Smarty pants4/16/2023 ![]() Wild, blossoming cherries are native to many diverse lands, from the British Isles and Norway to Morocco and Tunisia. Sheila Liming’s Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing TimeLiming learned a lot about the art of the hang through her time playing in the Catamount Pipe Band and the jam band The ArmadillosRay Oldenburg celebrated all the “third places” where people hang out in The Great Good PlaceYou know what would make hanging out a lot easier? The 15-minute cityPractice doing nothing much with one of these great hangout films Liming, a professor of communications at Champlain College, joins us on the podcast to discuss both what we have to lose by not spending unstructured time together and how we can get it back. ![]() In her new book, Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time, Sheila Liming writes that she’s found herself “an accidental witness to a growing crisis: people struggling to hang out, or else voicing concern and anxiety about how to hang out.” The coronavirus may have heightened this struggle, but its root causes-our increased obsession with our phones, the shrinking of public spaces, widening income inequality, American individualism-predate the pandemic. All of us could probably stand to do more of it, especially if it doesn’t come with a calendar invite. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. Have suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast theamericanscholar org. Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs reports on cutting-edge works in progress long-form narratives and compelling excerpts from new books. troops remain in Iraq, twenty years after the invasionSome of Abdul-Ahad’s illustrations from the book Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long WarRead the anniversary piece Abdul-Ahad wrote for The Guardian: “Guns, cash, and frozen chicken: the militia boss doling out aid in Baghdad”Roughly 2,500 U.S. Punctuating his account are revealing interviews with his fellow Iraqis-Sunni commanders, schoolteachers, old high school friends, insurgents of every stripe-about the war and its effects, which continue to shape life in the region years after the American withdrawal. In his new book, A Stranger in Your Own City, Abdul-Ahad documents the devastation of Baghdad, from the sanctions of the 1990s to the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s fall. Originally trained as an architect, he fell in as a translator with a group of foreign journalists, then as a photographer and war reporter for The Guardian and The Washington Post. On March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, and shortly thereafter, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad became an accidental journalist. ![]()
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