S8 Ep. 2: Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

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Understanding the Elegant Math Behind Modern Machine Learning 1:14:43

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Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace—what does that mean for the future of technology, venture capital, business, and even our understanding of ourselves? Award-winning journalist and writer Anil Ananthaswamy joins us for our latest episode to discuss his latest book Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI . Anil helps us explore the journey and many breakthroughs that have propelled machine learning from simple perceptrons to the sophisticated algorithms shaping today’s AI revolution, powering GPT and other models. The discussion aims to demystify some of the underlying math that powers modern machine learning to help everyone grasp this technology impacting our lives, even if your last math class was in high school. Anil walks us through the power of scaling laws, the shift from training to inference optimization, and the debate among AI’s pioneers about the road to AGI—should we be concerned, or are we still missing key pieces of the puzzle? The conversation also delves into AI’s philosophical implications—could understanding how machines learn help us better understand ourselves? And what challenges remain before AI systems can truly operate with agency? If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. Sign up for our newsletter at techsurgepodcast.com for exclusive insights and updates on upcoming TechSurge Live Summits. Links: Read Why Machines Learn, Anil’s latest book on the math behind AI https://www.amazon.com/Why-Machines-Learn-Elegant-Behind/dp/0593185749 Learn more about Anil Ananthaswamy’s work and writing https://anilananthaswamy.com/ Watch Anil Ananthaswamy’s TED Talk on AI and intelligence https://www.ted.com/speakers/anil_ananthaswamy Discover the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship that shaped Anil’s AI research https://ksj.mit.edu/ Understand the Perceptron, the foundation of neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron Read about the Perceptron Convergence Theorem and its significance https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0…

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Nonfiction writer Jeff Sharlet joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how mainstream media outlets sanitize Donald Trump’s rhetoric in their reporting rather than straightforwardly describing his words and behavior, an approach recently dubbed “sanewashing” by The New Republic’s Parker Molloy. Sharlet analyzes the term’s usefulness and also its limitations; talks about the need to describe fascism using the word itself; and reflects on who is now at the center of political discourse and who is at the fringe. He also considers whether popular new media influencers like the MeidasTouch Network and YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen are really filling the need to describe Trump as he is. He reads from his book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War.

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This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

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"This genius website captures Trump’s weirdest debate quotes," by Grace Snelling | Fast Company
Lenny Bruce
The White Album by Joan Didion
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
Rick Perlstein
Brian Tyler Cohen
MeidasTouch Network
Jeffrey Ruoff
Susan Faludi
Lane Kirkland
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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S8 Ep. 2: Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

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This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Jeff Sharlet

Others:

"This genius website captures Trump’s weirdest debate quotes," by Grace Snelling | Fast Company
Lenny Bruce
The White Album by Joan Didion
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
Rick Perlstein
Brian Tyler Cohen
MeidasTouch Network
Jeffrey Ruoff
Susan Faludi
Lane Kirkland
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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S8 Ep. 22: Novelists Suzette Mayr and Kai Thomas on Canada Versus Trump 51:45

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Canadian authors Suzette Mayr and Kai Thomas join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the repercussions of President Trump’s recent threats to annex and tax Canada. They talk about the possible empowerment of the Canadian right as a result of Trump’s extreme remarks, as well as measures their communities are taking to unify in the current political environment. Mayr and Thomas read from their recent novels, The Sleeping Car Porter and In the Upper Country. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. Selected Readings: Suzette Mayr The Sleeping Car Porter Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall Monoceros Venous Hum T he Windows Moon Honey Kai Thomas In the Upper Country Others: 2025 4 Nations Face Off | NHL.com | NHL Justin Trudeau's speech in response to Trump's tariffs | CBC News The Last Black Town in the West |The Daily Yonder Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | Library of Congress There's only one winner in a trade war... | This Hour Has 22 Minutes (YouTube) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 21: Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump 47:17

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New York Times reporter Nicholas Fandos, author of a recent article titled “An Emboldened Trump Seeks to Bend New York City to His Will,” joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about why President Trump wants to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Officials in Trump’s Department of Justice say they want Adams to be free to aid Trump’s immigration crackdown in the Big Apple, which since 2014 has been a sanctuary city. But conservative federal prosecutors like Danielle Sassoon and Hagen Scotten say this amounts to a quid pro quo and have resigned rather than drop the case against Adams. Fandos reflects on what might happen next and the larger implications for the Department of Justice. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ . This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. Selected Readings: Nicholas Fandos An Emboldened Trump Seeks to Bend New York City to His Will Eric Adams Discussed Possible Republican Primary Run with G.O.P. Leader Jeffries Works With N.Y. Democrats to Weaken G.O.P. Control of the House Others: Who Is Danielle Sassoon, the Prosecutor Who Quit Over Eric Adams’s Corruption Case? | New York Times Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated | New York Times Here Are the Charges Eric Adams Faces, Annotated | New York Times | September 26, 2024 Read the Resignation Letter From Hagan Scotten | New York Times Read The Letter From Emil Bove Accepting Danielle Sassoon’s Resignation, Annotated | New York Times Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 20: Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and his Tech Oligarchs. 47:08

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New Atlantic staff writers Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, authors of a recent article called “The Tech Oligarchy Arrives,” join host Whitney Terrell to talk about tech oligarchs’ influence over President Trump’s administration. They discuss the significance of prominent billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos attending Trump’s inauguration as visible supporters, how these tech leaders have changed their opinion of Trump over time, and the regulatory and legal benefits they may gain from their close association with the new administration. They also discuss Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and the fallout from that group’s efforts to access Treasury data and dismantle USAID. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ . This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. Selected Readings: Ashley Parker & Michael Scherer The Tech Oligarchy Arrives | The Atlantic |January 20, 2025 Trump Advisers Stopped Musk From Hiring a Noncitizen at DOGE | The Atlantic |February 4, 2025 Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center | The Atlantic | February 7, 2025 Trump’s Conquest of the Kennedy Center Is Accelerating | The Atlantic | February 8, 2025 Ashley Parker The Memo That Shocked the White House | The Atlantic | January 29, 2025 Michael Scherer Why Meta Is Paying $25 Million to Settle a Trump Lawsuit | The Atlantic | January 29, 2025 Others: DOGE task force gains access to U.S. Treasury Department data, payment systems | CBS News |February 3, 2025 Doge v USAid: how Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world’s biggest aid agency | The Guardian |February 5, 2025 Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity – The White House | The White House |January 21, 2025 Meta Goes Full MAGA as it Kills Off DEI Programs | Daily Beast |January 10, 2025 The Tech Oligarchy Arrives | The Atlantic |January 20, 2025 Trump, a populist president, is flanked by tech billionaires at his inauguration | AP News | January 20, 2025 Zuckerberg Turns Facebook Full MAGA and Smears California Staff | Yahoo! News |January 7, 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 19: Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration 47:31

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Essayist Thomas Dai joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss his new collection, Take My Name But Say It Slow , in which he writes about place and identity. Dai talks about the imperialist impulse behind Trump’s attempt to turn the Gulf of Mexico into the “Gulf of America,” the power of naming, and the appeal and uncertainty of mapping. He also reflects on the surprising history of border policing, queer cartographies, and the sometimes paradoxical relationship between inner self and physical space. Dai reads from Take My Name But Say It Slow. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. Selected Readings: Thomas Dai Take My Name But Say It Slow Others National Archives, The Chinese Exclusion Act “Queering the Map” Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes “ Think There’s Nothing You Can Do to Stop ICE? Think Again.” | The Nation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 18: Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas 50:22

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Acclaimed novelist and Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Lan Samantha Chang joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the role that literary personas may–or may not–have played in recent revelations about Alice Munro, Neil Gaiman, and Cormac McCarthy. Chang discusses how writers often develop literary personas as their public profiles grow. Chang also discusses how personas can be both protective and damaging when they no longer align with the writer's true self, the impact of personas on writers' privacy and the industry's role in shaping and maintaining these personas. She reads from her novel All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost . To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ . This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. Selected Readings: Lan Samantha Chang The Family Chao Hunger Inheritance All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost Writers, Protect Your Inner Life |Lit Hub|August 7, 2017 Others: A Moveable Feast , Ernest Hemingway Erasure , Percival Everett Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 6 Episode 40: “In Memory of Cormac McCarthy: Oscar Villalon on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work, and Legacy” Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 7 Episode 19: “Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on American Fiction” James Alan McPherson Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 7 Episode 35: “Jonny Diamond on His Mother and Alice Munro” The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations |Vulture | January 13, 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 17: Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires 47:15

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Novelist and former Huffington Post climate reporter Sarah S. Grossman joins Fiction/Non/Fiction co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the Los Angeles wildfires. Grossman, who lives in Los Angeles and whose 2024 novel A Fire So Wild centers on a wildfire in Northern California, discusses how communities are coming together to support each other in the wake of the devastation. She reflects on the damage to the historically Black neighborhood of Altadena; the fact that people are differently affected by climate change, even as wealth cannot completely shield anyone; the factors that contributed to the wildfires; and what it is like to prepare to evacuate, or, alternatively, to offer shelter to others. Grossman reads from A Fire So Wild. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ . This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. Selected Readings: Sarah S. Grossman A Fire So Wild The Antidote To Climate Dread | HuffPost Impact | The Huffington Post | Aug 25, 2021 More Americans Than Ever Understand Climate Change Is Real And Harmful | HuffPost Impact | The Huffington Post | Nov 18, 2021 Nearly 30% Of Americans Aren't Worried 'At All' About The Deadly Climate Crisis | The Huffington Post | April 19, 2022 Others: What happened on Friday, Jan. 17 Crews improved containment of the fires; some residents allowed to return | Los Angeles Times L.A. fires upend hard-won stability for the area’s homeless population | The Washington Post Mutual Aid LA Network (@mutualaidla) • Instagram Displaced Black Families GoFundMe Directory Safe Place for Youth How Wildfires Came for City Streets | The New York Times Over 170,000 People Under Evacuation In LA County Wildfires | Inkl New wildfire concerns in Los Angeles: Strong winds could return next week. | USA Today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 16: Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future 52:53

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Acclaimed novelist Charles Baxter joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss his recent novel Blood Test: A Comedy. Baxter talks about turning to humor in dark times, the burden of expectations, and writing a protagonist, Brock Hobson, who some readers love and others detest. He discusses how seeing websites and ads that predicted his likes and dislikes led to him inventing a fictional company, Geronomics, which predicts a certain future for Brock and is invested in that scenario playing out one way or another. Baxter also analyzes the craft of writing an antagonist who is a Trumper, but who is never explicitly identified as such. He reads from Blood Test. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ . This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. Selected Readings: Charles Baxter Blood Test: A Comedy Wonderlands : Essays on the Life of Literature Gryphon Burning Down the House : Essays on Fiction There’s Something I Want You to Do The Art of Subtext : Beyond Plot Shadow Play Others: Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 5 Episode 33: "The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World" Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 4 Episode 6: "Hope on the Horizon: Charles Baxter and Mike Alberti on Despair and Renewal in Fiction" Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 1 Episode 4: "We're All Russian, Now" Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellows Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Macbeth by Shakespeare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 15: Ream Shukairy on Syria After Assad 42:50

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Following the ouster of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, novelist Ream Shukairy joins Fiction/Non/Fiction co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the country’s future. Shukairy, who grew up in California and spent summers in Syria, reflects on the long history of Syrian resistance to oppression, as well as how parts of her family emigrated. She also talks about how it feels to emerge from a culture of fear and surveillance, what it’s like to revisit what she previously wrote about Assad, and the places she wants to see when she returns to Syria for the first time in years. Shukairy reads from her young adult novel The Next New Syrian Girl. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ . This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. Selected Readings: Ream Shukairy The Next New Syrian Girl Six Truths and a Lie Others: Return to Homs For Sama The White Helmets (film) The White Helmets (organization) Last Men in Aleppo Cries from Syria Still Recording The Cave Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria by Sam Dagher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 14 REBROADCAST: Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on Percival Everett and American Fiction 50:00

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Novelist Jacinda Townsend and writer James Bernard Short join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the movie American Fiction, which is based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett . Townsend and Short discuss how the film addresses race in the publishing industry via its central character, Black author Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, who tries to make an ironic point by writing a book exploiting Black stereotypes and finds, to his dismay, that it’s received in earnest and a bestseller. Townsend and Short analyze director Cord Jefferson’s approach and the film’s themes of family dysfunction, freedom in storytelling, and the importance of portraying the complexity of Black lives. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf . Jacinda Townsend Mother Country Saint Monkey James Bernard Short “Aqua Boogie” | Blood Orange Review “Rootwork” | Blood Orange Review “Flash, Back: Langston Hughes’ The Simple Shorts” | SmokeLong Quarterly Others: American Fiction (movie) | Official Trailer Erasure by Percival Everett An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward The Color Purple by Alice Walker Thelonious Monk Ralph Ellison Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” by Ralph Ellison | The American Scholar, 1978 The Tuskegee Institute White Negroes by Lauren Michele Jackson “The White Negro” by Norman Mailer | Dissent , 1957 “Dragon Slayers” by Jerald Walker | The Iowa Review, 2006 “The Hidden Lesson of ‘American Fiction’” by John McWhorter | The New York Times Origin (movie) | Official Trailer Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 1, Episode 11, “Annihilation, Adaptation: What's It Really Like to Have Your Book Made Into a Movie” Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 2, Episode 11, “Brit Bennett and Emily Halpern on Screenwriting’s Tips for Fiction” Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 6, Episode 33, “The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting” Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 6, Episode 38, “Jacinda Townsend on Why Democrats Are Skeptical of President Biden—and How He Can Win Them Back” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 13: Ellie Palmer and Elle Everhart on the Rise of Romance 47:50

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In this holiday re-broadcast, Romance novelists Elle Everhart and Ellie Palmer join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the genre’s increasing popularity. Everhart, the London-based author of the new book Hot Summer, featuring a protagonist who joins the cast of a reality show only to realize she’s interested in a fellow contestant, discusses coming to romance writing as a fourth grader fascinated by kissing, and wonders why as sales boom, the U.S.—but not the U.K.—is seeing more romance-specific bookstores. Palmer, the author of the new book Four Weekends and a Funeral, whose main character is a carrier of the BRCA1 mutation, recalls falling in love with the genre as she prepared for her own preventative double mastectomy. She reflects on how the genre’s structure promises positive endings for those who need them at challenging moments, and how the language of romance gave her a way to think about her own body and sexuality. Everhart reads from Hot Summer and Palmer reads from Four Weekends and a Funeral. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf . Elle Everhart Hot Summer Wanderlust Ellie Palmer Four Weekends and a Funeral Others "9 New Books We Recommend This Week" | May 4, 2023 | The New York Times "Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels" by Olivia Waite | August 7, 2020 | The New York Times Nora Ephron Nancy Meyers Mhairi McFarlane Beth O'Leary Talia Hibbert Bolu Babalola “A Romance Bookstore Boom” by Olivia Waite | The New York Times “Emily Henry is Proud to be Called a Romance Writer” by | The New York Times Olivia Waite Jodi Picoult Love Island Tropes & Trifles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 12: Journalists Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on Trump and Ukraine 58:42

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Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, journalists and podcasters Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko return to Fiction/Non/Fiction to tell hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell how Ukrainians view Donald Trump’s return to power in the U.S. They talk about the situation at the frontlines, the consequences of delayed aid, the urgent need for a swift and decisive response to Russian aggression, and continued Ukrainian resilience in the face of the existential threat of the war. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ . This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. Selected Readings: Tetyana Ogarkova Ukraine Crisis Media Center L’Ukraine face à la guerre - Ukraine Crisis Media Center Volodymyr Yermolenko Internews Ukraine Explaining Ukraine podcast Ukraine World Trump’s Election and Its Impact on Ukraine - with Nataliya Gumenyuk Others: Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 5 Episode 15 : Scott Anderson on What Russia’s Wars in Chechnya Tell Us about the Invasion of Ukraine Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 6 Episode 51 : Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding to the War in Ukraine Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 6 Episode 2 : How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with Explaining Ukraine’ s Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 11: Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power 45:13

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ProPublica reporter Molly Redden joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her recent piece on impoundment, Donald Trump’s strategy to thwart Congressional spending priorities. Redden talks about how the presidential budget and Congressional appropriations work now, Trump’s claim that he has the authority to ignore what Congress wants to fund, what this could mean for those he perceives as enemies, and the possible role of the “nongovernmental Department of Government Efficiency,” co-led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. She explains the history of impoundment, Richard Nixon’s excessive use of the power to ignore projects he didn’t want to do, and how this led to a 1974 law restricting the option. She analyzes the likelihood that Trump will succeed in challenging the law and reflects on writing and reporting on seemingly outlandish schemes that are neither likely nor impossible. She reads from her article, “ How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress .” To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf . Molly Redden “ How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse from Congress ” | ProPublica Others: “ Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government ” | WSJ The Brownback Legacy: Tax cut push led to sharp backlash | Wichita Eagle | July 26, 2017 The Constitution of the United States Loving v. Virginia Impoundment Control Act Alien Enemies Act Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 10: Carvell Wallace on Love, Survival, and Endings 46:43

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Writer and podcaster Carvell Wallace joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss finding his way to the understanding that life is lived on a continuum and is not made up of neat endings and beginnings. He talks about how his childhood experiences with poverty, housing insecurity, and a frustrated creative genius of a single mother prepared him to understand the world. Wallace also discusses his expansive, generous approach to writing about both people he knows and loves and those he’s profiling as a journalist. He reads from his new memoir Another Word for Love . To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf . Carvell Wallace Another Word for Love Others: Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera Marilynne Robinson Easy Rider “Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On” | All Things Considered, NPR | August 8, 2008 James Alan McPherson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 9: REBROADCAST: The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight 47:30

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Following Donald Trump’s dinner at Mar-A-Lago with Ye (formerly Kanye West) and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, novelist Michael Knight joins hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the best and worst dinner parties in literature. They discuss the pressures of hosting, what makes someone a great guest, signature dishes, post-party regrets, and festive successes, as well as scenes in literature featuring all of these things. Knight also reads from a classic dinner party scene in his novella The Holiday Season . To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf . Selected Readings: Michael Knight The Typist At Briarwood School for Girls Divining Rod Dogfight Goodnight, Nobody Eveningland The Holiday Season Others: “The inside story of Trump’s explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes,” by Marc Caputo The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Leo Tolstoy “The 8 best Festivus moments from ‘Seinfeld,’ ranked,” USA Today “ Curb Your Enthusiasm”: Bad Middling Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee Light Years by James Salter Last Night by James Salter Beloved by Toni Morrison The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Jim Harrison Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Redwall series by Brian Jacques Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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S8 Ep. 8: Ruben Reyes Jr. on Trump's Plans for Mass Deportation 46:00

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Writer Ruben Reyes Jr. joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation. Reyes explains how deportation could affect families or households with different immigration statuses, including those here through Deferred Action Childhood Arrival (commonly known as DACA) and with Temporary Protected Status. The three discuss Trump’s plans to involve the military in his efforts, and the difficulties he may face, given the interconnectedness of our social and economic systems. Reyes also talks about writing about the dehumanization of immigrants through science fiction and satire, and how he thinks about agency and possibility when he is portraying characters facing systemic oppression. He reads from his short story collection There is a Rio Grande in Heaven . To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account , the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel , and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf . Ruben Reyes Jr. There is a Rio Grande in Heaven Others: “Trump is promising deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. What is it?” by Rachel Treisman | NPR Stephen Miller “Who is Usha Vance? Yale law graduate and wife of vice presidential nominee JD Vance” by Olivia Diaz |AP Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo "Trump's goal of mass deportations fell short. But he has new plans for a second term" by Elliot Spagat | AP Donald Trump TIME Interview on 2024 Transcript | Time "In Trump's mass deportation plan, the private prison industry sees a lucrative opportunity" by Laura Romero and Peter Charalambous | ABC News "If Trump Wins the Election, This is What's at Stake" by Lauren Gambino | The Guardian “Trump promised the 'largest deportation' in U.S. history. Here's how he might start” by Steve Inskeep and Christopher Thomas | NPR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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