Episodios

  • Write On! Radio - Chris Quigg and Robert Rusack

    Write On! Radio - Chris Quigg and Robert Rusack
    Aug 17 2024
    In this hour long discussion, Josh and Ian speak to Chris Quigg about his book, ‘Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature’, with special guest Robert Rusack.
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    1 h
  • The Lost Souls of Benzaiten - Kelly Murashige

    The Lost Souls of Benzaiten - Kelly Murashige
    Aug 1 2024
    Erik speaks with Kelly Murashige about her debut novel The Lost Souls of Benzaiten, a beautiful story which combines the modern world with Japanese mythology to explore happiness, friendship, and the potential for healing.
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    27 m
  • John Quincy Adams - Randall Woods

    John Quincy Adams - Randall Woods
    Aug 1 2024
    Josh speaks to Randall Woods about his book; John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People. In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy’s long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that transformed the American Republic.
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    27 m
  • The Minneapolis Reckoning - Michelle S. Phelps

    The Minneapolis Reckoning - Michelle S. Phelps
    Aug 1 2024
    Josh talks to Michelle S. Phelps, the author of The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America. Michelle is associate professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. The Minneapolis Reckoning is about policing and its alternatives, as well as the debates and protests around police abolition following the murder of George Floyd.
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    28 m
  • Write On! Radio - Steven E. Mayer

    Write On! Radio - Steven E. Mayer
    Jul 16 2024
    Josh talks with Steven E. Mayer about his book How to Save the World. This book is for anyone who gets asked at least ten times a week to give money to a charitable organization—anything from your college or place of worship to your community’s food shelf or animal shelter. It helps you choose a set of donations or investments that stand up to your own scrutiny so you can feel your choices are meaningful and consistent with your values.
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    30 m
  • Write On! Radio - Live show featuring Patrick Nathan

    Write On! Radio - Live show featuring Patrick Nathan
    Jul 16 2024
    Live from Grey Duck Tavern, Josh speaks to Patrick Nathan about his new book The Future was Color, a dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the political set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los Angeles.
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    26 m
  • The Power of Language by Viorica Marian

    The Power of Language by Viorica Marian
    Jan 11 2024
    On this episode, Josh Weber talks with Viorica Marian, a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, about her seminal work, The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds. She directs the university’s Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Lab. Language enable us to do more than to speak differently, but also think differently. Language we discover reading in this book, isn’t limited to just verbal symbolism; one can also be fluent in math or music. Josh asks Marian about the limitations of language in conveying our thoughts, how memory and perception overlap, and how language can influence how we conceptualize time. The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds by Viorica Marian Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593187075/ Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5SQQDTS/
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    21 m
  • Write On! Radio - Aaron Philip Clark

    Write On! Radio - Aaron Philip Clark
    Jun 23 2023
    Liz Olds talks with Aaron Philip Clark about his noir mystery, featuring an ex-cop private eye in Los Angeles.
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    24 m