard Mother, Spider Mothe...

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The Cape Cod National Seashore–Ep 60 with Ethan Carr from 2019-07-03T17:31

In the mid-nineteenth century,
Thoreau recognized the importance of preserving the complex and fragile
landscape of Cape Cod, with its weathered windmills, expansive beaches,
dune...

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Dauntless Women–Ep 59 with Caitlin Grace McDonnell from 2019-06-19T22:46:01

Introducing “Fierce”, thirteen powerful, entwined biographies and memoirs that describe a staunchly Feminist approach: “To thine own self be true.” Historical documentation of human affairs info...

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Aloha Rodeo–Ep 58 with David Wolman from 2019-06-05T20:31:56

In the spirit of The Boys in the Boat comes the captivating true story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who traveled to Wyoming in 1908 to compete at the “world championships” of rodeo, overcoming...

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The Casket of Time–Ep 57 with Andri Magnason from 2019-05-22T21:37:17

The world, according to Grace, is under an ancient curse. There once was a princess named Obsidiana, who was trapped in time by the greedy king of Pangea. To protect Obsidiana from dark and gloo...

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Waking Up To The Dark, Part 2 – Ep 56 with Clark Strand from 2019-05-08T16:58:49

Waking Up to the Darkis a book for those of us who awaken
in the night and don’t know why we can’t get back to sleep, and a book
for those of us who have grown uncomfortable...

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Waking Up To The Dark, Part 1–Ep 55 with Clark Strand from 2019-04-24T19:30:24

Waking Up to the Darkis a book for those of us who awaken in the night and don’t know why we can’t get back to sleep, and a book for those of us who have grown uncomfortable in real d...

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Leading Imperfectly–Ep 54 with James T. Robilotta from 2019-04-10T18:00:14

In today’s episode, Jon interviews author James T. Robilotta about his bookLeading Imperfectly: The value of being authentic for leaders, professionals and huma...

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The Body Papers (Part 2)–Ep 53 with Grace Talusan from 2019-03-28T22:17:52

Jon speaks with authorGrace Talusanabout her bookThe Body Papers.

Born in the Philippines, young Grace Talusan ...

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The Body Papers (Part 1)–Ep 52 with Grace Talusan from 2019-03-13T20:55:25

Jon speaks with authorGrace Talusanabout her bookThe Body Papers.

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The Stories of Their Lives–Ep 51 with Lisa Gornick from 2019-02-28T00:12:20

Jon interviewsauthor Lisa Gornickabout her newest novel,The Peacock Feast. Spanning the twentieth century and th...

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Why Biodiversity is Good–Ep 50 with Rob Dunn from 2019-01-31T17:26:04

Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. InNever Home Alone, biolo...

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Robert Murray Sculpture–Ep 49 with Jonathan Lippincott from 2019-01-17T00:05:34

Spanning six decades,Robert Murray: Sculptureincludes photographs of nearly two hundred works, seen in galleries, museums, and private collections...

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How Hormones Control Just About Everything–Ep 48 with Randi Hutter Epstein from 2018-12-01T19:07:04

A guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them. Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: the...

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Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique (Part 2)–Ep 47 with Rowan Moore Gerety from 2018-11-10T23:26:28

Go Tell the Crocodilesexplores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have falle...

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Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique (Part 1)–Ep 46 with Rowan Moore Gerety from 2018-10-27T17:05:58

Go Tell the Crocodilesexplores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have falle...

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Lands of Lost Borders–Ep 45 with Kate Harris from 2018-09-12T22:52:07

A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road—an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in...

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Dangerous Dystopias–Ep 44 with Siobhan Adcock from 2018-08-29T16:55:19

After months of disturbing behavior, Gardner Quinn has vanished. Her older sister Fredericka is desperate to find her, but Fred is also pregnant—miraculously so, in a near-future America struggl...

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A Room Away From The Wolves–Ep 43 with Nova Ren Suma from 2018-08-15T20:31:43

Bina has never forgotten the time she and her mother ran away from home. Her mother promised they would hitchhike to the city to escape Bina’s cruel father and start over. But before they could ...

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Mischief and Mayhem On The Open Road–Ep 42 with Gina Wohlsdorf from 2018-08-01T16:43:21

Meet Rainy Cain, a tough, smart seventeen-year-old whose primary instinct is survival. That instinct is tested when her life is upended by the sudden appearance of her father, Sam, who she thoug...

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The Simpsons and Springfield Confidential–Ep 41 with Mike Reiss from 2018-07-18T21:13:28

Mike Reiss has won four Emmys and a Peabody Award during his twenty-eight years writing for “The Simpsons”. He ran the show in Season 4, which Entertainment Weekly called “the greatest season of...

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The History and Science of Wine–Ep 40 with Kevin Begos from 2018-07-05T20:12:53

After a chance encounter with an obscure Middle Eastern red, journalist Kevin Begos embarks on a ten-year journey to seek the origins of wine. What he unearths is a whole world of forgotten grap...

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A Spiritual Autobiography–Ep 39 with Bill Kelly from 2018-06-20T17:03:51

Bill Kelly studied philosophy at NYU and UC Berkeley and then left the U.S. at 26 for travel and adventure. Unexpectedly, Bill ended up living abroad for almost 25 years, five years of which was...

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The Nature Fix–Ep 38 with Florence Williams from 2018-06-06T18:14:58

From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into bra...

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver–Ep 37 with Eileen McNamara from 2018-05-21T15:45:59

In this “revelation” of a biography (USA TODAY), a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family’s...

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The Human Instinct–Ep 36 with Ken Miller from 2018-05-04T16:44:05

A radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will.

Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it...

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James Van Der Zee–Ep 35 with Andrea J. Loney from 2018-04-14T18:49:29

James Van Der Zee was just a young boy when he saved enough money to buy his first camera. He took photos of his family, classmates, and anyone who would sit still for a portrait. By the fifth g...

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Dragon Speaker–Ep 34 with Elana A. Mugdan from 2018-03-28T15:35:08

Born into a world of magic wielders without any powers of her own, Keriya Nameless isn’t exactly hero material, yet she’s chosen to save the last living dragon. She doesn’t know why it happened,...

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Midlife: A Philosophical Guide–Ep 33 with Kieran Setiya from 2018-03-09T05:11:07

How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of fut...

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All The Castles Burned–Ep 32 with Michael Nye from 2018-02-14T21:53

Set in the early 1990s,All The Castles Burnedis about Owen Webb, the son of working-class parents, receives a scholarship to the prestigious Rockcastle Prepa...

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The Stowaway–Ep 31 with Laurie Gwen Shapiro from 2018-01-31T14:23:16

The Stowaway is the spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties’ most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expediti...

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Heartland–Ep 30 with Ana Simo from 2018-01-18T20:39:05

In a word-drunk romp through an alternate, preapocalyptic America, Ana Simo’s fiction debut,Heartland, turns the classic murder mystery on its head with the ...

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Darwin Carmichael Is Going To Hell–Ep 29 with Jenn Jordan from 2018-01-03T23:47:41

It’s tough living in the 21st century, when mythical beings not only roam the earth, but camp out on your sofa and raid your refrigerator. Jobs are scarce; angels infest Brooklyn (the demons hav...

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Daughters of the Air–Ep 28 with Anca Szilágyi from 2017-12-20T17:59:14

Tatiana “Pluta” Spektor was a mostly happy, if awkward, young girl–until her sociologist father was disappeared during Argentina’s Dirty War. Sent a world away by her grieving mother to attend b...

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The Paris Secret–Ep 27 with Karen Swan from 2017-12-06T22:22:13

In this glittering tale of forgotten treasures and long-held secrets, international bestseller Karen Swan explores one woman’s journey to discovering the truth behind an abandoned apartment and ...

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Jill Tarter and The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence–Ep 26 with Sarah Scoles from 2017-11-23T01:45:20

For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, “Are we alone?” Sarah Scoles examines the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarte...

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The Making of Les Bleus–Ep 25 with Lindsay Krasnoff from 2017-11-08T17:00:33

Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is an international sports writer, historian, and consultant, working at the intersections of sports, international affairs, and global communications. The author of Listen

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What Are We Even Doing With Our Lives?–Ep 24 with Chelsea Marshall and Mary Dauterman from 2017-10-25T19:07:49

In this episode, Jon interviews Chelsea Marshall and Mary Dauterman about their book,What Are We Even Doing With Our Lives?

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Ahimsa–Ep 23 with Supriya Kelkar from 2017-09-13T16:00:44

Supriya Kelkar was born and raised in the Midwest. She learned Hindi as a child by watching three Bollywood films a week. After college she realized her lifelong dream of working in the film ind...

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Lightless–Ep 22 with C. A. Higgins from 2017-08-30T19:57:54

C. A. Higgins writes novels and short stories. She was a runner-up in the 2013 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing and has a B.A. in physics ...

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Secret Brooklyn–Ep 21 with Michelle Young and Augustin Pasquet from 2017-08-16T17:45:11

Michelle Young is a graduate of Harvard College in the History of Art and Architecture and holds a master’s degree in urban planning from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Pla...

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Political Art Diary–Ep 20 with Naomi Pitcairn from 2017-08-02T17:21:06

Naomi Pitcairnis an artist and activist committed to advancing the urgent social issues of our times. She is passionate about the rights of immigrants...

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Finding Yourself–Ep 19 with Krystal Chong from 2017-07-19T16:00:03

Krystal was the former Chief Marketing Officer and advisor to the board for Honey Bun Limited when she resigned to go on a journey to answer the questions that consumed her.

Through her Ea...

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From FBI Fugitive to Freedom–Ep 18 with Malik Wade from 2017-07-05T18:01:07

Malik Wadehas lived three lives. As a teenager, he was an enterprising drug dealer. As a young man, he was a fugitive from the FBI and eventually a priso...

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How Videogames Transformed Our World–Ep 17 with Andrew Ervin from 2017-06-21T16:04:45

Andrew Ervin is the author of the novels Burning Down George Orwell’s House and Extraordinary Renditions. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and many other places. ...

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The Beauty of Space–Ep 16 with Jon Ramer from 2017-06-07T16:31:12

Jon Ramer is a space artist, writer, President of theInternational Association of Astronomical Artists, Fellow IAAA member, retired military officer, avid photogr...

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Great Books Written In Prison–Ep 15 with Ward Regan from 2017-05-24T16:00:01

Ward Regan has a Ph.D. in Labor and Cultural History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He teaches history and philosophy at New York University’s Liberal Studies Program. He ...

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The Crossroads of Art and Meditation–Ep 14 with John F. Simon Jr. from 2017-05-10T16:00:43

John F. Simon, Jr. is a visual artist and author of “Drawing Your Own Path” (Parallax Press, 2016) As one of the pioneers in the development of Software Art,...

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How To Be A Stoic–Ep 13 with Massimo Pigliucci from 2017-04-26T16:43:58

Massimo is a philosopher of science and evolutionary biologist at the City College of New York. He holds PhDs in genetics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy. His areas of research include th...

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Piccolo, An Artist’s Tale–Ep 12 with Eileen Merwin from 2017-04-12T15:17:09

Eileen Merwin has been fortunate to write and publish fables and other assorted forms of offbeat fiction for both children and adults. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College...

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Temporary People–Ep 11 with Deepak Unnikrishnan from 2017-03-29T16:00:41

Deepak Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu Dhabi and a resident of the States, who has lived in Teaneck, New Jersey, Brooklyn, New York and Chicago, Illinois. He has studied and taught at the Art ...

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Improving Mental Health–Ep 10 with Dr. Lloyd Sederer from 2017-03-01T17:00:24

Dr. Lloyd Sederer is Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Office of Mental Health, the nation’s largest state mental health system; Adjunct Professor at the Columbia/Mailman School of Pub...

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Finding Happiness–Ep 9 with Lee Silber from 2017-02-15T17:00:11

Who would have guessed a former surf shop owner would ever become the award-winning author of 22 books and a corporate training working with companies large and small? Nobody. Yet, that’s what L...

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American Philosophy, A Love Story–Ep 8 with John Kaag from 2017-02-01T17:00:37

John Kaag is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and is the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, published in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, that was...

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Our Past and Our Futures–Ep 7 with Cecilia Galante from 2017-01-18T17:00:53

Cecilia Galante is the author of three middle grade novels, three young-adult novels, an 8-book chapter book series, and two adult novels. Her first book, The Patron Saint of Butterflies, publis...

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Cuban science fiction–Ep 6 with YOSS from 2017-01-04T17:00:21

Born José Miguel Sánchez Gómez,YOSSassumed his pen name in 1988, when he won the Premio David in the science fiction category for Timshel. Togethe...

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Real Estate and Real Life–Ep 5 with Francis J. Greenburger from 2016-12-21T17:00:44

In this episode Jon speaks with Francis J. Greenburger, author ofListen

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Secessionist Movements and Libertarianism–Ep 4 with William Irwin from 2016-12-07T01:42:18

In this episode Jon speaks with William Irwin, author of Free Dakota.

William Irwin is Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Philosophy at King’s College and is the...

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Haitian Folktales with a Twist–Ep 3 with Tracey Baptiste (Part 2) from 2016-09-20T15:07:42

In this episode Jon speaks with Tracey Baptiste. This is part two of a two part discussion.

Tracey Baptiste, M. Ed. is the author of the middle grade novel...

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Haitian Folktales with a Twist–Ep 3 with Tracey Baptiste (Part 1) from 2016-09-20T14:34:28

In this episode Jon speaks with Tracey Baptiste. This is part one of a two part discussion.

Tracey Baptiste, M. Ed. is the author of the middle grade novel...

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Existentialism and Romantic Love–Ep 2 with Skye Cleary from 2016-09-20T04:23:59

In this episode Jon speaks with Skye Cleary.

Skye C. Cleary PhD MBA is a philosopher and author of Existentialism and Romantic Love published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. Skye teaches at...

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Growing Up, Relationships, and Arrested Development–Ep 1 with Nate Waggoner from 2016-09-16T16:58:19

In this episode Jon speaks with Nate Waggoner.