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:
A Toothsome Tale
Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites
By Stephanie Bastek
A Rebel to Remember
Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner
By Stephanie Bastek
Going for Gold
Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten
By Stephanie Bastek
Paradise Reclaimed
Olivia Laing on the dark histories and utopian dreams of the flower bed
By Stephanie Bastek
