Read Beat (...and repeat)
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"Sentinel" by Mark Greaney
21 mins; June 24, 2024
"Native Nations" by Kathleen DuVal
28 mins; June 20, 2024
"Bootlegging the Airwaves" by Eleanor Patterson
35 mins; June 10, 2024
"All That Really Matters" by Dr. David Weill
24 mins; June 09, 2024
"The Mind of a Bee" by Lars Chittka
37 mins; May 23, 2024
"Westerns: A Women's History" by Victoria Lamont
32 mins; May 22, 2024
"D-Day Girls" by Sarah Rose
32 mins; May 09, 2024
"A Question of Value" by Robert Brunk
26 mins; April 26, 2024
"Mike Donlin" by Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz
25 mins; April 26, 2024
"Skies of Thunder" by Caroline Alexander
29 mins; April 25, 2024
"Code to Joy" by Michael Littman
21 mins; April 09, 2024
"The Octopus in the Parking Garage" by Rob Verchick
27 mins; April 04, 2024
"Indian Burial Ground" by Nick Medina
19 mins; April 03, 2024
"1898" Edited by Taina Caragol and Kate Clarke Lemay
27 mins; March 13, 2024
"The Rural Voter" by Nicholas Jacobs and Daniel Shea
31 mins; March 05, 2024
"Galloping Gourmet" by Steve Friesen
23 mins; February 29, 2024
"Sleepless: Unleashing the Subversive Power of the Night Self" by Annabel Abbs-Streets
26 mins; February 25, 2024
"The Mathematical Radio" by Paul Nahin
32 mins; February 16, 2024
"The Chaos Agent" by Mark Greaney
22 mins; February 15, 2024
"Living With Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" by Ruth Aylett and Patricia Vargas
26 mins; February 10, 2024
"Beaverland" by Leila Philip
28 mins; January 26, 2024
“A City on Mars” by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
25 mins; January 26, 2024
"Godzilla" and "Godzilla Raids Again" by Shigeru Kayama and translated by Jeffrey Angles
33 mins; January 19, 2024
"Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains" by Bethany Brookshire
30 mins; January 11, 2024
"An American Banker in Paris" by William Engelbrecht and Karl Taylor
33 mins; January 11, 2024
"Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy"
29 mins; January 05, 2024
Read Beat in review--excerpts from 2023
15 mins; December 31, 2023
Interview with Samir "Mr. Magazine" Husni
27 mins; December 22, 2023
"Selling Science Fiction Cinema" by J. P. Telotte
30 mins; December 15, 2023
"The New Nancy" by Jeff Karnicky
38 mins; December 14, 2023
“Driving the Green Book” by Alvin Hall (excerpt)
1 min; December 12, 2023
“Driving the Green Book” by Alvin Hall
21 mins; December 12, 2023
“Look: How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth Century America” by Andrew Yarrow
25 mins; December 03, 2023
"Organic Rising" by Anthony Suau
38 mins; November 25, 2023
"Branding Trust" by Jennifer Black
37 mins; November 25, 2023
"Noir Bar" by Eddie Muller
38 mins; November 03, 2023
"Valiant Women" by Lena Andrews
29 mins; November 01, 2023
"Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature" by Dan Sinykin
24 mins; October 30, 2023
"Picasso's Lovers" by Jeanne Mackin
16 mins; October 27, 2023
"Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter" by Rachel Shteir
22 mins; October 27, 2023
"Will Rogers and His America" by Gary Clayton Anderson
29 mins; October 26, 2023
"The Night Stalker Companion" by Mark Dawidziak
22 mins; October 07, 2023
"The Injustice of Place" by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer and Timothy J. Nelson
24 mins; September 24, 2023
"The Things We Make" by Bill Hammack
22 mins; September 17, 2023
"Beyond Piggly Wiggly" by Lisa Tolbert
35 mins; September 17, 2023
"From Rails to Trails: The Making of America's Active Transportation Network" by Peter Harnik
23 mins; August 29, 2023
"Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years" by Steven Gietschier
25 mins; August 25, 2023
"Agriculture in the Midwest 1815-1900" by R. Douglas Hurt
23 mins; July 24, 2023
“The First Atomic Bomb—The Trinity Site in New Mexico” by Janet Farrell Brodie
19 mins; July 18, 2023
"Back From the Collapse" by Curtis Freese
20 mins; July 17, 2023
"Ballists, Dead Beats and Muffins" by Robert Sampson
24 mins; July 03, 2023
"The First Ladies" by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
22 mins; July 03, 2023
"Ballists, Dead Beats and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois" by Robert Sampson
21 mins; June 29, 2023
"Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" by Josh Shepperd
21 mins; June 25, 2023
"A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe" by Mark Dawidziak
33 mins; June 16, 2023
“Television Finales—‘Howdy Doody’ to ‘Girls’” by Doug Howard and David Bianculli
34 mins; May 26, 2023
"The Influencer Industry" by Emily Hund
19 mins; May 23, 2023
"The West: A New History in 14 Lives" by Naoise Mac Sweeney
18 mins; May 22, 2023
“The First Taste of Freedom” by Robert Turpin
28 mins; May 16, 2023
"The Future is Analog" by David Sax
24 mins; May 15, 2023
"The Magazine Century" by David Sumner and Samir Husni
21 mins; May 11, 2023
"The American Way" by Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler
19 mins; May 02, 2023
"1876: Year of the Gun" by Steve Wiegand
30 mins; April 28, 2023
"Eight Bears" by Gloria Dickie
20 mins; April 26, 2023
"Marking Modern Time" by Alexis McCrossen
33 mins; March 27, 2023
"Untold Power" by Rebecca Roberts
16 mins; March 26, 2023
“The Sunday Paper” by Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele
30 mins; March 18, 2023
"Made in Chicago" by Monica Eng and David Hammond
28 mins; February 28, 2023
"Rural Areas in Transition" by Norm Walzer and Chris Merrett
24 mins; February 23, 2023
“Stone Cold Fox” by Rachel Koller Croft
13 mins; February 22, 2023
"Burner" by Mark Greaney
23 mins; February 17, 2023
“Playground to the Pros” by Jeff Karzen
16 mins; February 08, 2023
“The Great Air Race” by John Lancaster
20 mins; February 01, 2023
Dissertation on the Hell Pig, Vol. 2 with Joe Sawchak
17 mins; January 29, 2023
"Stress-Free Productivity" by Alice Boyes
13 mins; January 28, 2023
"The Good Country" by Jon Lauck
19 mins; January 27, 2023
A Dissertation on the Hell Pig with Scott Foss
27 mins; January 23, 2023
"How to Calm Your Mind" by Chris Bailey
18 mins; January 11, 2023
"The Ascent of Information" by Caleb Scharf
16 mins; January 09, 2023
"Illinois Trails & Traces" by Gary Marx and Dan Overturf
23 mins; January 03, 2023
"The Art of Insubordination" by Todd Kashdan
17 mins; December 21, 2022
"Framers" by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Francis de Vericourt
19 mins; December 17, 2022
"Why We Fight" by Christopher Blattman
15 mins; December 13, 2022
"A Place to Belong" by Amber O'Neill Johnston
15 mins; December 10, 2022
"30 Days of Creativity" by Johanna Basford
11 mins; December 09, 2022
"Influence is Your Superpower" by Zoe Chance
14 mins; December 07, 2022
"Unraveled" by Maxine Bedat
17 mins; December 07, 2022
"The Last King of America" by Andrew Roberts
14 mins; November 29, 2022
"I Didn't Do the Thing Today" by Madeleine Dore
9 mins; November 29, 2022
"Kingdom of Characters" by Jing Tsu
12 mins; November 28, 2022
"No Filter" by Paulina Porizkova
5 mins; November 28, 2022
"Unremembered: Book 2" by Ken Zurski
20 mins; November 28, 2022
"People Get Ready" by Bob McChesney and John Nichols
20 mins; November 27, 2022
"Power Failure" by William Cohan
21 mins; November 20, 2022
"Magic Days" by Nadine Jane
17 mins; November 14, 2022
"Art is Life" by Jerry Saltz
21 mins; November 09, 2022
“You Are More Than Magic” by Minda Harts
16 mins; November 05, 2022
"It's Not TV" by Felix Gillette and John Koblin
13 mins; November 04, 2022
"Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism"
18 mins; October 24, 2022
"Half American" by Matthew Delmont
25 mins; October 20, 2022