Best Wanderers Youth Podcasts (2024)

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Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Geneva, Gettysburg, Krakow, Tuscany, Siberia, Indiana; on writing for two days and editing for a year; on honeymoons; on precise descriptions and hope; on landing in JFK; and ... 43:47

3M ago43:47

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Jessi Jezewska Stev…

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AI and Inequality: How Machines Keep Us Poor, Sick, and Discriminated Against

5M ago

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This third program in our AI series focused on the critical issue of inherent biases in AI technologies, especially as they are deployed in law enforcement, healthcare, government, and education. We took a look at how these biases manifest and their profound implications.

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GUEST PREVIEW // The Wandering Path 14:47

5M ago14:47

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Presenting The Wandering Path, an actual-play podcast putting complex characters, resonant themes and engaging new mechanics at the heart of immersive adventures. Gear up for their premier season, as they dive to the heart of the City of New Prosper: a techno-magical metropolis on the rise, where those who seek to craft themselves a new future will…

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AI in the Spotlight: Revolutionizing Creativity and Industry in the Arts

6M ago

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From generating new forms of artistic expression to transforming industry practices, artificial intelligence is redefining the boundaries of creativity. This event brought together creatives from diverse backgrounds and industry experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by AI in the performing and fine arts.…

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Hilary Bradt on getting lost; on the Galapagos and Inca Trail in the 1970s; on aerograms v social media; on hitch-hiking at 82; on her guidebooks to Burma, Iraq, Iran and N Korea; on public footpaths and ... 35:50

6M ago35:50

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Hilary Bradt to dis…

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Wandering Stars

6M ago

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Tommy Orange, the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There, returns to ALOUD with one of TIME Magazine’s most anticipated books of 2024, Wandering Stars, which traces the legacies of the Colorado Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family. Orange’s new…

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Mind and Machine: Understanding AI’s Impact on Youth Mental Health

7M ago

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Join us for the first of a special ALOUD series on AI, where we take a compelling look into the interaction between young people and AI systems, exploring subconscious perceptions and the significant effects of AI on youth mental health and development.ALOUD on Ideas is an ongoing series that will take a thematic look at subjects that are particula…

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Ginanne Brownell on hearing clarinets and trombones by a Nairobi city dump; on a fairytale morphing; on big skies; on searching for a cemetery by Lake Michigan; on her next book: a global surrogacy journey ... 28:59

7M ago28:59

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Ginanne Brownell, t…

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GUEST EPISODE // Ask Your Father Episode One: The Stars Are Wrong 21:25

7M ago21:25

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Presenting Ask Your Father, a podcast following Lem, a human, and Mikey, an A.I. - pilots of the first FTL ship, that takes them farther than they ever thought they'd go. As they work together to solve the problem, they forge a friendship that could change the course of human history. Ask Your Father Episode One: The Stars Are Wrong // Lem and Mike…

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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

7M ago

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Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, and the complex. The New York Times best-selling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams joins us in a program exclusive to ALOUD about her new memoir, Splinters, the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an explor…

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Hello Travelers!! – Feb 2024 2:10

8M ago2:10

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Updates from Julian at StarTripper HQ, as we (slowly but surely) progress towards the release of Season 3! Get future breaking news at the News & Updates section of our website - available now! Thank you for flying with us!!

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Alphabetical Diaries

8M ago

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The award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour, Sheila Heti returns to ALOUD with her new thrilling confessional Alphabetical Diaries. Over ten years, Heti kept a record of her thoughts, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. Known for her experimental literary works—passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing—Heti masterfully structures h…

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The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

9M ago

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Join us for a conversation with one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR, discussing her new book, The Amen Effect, which explores what it will take, in a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, to rebuild our society. Rabbi Brous was in conversation with celebrated Los Angeles-based activist a…

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Nastassja Martin on her near-death encounter with a Kamchatka bear; on the boundaries between humankind and nature; on linear v spiral storytelling; on being in between worlds; on dreams, and on waking ... 49:44

9M ago49:44

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Nastassja Martin to…

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Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on life in Lagos and Norwich; on how family pressure shapes you; on hope as something active; on walking to get out of one’s head; on random news items; and on writing a story, leaving ... 42:51

11M ago42:51

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ t…

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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

11M ago

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In 2019, Cristina Rivera Garza traveled from her home in Texas to Mexico City in search of an old unresolved criminal file. "My name is Cristina Rivera Garza," she wrote in her request to the attorney general, "and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera, who was murdered on July 16, 1990." Knowing there is only a slim chance of recover…

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To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

11M ago

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ALOUD welcomes two-time Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize–winner Tracy K. Smith with her remarkable book To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul. In 2020, heartsick from consistent assaults on Black life, Tracy K. Smith found herself soul-searching and digging into the historical archive for help navigating the "din o…

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Black, Biracial, Queer, Christian w/ Taylor Emmaus 48:03

11M ago48:03

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It can be extremely challenging to hold multiple marginalized identities...we talk to students all the time who don't know how to navigate supremacy culture when they are told in subtle ways whether directly or through micro aggressions that they aren't valid. Luckily we have had the privilege of working with folks like Taylor Emmaus McGhee who has…

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Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair

12M ago

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Renowned art conservator Rosa Lowinger reveals in her beautiful memoir Dwell Time a journey of her difficult childhood in Miami growing up among people whose losses in the Cuban revolution, and earlier by the decimation of family in the Holocaust, clouded all family life. Through Lowinger’s relentless clear-eyed efforts to be the best practitioner …

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An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

1y ago

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Award-winning journalist Santi Elijah Holley brings us a long overdue look at the Shakur family, who, for over fifty years, have inspired generations of activists, scholars, and music fans. An Amerikan Family is the history of the fight for Black liberation in the United States, as experienced by the Shakurs. From Assata Shakur, the popular author …

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First Gen: A Memoir

1y ago

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From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate Alejandra Campoverdi comes a riveting, unflinching memoir on navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina. She offers a broad examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer. Join us as we follow Campoverdi’s journey from being a child of welfare to be…

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Wander Franco's Youth Invasion (and Other Sports News) 1:17:23

1y ago1:17:23

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Adam and Jeff discuss Coco Gauff's win at the US Open, Wander Franco's future in baseball, Deion Sanders ascent through the coaching ranks, and so much more! Show notes: https://youdontshow.link/i42By Big Pond Podcasts

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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

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In her bestselling books, celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein documents the effects of branding, austerity, and climate profiteering on our societies and our souls. Using her own story of an antithetical doppelganger, she looks at what she refers to as the "Mirror World" of our destabilized present, full of doubles and confusion…

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Daljit Nagra on his sense of mischief; on abandoning 30 line poems; on his first language Punjabi; on listening to Miles Davis; on fully expecting to fail; on the nine-metre man and snake gods; and on ... 36:35

1y ago36:35

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Daljit Nagra to disc…

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My Podcasting Future. AGAIN. 10:30

1y ago10:30

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Hello! Jullian here. It's been a year since I ended The Creator Life. You might be wondering why I'm posting an update on my podcasting future here on this podcast feed. YES, it has something to do with this podcast. Listen on to find out what it is! For further context, check out this post: https://julliansibi.com/my-podcasting-future-again…

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John Daly Pt. 8 - Since the Books 49:02

1y ago49:02

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Adam and Jeff finish out the season by talking about all the things John and Sherrie Daly have been up to since writing their respective books. Spoiler: It's mostly bad. Show notes: https://unpops.co/3PH2DUOBy Big Pond Podcasts

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Khashayar J Khabushani on hyphenated identity; on Dodgers jerseys and drinking beer; on memoir v fiction; on belonging where we are born; on hopefulness and youthfulness; on the myth of LA; and on missing ... 45:01

1y ago45:01

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Khashayar J Khabush…

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John Daly Pt. 7 - The Sherrie Daly Story 1:11:43

1y ago1:11:43

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Adam and Jeff discuss the 2011 book Teed Off: My Life as a Player's Wife on the PGA Tour by John Daly's ex-wife, Sherrie Miller. The book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043RSJDQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1By Big Pond Podcasts

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Hanne Ørstavik on love, love and more love; on travelling with her books; on openness and vulnerability as two sides of the same thing; on 16 books written as one big novel; on the power of silence in ... 47:21

1y ago47:21

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Hanne Ørstavik to d…

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John Daly Pt. 6 - All My Exes Wear Rolexes Pt. 2 46:46

1+ y ago46:46

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Adam and Jeff discuss John Daly's notoriously volatile marriage to his fourth wife, Sherrie Miller. Reference Links: https://archive.commercialappeal.com/news/crime/sherrie-daly-in-trouble-with-the-law--again-288a50b8-e4b7-17f9-e053-0100007ff5eb-364178111.html/ https://www.espn.com/golf/news/story?id=2898127 https://www.golfchannel.com/article/golf…

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The Rabbit Hutch

1+ y ago

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Join Tess Gunty to discuss her debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, the winner of this year’s National Book Award. In her darkly funny and remarkable novel, we’re introduced to a string of overlapping characters and plots mostly centered around La Lapinière, otherwise known as "The Rabbit Hutch," a run-down apartment building in Vacca Vale, Indiana. The …

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John Daly Pt. 5 - All My Exes Wear Rolexes 35:53

1+ y ago35:53

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Adam and Jeff dive into a highly gross chapter of golf legend John Daly's autobiography.By Big Pond Podcasts

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Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” Héctor Tobar

1+ y ago

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"'Stories about empire,' Tobar writes, 'move us because they're echoes of the memories that reside deep in our collective consciousness.' Latinos, after all, are people' living with the hurt caused by war and politics, conquest and surrender, revolution and dictatorship.'" —The New York Times "Latino" is the most broadly defined major race in the U…

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Damian Le Bas on rambunctious families; on van life; on slag heaps and rubbish tips; on lecturing kids; on the only seasons of summer and winter; on the question “where are you from?”; and on looking like ... 47:07

1+ y ago47:07

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Damian Le Bas to dis…

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John Daly Pt. 4 - Six Weeks In 1997 45:48

1+ y ago45:48

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Adam and Jeff talk about a tumultuous span of time in John Daly's life where he lost his wife, lost all of his sponsorships, checked into rehab, and came out of it all relatively unscathed.By Big Pond Podcasts

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