Community of Writers Podcasts

My guest for today is poet and, lately fiction writer Brittney Corrigan.  Her recent poetry collection Solastalgia explored themes of ecological crisis and now, with The Ghost Town Collectives, she creates in short albeit very poetic short stories, a vision of the transformations around us, an emotional and political and mythic apprehending of the Anthropocene investigating and interrogating and imagining and observing the real-time, real-life global climate crisis in all its facets.

My guest for the first of a three-part series is Steve Wasserman, the legendary editor, publisher, writer, agent, and arts and literature advocate with decades of experience and engagement and friendships which are now ours to read about in his essential collection, Tell Me Something,Tell Me Anything,Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays.

I present my annual program celebrating Banned Books Week (September 22-29) with special guest American Library Association (ALA) President Cindy Hohl. This year’s Banned Books Week 2024 theme is “Freed Between the Lines,” an observance of the freedom found in the pages of books and the need to defend that freedom from censorship.

I present excerpts from one of the most requested, most popular, and perhaps, alas, most enduring and relevant of the hundreds of shows I have hosted over more than fifteen years of Bibliocracy Radio. Corey Robin’s landmark The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin is a primer, a take-apart, an essential guide to understanding, critiquing, and fighting the Right.

My guest is Jackie Wu, who worked for the Orange County Registrar of Voters. She's written a firsthand account titled On the Front Lines of Democracy: An Election Official’s Story of Protecting the Vote in 2020. It's an insider’s account of administering, defending, and advocating for one of the nation’s best voting systems.