Hamish McKenzie

The Active Voice

Arts EN ↓ 27 episodes

The internet is conditioning our minds and influencing the global consciousness in ways that we are only beginning to understand – and writers are on the front lines. In The Active Voice, Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie talks to great writers about how they are reckoning with the challenges of the social media moment, how they find the space for themselves to create great literature and journalism despite the noise, and how to make a living amid the economic volatility of the 2020s. post.substack.com

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Hamish McKenzie

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The Active Voice: George Saunders thinks you should watch your mind 20.10.2022 1:06:15

A couple of days after I interviewed George Saunders for the first episode of this podcast, I caught up on some of his recent posts on Story Club , his writing-focused Substack. In “ A Lost Speech, Found ,” he wrote about rediscovering the script for a graduation speech he had given many years ago. The speech would earn him a reputation as “The Kindness Guy.” “If the question ‘How should I live’...

Introducing The Active Voice, a new podcast about writing and the internet 20.10.2022 1:02

Welcome to The Active Voice , a new podcast with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie about how great writers reckon with the only thing in the last 17,000 years to challenge the technological supremacy of writing: the internet. Through these conversations, we’ll explore how the world’s most important stories are told in a time when social media has come to dominate our minds and attention. Today,...