Recall This Book
By Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
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Free-ranging discussion of books from the past that cast a sideways light on today's world.
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158 RTB Ben Fountain in Dark Times (JP)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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156 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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155 Lyndsey Stonebridge on Hannah Arendt's Lessons on Love and Disobedience (JP)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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153: What Hannah Arendt Has to Teach Us about Anticipatory Despair (JP)
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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152 Why I Paneled: A Backwards Glance by Kristin Mahoney and Nasser Mufti (JP)
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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151 Why I Panel, Part One: Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti (JP)
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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150* Steve McCauley on Barbara Pym: The Comic Novel Explored and Adored (JP)
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May 15, 2025 |
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149 "I have not Finished...": Rokhaya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)
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May 02, 2025 |
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148* Albion Lawrence: Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP)
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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147 Ieva Jusionyte on American Guns in Mexico: Exit Wounds (EF, JP)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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146* Managerial Bishops Rule! Peter Brown on Wealth in Early Christianity (JP)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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145 Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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144 Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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143 Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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142* Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy (EF, JP)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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141 The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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140* Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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139 Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle" (JP)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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138c Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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138b Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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138a An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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137 David Peña-Guzmán: Animals Dream and That Makes Them Morally Considerable (JP)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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136* Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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135.2 Recall This Story: Part 2 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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135.1 Recall This Story: Part 1 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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134* Etherized: Anne Enright in a Novel Dialogue Conversation (Paige Reynolds, JP)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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133 Beri Marusic on Grief and other Expiring Emotions (Katie Elliott, JP)
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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132* Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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131 Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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130* Racism as Power Relation: A Discussion with Adaner Usmani (EF, JP)
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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129* Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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128 Steve McCauley excavates John Cheever's "The Five-Forty-Eight" (JP)
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May 09, 2024 |
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127* Helena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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126 E. G. Condé / Steve Gonzalez on Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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125* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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124 The Reeducation of Race with Sonali Thakkar (JP)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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123* Sheila Heti Speaks About Awe with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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122 The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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121* Ajantha Subramanian on "The Caste of Merit" ((EF,JP))
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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119 Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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118 Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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117* Laurence Ralph Reckons With Police Violence (EF, JP)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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116 "We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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115* Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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114 John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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113* David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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112 Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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111* Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond (JP)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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110* Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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109* Thomas Piketty on Capitalism and Inequality (Adaner Usmani, JP)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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108* Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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107* The Electro-Library with Jared Green (EF, JP)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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106 Musical Collaboration: A Chat with Francisco del Pino (JP)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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105* David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP)
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May 18, 2023 |
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104 Journalistic Collaboration (JP)
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May 04, 2023 |
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103* Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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102 Sassan Tabatabai: Poetry, Observation, and Form
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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101* Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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100 Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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98 Horton's Cosmic Zoom: A Discussion with Zachary Horton
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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97* Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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96 Lorraine Daston Rules the World (EF, JP)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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95* Books in Dark Times: A Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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93* Ethnonationalism since 1973: A Discussion with Quinn Slobodian
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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91* Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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90 Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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87* Mike Leigh In Focus (JP)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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85* Pu Wang and John Plotz Look Back on their Cixin Liu Interview
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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84* Cixin Liu Talks About Science Fiction (JP, Pu Wang)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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83* Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz on Zadie Smith
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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82* Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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81* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
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May 19, 2022 |
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80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Mohabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)
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May 05, 2022 |
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79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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76 Land-Grab Universities with Robert Lee (Jerome Tharaud, JP)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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75* Sean Hill Talks about Bodies in Space and Time with Elizabeth Bradfield
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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74 George Kalogeris on Words and Places
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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73 Teletherapy with Hannah Zeavin (High Theory Crossover, Saronik)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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72 Caryl Phillips Speaks with Corina Stan
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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70 Recall this Buck 5: "Studying Up" with Daniel Souleles (EF, JP)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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69 Recall this Buck 4: Daniel Souleles on Private Equity (JP, EF)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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68 Martin Puchner: Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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67 Everything and Less: Mark McGurl on Books in the Age of Amazon
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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66 On Multi-Species Community: A Critical Conversation with Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Gina T, John P)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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65 Octopus World: Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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64 Brahmin Left 4: Adaner and John wrap up with Elizabeth
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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63 Brahmin Left 3: Arlie Hochschild (AU, JP)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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62 Brahmin Left 2: Jan-Werner Müller (AU, JP)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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61 Brahmin Left 1: Matt Karp on class dealignment (AU, JP)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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60 Sean Hill on Bodies in Space and Time (EF, EB)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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59 Recall This B-Side #4: Pardis Dabashi on “My Uncle Napoleon” (JP)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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58 Recall this B-Side #3: Caleb Crain on Daisy Ashford’s “The Young Visiters” (JP)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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57 Recall this B-side #2: Elizabeth Ferry on “The Diary of ‘Helena Morley'” (JP)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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55 David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
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May 27, 2021 |
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54 Crossover Month #3: Novel Dialogue with Helen Garner (Elizabeth McMahon, JP)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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53 Crossover Month #2: Novel Dialogue (Orhan Pamuk, Bruce Robbins, JP)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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52 Crossover Month #1: “High Theory” and the Pastoral (Kim, Saronik, JP)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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51 Recall This Buck 3: Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Ideology (Adaner, JP)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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50 Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy; or, Why Words Matter
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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49 The Capitol Insurrection and Asymmetrical Policing: David Cunningham (EF, JP)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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48 Transform, Not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation (PW, EF)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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47 Glimpsing COVID: Gael McGill on Data Visualization (GT, JP)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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46 Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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45 Global Policing 3 Laurence Ralph: Reckoning with Police Violence
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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44 Adaner Usmani: Racism as idea, Racism as power relation (EF, JP)
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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43 Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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42 Recall This Buck 2: Peter Brown on wealth, charity and managerial bishops in early Christianity (JP)
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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41 RTB Books in Dark Times 13: Lorraine Daston, Historian of Science (JP)
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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40 Global Policing 1: Hayal Akarsu on Turkish Community Policing (EF, JP)
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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39 RTB Books in Dark Times 12: Carlo Rotella (JP)
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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38 Beth Blum on Self-Help from Carnegie to Today (JP)
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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37 RTB Books In Dark Times 11: Elizabeth Bradfield (JP)
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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36 Policing and White Power: (EF, JP) Global Policing Series
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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35 RTB Books In Dark Times 10: Martin Puchner
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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34 The Caribbean and Vectors of Warfare: Vincent Brown (EF, JP)
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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33 RTB Books in Dark Times 9: Ben Fountain (JP)
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May 28, 2020 |
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32 RTB Books in Dark Times 8: Paul Saint-Amour (JP 5/20)
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May 21, 2020 |
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31 RTB Books in Dark Times 7: Vanessa Smith (JP)
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May 14, 2020 |
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30 In Focus: Nir Eyal on (the deontology of) “Challenge Testing” a Covid Vaccine
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May 07, 2020 |
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29 RTB Books in Dark Times 6: Kim Stanley Robinson (JP)
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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28 RTB Books in Dark Times 5: Seeta Chaganti (JP)
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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27 RTB Books in Dark Times 4: David and John Plotz
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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26 RTB Books in Dark Times 3: Plotz/Ferry
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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25 RTB Books in Dark Times 2: Stephen McCauley (JP)
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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24 RTB Books in Dark Times 1: Alex Star (JP)
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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23 Recall This Buck 1: Chris Desan on Making Money (EF, JP)
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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9* Women in Political Power, with Manduhai Buyandelger (Rebroadcast, in honor of Elizabeth Warren)
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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22 Ajantha Subramanian: Meritocracy, Caste, and Class (EF, JP)
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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21 Silvia Bottinelli: Food, Art, Food Art!
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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20 The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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19 Scientists, collaboration, and groupthink with Albion Lawrence (EF, JP)
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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18 Fictional Empathy. Rita Felski and Namwali Serpell (with JP)
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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17 In Focus: Mike Leigh (JP)
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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16 de/industrialization with Christine Walley (EF and JP)
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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15x Afterthoughts on Zadie Smith (John and Elizabeth)
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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15 In Focus: Zadie Smith (JP)
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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14x Afterthoughts about the Cixin Liu interview (Pu Wang and John)
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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14 In Focus: Cixin Liu (in English, with Pu Wang, JP)
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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14c 刘慈欣访谈中文版 Cixin Liu with Pu Wang (in Chinese)
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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13 Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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12 RTB Presents “The Electro–Library” (with Jared Green)
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Jul 06, 2019 |
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11 Xenophobia and Ethno-Nationalism, 1973 to today (Quinn Slobodian)
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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10 Life, Writing, and Life Writing with Helena DeBres
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May 16, 2019 |
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10x Bonus! “Exit Zero” and Life Writing
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May 16, 2019 |
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9 Women in Political Power; with Manduhai Buyandelger
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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8 Distraction, a Conversation (Marina Van Zuylen and John Plotz at Harvard’s Mahindra Center)
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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7 In Focus: Samuel Delany in conversation with John Plotz (Nevèrÿon, Triton, Gertrude Stein and more….)
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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6 Writing Then and Now: Martin Puchner (The Written World)
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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5 The Comic Novel with Stephen McCauley
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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4 In Focus: An Interview with Madeline Miller about Circe (JP, GT)
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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3 Old and New Media with Lisa Gitelman
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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2 Addiction with Gina Turrigiano
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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1 Minimalism with Tory Fair
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Jan 01, 2019 |