Today’s episode features two new crime thrillers written by big names. First, Harlan Coben says he stopped in his tracks when Reese Witherspoon asked to collaborate on a novel. In today’s episode, the co-authors speak with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly about their collaboration on Gone Before Goodbye. Then, I Love Dick author Chris Kraus took an autofiction approach to her crime novel The Four Spent the Day Together. In an interview with NPR’s Elissa Nadworny, Kraus describes the protagonist as “me at the moment of the story.”
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Can air traffic controllers keep calm and carry on — without pay?
There’s one job that gets all the attention during a government shutdown: air traffic controllers. Today on the show, we spotlight why this job has taken on outsize political influence and one controller’s experience during the longest shutdown on record.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2529: Comparing Fingerprints
Episode: 2529 Comparing Fingerprints: What's Involved and What can go Wrong. Today, who dunnit?
Audio Poem of the Day - Light as a Shuttle
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the memory palace - Episode 238: The Crypt of Thornwell Jacobs
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Music
- Kara-Lis Coverdale's A480
- Palimpsest from Will Bate's score to The Sound of Silence
- Harriett Smith and Robert Martin Meet in the Rain from Isobel Waller Bridge's score to Emma.
- The Play from Dan Romer's score to (the terrific) Station Eleven.
- Cutting Branches from a Temporary Shelter from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
- Sustainable from H. Takahashi.
Notes
- There's a particularly good article by Colin Dickey about Jacobs and The Crypt in American Scholar.
- You can read all 1100 pages of Jacobs' autobiography here, if you haven't already.
The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Gen-X Roundtable!
Christine Rosen, Eli Lake, and I talk about the drama of yesterday's Heritage Foundation meeting, during which Kevin Roberts took another shot at apologizing and staffers in turn aired their outrage, support, and anti-Israel animus. And Christine and Eli make a bunch of Gen-X cultural references that I should get but don't. Give a listen.
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Bad Faith - Episode 524 – “Empire’s Last Hurrah” (w/ Jasper Nathaniel, Ubai Abudi, & Dr. Jill Stein)
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Independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel joins Bad Faith to tell the harrowing story of being chased down by Israeli settlers in the West Bank before filming a now-viral scene of a settler brutally attacking a Palestinian woman with a club. Executive director of Bisan Center for Research & Development Ubai Abudi, a Palestinian who has experienced similar attacks and detainment by Israel, along with Dr. Jill Stein explain how Uniting for Peace, a UN general assembly resolution, could bring an end to the occupation and genocide by overriding the US veto and getting troops on the ground to protect Palestinians from Israeli violence.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Compound Interest (Encore)
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Audio Mises Wire - The Election of Mamdani: What It Means – And What It Doesn’t Mean
While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/election-mamdani-what-it-means-and-what-it-doesnt-mean
First Things Podcast - Where is the Antichrist? (ft. Peter Thiel)
In this episode, Peter Thiel joins Rusty Reno on The Editor's Desk to talk about his recently co-authored essay, "Voyages to the End of the World," from the November 2025 issue of the magazine.