Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarty Friedman with Jon Wiederhorn, "Dreaming Japanese" (Permuted Press, 2024)
Episode 1648
Marty Friedman is a multi-platinum recording artist and government-appointed Ambassador to Japan Heritage. He has written three books in Japanese and…
7 months ago
Melissa Auf der Maur, "Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir" (DaCapo, 2026)
Episode 1646
Melissa Auf der Maur's new memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir(DaCapo, 2026) is a remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of …
7 months ago
Robert Hall, "Building Resilient Futures" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
Episode 1644
Explore resilience from personal, organizational, and national perspectives with expert Robert Hall in this discussion of his book Building Resilien…
7 months, 1 week ago
Michael Mann Reconsidered: Heat and Collateral
Episode 1645
It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and in this show we conclude our series on the films of Michael Mann. Structured as a knock-out tournament, we have …
7 months, 1 week ago
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Everything You Wanted to Know about China*: * But Were Afraid to Ask" (Brixton Ink, 2025)
Episode 1643
What does Xi Jinping share with Mao Zedong? Why is Confucius still central to a communist state? What really happened in Tiananmen Square—and why is …
7 months, 1 week ago
Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers" (Fordham UP, 2026)
Episode 1642
Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers (Fordham UP, 2026) investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusin…
7 months, 1 week ago
The 50th Anniversary Tour of Patti Smith's Horses: A Conversation with Caryn Rose
Episode 1641
Caryn Rose's Three Chords and Blessed Noise (2026) is an ode to the lost art of the tour diary. In November of 2025, Patti Smith and her band embarke…
7 months, 1 week ago
Michael Mann Reconsidered: Ali and The Last of the Mohicans
Episode 1640
It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and in this show we start a series on the films of Michael Mann. Structured as a knock-out tournament, we set his ei…
7 months, 1 week ago
Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)
Episode 1639
In Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Bold Type Books, 2021), Sarah Jaffe argues that mode…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Alan McDougall, "Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 315
Today we are joined by Alan McDougall, Professor of History at the University of Guelph, and the author of Dreams and Songs To Sing: A People’s Histo…
7 months, 2 weeks ago