All Episodes

The geography of sports movies (with Chuck Klosterman and Michael Weinreb)

Designing a creative life on your own terms (with Cedar Van Tassel)

What movies (do and don’t) show us about places before we travel there

Talking about sense of place and “Kansas Never Plays Itself” on Yonder Radio

Exploring the idiosyncrasies of male friendship, with Andrew McCarthy

Debunking the mythology of BEFORE SUNRISE, with co-writer Kim Krizan (in Paris)

Super Bowl special: Why football kind of matters, with Chuck Klosterman (kind of)

Time is your truest form of wealth (and travel helps you embrace your riches)

Kansas Never Plays Itself: How movies lie when they take us places

Traveling as a writer, and awkward book-tour experiences, with Anthony Doerr (from 2012)

A new film, shot in Kansas, aims to show what is possible for women’s artistic voices in rural America

KCUR “Central Standard” radio interview with Rolf

Raising My Parents in Mongolia

Super Bowl Exile

Anthem Soul

The baksheesh diaries