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Episode 102: Cian O'Clery

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 81:45


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 won numerous awards both in Australia and internationally, including several Emmy Awards. 

Episode 101: David Gessner

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2025 77:34


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 the Wild That Remains, Return of the Osprey, Sick of Nature and Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness. His latest book is titled The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird. 

Episode 100: David Nasaw

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 62:43


David Nasaw is an American author, biographer and historian who specializes in the cultural, social and business history of early 20th Century America. Nasaw is on the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Professor of History.  His most recent biography, The Patriarch (2012), based on unrestricted and exclusive access to the papers of his subject Joseph Patrick Kennedy, was named one of the five best nonfiction books of 2012 by the New York Times.

Episode 99: Ada Ferrer

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 80:46


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 Prize for her book Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution. She was also awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.

Episode 98: Rodney Ascher

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2025 93:09


Rodney Ascher is an American film director, best known for Room 237 (2012), A Glitch in the Matrix (2021) and The Nightmare (2015).

Episode 97: Spencer Kornhaber

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2024 77:28


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, and a freelancer for Spin and The A.V. Club. In 2019, he won the Excellence in Column Writing Award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. At The Atlantic, he covers pop culture and music. He is the author of On Divas: Persona, Pleasure, Power.

Episode 96: A. L. Kennedy

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 86:12


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.     

Episode 95: Ben Johnson

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 44:06


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.

Episode 94: Michael Azerrad

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2024 107:00


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.

Episode 93: Andrew Hammel

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 113:42


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.

Episode 92: Ric Burns

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2023 84:14


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.

Episode 91: Nich McDonell

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2023 100:53


Robert Nicholas McDonell is an American writer who has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, producer, novelist and researcher.

Episode 90: Kim Cross

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2023 69:54


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.

Episode 89: Slavoj Žižek

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 65:09


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.

Christopher L. Miller

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2022 71:40


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.   

Episode 87: Charles Leerhsen

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2022 70:02


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

Episode 86: Lori Grinker

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2022 63:36


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 projects, and has conducted these projects through photography, video and multimedia.

Episode 85: Rachel Monroe

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2022 83:56


Rachel Monroe is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, where she covers Texas and the Southwest.

Episode 84: Gary Smith

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 77:32


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. 

Episode 83: Alexander Wolff

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2022 48:28


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 Recruits and Big Game, Small World, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. A former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, he lives with his family in Vermont.

Episode 82: Dan Reed

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2022 65:00


Dan Reed is a British documentary director and producer, known for Leaving Neverland (2019), The Valley (2000) and Terror in Mumbai (2009).

Episode 81: Paul Cantor

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2022 78:46


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, Complex, and elsewhere. Born and raised in New York City, he began his career as a music producer and is now among the most authoritative voices in music journalism.

Episode 80: Joanna Rakoff

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2022 63:41


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, the Elle Readers' Prize, and a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller. 

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Episode 79: Ron Sexsmith

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2022 37:01


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 recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has since recorded fifteen albums.

Episode 78: Mark Blyth

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2021 54:43


Mark Blyth is a Scottish-American political scientist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of several books, including Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century,  Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, The Future of the Euro, and most recently, Angrynomics in 2020.

Episode 77: Michael Lewis

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2021 66:16


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, finance, and economics. He is the best-selling author of The Undoing Project, Liar's Poker, Flash Boys, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Home Game and The Big Short, among other books.

Episode 76: Laurie Woolever

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2021 69:17


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 recent book is 'Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography' 

Episode 75: Jenny Valentish

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2021 66:06


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

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2021 127:26


Tim Hayward is a writer, broadcaster, restaurateur and unrepentant food geek. He writes a column and criticises restaurants for the Financial Times and his features have appeared in the FT, Guardian, Observer Food Monthly, Delicious, Olive, Waitrose Food Illustrated and Saveur, amongst others. 

Episode 73: Maria Bustillos

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2021 65:53


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, Harper's, and The Guardian.

Episode 72: Leon Gast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2021 49:32


Leon Gast was an American documentary film director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. His documentary, When We Were Kings depicts the iconic heavyweight boxing match: The Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. This film would go on to win the 1996 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Independent Spirit Award. 

Episode 71: Tom Vitale

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2021 75:23


Tom Vitale is a producer and director, known for Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 

Episode 70: Kevin Draper

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021 45:40


Kevin Draper is a sports business reporter for The New York Times, covering the leagues, federations, owners, unions, stadiums and media companies behind the games.

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Episode 69: Randy Roberts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2021 60:14


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 most recent of which is Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 

Episode 68: Ken Burns

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2021 47:23


Ken Burns is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), and Country Music (2019). He was also executive producer of both The West (1996), and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015). Burns's documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (for 1981's Brooklyn Bridge and 1985's The Statue of Liberty) and have won several Emmy Awards, among other honors.

Episode 67: Patrick Connor

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2021 39:16


Patrick Connor is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and the International Boxing Research Organization and author of 'Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena'

Episode 66: Lance Oppenheim

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2021 43:10


Lance Oppenheim is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and producer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His debut feature Some Kind of Heaven (2020) was an Official Selection at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. 

Episode 65: Frank Brady

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2021 81:21


Frank Brady is an American writer, editor, biographer and educator. Chairman of the Department of Mass Communications, Journalism, Television and Film at St. John's University, New York, he is founding editor of Chess Life magazine.

Episode 64: Nick Broomfield

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 70:47


Nick Broomfield is an English documentary film director. His self-reflective style has been regarded as influential to many later filmmakers.

Episode 63: Teddy Atlas

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2021 133:11


Teddy Atlas is an American hall of fame boxing trainer and fight commentator.

Episode 62: Jim Lampley

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2021 55:05


Jim Lampley is an American sportscaster and news anchor. He was best known as a blow-by-blow announcer on HBO World Championship Boxing for 30 years. He also had covered a record 14 Olympic Games on U.S. television, most recently the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

Episode 61: Tris Dixon

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2021 73:10


Tris Dixon is the former editor of Boxing News and has covered the sport for nearly two decades. He has worked as a boxing broadcaster for Sky Sports, BT Sport, and CNN. He authored the books The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing's Wastelands, Money: The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather, ghostwrote War and Peace: My Story with British boxing icon Ricky Hatton, and his latest book Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing

Episode 60: Maria Konnikova

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2021 59:53


Maria Konnikova is a Russian-American writer , with a Ph.D in psychology from Columbia University. Konnikova has worked as a television producer, written for several magazines and online publications, and written two New York Times best-selling books. She primarily writes about psychology and its application to real life situations.

Episode 59: Mark Cousins

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2021 61:58


Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish director and writer based in Edinburgh. A prolific documentarian, he is best known for his 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.  

Episode 58: Ashwin Rodrigues

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2021 38:58


Ashwin Rodrigues is a staff writer at Vice. 

Episode 57: Jon Ronson

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 82:31


Jon Ronson is a Welsh-American journalist, author, and filmmaker whose works include Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), and The Psychopath Test (2011). He produces informal but skeptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science.

Episode 56: Jonathan Ames

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2021 59:53


Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs, and is the creator of two television series, Bored to Death (HBO) and Blunt Talk (STARZ). In the late '90s and early 2000s, he was a columnist for the New York Press for several years, and became known for self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. He also has a long-time interest in boxing, appearing occasionally in the ring as "The Herring Wonder".

Episode 55: Chuck Klosterman

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021 105:16


Chuck Klosterman is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine. Klosterman is the author of eleven books, including two novels and the essay collection Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. 

Episode 54: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 42:12


Uncover the man behind the myth of one of America’s greatest and most complicated writers. Hemingway from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick premieres April 5, 2021 on PBS. 

Episode 53: Jerry Izenberg

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 67:54


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 late twentieth century, including Sonny Werblin's ownership of the New York Jets, the boxing career of Muhammad Ali, and the Loma Prieta earthquake which interrupted the 1989 World Series.

Episode 52: Dan Roberts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 61:50


Dan Roberts is an attorney and has written about boxing, law, violence against women and - occasionally - good champagne for Deadspin (RIP), Splinter, and others.

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