On today’s show, we talk to J.B. MacKinnon. Many of you know J.B. from his bestselling work, The 100-Mile Diet. That book set him on course to be a prolific author who traffics in big ideas. Challenging our preconceptions, and encouraging us to try new ways of being in the world, are at the core of J.B.’s work as are his love of animals, the environment, and the natural world. He has written for The Atlantic, The National Observer, The National Post, and Orion Magazine, and his nonfiction titles include The Once and Future World and Dead Man in Paradise, which won the Charles Taylor Prize. His most recent book, The Day the World Stops Shopping, published in 2021 by Random House, challenges us to think about a post-consumption world and what that would mean for the economy, the environment, and our understanding of human nature. As with much of his work, it’s a thought experiment, one that required wrangling abstract ideas into a highly readable, engaging book. Today, J.B. talks to us about that process, and we get into how he thinks about research, his reading audience, and his character portraits too.
Transcript coming soon.
Find J.B. at the links below.
Website: https://www.jbmackinnon.com/
Twitter: @JB_MacKinnon
You can find J.B.’s latest book, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves at https://www.jbmackinnon.com/the-day-the-world-stops-shopping
If you're interested in writing nonfiction, the University of King's College MFA in Creative Nonfiction might be for you. Find out more at ukings.ca/area-of-study/master…creative-nonfiction/.
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