Episodios

  • Write On Radio - Joseph Whitson

    Write On Radio - Joseph Whitson
    Aug 31 2025
    This week, Emma sits down with Joseph Whitson about his debut book, Marketing the Wilderness: Outdoor Recreation, Indigenous Activism, and the Battle over Public Lands, which is an analysis of how outdoor recreation companies market public land as wilderness instead of land stolen from Indigenous people. In this interview, Emma and Joseph Whitson discuss how the myth of outdoor recreation as a pure good ignores the history and current politics of public land.
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    27 m
  • Write On! Radio - Leif Weatherby

    Write On! Radio - Leif Weatherby
    Jul 31 2025
    This week, Josh Weber speaks to Leif Weatherby, founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University, about his new monograph ‘Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism’. The monograph discusses how what is currently described as AI is not displaying cognition, but instead revealing culture. In this interview, Josh and Leif discuss what AI is being marketed as, what AI is capable of, and how it can be used in the future.
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    29 m
  • Write On Radio - Peter Geye

    Write On Radio - Peter Geye
    May 4 2025
    This week Ian Graham Leask speaks with author Peter Geye about his new novel, A Lesser Light, a story about selfhood and determinism on the rocky shores of Lake Superior. They discuss writing styles, storytelling, and how the process of revision changes the story being told.
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    50 m
  • Write On! Radio - Andrea Gilats

    Write On! Radio - Andrea Gilats
    May 4 2025
    This week, Liz Olds speaks to Andrea Gilats, author of Radical Endurance: Growing Old in an Age of Longevity, about her new book. They discuss what it means to reach old age, prolonged grief disorder, and how to live in our ageist culture.
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    27 m
  • Write On! Radio - Raised to Obey w/Agustina Paglayan

    Write On! Radio - Raised to Obey w/Agustina Paglayan
    Mar 29 2025
    This week, Josh sits down with Agustina Paglayan to discuss her book Raised to Obey: The Rise And Spread of Mass Education. Raised to Obey is about how the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control it’s subjects. Raised to Obey is available to purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/069126127X/
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    28 m
  • Write On Radio - Power Metal w/Vince Beiser

    Write On Radio - Power Metal w/Vince Beiser
    Mar 29 2025
    This week, Josh sits down with Vince Beiser, to discuss his book, Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future. Power Metal is about how the move to green energy relies on specific metals that are causing ecological and economic damage today, and how we can improve this situation. Power Metal is available to purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593541707/
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    28 m
  • Write On Radio - About Power w/George W. Crocker

    Write On Radio - About Power w/George W. Crocker
    Mar 29 2025
    This week Josh talks with George W. Crocker, Executive Director of the North American Water Office, about his new book; About Power: How to Democratize Electricity Now. They discuss decentralized power generation, the history of centralized power generation, and the changes that need to happen to move from one to the other. About Power is available to purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1962834212
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    50 m
  • Write On Radio - Ring of Lions w/Cass Dalglish

    Write On Radio - Ring of Lions w/Cass Dalglish
    Mar 29 2025
    This week Josh talks with with Cass Dalglish about his new novel; Ring of Lions, a story centered around the mysteries of the Alhambra. They discuss how to connect storylines separated by decades and centuries. Ring of Lions is available to purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1962834344
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    28 m