http://www.radio4all.net/program/118679Podcast for Program: Joel Whitney - Flights: Radicals on the RunSun, 08 Sep 2024 15:52:50 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/118679A conversation between Joel Whitney and Natasha Lennard, in which they discuss Whitney’s latest book, "Flights: Radicals on the Run", which is published by OR Books: https://orbooks.com They spoke on September 4th, 2024, at the Francis Kite Club in Manhattan: https://www.franciskiteclub.com From OR Books: "Told through the lives of the American Century’s most talented and stubborn dissidents, Flights is the archetypal hero’s journey of a group of progressives whose struggle for truth, and for freedom from persecution, sent them into exile, both literal and metaphorical. At once a group portrait of these geniuses of creative escape, Flights is also a prehistory (and indictment) of American mass surveillance culminating in Edward Snowden’s revelations, of torture culminating in Abu Ghraib, of censorship culminating in the incarceration of journalist Julian Assange, of fascism culminating in January 6, and of political murder culminating in the Bush-Obama-Trump air assassination program." "Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers, which The New Republic called a “powerful warning.” His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Baffler, The Wall Street Journal, Boston Review and New York Magazine. He is a former features editor at Al Jazeera America and a founder and former editor-in-chief of Guernica for which he was awarded the 2017 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. His essays in The Baffler, Dissent and Salon were Notables in Best American Essays 2017, 2015 and 2013. He currently curates literary programs at the Brooklyn Public Library." Natasha Lennard is a British-born, Brooklyn-based writer, and a columnist for the Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, Dissent, and the New York Times, among others.Essential DissentSun, 08 Sep 2024 15:52:50 +0000