12 RTB Presents “The Electro–Library” (with Jared Green)
In this warm summer episode, Elizabeth and John present a marvelous podcast, The Electro-Library, and they speak with one of its hosts and founders, Jared Green. Elizabeth, Jared and John play snippet...
6 Jul 201944min
11 Xenophobia and Ethno-Nationalism, 1973 to today (Quinn Slobodian)
What’s the relationship between immigration, globalization and demographics? What do a badly characterized, racist novel and an imaginatively metaphoric biology article from the 1970s have to do with ...
14 Jun 201942min
10 Life, Writing, and Life Writing with Helena DeBres
Bonus! Available only on our website, Episode 10X includes a brief RTB discussion about Exit Zero, a stunning “auto-ethnography” that raises fascinating questions about what it means when people re...
16 Mai 201938min
9 Women in Political Power; with Manduhai Buyandelger
Evita, Thatcher and HRC walk into a glass ceiling…In this episode, John and Elizabeth are joined by MIT anthropologist Manduhai Buyandelger to discuss women in political power in Argentina, Mongolia...
28 Mar 201940min
8 Distraction, a Conversation (Marina Van Zuylen and John Plotz at Harvard’s Mahindra Center)
We frequently worry that we live in a “distracted age.” But perhaps the human condition is always to live “almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite another” (Ford Madox Ford, “On Impr...
14 Mar 201946min
7 In Focus: Samuel Delany in conversation with John Plotz (Nevèrÿon, Triton, Gertrude Stein and more….)
On August 6, 2019, an article based on this podcast interview appeared in our partner publication, Public Books. Fresh on the heels of our conversation with Madeline Miller, author of Circe, John Pl...
7 Mar 201926min
6 Writing Then and Now: Martin Puchner (The Written World)
From its origins in clay tablets to its future on digital tablets, Martin Puchner has thought about writing in all its forms. In this episode, John and Elizabeth talk to Martin, the Byron and Anita Wi...
28 Feb 201938min
5 The Comic Novel with Stephen McCauley
On this episode of Recall This Book, John talks to Stephen McCauley, a novelist and Professor of the Practice of English and Co-director of Creative Writing at Brandeis. Nobody knows more about the co...
13 Feb 201945min
