John Plotz: Podcast Interviews

John Plotz, PhD

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Linguist, Interview host, Author

3 Interviews

John Plotz's Interviews

John Plotz + Gina Turrigiano & Elizabeth Kolbert • 01 Dec 2022 • EN

94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)

How should humans respond to our ongoing human-made climate catastrophe? To answer that question, Recall this Book turned to prize-winning climate reporter Elizabeth Kolbert, who visited Brandeis this Fall. The topic was Under a White Sky, her recent book that documents the responses to the climate crisis ranging from

Elizabeth Ferry + John Plotz & Hannah Zeavin • 27 Jan 2022 • EN

73 Teletherapy with Hannah Zeavin (High Theory Crossover, Saronik)

Crossover Month at Recall this Book ends with a glance sideways at the doings of our pals Saronik and Kim, hosts of the delightfully lapidary podcast High Theory. Refresh your sense of them with Recall this Book 52: they joined John to showcase their distinctive approach, taking as their topic "the pastoral." Or, just

Elizabeth Ferry + John Plotz & Martin Puchner • 18 Nov 2021 • EN

68 Martin Puchner: Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon

Book Industry Month continues with a memory-lane voyage back to a beloved early RtB episode. This conversation with Martin Puchner about the very origins of writing struck us as perfect companion to Mark McGurl's wonderful insights (in RtB 67, published earlier this month) about the publishing industry's in 2021, or as