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Let’s Talk Memoir: How We Are Haunted

I really enjoyed talking to Ronit Plank for Let’s Talk Memoir. We spoke about craft, about family and loss, and of course all things From The Ashes.

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Inside Europe: Mourning and Memory

This is a special one: host Kate Laycock of Inside Europe interviewed me about From the Ashes and then put together an episode with some deep original reporting on the themes and subjects of the book, visiting Bergamo and the mining towns in the north of England to follow up on the work I did. Find […]

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From the Ashes on Second City Works’ Getting to Yes, And Podcast

I spoke with Kelly Leonard on the Second City Works’ Getting to Yes, And podcast. (Yes, that Second City. No, my book isn’t funny.) We had a great–and emotional–time talking about grief and how it lives in the body, and got to surprising places. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. 

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Ordinary Unhappiness podcast

I was on Ordinary Unhappiness to talk about grief, Freud and why he’s wrong, and From the Ashes. 

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MACRODOSE ROUNDTABLE: Anarcho-Capitalism and the Future of Money

I guest hosted the economics podcast Macrodose, hosted by James Meadway. I was joined by two thinkers, Brett Scott and Quinn Slobodian, whose work on money, neoliberal capitalism, the state and its discontents, cryptocurrency, conspiracy theories have overlapping and fascinating insights for how we see the political world today.

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Macrodose: Robots and Foucault: the economics of work

I was a guest on the Macrodose podcast, for a long and rambling (and quite fun) conversation with James Meadway on the state of work, which robots we should (and shouldn’t) be afraid of, and why it’s always about power.