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Chekhov's Ward No. Six: Madness and Magic Circles from 2022-01-20T02:08:36
Wrath-Bearing Tree editors Mike Carson, Adrian Bonenberger, and David James sit down to discuss Chekhov's Ward No. 6, a short story about a doctor who encounters a life-changing experience when vis...
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America's "First Principles," with Tom Ricks from 2022-01-01T19:19:20
Chat with Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Ricks about his recent book "First Principles," written in order to consider the curricula and intellectual schemas on which the first four U.S. presidents based...
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The War for the Soul of the Navy SEALS from 2021-12-01T01:02:15
Conversation between WBT co-host Adrian Bonenberger and New York Times Staff Writer David Philipps about Philipps' new book, "Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALS." Phi...
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When Might Makes Right: practicing history through games and movies from 2021-11-07T12:57:59
Adrian Bonenberger talks with Bret Charles Devereaux, PhD, lecturer in UNC-Chapel Hill's department of history, about his blog, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantries (or "ACOUP"), and some of the ...
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Falling Man and 9/11 from 2021-10-02T17:23:03
Brian Castner, Adrian Bonenberger, and poet Brian Turner read and discuss Don DeLillo's "Falling Man" on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. While the trio starts off somewhat critical of the book...
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Patrick Wyman's The Verge, and the fall of Kabul from 2021-08-25T04:08:07
The WBT podcast co-hosts Adrian Bonenberger and Michael Carson talk with podcaster, writer, and historian Patrick Wyman about his debut history book, "The Verge." The group also discusses the fall ...
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Exploring the Arctic with Andrea Pitzer and Brian Castner from 2021-07-18T19:37:19
Adrian Bonenberger is joined by Brian Castner and Andrea Pitzer to talk about their newest books. Castner's Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in The Klondike" looks at the gold rush in Alaska and C...
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For Honor: Tolstoy's great novella "Hadji Murat" from 2021-06-01T13:47:40
Wrath-Bearing Tree co-editors David James and Adrian Bonenberger sit down with British author and former professor Garry Craig Powell to talk about Leo Tolstoy's powerful and nearly perfect story "...
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Inside the Pech River Valley with Wesley Morgan and "The Hardest Place" from 2021-04-18T18:50:52
A talk between Adrian Bonenberger of The WBT and Wesley Morgan, author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in the Pech Valley. The talk covers a lot of topics in Morgan's book, inclu...
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Lost Poets of The First World War, featuring Connie Ruzich from 2021-03-30T00:27:37
A conversation with Professor of English Connie Ruzich, PhD, and Jennifer Orth-Veillon, PhD, about overlooked voices in WWI poetry, hosted by WBT co-editor Adrian Bonenberger. The poems that were r...
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Afghanistan: a decade after deployment from 2021-03-15T19:42:41
WBT's Adrian Bonenberger talks with Jim Dao, the New York Times reporter who embedded with 1-87, 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division during a deployment to Afghanistan from 2010-11. The two have a ...
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Vonnegut's "Mother Night" — the evils men do from 2021-03-07T18:03:39
Wrath-Bearing Tree co-editors Adrian Bonenberger, Michael Carson, and David James discuss Kurt Vonnegut's "Mother Night," a deep, subversive, and challenging satirical look at nationalism and "the ...
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Veterans and forever war: reading Two Grenades and Empire City from 2021-02-14T19:41:54
Peter Molin, Patrick Deer, and Matt Gallagher talk about Elliot Ackerman's short story "Two Grenades," from the fiction anthology "The Road Ahead," and then discuss Gallagher's latest book, "Empire...
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Borges' "Deutsches Requiem": a criminal culture laid bare from 2021-02-08T01:32:27
Adrian Bonenberger, Mike Carson, and David James reread Borges' "Deutsches Requiem," a short but extremely powerful confessional where the South American writer broke with his habit to look at a po...
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Barthelme, Mackin, and dreams of war from 2021-01-18T19:27:47
Adrian Bonenberger and Brian Castner talk with Will Mackin about Donald Barthelme, Denis Johnson, and "Bring out the Dog." In the course of the conversation explore ideas like how to portray the re...
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Svetlana Alexievich's Zinky Boys, featuring Brian Castner and Wesley Morgan from 2020-12-31T20:45:50
Adrian Bonenberger (@AdrianBonenber1) is joined by Brian Castner (@Brian_Castner) and Wesley Morgan (@wesleysmorgan) to discuss Svetlana Alexievich's "Zinky Boys," a creative non-fiction series of ...
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The Murder and Missionaries, feat. Phil Klay from 2020-12-21T01:30:43
Wrath-Bearing Tree co-editors Adrian Bonenberger and Andria Williams are joined by National Book award winner Phil Klay to talk about his new book, Missionaries, and Anton Chekhov's short fiction s...
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Stories we tell each other and ourselves from 2020-10-26T20:54:11
WBT co-editors Andria Williams and Adrian Bonenberger chat about "The Progress of Love," a short story by Alice Munro. Williams first encountered the story at her MFA program in Minnesota. Bonenber...
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Leaving the Cult of Smart from 2020-09-30T14:59:42
Fredrik "Freddie" deBoer, PhD, joins WBT's Adrian Bonenberger to discuss de Boer's controversial new book "The Cult of Smart." DeBoer argues that the current academic system is incompatible with a ...
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Homage to Catalonia, with Brian Castner and Matt Gallagher from 2020-08-13T10:33:27
Adrian Bonenberger of The WBT is joined by Brian Castner, writer, veteran, journalist, and author of "The Long Walk," and Matt Gallagher, writer, veteran, journalist, and author of "Empire City" to...
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Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry from 2020-07-05T23:30:59
WBT's Michael Carson, David James, and Adrian Bonenberger discuss Isaac Babel's short fiction collection "Red Cavalry," as well as Babel's life, times, and unorthodox (revolutionary?) literary proj...
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The Life and Times of J.M. Coetzee from 2020-07-01T20:53:12
WBT editors Andria Williams, David James, and Mike Carson discuss the relationship between silence and the imagination in the work of J.M. Coetzee. We cover Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Tim...
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Albert Camus, The Plague, and Quarantine with Jennifer Orth-Veillon from 2020-06-01T17:43:10
Jennifer Orth-Veillon discusses her recent WBT essay, Reading Camus’ ‘The Plague’ in 2020: A Dispatch from Lyon, France, by Jennifer Orth-Veillon and John Tyrrell, from the May issue of WBT.
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Stefan Zweig, Nazis, and the world of the imagination from 2020-05-26T02:33:47
Mike Carson, David James, and Adrian Bonenberger sit down to talk about Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's masterwork novella, "The Royal Game," aka "Chess Game" ("Schachnovelle" in the original German...
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Interview With Jenn Blatty from 2019-09-20T16:14:05
An interview conducted in May with J.T. Blatty, a U.S. Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, a photojournalist, and documentarian. Jenn was getting ready for photography exhibitions that were recei...
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Stolen Valor from 2018-12-26T16:29:07
Wrath-Bearing Tree / The WBT editor Adrian Bonenberger talks Stolen Valor with Kristiana Willsey, PhD, a folklorist who specializes in military culture and storytelling. Dr. Willsey can be found on...
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Snow-Blind from 2018-11-02T23:56:59
WBT editor and author Adrian Bonenberger interviews journalist and author Nolan Peterson about Peterson's debut short fiction collection: Snow-Blind. The book is available via Amazon, here: www.ama...
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WBT Editors talk Richard Rorty and John Rawls from 2018-08-21T14:16:53
Amalie Flynn, Michael Carson, and David James try to work out the connections between and relevance of the influential liberal American philosophers Richard Rorty and John Rawls.
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WBT Editors talk Art and Politics from 2018-07-29T17:32:20
What, if any, obligation do artists have in confronting today's politically charged world? The Wrath-Bearing Tree editors, David James, Amalie Flynn and Mary Doyle talk politics and art.
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The War Horse Writing Retreat from 2018-06-30T21:14:35
In this episode, The WBT podcast travels to the Boulder Crest Retreat in Virginia to attend The War Horse writing retreat. We speak to Thomas Brennan, the founder of The War Horse about why he has ...
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Amalie Flynn and Lynn Houston on Poetry from 2018-06-15T00:00
On this episode of The WBT Podcast, poetry editor Amalie Flynn interviews award winning poet Lynn Houston about her work.
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