Jun 21, 2022
For the ninth episode of Drafting the Past, I interviewed historian and novelist Nishant Batsha about his debut novel, Mother Ocean Father Nation (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2022). We talked about the connections between his training as a historian and his work as a novelist, the bad habits he had to break from academia, and...
Jun 7, 2022
Host Kate Carpenter interviews geographer and historian Elizabeth Hennessy about her first book, On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden (Yale, 2019). We talk about bringing a wide variety of sources and approaches together in a book, how she made Darwin funny, and the...