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042 Taran Khan: Shadow City (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.com Taran Khan is an Indian writer who lives in London. She’s the author of Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul , an appreciation of Kabul drawn from her years there from 2006 to 2013. The book peels back layers of Afghanistan’s history, from the Mughal empire, the British colonial period, the two phases of Taliban rule, and U.S. and NATO occupation after 9/11. We talk about Kabul’s fragile public library as we
041 Vanessa Fabiano: Chinese on the Beach (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.com Vanessa Fabiano is a writer and businesswoman who spent time in China, off and on, over nine years from 1994. Her debut collection of stories, Chinese on the Beach , is a remarkably vivid series of portraits of Chinese as well as expatriate life in Shanghai and Beijing during the boom decade of the ’90s, when the government loosened its economic controls and set a huge number of cultural changes in motio
040 Isaac Fitzgerald: American Rambler (opens the original)
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Isaac Fitzgerald follows the path of Johnny Appleseed, or actually John Chapman, the real nineteenth-century pioneer from Massachusetts who traced Indian footpaths and planted apple trees as far west as Illinois. As we discuss in this episode, I have my own reasons for being fascinated by Johnny Appleseed, but from AMERICAN RAMBLER you’ll learn a lot about the man, as opposed to the myth, and a lot about the myth, and a lot about Midwestern history, and a lot about Fitzgerald’s own family and pa
039 Saumya Roy: Homelessness in America (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.com Saumya Roy is a journalist and author of Castaway Mountain , about a garbage mountain in Mumbai and the people who earn their livelihoods from it. For a new anthology of essays she has a piece about the state of homelessness in San Francisco. The anthology is called How We See It: The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump, and I encourage you to pick up a copy, because it features twelve internation
038 Scott Hulet: Flow Violento (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.com Scott Hulet is the longtime, formative editor of The Surfer’s Journal , a magazine focused on the art and adventure of surfing rather than its klieg-lit industry. Flow Violento is a collection of his pieces from around Latin America, and the title derives from a phrase in Cuban slang that translates, roughly, to “amazing style.” We talk about surfing Ecuador, about “Shipwrecks” in northern Baja, about a
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