Latest Episodes
273
Sense of place in cinema: Las Vegas Never Plays Itself, with Tod Goldberg
“Las Vegas is hard to capture in art without leaning on cliche. The movie Casino doesn't lean on cliche because it created the cliche....
272
Travel memoir lab: How your journeys can inspire fictional adventure stories
“That first day in Mumbai, there was the slum to the side of us, there were sports cars that would have cost hundreds of...
271
Best of Travel: Paul Theroux on the necessary obstacles of meaningful journeys
"All writing is trying to destroy a stereotype, and the individual that you're writing about -- the figure in the landscape -- is actually...
270
The geography of sports movies (with Chuck Klosterman and Michael Weinreb)
“"When I was in the third grade my teacher announced to our class that Ronald Reagan had been shot. When she asked if we...
269
Designing a creative life on your own terms (with Cedar Van Tassel)
“A joke is kind of like a little life-lesson in addition to being funny. If your joke is really good, there's a little nugget...
268
What movies (do and don't) show us about places before we travel there
“When we don't foster local filmmaking traditions, we end up making movies about what we think life is like in the cities we do...