In the Weeds Podcast
1) Horse Travel and Horse Warfare: A Conversation with Historian Gary Shaw
We’re back! After a long hiatus due to professional/ life stuff, I’m happy to share with you my interview with Gary Shaw, Professor of History and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University. Continuing o...Show More
2) Dinosaurs with Lydia Millet
The title of Lydia Millet’s last novel - Dinosaurs - seems to wink at the threat of human extinction, and, yet, its explicit referent in the book is to birds, those sometimes-alien creatures who survi...Show More
3) David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous with Trevien Stanger, Part 2
A continuation of my earlier episode in which Trevien Stanger - instructor of environmental studies at St. Michael's College in Vermont - and I discuss Abram's book, which, I think it's...Show More
4) Study of a Liminal Corridor with Michael Inglis
There’s a funny little corridor tucked away behind a park in the Village of Pleasantville, New York where I live, where bears and bobcats amble through, walking atop the Catskill Aqueduct, the 100-yea...Show More
5) William Taylor on the Domestication of Horses
When we think of major innovations in human history, what comes to mind are inert technologies - from the wheel to the computer - but one of the most significant developments occurred as the result of...Show More
6) Maddie
Jennifer Lynch Fitzgerald tells the story of her relationship with Maddie, a mustang rescued in Habersham County, Georgia from a man who was collecting horses to sell for meat. When Maddie was found,...Show More
7) David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous with Trevien Stanger, Part 1
I’ve mentioned this book numerous times on the pod. It’s fair to say that David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass are the two books that really kicked off...Show More
8) The Invention of the Alphabet with Johanna Drucker
“Letters have power,” Johanna Drucker tells me. But what is the nature of this power and how did it all begin? Unlike writing, the alphabet was only invented once. Somewhere in Egypt or the Sinai Pen...Show More
9) William Bryant Logan on the Ancient History of Managed Woodlands
William Bryant Logan’s book Sproutlands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees opens the door to a little known history, in which people all over the world, from Norway to Japan to pre-colonial California...Show More
10) John Roulac on Agroforestry
Picking up where we left off in the spring, we return to the topic of farming through a conversation with John Roulac, entrepreneur and executive producer of the movie Kiss the Ground. Roulac’s latest...Show More