Smarty Pants

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Tune in every two weeks to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Produced and hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Have suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar.org

Episode List:

Coming Home

Craig Thompson digs up memories of farm labor and the history of ginseng

Muscle Memory

Michael Joseph Gross on the importance of strength, past and present

The Most Famous Unknown Artist

David Sheff puts Yoko Ono in the spotlight

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

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