Épisodes

  • U.S. Media’s Gaza Failure with Robin Andersen | Plus: Trans Youth and Anti-Trans Laws with Nico Lang

    U.S. Media’s Gaza Failure with Robin Andersen | Plus: Trans Youth and Anti-Trans Laws with Nico Lang
    Jun 27 2026
    Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Who gets to tell the story, and who gets erased? This week on Writer’s Voice, we talk with media scholar Robin Andersen about her book The Complicit Lens: U.S. Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. Andersen’s argument is blunt: the American press didn’t … Continue reading U.S. Media’s Gaza Failure with Robin Andersen | Plus: Trans Youth and Anti-Trans Laws with Nico Lang →
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    58 min
  • Ordinary Soil: A Journey Through Land and Legacy + Carey Gillam on Monsanto

    Ordinary Soil: A Journey Through Land and Legacy + Carey Gillam on Monsanto
    Jun 18 2026
    For SEO, I’d make it shorter and keyword-rich: Alex Woodard discusses Ordinary Soil, a sweeping multigenerational novel about a Choctaw farming family in the Oklahoma Panhandle, exploring the deep connections between land, food, health, and identity. Then, in an encore interview, environmental journalist Carey Gillam talks about The Monsanto Papers and the landmark lawsuit in which groundskeeper Lee Johnson took on Monsanto and won.
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    1 h et 4 min
  • Syria’s Lost Democratic Revolution with Anand Gopal

    Syria’s Lost Democratic Revolution with Anand Gopal
    Jun 12 2026
    Writer’s Voice talks with journalist Anand Gopal about his remarkable book Days of Love and Rage. It’s a deeply human story of the Syrian revolution, the democratic experiment in Manbij, the forces that undermined it, and what it can teach us about hope today.
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    59 min
  • Lost Worlds: The Untold Story of Human Adaptation

    Lost Worlds: The Untold Story of Human Adaptation
    Jun 6 2026
    Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Episode Summary What if the story we tell about civilization is wrong? What if human history isn’t a steady march from “primitive” hunter-gatherers to ever more advanced societies, but something far messier, more inventive, and more fragile — a long experiment of adaptation, collapse, … Continue reading Lost Worlds: The Untold Story of Human Adaptation →
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    1 h
  • Omar Zahzah: How Silicon Valley Suppresses Palestinian Voices | Terms of Servitude

    Omar Zahzah: How Silicon Valley Suppresses Palestinian Voices | Terms of Servitude
    May 28 2026
    In this episode of Writer's Voice, Francesca speaks with Omar Zahzah, Palestinian-American scholar, activist, journalist, and author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. Zahzah offers the first book-length analysis of how major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok, systematically suppress Palestinian content, and how that suppression is structurally connected to the financial, ideological, and political ties between Silicon Valley and the Israeli state.
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    1 h
  • America’s Death Penalty Crisis + Abdul El-Sayed on Healing Politics

    America’s Death Penalty Crisis + Abdul El-Sayed on Healing Politics
    May 21 2026
    This week on Writer’s Voice: Elizabeth Vartkessian discusses The Undeserving and the human realities behind America’s death penalty system. Plus an excerpt from my 2020 interview with Abdul El-Sayed on “the epidemic of insecurity” shaping American life.
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    58 min
  • Tim Weed’s The Gatepost + Farah Naz Rishi’s The Flightless Birds of New Hope

    Tim Weed’s The Gatepost + Farah Naz Rishi’s The Flightless Birds of New Hope
    May 14 2026
    This week on Writer's Voice: Tim Weed explores psychedelics, Mesoamerican mythology, and consciousness in The Gatepost. Farah Naz Rishi talks grief, siblings, humor, and a runaway cockatoo in The Flightless Birds of New Hope.
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    59 min
  • Caroline Bicks on Stephen King, Maria Adelmann on Adjunct Labor

    Caroline Bicks on Stephen King, Maria Adelmann on Adjunct Labor
    May 7 2026
    Caroline Bicks joins Writer’s Voice to talk about Monsters in the Archives, her fascinating exploration of Stephen King’s private papers, creative process, and the deep emotional fears beneath his horror fiction. Then Marie Adelmann discusses Adjunct, her darkly funny and painfully real novel about precarious academic labor, student debt, and the exploitation built into today’s university system. Two compelling conversations about fear, power, and survival in contemporary American life.
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    1 h