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Episodes: 600
Frequency: Several times a week
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
Page updated: Nov 4, 2026 · How we check this data
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Emily Dufton - Author of Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America and Addiction, Inc.: Medication-Assisted Treatment and America's Forgotten War on Drugs.
Kishauna Soljour - Assistant Professor of Public Humanities at San Diego State University, whose writing has appeared in From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle.
Anya Daly - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Tasmania. Her research includes phenomenology, philosophy of mind and perception, ethics, aesthetics, and Buddhist philosophy.
Jen Hoyer - Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology. She is a co-author of What Primary Sources Teach and The Social Movement Archive, and a co-editor ...
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Recent Guest Discussions
Marcia Chatelain - The Black Women Who Organized, Performed At, And Were Honored During The 1963 March On Washington.
Stephanie Wittels Wachs - Her Experience Of Grief And Her Investigation Of Addiction, Drug Treatment, And Potential Responses To The Opioid Crisis.
Peter M. Hoffman - His Career In Hollywood, Personal And Professional Downfall, Imprisonment, And Reflections On Power, Justice, And Meaning.
Michael Doan - The Ideas And Organizing Practice Of James And Grace Lee Boggs, Including Their Approach To Social Change And Movement-building.
Jonathan Cole - Anton Chekhov's Journey To Sakhalin Island And The Connections Between His Medical, Humanitarian, And Literary Work.
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Episodes
Book Talk 71: Anne Fernald on Her Own Voice
November 03, 2026
Be the main character in the story that is your life – that is the ambition of eight remarkable women featured in Anne Fernald’s collective biography, Her Own Voice, guided by Virginia Woolf. We talk about Margaret Wise Brown, groundbreaking author of Goodnight Moon, addressed to young children and inspired by Gertrude Stein and Woolf, Jessie Redmon Fauset, prolific novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Dorothy Arzner, the only woman director to make both silent and sound films, inventor of...
Orson Welles: Revised and Expanded 3rd Edition with Joseph McBride (Sticking Place Books, 2026)
November 03, 2026
Orson Welles is a foundational work of Welles criticism. First published by Joseph McBride in the British Film Institute's Cinema One series in 1972 when the author was twenty-four, it now has been extensively revised and updated to reflect the ongoing developments in the work of this great filmmaker. McBride—who, as Martin Scorsese has written, "has a clearer understanding of Welles and his films than almost anyone"—studied Welles at work for more than five years while playing an earnest you...
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe with John Callanan (Princeton UP, 2025)
November 02, 2026
In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humorous tale in which a prosperous hive full of greedy and licentious bees trade their vices for virtues and immediately fall into economic and societal collapse. Outrage among the reading public followed; philosophers took up their pens to refute what they saw as the fable’s central assertion. How could it be that an immoral community thrived but the introduction of morality caused it to crash and ...
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New Books in Biography & Memoir typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Authors of relevant recent books, including scholars, researchers, and professionals with substantial expertise in the subject; memoirists with meaningful firsthand experience are also a fit. Common among recent guests: Published a relevant book; Academic or research expertise; Established professional experience or firsthand subject expertise. Recent guests include Marcia Chatelain, Stephanie Wittels Wachs, and Peter M. Hoffman.
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