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Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockP.E. Moskowitz: Author of Breaking AwakeOn 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 2025-08-0142 min $All in a Day\'s Work$ All in a Day's WorkRe-air: Episode 49: Callie Hitchcock, Campside MediaCheck out this re-air of Episode 49 featuring Callie Hitchcock, a freelance writer and journalist. In this episode, Sarah Rosenthal sits down with Callie to discuss discuss the ups and downs of a freelance career, how she went about building her network, and the ways in which working in podcasting has made her a better journalist.Callie Hitchcock is a writer and graduate of the NYU journalism Master’s degree for Cultural Reporting and Criticism. She has published writing in The Believer, The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, Real Life Magazine, and elsewhere....2025-08-0121 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockRegina 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 2025-05-1953 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockPaul Freedman: Author of American Cuisine: And How It Got This WayI 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 Pa...2025-04-1736 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockEamon 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 w...2025-03-2148 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockBryan 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 BurroughPublished 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. Nonfict...2025-02-1945 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockWill 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 2025-02-0539 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockEnzo 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...2025-01-2334 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockJasper 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 fo...2025-01-0833 min

Build Your AuthorityMastering Social Media Strategy: Building Your Digital AuthorityAdam and Joe delve into the world of social media strategy with digital media expert Callie Hitchcock. They discuss the importance of choosing the right platforms, creating compelling content, and maintaining consistency in building an authoritative online presence. Callie shares valuable insights on optimizing profiles, leveraging different types of content, and understanding analytics to improve engagement. The conversation covers common mistakes to avoid and practical tips for overcoming challenges in the early stages of building authority on social media. This episode offers actionable advice for CEOs and entrepreneurs looking to enhance their digital footprint and connect with their t...2024-12-0532 min

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover PodcastS11:Ep245 - 2024 Holiday Book Buying Guide with Bookseller Sam Miller - 11/27/24f you would like to check out Carmichael’s Bookstore Holiday Book Gift Guide, you can find it online at www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/ Website- www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a BookLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. The delightful Sam Miller, store manager at Carmichael’s Book Store, comes to save the day. She has, as usual, tons of great new reads that are already on shelves and would make perfect gifts this holiday for the book lovers in you...2024-11-271h 03

Forward Radio podcastsPerks S11:Ep245 | 2024 Holiday Book Buying Guide with Bookseller Sam Miller | 11-27-24If you would like to check out Carmichael’s Bookstore Holiday Book Gift Guide, you can find it online at www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/ Website- www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a BookLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. The delightful Sam Miller, store manager at Carmichael’s Book Store, comes to save the day. She has, as usual, tons of great new reads that are already on shelves and would make perfect gifts this holiday for the book lovers in your life. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- Th...2024-11-241h 03

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockLily Burana: Author of Strip CityToday we have the writer Lily Burana, author of the memoir Strip City: A Stripper’s Farewell Journey Across America. Lily’s memoir is emotionally complex, philosophical, and navigates the multiplicity of self, gender performance, and the theory of theatrical performance. We discuss the intersection of performance and relationships and the live theater liminality of strip clubs, breaking out of the hero vs victim binary for strippers, and her 2.85 million dollar strip club class action lawsuit that set a labor rights precedent for FedEx. Also side note, I am writing an article about stripping in N...2024-10-231h 03

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockClair Wills: Author of Missing PersonsI speak with Clair Wills about her book Missing Persons which explores her family’s connection to the mother and baby homes for unwed mothers in Ireland that operated from 1922-1998 and have come into the news in the past few years after multiple mass child graves were discovered at different locations. In one of the largest of these homes called Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork, more than 900 children died and over a 20 year period between the mid-1930s and the mid-1950s approximately 25% of the babies born in the home died there, five times the infant mo...2024-10-0942 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockJane Song: Author of "Rock Beats Scissors"On this episode I talk to the writer Jane Song her article “Rock Beats Scissors” about the sociological implications of the shift from dagger consumer products to our current deluge of pebble consumer products. In this episode we talk about how this phenomenon maps onto a kind of boom and bust cycle in the economy and also has larger implications for cultural powerlessness and loneliness. We also get into Sianne Ngai’s aesthetic theory of cute and how that informs the emergence of the pebble. Jane’s Substack Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai 2024-09-1725 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockJames Pogue: Journalist and Author of "Wagner in Africa"Today we have James Pogue, a journalist and contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine who has written for Harper's, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, and elsewhere. We talk about his essay “Wagner in Africa” published in the extraction issue of Granta that came out this Spring which is about his reporting trip to Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic or CAR, and the presence of the Russian private military company called the Wagner Group in CAR and CAR’s geopolitical history. The Wagner group offers stabilization against rebel groups and security for CAR’s mines to...2024-08-201h 01

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockAnastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman: Authors of What are Children For?Today I’m talking with Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman about their book What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice, a book of philosophy and cultural criticism surrounding the choice of whether to have children or not. The birth rates in the US are at a record low, and are also low in countries with the most progressive parenthood policies. What is causing this pervasive ambivalence? Is it finances, climate change, or a change in the conception of a happy and fulfilled life? The answer is more complicated than you think. Anastasia Berg’s website Rachel Wiseman's webs 2024-08-0653 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockDonald Morrison: Author of “American Rehab”Today’s guest is journalist Donald Morrison talking with us about his article “American Rehab” published in the most recent June issue of The Baffler. This article is about Measure 110 which was passed in November 2020 in Oregon and was the most liberal drug law in the country in US history, decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs including marijuana, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl. The law would also funnel the money from legislative appropriations, savings from reductions in arrests, and marijuana tax revenue into harm reduction services and treatment centers. Donald’s article follows up with what has happened in Orego...2024-06-2634 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockEmily Nussbaum: Author of Cue The Sun! The Invention of Reality TVToday’s guest is Emily Nussbaum, Pulitzer prize winner for criticism, staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of her new book Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV. We talk about the history of reality TV, the changing conception of reality TV labor power dynamics, reality tv as modern fables, the sociological function of reality TV as a cultural object, and what feelings we are looking to have when we watch TV. The Difficult Women of “Sex and the City” by Emily Nussbaum I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily...2024-06-111h 12

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockMichael Cecchi-Azzolina: Author of Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D⁠’I speak with Michael Cecchi-Azzolina about his memoir called Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D’ about being a maître d’ in New York City’s top restaurants from the 80s onward. This book is a historical time capsule of the culture of the past 40 years and a meditation of the restaurant as a dense site of psychology, theater, familial simulation, and the joy of communion. We discuss all of this and the changing social role of restaurants with the introduction of the internet age and shifting social mores. Cecchi’s restaurant ...2024-05-2838 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockMichael W. Clune: Author of White Out: The Secret Life of HeroinI talk with Michael W. Clune about White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin, his memoir about his heroin addiction and his recovery. His writing is experiential, poetic, philosophical, and dwells on the liminal. Clune defamiliarizes experiences and reassembles them with new language. He also puts language to experiences that haven’t been entered yet into the collective imagination. We discuss the rhetoric of perception, unpeeling perception away from language, Candy Land, and Don Quixote. “The Anatomy of Panic” Harper's essay by Michael Clune My essay about the peak and evanescence of my fixation with the rom...2024-05-0739 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockTony Tulathimutte: Author of "The Rejection Plot"Tony Tulathimutte on the podcast today. He has written the novel Private Citizens, and a short story collection called Rejection coming out this September (pre-order here). On this episode we talk about his recent nonfiction essay for The Paris Review called “The Rejection Plot.” We explore the experiential properties of rejection, plotlessness, the delamination of an infatuation narrative from real life, and entitativity. Other links: Tony’s CRIT writing workshops “The Feminist” short story in N+1 2024-04-2424 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockEmmeline Clein: Author of Dead WeightI spoke with Emmeline Clein, author of the new book Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm about the cultural forces surrounding eating disorders and beauty standards in the US, and their roots in racism, classism, and nationalism. We talk about the different historic forms eating disorders have mutated through over time, the failures of health insurance and treatment centers, and more! My review of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv Follow me on Twitter. 2024-04-0945 min

STARGIRLEpisode 36: Hitomi Mochizuki with Callie Hitchcock*Subscribe to the STARGIRL Patreon!* Hello, earth angels! This week Callie and I delve into the sensual world of our favorite YouTuber, @yaknowme_hitomi. We discuss her spiritual evolution from depressed NYC thrifter to fully realized health goddess, explore the Dream/Threat of the ethereal travel vlogger, and relish in our shared nostalgia for West Coast wanderlust circa 2013. Mentioned: Follow Hitomi on Youtube and Instagram Hitomi’s life story video (2017) Hitomi on Know Thyself podcast (2023) Follow Callie on Twitter and subscribe to her pod...2024-02-271h 21

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockSarah Hepola: Author of ⁠Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget⁠“I didn’t think I ran the risk of dying I though I ran the risk of not living the life that I wanted to live.” On today’s episode I speak with Sarah Hepola, a journalist and the author of the book Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, which is a nuanced and articulate memoir of Sarah’s life and her experiences with blackouts, all leading to her journey to sobriety. Check out her podcast America's Girls and Smoke ‘Em If You Got 'Em.2024-02-2747 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockRachel Cohen: Journalist and Author of "How millennials learned to dread motherhood"Rachel Cohen, a journalist working at Vox, explores what she calls "Millennial Mom Dread" in her article “How Millennials Learned to Dread Motherhood.” Rachel thinks there has been at least a decade long campaign of cultural messaging to women that having children is something that will ruin your happiness, your autonomy, and your ambition. Is it really just holding your breath for 18 years and then you get your life back? How did we get here and how do we separate this conversation from the current conservative drive to warning women to get married and have children or face a life...2024-02-2132 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockAlexander Stille: Author of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American CommuneOn today’s episode I speak with Alexander Stille, the journalist and author of the book The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune which looks at the history and ideological underpinnings of a group called The Sullivanians which operated from 1957 through 1991 in the Upper West Side of New York City. His book looks at the group’s mission to build a “utopian world based on the principles of free love, collective living, self-actualization, and a commitment to socialism,” and the different ways this project succeeded and failed. We talk about malleability of the self, the natur...2024-01-0953 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockSarah Brouillette: Academic and Author of "Domestic Heteropessimism"For this episode I speak to Sarah Brouillette, a professor of English at Carleton University about her essay "Domestic Heteropessimism" that she wrote for Post 45’s Heteropessimism cluster. We discuss the resource inefficiency of the nuclear couple and alternatives to the supremacy of the nuclear family as the only place structurally to receive care, safety, and sustenance. We also discuss the concept of familial love and how it can be used to exploit women. 2023-12-1238 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockEmi Nietfeld: Author of AcceptanceToday we are talking with Emi Nietfeld the author of the memoir Acceptance. Emi made it through a lot of difficult life circumstances like homelessness, mental health struggles, abusive relationships, assault, and navigated herself to safety as much as she could, finding success at Harvard University and in a career in software engineering. But she also thinks critically about the pressure to be a “perfect overcomer” and what effects that has had on her. Her story is an American Dream narrative and a critique of that narrative. 2023-12-0539 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockAlex Sammon: Political journalist and Author of "Forbidden Fruit"Alex Sammon a political journalist, went to Michoacán a state in Mexico that produces 80% of the United State’s avocados and a third of the global supply. It’s a multibillion dollar industry which draws avocado cartels and eco-democracies like the town Cherán whose indigenous people called the Purépecha kicked out loggers, police, and the local government in 2011 to start their own self-governed town that outlawed the growing of avocados. Alex's article for Harper's is called "Forbidden Fruit." 2023-11-2844 min

Nonfiction with Callie HitchcockKate Flannery: Author of Strip TeesFor our first episode I talk to Kate Flannery, the author of the book Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles, which details her time working at American Apparel in its heyday. We discuss the of the founder of American Apparel Dov Charney, insights into his psychology and her experiences with him, what makes an American Apparel girl, third wave feminism, and "puritanical tribalism."2023-11-2246 min

Meet the Experts from Forbes BooksAuthentic Connections: Building Loyalty Through Digital Content with Callie Hitchcock, Director of Digital StrategyMeet Callie Hitchcock, Director of Digital Strategy at Forbes Books, in the premiere episode of our podcast. Callie is an expert in using digital media to build brand awareness and drive business growth. With experience in journalism, PR, and marketing, Callie crafts compelling stories and impactful campaigns. In this episode, Callie shares insider tips on creating engaging content, reaching your target audience across platforms, and measuring your results. Whether you want to write a book, launch a podcast, or build an online empire, Callie provides inspiration and strategic advice. Learn Callie's approach to digital strategy and how she helps everyone...2023-10-3031 min

STARGIRLEpisode 22: Carrie Bradshaw with Callie HitchcockToday we welcome SATC superfan Callie Hitchcock to opine on the “ambling bravado” of Carrie Bradshaw, the beloved character created by Candace Bushnell in her column at the New York Observer and reimagined in HBO’s Sex and the City. We discuss the evolution of the character from seedy partygirl to prudish romantic, the blurring of Candace/Carrie/Sarah Jessica Parker, and what it means to uphold Carrie as an emblem of New York. Discussed: "Why Sarah Jessica Parker Keeps Playing Carrie Bradshaw," Rachel Syme in The New Yorker "The Diffic...2023-08-101h 13

Dine with Me4: Lucy HitchcockLucy Hitchcock is an entrepreneur, marketeer, wine-enthusiast, and founder of Sassy Digital and Partner in Wine. She started Partner in Wine during lockdown, after a disappointingly warm glass of wine in the park, and soon after had a TikTok she created go viral which totally changed her business overnight. She’s now stocked in Selfridges, and Liberty London, has collaborated with Waitrose, Aldi, Maison Mirabeau, Doughnut Time, Glossybox, Candy Kittens and many more. Lucy continues to use her TikTok to make wine drinking more accessible and fun for the everyday wine drinker, and was recently named on the Natwest x The...2023-05-181h 12 $All in a Day\'s Work$ All in a Day's WorkEpisode 49: Callie Hitchcock, Campside MediaIn this episode, Sarah Rosenthal sits down with Callie Hitchcock, a freelance writer and Associate Producer for Campside Media. Together, they discuss the ups and downs of a freelance career, how she went about building her network, and the ways in which working in podcasting has made her a better journalist. Callie Hitchcock is a writer and graduate of the NYU journalism Master’s degree for Cultural Reporting and Criticism. She has published writing in The Believer, The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, Real Life Magazine, and elsewhere. She is an associate producer at th...2022-12-1522 min

STARGIRLEpisode 05: Alison Roman with Callie HitchcockMeet Alison Roman, the food media disruptress who epitomizes the best and worst of single millennial Brooklyn circa 2018. This week we are joined by Callie Hitchcock, my dear friend and a bona fide Alison Roman scholar, who breaks down the zeitgeist and her own personal investment in Alison as the next great domestic goddess. Articles mentioned: - "Alison Roman Just Can't Help Herself" by Lauren Collins in The New Yorker - "Cooking Outside the Lines: A Conversation with Alison Roman" by Callie!! in LARB Follow Callie on Twitter Read Callie's writing 2022-06-231h 42

Chameleon: Dr. MiracleHollywood Con Queen | 10. Curtain CallFriends, classmates, even prison officials help us assemble a story of the Con Queen suspect that goes all the way back to his childhood. Chameleon has been a production of Campside Media Chameleon was developed, created, and written by Josh Dean and Vanessa Grigoriadis. The Executive Producer is Mark McAdam. The Associate Producer is Abukar Adan. Fact checking by Callie Hitchcock Editorial support by Doug Slawin, Natalia Winkelman, Rod Sherwood, and Ashleyanne Krigbaum. Our technical consultant and disinfo specialist...2020-12-0350 min

Hipster & The NerdRocketship Roulette VI: Highlander/Psycho (1960)There can only be one Norman Bates. Hipster & The Nerd continues its Rocketship Roulette series with one of the most unique duos featured on the segment so far, Highlander and the original Psycho! Join Chris and Brian as they discuss the delightfully over-the-top action, unique premise, and glorious hammy acting of Highlander! Then, listen them to analyze and gush about the intensity and captivating nature of Psycho and what makes the Hitchcock classic one of the greatest films of all time! As a bonus, there's also a breakdown of the X-Men movie timelines attempting t...2020-09-181h 30