# Donovan Hohn
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donovan hohn (born May 29, 1972 San Francisco) is an American author, essayist, and editor.
== Life ==
donovan hohn is the author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, the tale of the Friendly Floatees. He was raised in San Francisco.
Francine Prose on Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen
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Michael Pollan on Consciousness
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A July Reflection on America and Arendt | Bonus Episode
In this bonus episode of the podcast, recorded on July 5 from Marlborough, Massachusetts, host Roger Berkowitz reflects on Fourth of July patriotism, baseball, and a Lapham’s Quarterly podcast series, Revolutionary America, edited by Donovan Hohn. Berkowitz highlights Lewis Lapham's archival conver…
Andrea Wulf on George Forster
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[BONUS] The Making of a Movie and an Archive (with John Kirby, Libby Handros, and Paul Ford)
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Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison
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A Broken World: Annie Dillard and Lewis H. Lapham
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A Broken World: Roger Berkowitz and Jennifer Szalai
“Friendship is an enormous part of my life, and it was an enormous part of Arendt’s life,” Roger Berkowitz says on this week’s episode of The World in Time. “She was said to have a genius for friendship by her friends. She was an exile, stateless for eighteen years, and she really did come to belie…
A Broken World: Benjamin Moser and Benjamin A. Saltzman
“Hannah Arendt has been sanitized in a certain way now, as a kind of wise Jewish figure,” says Benjamin Moser on this week’s episode of The World in Time. “In Germany, she’s probably the most read Jewish philosopher. Germany, with all its censorship of anti-Zionist viewpoints, has kind of adopted h…
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