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I Saw My Own
Manage episode 182842092 series 1504904
At age 15, novelist Vanessa Veselka ran away from home and began living life as a hitchhiker in the United States during the 1980s. From highway to highway, coast to coast, truck stop to truck stop, Veselka experienced poverty, perversion, and a showdown with a potential serial killer. She shares her story at the MacDowell Colony for Artists where she works on her second novel, Light the Lamp With the Last of the Whale Oil (Riverhead Books).
Produced by Garrett Crowe, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray.
Music by Dan Svizeny.
Transcripts are available at everythingisstories.com
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40 episodes
Manage episode 182842092 series 1504904
At age 15, novelist Vanessa Veselka ran away from home and began living life as a hitchhiker in the United States during the 1980s. From highway to highway, coast to coast, truck stop to truck stop, Veselka experienced poverty, perversion, and a showdown with a potential serial killer. She shares her story at the MacDowell Colony for Artists where she works on her second novel, Light the Lamp With the Last of the Whale Oil (Riverhead Books).
Produced by Garrett Crowe, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray.
Music by Dan Svizeny.
Transcripts are available at everythingisstories.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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