Two sisters cooking their way through their mum's treasured recipe books, sharing memories and a glimpse into simpler times.
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What I ate last week. Plus recipe testing, product reviews, and food news. Complete archive available here: http://foodlogpodcast.org
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A thoroughly human, often funny, glimpse into the lives and stories of successful writers. How they got there, what they've learned, and what you need to succeed.
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A Pathfinder actual play TIMELOOPING show where four heroes of varying skills, attractiveness, and stupidity, race against time to prevent a war. Featuring the talents of game master Justin Green, Jenna Stoeber, Caitlin Stayduhar, Andrew Hansen, and Paul Luetkemeyer. Join our Patreon at patreon.com/bcbparty for only $5 a month. Visit our Merch Shop at DFTBA! Published biweekly on Thursdays. Email us at [email protected]. Follow us at on Bluesky @BCBParty, or on Tumblr at BCBParty. ...
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Two (former) next door neighbors, one awesome podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This is a family podcast for everyone to listen to. We have welcomed you into our lives with our Instagram @TheFlipFlopFamily, our home by sharing our self-renovation @TheFlipFlopProp and now our conversations with our Podcast. I, Zaileen chat to my husband, Benjamin, daughter, Emiliana and son, Zacharia all about everyday life from what’s our dish of the week to all kinds of topics that you too will be thinking. We have game changers, best book / TV show, savvy tips and lots of motivational ...
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To celebrate World Book Day, well known Manx Radio personalities started reading some of their favourite stories available to download as a podcast.... and they continued to do so to help you sleep soundly.
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A Comic Book Podcast Network covering Marvel Comic's Avengers (EMP), X-Men (EMX), Deadpool (MwaP) and Pop Culture (EMBS)
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A book club where you read what you want every time!
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Everything you’ve always wanted to know about succeeding in the world of writing and publishing. Learn practical writing techniques, go behind-the-scenes and discover how real-life authors got their big break. Uncover the creative processes of writers who have made it. Your host is Valerie Khoo – author, journalist, creative and CEO of the Australian Writers’ Centre.
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Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "both-sides" BS. Plus a few laughs to help you wash down the crazy. Bulwark+ members can get a totally ad-free version of the show delivered right to their favorite podcast player.
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Since 2009, It’s All About Food, a vegan podcast, has been bringing you the best in up-to-date news regarding food, our food system and the vegan lifestyle. Hosted by Caryn Hartglass, a vegan since 1988, the program includes in-depth interviews with medical doctors, nutritionists, dietitians, cook book authors, artists, poets, athletes, environmentalists, animal rights activists, farmers, food manufacturers, lawyers, food scientists and more. Learn how we can solve many of the world’s proble ...
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Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend with those who maintained that the Terra Australians Incognita (the unknown Southern Continent) was a reality. To finally settle the issue, the British Admiralty sent Cook out again into the vast Southern Ocean with two sailing ships totalling only about 800 tons. Listen as Cook, equipped with one of the first chronometers, pushes his small vessel not merely into the Roaring Forties or the Furious Fifties but become ...
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MahoganyBooks Front Row: The Podcast is a thoughtfully curated series that offers a unique opportunity to listen to Black authors discussing their latest works. Each episode of the podcast features an in-depth conversation with an author, delving into their creative process, inspirations, and the themes explored in their book. The series is a re-cast of the live author talks hosted by MahoganyBooks, a Black-owned bookstore in Washington DC dedicated to promoting literature written for, by, o ...
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Join us live for the coffee club, Wednesdays from 9 to 11 AM Eastern, 6 to 8AM pacific. We discuss current issues, cooking, books, new and relevant technologies and product demos. Join us using zoom Conference to ask questions or share your knowledge, using either your computer, iPhone, Android phone, or telephone.
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Encouragement for what you face today, tomorrow, and always. Tune in for a fresh word of HOPE from Penny Cooke and Del Bates. If you'd like to see the live videos of our episodes, visit our websites under "podcasts": delbates.com pennycookeauthor.com
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Three women who found each other while working at the library and bonded over our passion for books and all things fantasy, sci-fi, and mystery. Each week we’ll dive into today’s most popular books and talk about what we’ve read so far.
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The Stacks is your one stop shop to talk books and reading. Guests will join the host, Traci Thomas for lively discussions about books and the ways they have shaped their lives, and they way we all understand culture, race, politics, and more. The last Wednesday of each month Traci and guest will break down a book in detail as part of The Stacks Book Club. Make sure to check the website www.thestackspodcast.com for more details, including upcoming The Stacks Book Club picks.
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About cooking life and music that makes it fun for the work day.
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Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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Cooking the Books is about all of life through the prism of food, from climate change to culture and politics to people. It's for foodie book lovers who want to hear something more profound about the way we live, making the link between delicious food and the impact of food production on the land, all through four food moments from the books of our favourite food writers. Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith is the winner of The Guild of Food Writers' Best Broadcast or Podcast Award 2022, and ...
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Official podcast of the Cook Memorial Public Library District in Libertyville and Vernon Hills, IL.
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1 on 1 interview show featuring the creative minds behind Comics TV Film Novels & Animation. Hosted by Chicago Pop Culture expert, John Siuntres
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Join Senator Ted Cruz and co-host Ben Ferguson as they break down the most important news stories of the day and reveal what they mean for you. On "Verdict with Ted Cruz,” you will go behind the scenes of the political debates that define our country. "Verdict with Ted Cruz" is being brought to you by Jobs, Freedom, and Security PAC, a political action committee dedicated to supporting conservative causes, organizations, and candidates across the country. In 2022, Jobs, Freedom, and Security ...
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Cooking the Books is an ongoing interview project that explores the meeting points between genre fiction and food. In addition to podcast episodes, there are numerous text-based interviews with authors, agents, and editors.
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The best analysis of the Irish political scene featuring Irish Times journalists, political thinkers and the occasional politician. Hosted by Hugh Linehan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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We tell the compelling stories behind cookbooks you won't get anywhere else. Featuring interviews with leading authors, we explore the art and craft of cookbooks, looking at both new and vintage cookbooks and the inspirations behind them … the compelling people who create them … and their impact on home cooks and the culinary world. saltandspine.substack.com
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Cheryl Akle discusses the world with her favourite authors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Each week, freelance writer and lifelong bookworm Alli Hoff Kosik will challenge a guest to reread a literary throwback or to experience for the first time ever a book they may have missed as a kid. After that, they'll be asked to spill all the feels and all the opinions about that book on the air for your podcast-listening pleasure. Every Tuesday, you can find us breaking down an old school read from our tween and teen days on a new episode of the show. We'll cover everything from The Baby- ...
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A book recommendation every day of the year, for lovely reads, chick lit, self help, romance, travel, homemaking and cooking interests.
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A podcast that chats to a wide variety of Beatle authors and writers. What inspired them to add their entry into a library of over 1000 books?
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An analysis on the novel Frankenstein and the "silenced voices" of the characters killed by the monster
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Take a deep dive into a different cookbook each week. We’ll review and rank the selected titles on categories such as food photography and styling, degree of difficulty and, of course, taste! Hosted by the dynamic duo behind the popular Instagram feed Cooking The Books! Johnny & Victoria • Husband & Wife • Minneapolis, MN
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Dr. Steven R. Cook is the founder of Thinking on Scripture, a platform that has attracted over one million visitors. Steven is a Christian educator who has taught undergraduate theology at Tyndale Theological Seminary and recently joined the faculty of Chafer Theological Seminary. He is a Protestant, traditional dispensationalist, and a traditional Free Grace Bible teacher. His studies in the original languages of Scripture, ancient history, and systematic theology have been the foundation f ...
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially Special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays & Blue Moon Spirits Fridays! Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam serves up a cornucopia of abundance in The Bistro Cafe with "All The News That's Fit To Read" and "In This Reporter's Opinion," a lively, humorous and astute analyses on the issues of the day, along with spir ...
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History is full of the extraordinary. Each week, we'll transport you back in time to witness history's most incredible moments and remarkable people. New episodes Mondays, or a week early for Noiser+ subscribers. With Noiser+ you'll also get ad-free listening and exclusive content on shows across the Noiser podcast network. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started or head to noiser.com/subscriptions A Short History of Ancient Rome - the debut book from the Noiser ...
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Biswadeep Banerjee ,a blogger, teacher and writer of eight books on Amazon.com (e-books, including a cook book , a novella ,a book of poems and a detailed and rare travelogues) . He can be contacted on [email protected]. He brings to you interesting twists to various facets of the history and culture of various cute countries that you were always interested in but didn't know whom to ask for facts .But his podcast is not just about facts . It takes you on a wonder journey of speculation ...
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Each week Karen McFarlane Holman & Brian Hart spend their time curating the world’s coolest things and then pass them along to you. 10 Bestest is a condensed way for you to learn new things to enhance various aspects of your life. We (Brian Hart & Karen McFarlane Holman) take turns spending two minutes describing something – a “cool sheet” – that we use or enjoy. When two minutes are up, Boom! The other host shifts onto the next topic, giving a total of ten cool sheets for each show. Our #co ...
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One featured Wikipedia article highlighted and summarized each day.
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Chef and industry insider Mike has spent his entire career working in the food business. In this one hour program he'll pick up where he left off at his previous New York based AM talk radio gig. Each hour is a stand alone multi-themed program featuring live interviews with a myriad of guests. He'll talk shop with chefs, restaurateurs, cook book authors and food writers, with discussions around ingredient sourcing, cooking, baking, wine, equipment, mixology, beer, farming, foraging, fisherie ...
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Jana and Evan work at Bobcats Shelter and Rescue ( an animal shelter) A strange dog comes in brought from a little island called Ike’s. The dog doesn’t act normal or anything like a dog. Jana and Evan can see that this dog is no good, but to the other people she’s a cutie pie. Jana and Evan start taking on some daring adventures and to find out what that dog is up too.
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Join us in our Common Room as we discuss Pop Culture, Food, Fitness, & Fashion. We saved you a seat!
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Hello and welcome to A Novel Review podcast series. Through this podcast Seamus will tackle the endless world of literature, one book at a time! New Episodes Weekly
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Darwyn Cooke's The Hunter Book Club review
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Word Balloon Book Club brings together John Siuntres, Patreon supporters, and members of Brian Michael Bendis’s Discord for an in-depth, no-nonsense discussion of The Hunter, the hard-boiled graphic novel adaptation by Darwyn Cooke. The conversation digs into Cooke’s razor-sharp storytelling, his mastery of mid-century crime aesthetics, and how The…
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Ian M. Cook, "Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How" (Routledge, 2022)
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Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, Ian Cook's Scholarly Podcasting (Routledge, 2023) is the first to consider the why, what, and how academics engage with this insurgent, curious craft. Featuring interviews with 101 podcasting academics, including scholars and teachers of podcasting, this book explores the motivations of sc…
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To kick off a brand new year, we’re diving straight into the power of protein with Jeffrey Boadi, author of Plant Fuel. As a former semi-professional footballer and tennis player, Jeffrey has been a top level athlete for most of his adult life. But it was his decision to go vegan overnight that has given him a place on the podium in the plant prote…
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fWotD Episode 3164: Ann Cook (cookery book writer) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 2 January 2026, is Ann Cook (cookery book writer). Ann H. Cook (fl. c. 1725 – c. 1760) was an English cookery book writer and innkeeper. In 1754 she published Profess…
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Both the players and their characters have been plotting to win this gossip competition, but is it too little too late after a rocky first half of the game? Will Patty succumb to the earworm before the battle even comes to a head? And just how many bananas did Zelf actually eat in that banana-eating competition (if that's even the truth)?! Join the…
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To the people who have actually served in war zones—and been up close and personal in real do-or-die situations—the masked, heavily armed agents who are stalking our streets are thugs and cowards. And they would be nobodies without the badges and guns that have been gratuitously handed to them. Meanwhile, amid all the action around Venezuela, Russi…
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 14 Jan 26
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, two US citizen observers, who were violently taken by ICE and illegally held for over eight hours in Minneapolis, described the torture and intimidation at t…
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Will global turmoil matter to Irish politics in 2026?
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Despite global turmoil, the focus of Irish politics in 2026 is set to remain on matters close to home. Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh to identify the main challenges facing the Government this year, particularly those on the desks of Minister for Housing James Brown, Minister for Transport Darragh O'Brien and Minister for Health Jennifer…
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Healing Through Self-Care: Lessons from Devi Brown
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What if self-care isn’t selfish—but survival? Join wellness educator Devi Brown and Alencia Johnson for a transformative conversation that challenges everything you thought you knew about taking care of yourself. In this powerful episode, Devi dismantles the toxic narratives that keep marginalized communities from prioritizing their well-being. Sel…
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Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" (Duke UP, 2026)
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P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance (Duke UP, 2026) explores the work of Puerto Rican musical superstar Bad Bunny (Benito A. Martinez Ocasio), focusing on his cultural and political significance.Global superstar Bad Bunny, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises—blackouts, hurric…
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Douglas Greene, "In Stalin's Shadow: Trotsky and the Legacy of the Moscow Trials" (Resistance Books, 2025)
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Most people on the contemporary left see Stalin as an unfortunate stain on the history of the global left, a part of the historical process that we’d be better avoiding in our attempts to build towards socialism. He does still have some scattered defenders though, putting out books and articles trying to turn his legacy into something commendable t…
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Sonia Hazard, "Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media (Oxford UP, 2025) offers a fresh account of evangelical power by uncovering how the American Tract Society (ATS) leveraged print media to spread its message across an expanding nation. One of the era's largest media corporations and a pillar of the benevolent empire, the ATS circulated some…
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Legendary Coach Bruce Pearl One-on-One: Hoops, NIL & Anti-Semitism in America
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1. Bruce Pearl’s Career & Background Former Auburn basketball coach; won a Division II national championship and reached the Final Four twice. Unique fact: Pearl never played organized basketball (not even JV) before becoming a Division I coach. Started as a manager at Boston College, later became an assistant coach at Stanford under Tom Davis. Emp…
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Kerry Gottlich, "From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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How did modern territoriality emerge and what are its consequences? From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality (Cambridge UP, 2025) examines these key questions with a unique global perspective. Kerry Goettlich argues that linear boundaries are products of particular colonial encounters, rather than being esse…
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Angie Hobbs, "Why Plato Matters Now" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Does Plato matter? An ancient philosopher whose work has inspired and informed countless thinkers and poets across the centuries, his ideas are no longer taught as widely as they once were. But, as Angie Hobbs argues in this clear-sighted book Why Plato Matters Now (Bloomsbury, 2025), that is a mistake. If we want to understand the world we live in…
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Aija Leiponen, "Digital Innovation Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Based on applied economics and from the perspective of an innovator seeking to develop a new digital business, Digital Innovation Strategy (Cambridge UP, 2023) is aimed at audiences interested in innovation strategy and competition in digital industries. Step-by-step, the book guides innovators through a dynamic market analysis and business model d…
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Leah Lowthorp, "Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India" (Indiana UP, 2025)
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Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India explores the extraordinary past and present of Kutiyattam Sanskrit theater, the world's oldest continuously performed theater. Recognized as India's first UNESCO intangible cultural heritage of humanity, the matrilineal temple art of Kutiyattam has been p…
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Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui, "The Making of Global FIFA: Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950-1974" (De Gruyter, 2023)
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Today we are joined by Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui, author of The Making of Global FIFA: Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950-1974 (De Gruyter, 2023). This book was previously published in Portuguese as A Dança das Cadeiras a eleição de João Havelange à presidenência da FIFA (1950-1974). In our conversation, w…
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Q. Edward Wang, "Staple to Superfood: A Global History of the Sweet Potato" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Sweet potatoes were among the American crops Christopher Columbus brought back to Europe—where they were thought to be an aphrodisiac. In China, this versatile root became a staple that fueled rapid population growth. Introduced to Japan to stave off famine, sweet potatoes later sustained the country’s imperial expansion. Because this hardy plant c…
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Ep. 407 The Fires of the Future with Jacob Soboroff
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Today on The Stacks, we’re joined by award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author, Jacob Soboroff, to discuss his newest book, Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster. In this book, Jacob takes us to the frontlines of the January 2025 L.A. Fires to offer a deeply personal, firsthand account of one…
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This special episode commemorates the 60th anniversary of the groundbreaking ABC television series Batman, the pop-culture lightning bolt that turned comic books into primetime spectacle and permanently rewired how superheroes could be portrayed on screen. I share a couple of professional and personal encounters with "The Bright Knight" But, at the…
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fWotD Episode 3176: The Snow Queen (Kernaghan novel) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 14 January 2026, is The Snow Queen (Kernaghan novel). The Snow Queen is a 2000 young-adult novel by the Canadian writer Eileen Kernaghan. It follows Gerda, a you…
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Season 4 Trailer | In Sickness and In Bite: Entering Our Bridal Era
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💍❤️♾️ Here comes Season 4 of The Midnight Readers Podcast 💍❤️♾️ Hey readers~ Here’s a little sneak peak into what we have in store this season. We’re staying firmly in supernatural territory with werewolves and vampires. This season we’re discussing the Bride duology. It’s our first foray into Ali Hazelwood’s writing - and we’re thrilled! We're off…
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Susan Glasser and Jacob Soboroff: A Dangerous Lame Duck
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Trump's low approval ratings may be giving people the idea that he is weak and disempowered. But Trump backed into a corner could well be more unconstrained and more dangerous—and it could also fuel his imperialist ambitions toward Greenland, an island he has been obsessed with owning since his first term. Meanwhile, DHS always knew people would di…
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Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck with Ted Cruz
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Meet my friends, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton! If you love Verdict, the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show might also be in your audio wheelhouse. Politics, news analysis, and some pop culture and comedy thrown in too. Here’s a sample episode recapping four takeaways. Give the guys a listen and then follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.…
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeay Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 13 Jan 26
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Minnesotan faith leaders, military veterans, civic leaders and common citizens describe the paramilitary MAGA Klan invasion of the state. Then, on the res…
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A Celebration of the Lisa Rinna M&M
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January 5 - 11, 2026: Cheeseburgers, chicken pot pie, mandi lambBy Caroline Fitzhenry Mort
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Individually they were just like those guys who like to hang around the comic book shop and talk comics but together they form the Earth's Mightiest Podcast! IN THIS EPISODE We talk about the... Avengers books of November 2025 Avengers #32 New Avengers #6 One World Under Doom #9 Quick Hits Captain America #5 Fantastic Four #5 Gargoyles-Fantastic 4 …
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BONUS POD: Iranians Protest & Die for Freedom plus Trump Targets Funding Behind Anti-ICE Chaos
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1. U.S. Response to Iran Protests President Donald Trump confirmed that the U.S. is considering airstrikes on Iran to stop the violent crackdown on protesters. The White House emphasized that diplomacy remains the first option, but military action is on the table. Trump stated that Iran may have crossed a “red line” by killing unarmed protesters. R…
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Alvin K. Wong, "Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone" (Duke UP, 2025)
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How do we compare across languages, media, and histories, all without flattening differences? And what might Hong Kong teach us about doing comparison differently? Alvin K. Wong examines these and other questions in Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke UP, 2025), a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of queerness in…
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Mercedes Valmisa, "All Things Act" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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All Things Act explores the collective character of action to expand the ways we think about agency. First, it resists viewing agency as a capacity, much less one exclusive to humans. Instead, it defines agency as an umbrella term for the concrete sociomaterial processes that emerge from the collaborative efforts of multiple entities acting togethe…
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Sarah Dowling, "Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
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People who lie down are a fixture of contemporary literature, art, and life. Murder victims, protesters, invalids, depressives, sex workers, and more: these are the recumbent figures that populate Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form (Northwestern UP, 2025) the latest book from literary critic and poet Sarah Dowling. Out now from Northwestern …
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Bruno J. Strasser and Thomas Schlich, "The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air" (Yale UP, 2025)
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The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air (Yale UP, 2025) by Dr. Bruno J. Strasser and Dr. Thomas Schlich presents a history of masks protecting against bad air—in cities, factories, hospitals, and war trenches—exploring how our identities and beliefs shape the decision to wear a mask. For centuries, humans have sought to protect themselves from har…
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Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, "Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior" (MIT Press, 2025)
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In Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior (MIT Press, 2025), Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer reveal how scientists studying animal behavior have long projected human norms and values onto animals while seeking to understand them. When scientific studies conclude that these norms and values are natural in a…
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Dagomar Degroot, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Our solar system is a dynamic arena where asteroids careen off course and solar winds hurl charged particles across billions of miles of space. Yet we seldom consider how these events, so immense in scale, influence our fragile blue planet: Earth. In Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System (Harvard UP,…
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Steven J. Brady, "Less Than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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The first book of its kind, Less Than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Dr. Steven J. Brady explores both the impact the Vietnam War had on American Catholics, and the impact of the nation's largest religious group upon its most controversial war. Through the 1960s, Roman Catholics made up one-quarter of the po…
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Dagmar Herzog, "The New Fascist Body" (Wirklichkeit Books, 2025)
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The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. As such, racism is particularly intense when it is erotically charged, migration presenting as a sexual threat to white women being one of many examples. Germany’s strikingly successful right-wing politi…
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Richard Fine, "The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany" (Cornell, 2023)
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In The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany (Cornell, 2023), Richard Fine recounts the intense drama surrounding the German surrender at the end of World War II and the veteran Associated Press journalist Edward Kennedy’s controversial scoop. On May 7, 1945, Kennedy bypassed military censorsh…
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Fernando Luiz Lara, "Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
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To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from another,…
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2 - "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" and "Curves For Days"
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Jill and new guest Elizabeth discuss "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" by V.E. Schwab and "Curves For Days" by Laura MoherBy Jill Nusbaum
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fWotD Episode 3175: Shine (Gwen Stefani song) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 13 January 2026, is Shine (Gwen Stefani song). "Shine" is a song written and recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani featuring Pharrell Williams, who also produced the s…
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Bill Kristol: This Is Accelerationist Authoritarianism
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Grandpa Trump looked like he was losing the pep in his step at the end of the year. But with him threatening the independence of the Fed, justifying the killing of an American in cold blood for teasing a federal agent, and toying with the idea of taking an ownership stake in oil companies, he's now dramatically ratcheting up his authoritarian tende…
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 12 Jan 26
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Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has ordered his DOJ to go totally dark into the release of information about his dark past as the entire DOJ is now complicit in the violation of federal la…
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Writing Podcast Episode 699: William J. Byrne and his historical novel, 'The Warrumbar'
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It was a single photo of AWC graduate William J. Byrne’s grandmother standing outside a ramshackle home that formed the spark that inspired this self-confessed history buff to explore stories of his past and the experiences of Aboriginal people leading up to the 1960s. The result is his debut novel, The Warrumbar – spanning half a century and casti…
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How do Greenlanders feel about Trump's 'psychologically needed' takeover?
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US president Donald Trump wants to acquire Greenland, asserting strategic and security needs but also a 'psychological need' to take over the vast, frozen island from Denmark. So how do Greenlanders themselves feel about this idea? Derek Scally is in Greenland's capital Nuuk to find out. He talks to Hugh Linehan about a people whose passion for tot…
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Episode 146 The boys are back for a very belated fifteenth anniversary episode. In this episode Scott wishes to die in a plane crash then watching a certain Marvel actress on screen, but he lived just to send Corwin a postcard that he cherishes. Meanwhile Corwin discovers a new anime thanks to a listener, then promises to keep the bro code in check…
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Scott W. Gregory, "Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel (Cornell UP, 2023) uses the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu Zhuan) to examine the world of print in early modern China. Scott W. Gregory traces the way this beloved novel about outlaw heroes, honor, corruption, and brotherhood was adapted and changed by differe…
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Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Has American democracy outstripped its constitutional accommodations? Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long history of finding new ways to make the system work. In The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience (University of Chicago Press, 2025), political scientist Stephen Sko…
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Julia H. Meszaros, "Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women's Labor (Rutgers University Press, 2025) by Dr. Julia Meszaros offers a provocative exploration of the international dating industry, challenging simplistic narratives of human trafficking and scams while shedding light on the economic dynamics of gender. Through twelve years of field…
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