• Lance Richardson on Peter Matthiessen & “The Snow Leopard”
    Oct 14 2025

    Today I’m speaking with Lance Richardson about his new biography, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. The book is a massive undertaking — eight years in the making — that…

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    35 mins
  • Aatish Taseer on the Liberating Heaviness of Exile
    Jul 15 2025

    Today I’m speaking with Aatish Taseer about his new collection of essays, A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile. Aatish is a writer who found himself cut off from India after…

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    52 mins
  • Pico Iyer on Finding Stillness in What Remains
    Jan 13 2025

    Pico Iyer is my guest today. In today’s episode, we discuss the need for silence and stillness in our distracted age, the metaphor of fire as both destruction and renewal,…

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    53 mins
  • Alastair Humphreys on Finding Adventure Anywhere
    Jul 4 2024

    Alastair Humphreys is my guest today. We discuss his journey from adventurer to author to “microadventurer.” Alastair shares his philosophy of “microadventures,” which is all about finding the potential for…

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    44 mins