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The Back Half Podcast
by Sean Bugg
Politics, books, culture, and LGBTQ issues from award-winning journalist and author of Boy Does World, navigating the back half of life. www.backhalfbugg.com
Episodes
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Landyn Pan: Trans Fitness, Body Image, and Gender Euphoria
Landyn Pan (they/them) is a transmasculine, non-binary fitness and nutrition coach whose mission is to help queer and trans people build strength, confidence, and long-term, positive relationships with their bodies through strength training. After transitioning, Landyn discovered that lifting…
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Growing Up Southern
Born in the South just after the end of Jim Crow, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the legalization of interracial marriage, Sean Bugg and Trey Graham discuss growing up as gay white Southern boys, encountering issues of racism, class, and religion. Sean and Trey both came to Washington,...
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Flashback to Amazing
Welcome to Flashback, where we revisit the age of New Wave science fiction and fantasy — the stories that came after the Golden Age of Science Fiction and before cyberpunk conquered the world. This episode we’re diving into one of the magazines that shaped me as a reader and writer, the famed...
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The Habit of Reading
Some of us caught the bug early, others later in life, but once you fall in love with reading books there’s no going back from a lifetime of stories. But habits do change over time. Perhaps our tastes move from genre page turners to the classics shelf. Maybe the pressures of career and adulthood...
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On the Podcast: How Science Fiction Helped Get Us into this Mess
Don’t have the time to read the newsletter? Here’s the podcast version you can listen to anywhere! And, if you’re more visually inclined, I’m also on YouTube: As they say, like and subscribe! The Back Half is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider...
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Infinite Jest and America's Addictions
In this episode, Marshall Boswell (author of Understanding David Foster Wallace) joins Sean Bugg to talk about Infinite Jest, its enduring place in American literature, Wallace’s position as an avatar of Gen X, and how students today respond to Wallace’s weirdly prophetic novel about American...
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On the Podcast: Space Shuttle Dreams
This episode we Flashback to 1981, when the Space Shuttle first took flight and Analog magazine took a victory lap for science fiction and science fact. Too bad that victory lap included fantasies of a militarized space and winnable nuclear wars. Following that, I outline my personal taxonomy of...
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On the Podcast: Amazing 1981
In this episode, we’re on another Flashback, this time to September 1981 and Amazing Science Fiction Stories. By the late 1970s, the famed first science fiction magazine had hit new lows, cutting costs and corners until it became primarily a magazine of reprints. In 1981, a new editor was at work...
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Amazing Origin Stories
And here we are with the third episode of The Back Half podcast and other episode of “Flashback,” examining the science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing that shaped me as a kid. This time I’m looking at the August 1981 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. I also dig a little deeper in...
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That's a disturbingly sexy L. Ron Hubbard
I’m back with the second episode of The Back Half podcast, this time a "Flashback" to the November 1982 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Content warning: Disturbing mental imagery of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. In other, less fraught topics, I cover the kindly science fiction...
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Ursula K. Le Guin, the Vietnam War, and Me
Welcome to the first episode of The Back Half podcast, kicking off with an audio version of my piece on The Word for World Is Forest for those of you who prefer getting your words aurally. There’s more to come and in the near future I plan to bring in some guests to help expand and explore on…
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How many episodes does The Back Half Podcast have?
The Back Half Podcast currently has 11 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is The Back Half Podcast about?
Politics, books, culture, and LGBTQ issues from award-winning journalist and author of Boy Does World, navigating the back half of life. www.backhalfbugg.com
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Who hosts The Back Half Podcast?
The Back Half Podcast is created and hosted by Sean Bugg.
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