334: Ben Gwin!
In this week's episode, I talk to novelist Ben Gwin about postmodern satire, addiction, whether MFAs ruin or sustain writers, and for some reason I insist that he needs to write poetry,
plus I talk to Jared Silvia about synth music, Woody Guthrie, the vagaries of how folk music gets recorded, ...
Recovery Culture And Reality TV Satirized In Local Author's Debut Novel
Recovery memoirs have become a big part of our culture, both literary and televisual. The controversy around James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces , and the popularity of reality-TV shows like HBO’s Addiction and A&E’s Intervention , have fed into the idea that the road back from substance abuse s...
Show #123 – Ben Gwin
Author Ben Gwin stops by the Boogie Street Studio for a conversation with Eric about Ben’s book ‘Clean Time’ and other writings. Baseball, addiction and writing during the pandemic.
Show #123 – Ben Gwin
Author Ben Gwin stops by the Boogie Street Studio for a conversation with Eric about Ben’s book ‘Clean Time’ and other writings. Baseball, addiction and writing during the pandemic.
Show #123 – Ben Gwin
Author Ben Gwin stops by the Boogie Street Studio for a conversation with Eric about Ben’s book ‘Clean Time’ and other writings. Baseball, addiction and writing during the pandemic.
Recode Decode: The Google walkout organizers, one year later
In this special episode of Recode Decode, Kara Swisher checks in with some of the organizers of the Google walkout, who came on her show in November 2018 after leading a 20,000-worker protest. Later in the show, Kara's executive producer Erica Anderson (herself one of the organizers who has since...
