EP 239: Mark Oppenheimer on the Life and Times of Judy Blume
Many of us grew up reading classics from the great Judy Blume, from Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Blume, now in her eighties, is famous for writing about ch...
11 Maalis 36min
EP 238: Eddie Sheppard on Canada's Precarity Mindset
In recent years, the world has become an increasingly unstable place. Our guest on the program this week says that Canadians have adopted a “precarity mindset.” And now, roughly nine out of ten Canadi...
4 Maalis 25min
EP 236: Amanda Ripley on the Media's Trump Fixation
If you follow the news in this country, you know that Canada is currently grappling with a number of crises, from housing to mental health. And yet much of our attention is focused on the United State...
20 Helmi 42min
EP 235: Richard Stursberg: Who Killed CanLit?
Canadians who write books, or cover books, or read books will know that something is wrong with our literary industry. But a new book documents just how far off the rails publishing has gone. Our gues...
11 Helmi 36min
EP 234: Harrison Lowman on James Bennet, The New York Times and the Era of Activist Journalism
This week on the Lean Out podcast we are taking a look at the chaotic summer of 2020, and the impact of that unrest on mainstream journalism. Our guest on the program this week has a new interview wit...
4 Helmi 28min
EP 233: Steven Scherer: The Road From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver
We live in an age of economic precarity and journalists are not exempt from this. Our guest on the program this week has written a powerful Substack essay about his path from foreign correspondent to ...
28 Tammi 35min
EP 232: Larissa Phillips on the Rift Between Men and Women
Men and women don’t seem very happy these days. They are dissatisfied with dating, polarized politically, trash talking each other online, and both marriage and fertility are on the decline. What is r...
21 Tammi 31min
