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Lisa Belkin, author of Genealogy Of A Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night, traces several generations of family to the muzzle…
2 years, 7 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Sacramento Nazi Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s 2022 interview with iconic actor Stephen Root, whose many (many) credits include HB…
2 years, 7 months ago
Snakes On The Vain
TC Boyle’s new novel, Blue Skies, is about a twenty-something social media influencer who brings Burmese pythons into the picture. What can go wrong?…
2 years, 7 months ago
Who Doesn't Loathe A Sacramento Nazi? (But Then What)
Michael Isikoff, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, returns to dig further int…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Steele Dossier Was A Straw Man
Michael Isikoff, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, is an extremely straight s…
2 years, 7 months ago
Comey On Crime, Real And Imagined
James Comey, was the 7th director of the FBI before being fired by President Donald Trump. He is now out with his first work of fiction, a crime-thri…
2 years, 7 months ago
Memorial Day Deliberations
Author Jack Fairweather recalls the bravery of a soldier named Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer actually who did the unthinkable in his book, The Vol…
2 years, 7 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Summer Of Love Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s Spiel from this past Tuesday, in which he speaks at length about things he has chos…
2 years, 7 months ago
Chewing The Fat
The fat acceptance movement wants to not just de-stigmatize large body size, their adherents argue that the stigma is worse than "obesity"—a word the…
2 years, 7 months ago
Dark Shadows Over SCOTUS
Stephen Vladeck talks Supreme Court legitimacy as well as the so called "Shadow Docket," which is the name of his book subtitled "How the Supreme Cou…
2 years, 7 months ago