Today I’m speaking with Lance Richardson about his new biography, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. The book is a massive undertaking — eight years in the making — that…

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Today I’m speaking with Aatish Taseer about his new collection of essays, A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile. Aatish is a writer who found himself cut off from India after…

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Pico Iyer is my guest today. In today’s episode, we discuss the need for silence and stillness in our distracted age, the metaphor of fire as both destruction and renewal,…

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Alastair Humphreys is my guest today. We discuss his journey from adventurer to author to “microadventurer.” Alastair shares his philosophy of “microadventures,” which is all about finding the potential for…

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