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Remembering Bettina Gilois (and what writers can learn from her work)
Season 3 Episode 130
“The opening line of your work should hold within it the germ of your entire idea. Attention spans are growing ever shorter. Grab your reader while y…
5 years, 8 months ago
Rolf's parents on parental mortality
Season 3 Episode 129
“In America aging is often seen as an insult rather than an inevitable human process. We don’t celebrate getting older; we ‘fight’ age by pretending …
5 years, 8 months ago
Talking with my parents about how to handle it when your parents die
Season 3 Episode 129
“In America aging is often seen as an insult rather than an inevitable human process. We don’t celebrate getting older; we ‘fight’ age by pretending …
5 years, 8 months ago
Travel writing in the 21st century
Season 3 Episode 128
“One of the miracles of travel writing is to constantly be reminded of how much we don’t know.” – Doug Bock Clark
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf an…
5 years, 9 months ago
Bonus: Unpacking the mission of travel-writing in the 21st century
Season 3 Episode 128
“One of the miracles of travel writing is to constantly be reminded of how much we don’t know.” – Doug Bock Clark
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf an…
5 years, 9 months ago
Traveling with the last subsistence hunters
Season 3 Episode 127
“The Lamalerans hunt in a way that is almost exactly the same as the way people hunted during Moby Dick’s time. Going on one of these hunts is analog…
5 years, 9 months ago
What the world’s last subsistence hunters can teach us about humanity
Season 3 Episode 127
“The Lamalerans hunt in a way that is almost exactly the same as the way people hunted during Moby Dick’s time. Going on one of these hunts is analog…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Great Gatsby, high-school-style
Season 3 Episode 126
“One reason why Gatsby is called a ‘Great American Novel’ is that it illuminates a conversation we haven’t stopped having in this country. We keep pr…
5 years, 9 months ago
Revisiting The Great Gatsby, high-school-style, in quarantine
Season 3 Episode 126
“One reason why Gatsby is called a ‘Great American Novel’ is that it illuminates a conversation we haven’t stopped having in this country. We keep pr…
5 years, 9 months ago
Museums and travel
Season 3 Episode 125
“You can’t ever really know what a museum will offer you until you get there.” – Kendra Green
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Kendra discuss the…
5 years, 9 months ago