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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
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Landfall No. 3: HISS HISS HISS (opens the original)
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BLUE LIGHT LOUNGE: SUMMER SLEEP (opens the original)
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American Triage: From 9/11 to Fahrenheit 451 (opens the original)
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This week on Wake Island, we spoke with Adam Axler, author of American Triage: From 9/11 to Fahrenheit 451, a memoir about more than two decades inside American emergency medicine. Adam was a paramedic at Ground Zero and went on to spend years working in emergency rooms before walking away from healthcare and into another life, selling and collecting vintage science fiction books. What’s strange is that I’m moving in the opposite direction, a choice I’m still not sure is a smart one to be making
Landfall No. 2: Promenade (opens the original)
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Falling Out of the Frame with Gideon Jacobs (opens the original)
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Our guest today is Gideon Jacobs , a writer, performer and artist. I actually met Gideon over ten years ago when he was the creative director at Magnum and I was a photo editor at TIME. We were both working inside institutions built around photography and the idea that images, however complicated and subjective, had some direct claim on reality. It’s surreal to reconnect now, at a moment when that whole photographic relationship is imploding. Gideon recently wrote an essay for Spike, “ All Image
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