I talk about Jurassic Park--both the book and the movie--with Matt Haugen of Terrain. It's a joint episode of our... more

Part 2 of a series on animal agency! An interview with Eva Meijer, author of When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies... more

Part 1 of a series on animal agency! An interview with Carol Gigliotti, author of The Creative Lives of Animals.For... more

I am republishing my very first episode, an interview with Emma Marris about her book Wild Souls, out newly in... more

Season 1 finale! A personal history of how and why I became a vegan. For more resources on animal liberation,... more

January 25, 2023, is acclaimed writer Virginia Woolf's 141st birthday! To celebrate, I invited scholar of modernist literature Bonnie Kime... more

Martha C. Nussbaum is a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, and the author most recently... more

I read 78 books this year, the most in my adult life, and I want to share some of my... more

With CRISPR technology, it is easier than ever for geneticists to alter human DNA, make deadlier pathogens, render mosquitoes infertile,... more

Rachel E. Gross is the author of Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage, depicting how a new generation of (mostly) women... more

Support this podcast with a monthly donation on Patreon--help reach 30 supporters by episode 40! https://patreon.com/storytellingpodThis week's guest is Thom van... more

Support this podcast with a monthly donation on Patreon--help reach 30 supporters by episode 40! https://patreon.com/storytellingpodThis week's guest is Dan Chodorkoff,... more

Support this podcast with a monthly donation on Patreon--help reach 30 supporters by episode 40: https://patreon.com/storytellingpodToday's guest is fiction writer Talia... more

On today's episode I explore three topics from recent climate and environmental headlines: the devastating flooding in Pakistan, debates over... more

With a new Lord of the Rings television series out, I thought it was high time to explore the powerful... more

This week's guest is Ron Broglio, English professor at Arizona State University and author of the book Animal Revolution. We... more

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the biggest climate legislation in US history, just passed Congress. What is the good, the... more

Today's guests are philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, authors of the new book Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory.... more

Am I conscious? Yes. How about you, or a chimpanzee or a parrot? Almost definitely. What about an oak tree,... more

In T.C.Boyle's 2021 novel Talk To Me, one of the main characters is a chimpanzee. It's a fascinating study in... more

Today marks the 205th birthday of Henry David Thoreau, and to celebrate, I brought on Alda Balthrop-Lewis, author of Thoreau's... more

Today's topic is "degrowth": What does it mean? Is it actually desirable? How could we achieve it? And do we... more

Today's guest is paleontologist Steve Brusatte, author of the new book The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New... more

Today I talk with David M. Peña-Guzmán about his new book When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness.... more

My guest for the 20th(!) episode is science journalist Hannah Seo--we talked about her reporting on the tragic demise of... more

Philosopher Kate Soper explains why going beyond consumerism won't just help the environment--it will make us happier. Together we discuss... more

Last week I took a 48+ hour Amtrak train from Los Angeles to Dearborn, Michigan, just outside of Detroit. It... more

Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of the new autobiographical nonfiction book The High Sierra: A Love Story. He's also... more

Dylan Harris is an assistant professor and geographer at University of Colorado Colorado Springs, as well as an editor of... more

You may know that an asteroid drove the dinosaurs extinct, but do you know what happened after the asteroid hit,... more

Today's guests are journalist Dahr Jamail and teacher of Native American literature Stan Rushworth, who edited the new volume We... more

As countries around the world fail to tackle climate change, many have begun to wonder whether democracy itself is up... more

Environmental historian Troy Vettese and environmental engineer Drew Pendergrass worked together on the new book Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to... more

lauren Ornelas, founder of the Food Empowerment Project, talks about her decades in the animal rights movement, why our food... more

Guardian environment reporter Oliver Milman, author of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World,... more

I talk with philosopher Jeff Sebo about his new book Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate... more

Mark Bittman is the author of more than 30 books and nearly 200 New York Times op-eds, known both for... more

Matt Bell's novel Appleseed has no shortage of urgent themes, and on this episode we talk about whether democracy is... more

Thea Riofrancos, the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador, talks about the challenges posed by resource... more

How do stories set in a post-apocalyptic future look back at our present world: are characters nostalgic for the affluence... more