Rachel Kushner's new novel, Creation Lake, has all the makings of a great spy thriller: a cool and unknowable secret agent, a mysterious figure who communicates only by email and a radical commune of French eco-activists. Kushner has said that some of these elements were, in fact, inspired by real-world stories of espionage and her own access to the social and political worlds of activist communes. In today's episode, Kushner speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the murky boundaries of being an undercover agent–and a writer.
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Audio Poem of the Day - immediately motionless likeness
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Disappearance of Michael Rockefeller (Encore)
In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, an heir to one of the greatest fortunes in the world, disappeared on an art-collecting trip off the coast of the island of New Guinea.
For decades, the family simply assumed that he accidentally drowned off the coast in an attempt to rescue his anthropologist colleague.
However, in the decades since he disappeared, more information may have come forward about exactly what happened, and it may not have been a simple drowning.
Learn more about Michael Rockefeller and the possible grizzly truth about his disappearance on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Farm
By Joyce Sutphen
Everything Everywhere Daily - Box Office Bombs
People in the entertainment industry often say that show business is “show business.”
As much as motion pictures are an art form, it is also a business. In many cases, a very big business.
Motion picture studios will often invest hundreds of millions of dollars into a film expecting to see a return on their investment.
Most of the time, a film will break even. However, in a few spectacular cases, a disastrous film has ruined a studio.
Learn more about box office bombs and some of the worst-performing movies in history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Oprah Joins the AI Conversation
In evaluating the potential outcomes of the expansion of AI, the natural tendency is to downplay the benefits and highlight the risks. Oprah Winfrey recently jumped into the conversation. Jennifer Huddleston comments.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Big stakes poker player and elections analyst Nate Silver is no stranger to a calculated risk.
In his new book, On The Edge, he makes the case that people willing to take massive calculated risks are winning in the modern economy.
Tim Harford talks to Nate about the mindset that?s driving hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and silicon valley investors.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - The return of Fyre Festival and other indicators
It's ... Indicators of the Week! We roundup the economic indicators that caught our attention. On this (kinda) spoOoOooky Friday the 13th, we were morbidly curious about higher household incomes, a Keurig K-Cup kerfuffle and, believe it or not, the return of Fyre Festival.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Does Fighting Corporate ESG Mean Ending Private Environmental Efforts?
Protecting our earthly environment is a worthy task, so why do many conservatives seem to believe that the private sector should have a severely limited role? Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center offers his take.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Echo
By Raymond Antrobus