Interrobang: A Writing Podcast‽
Interrobang: A Writing Podcast‽ is an open access educational resource produced by the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication. Each episode, we speak with one or more writers affiliated with the University of British Columbia, chosen from across the disciplines to speak to the methods, challenges, and rewards of writing.
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Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee is deeply invested in writing about people and ideas in a way that journeys outward from the self. His most recent book, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From, published by HarperCollins (2021), examines the complex relationships that immigrants have with the countries they leave and what compels them to return home.
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Evan Thompson is the author of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (Columbia University Press 2015). The book offers a fascinating exploration of consciousness at the limits of both neuroscientific knowledge as gleaned from Western science and phenomenological insight as established through many centuries of meditative practice in Asian traditions.
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Gregory Mackie's new book is Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife, published by University of Toronto Press (2019). This charmingly written monograph is an innovative study of Wilde’s afterlives, which is to say, all the ways in which his legend continued to circulate after his trials and death by way of literary forgeries and impersonations.
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
What is the relationship between the public health and the health of democracies? What part do effective communications play in establishing and maintaining their mutual well-being? Heidi Tworek, Ian Beacock, and Eseohe Ojo investigate these questions in their policy report “Democratic Health Communications during COVID-19: A RAPID Response.”