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Switchyard is a podcast for people hungry for eye-opening essays, moving fiction, soul-stirring poetry, and honest, thought-provoking conversation. Join us monthly for new content.

  1. The Truth of What Happened: In Conversation with Ted Conover

    19/12/2024

    The Truth of What Happened: In Conversation with Ted Conover

    In this episode, Switchyard magazine editor Ted Genoways speaks with award-winning journalist Ted Conover about his book Cheap Land Colorado, set among the rural poor in the San Luis Valley, and his style of investigative reporitng, known as "immersion." By spending months or even years with the people he is writing about—working alongside them, living with them—Conover comes to understand his subjects as few journalists do. That style, however, also raises thorny questions of objectivity and truth-telling, especially when Conover is writing about people who are suspicious of the media and believe that all reporters are biased against them. In this conversation, Conover explores these contradictions with sensivity and depth.

    54 min

  2. 11/10/2024

    Switchyard at Mayfest: A Journey into the Heart of America

    In this episode, Switchyard magazine editor Ted Genoways brings together author Jeff Sharlet and political organizer Jane Kleeb for a conversation about the nation’s political divide and a path toward a positive future. Ranging from the deep-rooted divisions fueling hate and violence to the beacon of hope emanating from rural America, this dynamic conversation promises to spark your imagination and ignite your spirit. Sharlet and Kleeb delve into the heart of America’s complex political landscape and explore the power of community as we navigate through uncertain times together.  Discover how ordinary citizens are becoming catalysts for change—forging a path toward unity and cooperation in the face of adversity.

    55 min

  3. 11/10/2024

    Switchyard at Mayfest: Exposing the Ku Klux Klan in America

    In this riveting episode, Timothy Egan, author of New York Times bestseller A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, and Kevin Willmott, the brilliant director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, join Switchyard magazine editor Ted Genoways for a conversation about the role of the Ku Klux Klan in America’s past and present.

    57 min

  4. 11/10/2024

    Switchyard at Mayfest: Lost Promise and Resilience in Rural America

    In this episode, three contributors to the Rural Americas issue of Switchyard magazine—Monica Potts, the New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Girls; Dean Bakopoulos, whose third novel Summerlong is now in development as a television series; and Michael Croley, author of the collection of short stories Any Other Place—join editor, Ted Genoways, for a conversation about the hardships facing rural America and hope for the future.

    47 min

  5. 11/10/2024

    Switchyard at Mayfest: Climate Forward

    In this episode, world-renowned climate activist Bill McKibben and singer-songwriter Andrea von Kampen join Switchyard magazine editor Ted Genoways for a lively and soul-searching conversation about how we can embrace our fear and grief in the face of pending climate disaster and use those feelings as motivation to take action to address the crisis. The conversation is interlaced with acoustic performances by von Kampen from her new album Sister Moon, a cycle of songs about climate change.

    59 min

  6. 21/05/2024

    Worlds Unseen: In Conversation with Sterlin Harjo

    In this episode, Ted Genoways speaks with Sterlin Harjo, the co-creator of the groundbreaking TV series Reservation Dogs. They discuss the show's unique blend of humor and heartbreak and how Harjo combines elements of traditional Native storytelling, parodies of Hollywood classics, urban myths, pop music, and zany side quests to create a rich and recognizable portrait of a complex and vital community. Harjo also describes his early years in Holdenville, Oklahoma; his film Mekko (2015); his new series for FX called The Sensitive Kind, starring Ethan Hawke; and what it means to be "a community guy," whose work draws inspiration from and supports fellow artists in and around Tulsa.

    44 min

  7. 29/02/2024

    Live Audience: At the Church Studio with Carl Phillips and Casii Stephan

    This very special episode of the Switchyard Podcast was recorded live in the “big room” of Leon Russell’s historic Church Studio in Tulsa. The program leads off with a performance by Casii Stephan of “These Hard Days,” her song about working through the challenges of Covid lockdown but it is also about the big themes of loneliness and how we weather difficult times. Next, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips reads a few shorter poems and then delivers the entirety of his essay, "The Fog Lifted," from the special Food Issue of Switchyard magazine. It's also a meditation on Covid lockdown, the respite he found in being in the kitchen and the sense of connection he discovered by sharing his cooking routine on Instagram. Many people who knew him only as a poet saw a new side of Carl, a private side full of joy and hope in the midst of uncertainty and fear. And yet, the real pleasure of cooking is one of sharing family and home, creating community and a place around a literal table, something that no social media platform could provide. After a brief Q&A between Phillips and Switchyard editor Ted Genoways, Casii Stephan returns to the piano for a performance of Leon Russell's "A Song for You." Listen now!

    59 min

  8. 19/12/2023

    Live at the Church Studio: In Conversation with Jori Lewis and Siddhartha Deb

    In this episode, Switchyard editor Ted Genoways talks with writers Jori Lewis and Siddhartha Deb whose stories were published in the new Switchyard magazine special food issue (Winter 2024) in partnership with the Food and Environment Reporting Network. Lewis and Deb joined us in Tulsa on November 30, 2023, for the Switchyard Food Fest, and we recorded this conversation with a live studio audience at The Church Studio. Jori Lewis is the author of Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History (New Press, 2022), winner of a James Beard Foundation Book Award. Siddhartha Deb is the author of three novels, most recently The Light at the End of the World (Soho, 2023), a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice selection, as well as the nonfiction book, The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India, winner of the PEN Open Book Award. You can read their essays and subscribe to the magazine at switchyardmag.com.

    48 min
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Switchyard is a podcast for people hungry for eye-opening essays, moving fiction, soul-stirring poetry, and honest, thought-provoking conversation. Join us monthly for new content.

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  • Creador
    The University of Tulsa
  • Años de actividad
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodios
    17
  • Clasificación
    Explícito
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    © 2023
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