Radio Essays
Since October of 2001, a rotating crew of Michiana Chronicles writers and occasional guests have composed and recorded essays about daily life in Michiana and beyond. These pieces are broadcast on Fridays by 88.1 WVPE, our regional NPR affiliate station.
My own contributions are gathered under the linked Michiana Chronicles category.
Michiana is what the people near here call the Indiana-Michigan borderland within, what?, maybe fifty miles of South Bend and Elkhart, Indiana.
Recent Posts
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- “When you abolish African American history you have banned American history . . . . Period.” —… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 3 days ago
- In this new radio piece, a friend and I work out some of the implied parts of a woman’s train journey to visit her… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 4 days ago
- I did not witness her family fleeing the Nazis in Czechoslovakia, but I witnessed her telling of it. I did not witn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 5 days ago
- During World War II, Jack Benny and Orson Welles tried to figure out how to perform USO shows for the troops withou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 5 days ago
- Somehow, the College Board, for its updated AP course in African American Studies, has left James Baldwin, Ralph El… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 6 days ago
- How relentlessly ugly and brutal was racism in the Midwest around the time of World War II? oldschool.scripting.com/KenSmith/2023/… Posted 6 days ago
- In the years around W.W. II, South Bend had strictly segregated neighborhoods, employment, and schools, plus redlin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 6 days ago
- Not the cheeriest coffee mug you'll find, but it's different. https://t.co/F7fdNxpxqF Posted 6 days ago
- By normalizing public debate around the biggest parties, journalists and others instantly and effectively write hal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Posted 1 week ago
- "In the end I decided: everyone hates a long essay; everyone loves a short book." --David Graeber, "Pirate Enlightenment," ix. Posted 1 week ago
- “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” – Iris Murdoch thejohnfox.com/2021/08/100-be… Posted 1 week ago
Etcetera
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