Smarty Pants
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Subscribe: iTunes/Apple Podcasts • Amazon Podcasts • Google Podcasts • Acast • Pandora • RSS FeedTune in every week 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:
Overconsumed
Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard
By Stephanie Bastek
Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming
Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things
By Stephanie Bastek
The Writing on the Wall
Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery