Ep. 78: Jamil Zaki & Michael Nye

TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books Podcast

A night spent drinking and writing about his parents' divorce uncovered an urgent need in Stanford professor Jamil Zaki to author THE WAR FOR KINDNESS: BUILDING EMPATHY IN A FRACTURED WORLD. He and James talk about how empathy can literally grow parts of the brain, hating the term hard-wired, facing the problems of the world today, and (sigh) STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. Plus Michael Nye returns to talk about reviving and relaunching STORY.

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Jamil Zaki: https://profiles.stanford.edu/jamil-zaki

Buy THE WAR FOR KINDNESS: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451499240

Jamil and James discuss:

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION

Deanna Troi

The Good Samaritan

Princeton

Manchester United

Liverpool

Allen Iverson

Bill Nye

Borderlinks

Life After Hate

WRECK-IT RALPH

Contact Theory

Angela King

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Defensive dehumanization

Amanda Cook

Gareth Cook

Bread Loaf Writer's Conference

Carl Sagan

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Michael Nye: http://mpnye.com/

Subscribe to STORY: https://www.storymagazine.org/

Michael and James discuss:

STORY

Lee K. Abbott

Travis Kurowski

AWP Conference

Dave Housley

BARRELHOUSE

MISSOURI REVIEW

RIVER STYX

BOULEVARD

HUNGER MOUNTAIN

ONE STORY

PLOUGHSHARES

"Nude" By Claudia Hinz

"World's End" by Clare Beams

Valerie Cumming

Ohio State

"Amputation of the Angels" by Kyle Minor

LaTanya McQueen

Shanie Latham

THE PARIS REVIEW

THE KENYON REVIEW

BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

Anne Valente

Michael Croley

COLUMBUS ALIVE

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