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 E25 Brave New World – Resistance Reads

Michael Kilman and Matt Wellstrom take on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the dystopian classic of test-tube babies, Soma, and a society engineered for pleasure and stability. We cover Huxley's life and the plagiarism controversies around the novel, the Fordism and mass media that shaped it, and a full summary of the story of Bernard, Lenina, Helmholtz, and John the Savage. Then we ask why this 1930s novel predicted so much of our world: consumerism as control, eugenics, the social media panopticon, influencer culture, and a spectacle no one can escape. Next up for Halloween: Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.

1. Resistance Reads Podcast E25 Brave New World 01:07:40
2. Resistance Reads Podcast E24: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 54:10
3. Resistance Reads Podcast E23 Their Eyes Were Watching God 01:25:45
4. Special Episode: Resistance Reels Episode 1 Andor Season 1 01:23:04
5. Resistance Reads Podcast E22 The House on the Cerulean Sea 01:17:20
6. Resistance Reads Podcast E21 Lord of Light 01:44:56
7. Resistance Reads Podcast E20 Lovecraft Country 01:35:05
8. Resistance Reads Podcast E19 Paradise Lost 01:20:50
9. Resistance Reads E18 A Gentleman in Moscow 01:34:29
10. Resistance Reads Podcast E17 Let the Right One In 01:09:04