I’ve guest starred on a number of podcasts over the years, but here are original podcasts that I host or cohost. If you love books and deep conversations about them, you may just love what we do.

If you’re looking for writing specific podcasts and con panel recordings, check out the links over at the page Writing & Writing Advice.

Resistance Reads

Literature is a conversation about the human experience. One important facet of that experience is the relationship between power and resistance. In this podcast, Matt Wellstrom and Michael Kilman explore a variety of works of literature pursing questions about the nature of power and how people live with, or fight back against systems of power. So far we’ve covered books such as 1984, V for Vendetta, The Ministry for the Future, and Passing. Our discussions are grounded in social science, history, law, philosophy, and activism.

Episodes are initially livestreamed on YouTube and we love audience questions and thoughts. A few days after the livestream, episodes go up on all your favorite platforms. Come join us at the next livestream here! or listen to the replay of past episodes here.

Resistance Reads Podcast E16 Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut – Resistance Reads

Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night follows an American playwright who becomes one of the most effective Nazi propagandists of World War II — while secretly working as an American spy. But here's the question the book forces you to sit with: does the spying matter if the propaganda worked? Michael Kilman and Matt Wellstrom explore the psychology of propaganda, the Nuremberg trials, why satire fails against fascism, the relationship between art and political resistance, and what Vonnegut's darkest novel has to say about the world right now. You are what you pretend to be. So what does that mean when what you're pretending to be is a Nazi? 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at https://loridianslaboratory.podbean.com/ 📺 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ResistanceReadsPodcast 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/resistancereadspodcast/

1. Resistance Reads Podcast E16 Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut 01:15:15
2. Resistance Reads Podcast: Episode 15: James by Percival Everett 01:27:50
3. Resistance Reads Podcast Episode 14: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 01:20:30
4. Resistance Reads Podcast Episode 13: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter 01:30:20
5. Resistance Reads Podcast: Episode 12 Heavenly Tyrant 01:25:05
6. Resistance Reads Podcast Episode 11: Babel by R.F. Kuang 01:50:15
7. Resistance Reads Episode 10: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (1818 edition) 01:49:56
8. Episode 9 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao 01:21:55
9. Episode 8 Black Empire by George S Schuyler 01:16:25
10. Episode 7 It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis 01:17:53