Look who’s back! It’s Erica J. Berry (@ericajberry) and she’s here to talk about Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron Books).
Erica came on the show back in 2017 (I shudder to think of the audio) and it’s worth revisiting, and it’s nice that nearly six years later her work has evolved so greatly that we now get to talk about her magnificent book.
In this episode, we talk about:
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By Brendan O’Meara
Los Angeles-based journalist and writer Adam Popescu (@adampopescu) is here! He visited Congo and wrote about how Virunga, its national park, is the first of its kind to mine Bitcoin.
This piece is the intersection of his taste. Check this from his website:
He specializes in narratives on power, culture, wildlife, climate, and the dark side of big tech.
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Siku Allooloo (@discobou) puts the “multi” in multi-hyphenate. She’s a writer, a poet, a filmmaker. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Briarpatch Magazine, and Canadian Art Magazine, among others.
In this episode, we talk about the essay “Caribou People,” which appeared in the collection Shapes of Native Nonfiction (University of Washington). We also talk about “Living Death,” which won a creative nonfiction prize for Briarpatch Magazine.
These essays rhyme in dealing with patching together ancestral holes and colonial trauma. This is a very illuminating conversation from a great thinker.
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Ten years.
Ten years since “20 Minutes at Rucker Park” by Flinder Boyd (@FlinderBoyd) for SB Nation Longform for the incomparable editor Glenn Stout.
It felt like a good time to knock on Flinder’s door and have a conversation about what the past ten years has been like for him and what the next ten might look like.
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