Deviate

Rolf Potts veers off-topic in this unique series of conversations with experts, public figures, and intriguing people.

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195

August 16, 2022 • 00:47:46
Vagabonding audio companion: Love, finding home, and telling TV travel stories

Vagabonding audio companion: Love, finding home, and telling TV travel stories

“I think sometimes as travel writers our most important job is to be a listener — to listen to the stories that people are...

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194

August 02, 2022 • 01:08:53
“On the Ice”: What it’s like to live and work at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station

“On the Ice”: What it’s like to live and work at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station

“One thing we like to say [in Antarctica] is that nothing on the continent can kill you, except for the entire continent.”  –Karen Pszonka...

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193

July 26, 2022 • 00:37:07
A Critical Race Theorist’s guide to writing smut novels, with Dr. Kevin Harrison

A Critical Race Theorist’s guide to writing smut novels, with Dr. Kevin Harrison

“I told him, ‘You didn’t have a long, lucrative NBA career, but that doesn’t make you a failure. Yet if you let other people...

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192

July 12, 2022 • 00:47:45
Traveler ideals, hospitality, and the disappearance of an Italian priest in Syria

Traveler ideals, hospitality, and the disappearance of an Italian priest in Syria

“I talked as much about the National Basketball Association in Syria as I did about politics. Syrians felt so global and interested in everything....

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191

June 28, 2022 • 01:01:03
Refuse to be Done: The art of creative persistence for long-haul projects

Refuse to be Done: The art of creative persistence for long-haul projects

“The noun part of “writer” seems to require outside validation, but the verb part of it — “writing” — is something you’re either doing...

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190

June 14, 2022 • 00:39:10
Marcia DeSanctis on revisiting places, souvenirs, and travel as self-reinvention

Marcia DeSanctis on revisiting places, souvenirs, and travel as self-reinvention

“Travel imparts a liquid language whose sole property is the flow of questions.”  –Marcia DeSanctis In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Marcia talk...

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