Jessa speaks with Mikita Brottman, author of An Unexplained Death, about the new "true crime" wave and what it says about its mostly female audience.

Jessa speaks with author Nancy L Green about the limits of transnationalism. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa and special guest Margaret Howie discuss the latest developments in the Epstein scandal, all of the married men who have been caught in his company, and the wives that stand by them. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Solo ep! Jessa shares her thoughts about the role of the writer. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Astrology is booming, so now feels like the perfect time to speak with Amelia Quint about the current state of Astrology and how things are changing now that it has entered the mainstream. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa speaks with dear friend and returning guest Jennifer Porto about happiness whether it exists, how social media tries to take it away from us, and whether happiness creates complacency. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

In an exclusive bonus episode pulled from the Public Intellectual Patreon, Jessa and Eileen G'Sell discuss the older woman/younger man romantic storyline in film. More episodes just like this if you subscribe to the Public Intellectual Patreon page (see below for link!) -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa speaks with Clare Chambers, author of Against Marriage, about a marriage-free state. What would a state that does not prioritize and privilege one form of relationship look like? -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa sits down with critic and art historian, Ian Bourland, to discuss Guns n' Roses, of course! They talk Axel Rose, his legacy, and whether he would be an acceptable figure in today's music scene. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa speaks with writer Yasmin Nair about the state of criticism, what it means for criticism to be dead, and what the changing relationship is between those who make and those who have opinions. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

As several states pass legislation to block access to abortion services, Robin Martys book Handbook For Post-Roe America is an essential purchase. Jessa speaks with Robin about the dire state of abortion rights and what comes next. -- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa sits down with Leah Munsey to discuss The Paper Machete, a bi-weekly show at the Green Mill in Chicago, what its like to run the show, and how to balance the desire for stability/financial solvency while also preserving the uniqueness of what Paper Machete is. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa speaks with Ben Miller, one half of "Bad Gays," a podcast about evil and complicated gay men in history, about uncovering the darker side of gay history and the limits of identity politics. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa sits down with Jennifer Porto to discuss American hostility to art, how this hostility becomes systemic due to lack of eduction and understanding of arts value, and what it means to separate yourself from that environment and live a life devoted to art. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa speaks with Sarah Lazare and Jessica Stites of In These Times Magazine about what we do now that Mueller has not saved everyone and the big distraction of Russia-gate is over. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Today's episode is a re-release of one of our favorite episodes: "Witchcraft Capitalism" (w/ Katelan Foisy) from October 12, 2017. --- There is a strong market for witchcraft these days. As practices such as astrology, tarot, crystals, and herbal medicine enter the mainstream, the use of witchcraft to sell stuff has increased dramatically. Jessa sits down with writer, artist, and witch, Katelan Foisy, to discuss what happens when a serious religious practice becomes commodified. Katelan Foisy is a multimedia artist, writer, and witch. Her fine art pieces have been displayed at The Worcester Art Museum, Ohio History Museum, MODA, WEAM, A&D Gallery, and Last Rights. She has graced the pages of the Grammy Award programs and the stage of Cynthia von Buhler's immersive historical plays "Speakeasy Dollhouse" and "The Brothers Booth." Katelan has been featured in NY Times, Elle magazine, Paper Magazine, GQ Italy, Time Out NY, and many othersfor her work both as an artist, curator and occultist. She has written for Motherboard/VICE, Electric Literature, Luna Luna, ERIS magazine, and COILHOUSE. She is co-owner of London Conjure with Sister Enable in the UK. She was called a Female Jack Kerouac by Taylor Mead and a Modern Day Francesca Woodman by Cynthia von Buhler. William Patrick Corgan has said, "They used to burn witches like Katelan." SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access bonus content, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/publicintellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCASThttp://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa sits down with Barbara Bourland to discuss envy, especially in the writing community. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

What does it take to start a new publication in this era, particularly an altweekly? Jessa sits down with Brandon Soderberg, who is helping to revive the Baltimore Beat, about what altweeklies provide that other media outlets don't and how to create a sustainable community in this era of free news, fake news, and all the rest. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Glenn Close occupies an interesting place in American cinema and the feminist imagination. Jessa speaks with author Suzanne Leonard about her, the role of women in film, and whether this role has gotten better (or not). --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa speaks with poet Alexis Aceves Garcia about how class, education, and diversity issues in the publishing world create a hostile environment for writers who arent of a certain race, educational background, and/or socioeconomic reality. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

What can a city and a tenant do in order to prevent a population, neighborhood, or ethnicity from being displaced? Jessa speaks with head of the Kansas City Eviction Project, Tara Raghuveer, about why there is a lot of available housing in Kansas City, but for some reason, evictions, rents, and housing prices are going up.--- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa speaks with Joseph Fischel, author of Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice, to talk about the word "consent" and how to think about bad sex in a more complex way. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa speaks with Randy Shaw, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and author of new book Generation Priced Out: Who Will Live In The New Urban America?, about the limited conversations surrounding the housing crisis and the tendency to think about these problems as inevitable.---SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectualPLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCASThttp://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Jessa sits down with Briallen Hopper to talk about spinsters and what it's like to live a life that is not the cultural expectation.---SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectualPLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCASThttp://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

The 2018 Daphne Award presentation is here! The only award show that revisits fiction & non-fiction works published 50 years ago to determine what ACTUALLY should have been celebrated as "the best." Jessa and special guest Margaret Howie discuss what was interesting in literature in 1967 (we know the math doesn't add up, just go with it), what was overlooked, what lasted, and what's embarrassing about what won all those years ago. --- SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access BONUS CONTENT, EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, SHOW NOTES, MERCH and more: www.Patreon.com/PublicIntellectual PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/