Tourist Information

Jan 30 2025 99 ep. 71 mins
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Insiders looking out and outsiders looking in to the world of Literature, Journalism, Sports and Film. Hosted by Brin-Jonathan Butler

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Episode 99: Ada Ferrer

Jan 30 2025 80 mins  
Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is a professor of history and Caribbean Studies at Princeton University. She won the 2015 Frederick Douglass Prize for her book Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution. She was also awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.

Episode 98: Rodney Ascher

Jan 02 2025 93 mins  
Rodney Ascher is an American film director, best known for Room 237 (2012), A Glitch in the Matrix (2021) and The Nightmare (2015).

Episode 97: Spencer Kornhaber

Dec 18 2024 77 mins  
Spencer Kornhaber is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic as an editor in 2011, he was a staff writer at OC Weekly, an editor at Patch, and a freelancer for Spin and The A.V. Club. In 2019, he won the Excellence in Column Writing Award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. At The Atlantic, he covers pop culture and music. He is the author of On Di

Episode 96: A. L. Kennedy

Nov 20 2024 86 mins  
A. L. Kennedy is a Scots writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns and reviews to European newspapers.

Episode 95: Ben Johnson

May 20 2024 44 mins  
Ben Johnson is a Canadian former sprinter. During the 1987–88 season he held the title of the world's fastest man, breaking both the 100m and the 60m indoor World Records. He won the 100 metres at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics; and at the 1988 Summer Olympics, but was disqualified for doping and stripped of the gold medal.

Episode 94: Michael Azerrad

Mar 07 2024 107 mins  
Michael Azerrad is an American author, music journalist, editor, and musician. A graduate of Columbia University, he has written for publications such as Spin, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. Azerrad's 1993 biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana was named by Q as one of the 50 greatest rock books ever written.

Episode 93: Andrew Hammel

Feb 28 2024 113 mins  
Andrew Hammel holds law degrees from the University of Houston and Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar of the State of Texas in 1996. He is a former death-row defense lawyer and law professor. He is the author of Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in Global Perspective (2010) and many scholarly articles. He is fluent in English and German. His long-form jo

Episode 92: Ric Burns

Dec 13 2023 84 mins  
Ric Burns is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey Ward.

Episode 91: Nick McDonell

Nov 30 2023 100 mins  
Nick McDonell is an American writer who has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, producer, novelist and researcher.

Episode 90: Kim Cross

Oct 12 2023 69 mins  
Kim Cross is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction. A full-time freelance writer, she has bylines in the New York Times, Nieman Storyboard, Outside, Bicycling, Garden & Gun, CNN.com, ESPN.com, and USA Today.