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Ru Marshall joins ORdio to talk about their book, American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda. 20 years in the making, American Trickster tells the story of the wild, perplexing life of this New Age, faux anthropologist-turned secretive cult leader.    Carlos Castaneda's first book, The Teachings of Don Juan, was published in the late 1960s. He went on to write a series of books recou...

Rachel Meade Smith joins ORdio to talk about Search Work, her edited anthology about the mundane, tedious and universal process of looking for work. In Search Work, Rachel has collected a trove of personal essays, archival job ads, and poems, sourced from more than fifty contributors. They're reflections on the mundane, turbulent, universal process of looking for work – and how and why the quest f...

David Griscom joins ORdio to talk about his book, The Myth of Red Texas, that reassesses the misconception that Texas has always been a blood-red state.  From fence-cutting cowboys to unionizing timberworkers to Mexican-American socialist pecan farmers, David traces the rich history of the Left in Texas. He shows how Texans' left-wing parties, from the populists to the socialists, organized agains...

Behrooz Ghamari joins ORdio to discuss his new essay collection, The Long War on Iran, that explores the complex dynamics behind the ongoing conflict between the US and Iran.  Behrooz argues that American and Israeli governments have always weaponized the language of human rights to justify aggression against Iran, over decades. Drawing on two decades of political analysis, Behrooz explores the hi...