Twice 5 Miles Radio with James Navé
Twice 5 Miles Radio is a podcast devoted to candid, often surprising conversations with artists, thinkers, and cultural instigators who have something to say.
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The Muse Is In with author and creativity coach Jill Badonsky (opens the original)
Politics of the Dog Park with James Navé (opens the original)
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Politics isn't just Washington — it's the dog park, the gas pump, and the in-laws down the hall. James Navé goes solo this week. Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I'm your host, James Navé. This week I go solo to ask what politics actually means once you set aside Washington and look at the rest of life. The word conjures conflict and right- and left-wing camps, but I trace it instead through dog parks, Miss Manners' etiquette, and the small, constant negotiations — and quiet shames — that hold an
Hippy Wars: Some Things Are Worth Fighting For with author Celia Gregory (opens the original)
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Celia Gregory on the sixties' hidden contradiction — a movement built on peace that was, underneath, a generation at war with its own inheritance. Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I'm your host, James Navé. This week: novelist Celia Gregory, whose new book Hippie Wars turns the peace-and-love sixties inside out, tracing how a generation's mobility, drugs, and communes were shadowed by Vietnam, the draft, and inherited trauma. Gregory, raised in London and steeped in yoga, Osho, and marine conserv
Imaginative Intelligence and Other Delights (opens the original)
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Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I'm your host, James Navé. I'm going solo this week to talk about a subject my creative collaborator, Allegra Huston, and I have spent five years mapping: imaginative intelligence, the improvisational faculty I believe everyone is born with, running beneath conscious thought, the way a heartbeat runs beneath a life. I lay out the imaginative storm methodology Huston and I built over two decades of teaching writing together, and draw a sharp line against artificial
The Feast of Losses with poet Lorrie Wolfe (opens the original)
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From a pandemic elegy for three billion lost birds to a villanelle written live on air, Lorrie Wolfe on grief, precision, and the discipline of fourteen lines. Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I'm your host James Navé. This week, poet Lorrie Wolfe joins me to talk about the discipline behind the spark — how a stray line overheard on the radio, or a friend's invented word, becomes a finished poem. Wolfe, author of "The Language of Crows," explains why she works in sonnets and other tight forms, tr
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