Month: November 2022

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New Books in Native American Studies - Night of the Living Rez

How does identity and experience inform your writing? This episode explores:

  • Professor Talty’s journey from community college student to college professor.
  • The importance of supportive mentors and professors.
  • Using identity and experience ethically in fiction and nonfiction.
  • Why finding the right form for your story matters.
  • A discussion of the book Night of the Living Rez.


Our guest is: Professor Morgan Talty, who is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation where he grew up. He is the author of the story collection Night of the Living Rez from Tin House Books, and his work has appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative Magazine, LitHub, and elsewhere. A winner of the 2021 Narrative Prize, Talty’s work has been supported by the Elizabeth George Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts (2022). Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. Professor Talty is also a Prose Editor at The Massachusetts Review. He lives in Levant, Maine.

Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender.

Listeners to this episode may also be interested in:

  • A Calm and Normal Heart by Chelsea T. Hicks
  • The Removed by Brandon Hobson
  • There There by Tommy Orange
  • Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
  • The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp


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The NewsWorthy - Biden Talks Democracy, Major Drugstores Settle & World Series No-Hitter – Thursday, November 3, 2022

The news to know for Thursday, November 3, 2022!

What to know about President Biden’s speech last night that seemed like a final pitch to voters, and how Republicans are responding.

Also: the Fed’s outlook for the future when it comes to interest rates and inflation, and two of America’s largest pharmacies made a deal to settle thousands of lawsuits.

Plus: how last night’s World Series game made history, the new feature coming to Gmail to help you keep track of holiday packages, and how to get some freebies on National Sandwich Day… 

Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!

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What A Day - For God’s Sake, Vote

President Biden on Wednesday made his closing argument to voters ahead of Election Day. In a speech delivered near Capitol Hill, where violent extremists attempted to overturn the 2020 election, he warned that America’s democratic traditions are on the line this midterm cycle.

For our final installment of WAD The Vote, Rep. Sean Casten, the first Democrat to represent Illinois’ 6th Congressional District in decades, tells us how he entered politics, and why he’s running for a third term.

And in headlines: a surprise ceasefire was reached to end two years of civil war in Ethiopia, the Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate by another 0.75%, and hospitals are reporting an alarming surge in R.S.V. cases among young children. 

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | Teacher Peter Vlaming on Being Fired for Refusing to Use ‘Preferred’ Pronouns

Peter Vlaming believes words have power, a conviction that cost him his job. 


Vlaming was fired from his position teaching French at West Point High School in Virginia in 2018 for refusing to call a female student by male pronouns. 


Vlaming said he was essentially given the option to either “deny” his own “Christian belief, in order to stay in the school system,” or stand and fight. 


“Sooner or later, you have to say, ‘No, I'm not going to do that,’” he said, a decision that cost him his teaching career. 


Vlaming sued the school board, and now, the Virginia Supreme Court will hear Vlaming’s case on Friday. 


Vlaming and Caleb Dalton, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, join "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the significance of the case and what the court’s decision could mean for the free speech rights of teachers. 


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Tech Won't Save Us - Tech Billionaires Are Reshaping US Politics w/ Jacob Silverman

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the politics of the PayPal Mafia tech billionaires, and how they’re trying to reshape US political discourse to serve themselves.

Jacob Silverman is a journalist who writes for The New Republic, The Baffler, Slate, and many others. He’s also the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud with Ben McKenzie. Follow Jacob on Twitter at @SilvermanJacob.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Stakes of Nevada’s Latino Vote

Democrats have been winning reliably in Nevada, but between the lack of enthusiasm for Joe Biden among Latino voters, and a lackluster voter-turnout effort from Vegas’s hospitality union, it’s very possible that the face of Nevada’s “Stop the Steal” effort may win a Senate seat.


Guest: Jon Ralston, CEO and Editor in Chief of The Nevada Independent.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘The Last Chairlift,’ John Irving revisits familiar themes with a new perspective

In this episode, NPR's Scott Simon pays best-selling author John Irving a visit in his Toronto home. Across from Irving's family photographs and slanted writing station, they discuss the writer's expansive career, the prevalence of gender and sexual politics in his novels and the newfound personal connection he can make with his characters.
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It Could Happen Here - The Brazilian Election Part 3: The Sowers Reap, The World Burns

In our final episode on the Brazilian elections we look at the US backed crusade against the PT and talk about the nature of corruption.

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