Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock

Callie Hitchcock

Writer, journalist, and podcast producer, Callie Hitchcock interviews writers, journalists, and authors about their essays, articles, reporting, nonfiction books, and memoirs. A heterogenous mix of subjects and writers where you can learn something new about the world or think about an idea in a new way. Support the podcast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/nonfictionwithcalliehitchcock Follow me on Twitter: @cal_hitchcock

  1. 08/01/2025

    P.E. Moskowitz: Author of Breaking Awake

    On the podcast today we have P.E. Moskowitz, a writer who also runs the newsletter Mental Hellth, and author of the book Breaking Awake: A Reporter’s Search for a New Life, and a New World Through Drugs. We discuss breaking outside of narrative meaning in mental health, dissociation/depersonalization/derealization, the neoliberalization of mental health, and the move away from understanding how systemic structures cause mental illness toward an individualistic model.  Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon

  2. 05/19/2025

    Regina Mahone: Author of "Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives—Now They’re Fighting Back, One Story at a Time"

    Today I’m speaking with Regina Mahone, senior editor at The Nation magazine, founder of Repro Nation, a free monthly newsletter providing the latest news on the struggle for reproductive justice, and also coauthor, with We Testify founder Renee Bracey Sherman of the book Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve.  We will be discussing her article, "Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives—Now They’re Fighting Back, One Story at a Time,” which appears in the May 2025 edition of The Nation. Ineedana website National Network of Abortion Funds Aid Access

  3. 04/17/2025

    Paul Freedman: Author of American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way

    I talk with Paul Freedman, a history professor at Yale and author of the book American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way which looks at the history of how food evolved over time in the US. In 1900 40% of US population worked in agriculture. Now that number is under 2%. Correspondingly food used to be 40% of a family’s budget and in 2016 that number was 12.6%. We talk about the positives and negatives of the industrialization of food, the evolution of food science, the 70s farm to table revolution, and more! Food Fantasy blog by Callie HitchcockNonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon

  4. 03/21/2025

    Eamon Whalen: Author of "Are Men OK?"

    Today we are talking about Eamon Whalen’s article “Are Men OK?” which is a recent cover story for The Nation about women’s rise in economic power, the declining cultural power of men, and the manhood intellectual Richard Reeves. Male labor force participation has fallen from 80% in 1970 to 69% in January 2020, and undergraduate enrollment for men has fallen from 58% to 44% in that same time period. Richard Reeves proposes policies to ameliorate this. Conservatives think he isn’t acknowledging the “feminist conspiracy” going on and the liberals think he’s a watered down men’s rights activist reifying the gender binary. What can we take away from his point of view? Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon

  5. 02/19/2025

    Bryan Burrough: Co-Author of Barbarians at the Gate

    “The idea now that running a company is some type of sacred trust, that employees are something to be taken care of, is treated by most people as a laughable idea… this period is the basis of the income inequality we see today.” - Bryan Burrough Published in 1989 by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate is a financial thriller about the leveraged buy out of RJR Nabisco. This book is a time capsule of the 1980s greed era zeitgeist and an insiders look at the creation of our casino society.  Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon

  6. 02/05/2025

    Will Tavlin: Author of "Casual Viewing"

    Today I’m talking with Will Tavlin about his N+1 article “Casual Viewing” on the history of Netflix and how Netflix, with increasing power and leverage, is changing the film industry for the worse. “The type of movie that starts to get made starts to change. Especially as these streaming platforms increasingly realize that they are not really Hollywood studios but customer acquisition businesses.” - Will Tavlin  ⁠⁠Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon

  7. 01/23/2025

    Enzo Escober: Author of “Homespun Tiara”

    Today I talk with Enzo Escober about his profile of the trans Filipina model Geena Rocero in LA Review of Books titled “Homespun Tiara.” We discuss the gender fluid indigenous history of the Philippines, the colonial history of the Philippines, its Catholic fiesta culture and trans beauty pageants, American imperialism, the long reach of American soft power, legal recognition versus cultural recognition for trans people in the Philippines and the US, and the complicated feelings that accompany expatriation to the US. “We left in the name of opportunity but the reason opportunities are so limited in the first place in the Philippines is because of colonialism.” - Enzo Escober.   ⁠Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon

  8. 01/08/2025

    Jasper Craven: Journalist and Author of “The Thin Purple Line”

    Today I’m talking with Jasper Craven about his Harper's Magazine piece "The Thin Purple Line" on the private security industry and the attendant fear economy that it fuels. On this episode we talk about the changing cultural symbolism of “chaos” and what particular iteration of it is driving people's fears and actions today.  Also it has officially been a year of the Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock podcast! The conversations that I have gotten to do for this podcast have opened up the world to me in so many interesting and expansive ways and I hope they have for you too.  In light of the anniversary I am starting a Patreon so that you guys can support my work and in the future I’m going to set up exclusive content, gifts, perks, and more. The project is currently a labor of love filled with reading, research, pitching, interview preparation, recording, audio editing, producing, and marketing. Your contribution will go towards supporting this project and moving it from a labor of love to a paid endeavor that will help me have more time to get more episodes to you. Thank you so much for listening and taking the time to engage with my project, I love you all!  Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon "The Thin Purple LineThe dubious rise of the private-security industry" by Jasper Craven Jasper's Twitter

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Writer, journalist, and podcast producer, Callie Hitchcock interviews writers, journalists, and authors about their essays, articles, reporting, nonfiction books, and memoirs. A heterogenous mix of subjects and writers where you can learn something new about the world or think about an idea in a new way. Support the podcast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/nonfictionwithcalliehitchcock Follow me on Twitter: @cal_hitchcock

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