Anne Strainchamps

Host of @TTBOOK from @PRX/@WPR. Book addict, corgi lover, pub radio lifer.

[Anne Strainchamps @Strainchamps]

@kristinj77 @petersagal @TTBOOK Thank you so much! I’m honored. As you can tell, I tend to avoid Twitter etc- complicated reasons but mostly, I’ve never figured out how to feel genuine on social media. Gratuitously generous and kind comments like yours make me think it might worth trying.

[WPR @WPR]

.@theblackpanther movies have sparked dialogue and critique about how Hollywood tells stories about Africa. Given the chance, how do Africans tell stories about their own imagined future? And how might the story be different? | @TTBOOK https://t.co/1l9aboKfkY

[Alissa Quart @lisquart]

Clips from the second season of Going for Broke are now up. I produced w/the excellent @shannonkleiber & the wonderful team @TTBOOK. A new collab @econhardship podcast, again with the amazing @RaySuarezNews & many other great guests @maiasz https://t.co/Vl9Tme7rSe Listen up!

[To The Best Of Our Knowledge @TTBOOK]

This week: We talk with poets and novelists about how they deeply notice the historical time we live in — through their words and voice. https://t.co/VmQlZ4LLy6

With @ilya_poet, @BernardineEvari, @salmanrushdie & scholar Christopher Benfey

[Anne Strainchamps @Strainchamps]

@MarkOnFire @TTBOOK @ilya_poet And comforting

[To The Best Of Our Knowledge @TTBOOK]

Happy #EarthDay! Celebrate kincentric thinking with our plant, animal and mineral kin in these interviews that @humansandnature and our team have gathered in our Kinship series. https://t.co/vvtRcn38NE

[Anne Strainchamps @Strainchamps]

@TTBOOK @humansandnature So proud of our Kinship series! Some truly inspiring voices gathered here - interviews that feel like a blessing.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

My God. 1939.

[Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya]

I've translated a fascinating report by the very well-sourced Russian journalist @faridaily_ about what senior Russian officials think of the invasion. Haven't seen this kind of information anywhere else. https://t.co/IxhqnrGdb3

[Anne Strainchamps @Strainchamps]

Our brief on @TTBOOK is not to cover the news but to balance it - intellectually, psychologically, spiritually. This week’s show is for all of us who’ve been consumed by the war in Ukraine. Share "The Tangled Roots of War and Peace" https://t.co/IfX1TzvaEc via @ttbook

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

Nine days since the Russian conquest of Ukraine began. The potential encirclement of Kyiv is the focus of my 9th daily thread. 1/25 (Image via @Osinttechnical)

[Anne Strainchamps @Strainchamps]

@hhavrilesky I think the main battle in our culture/world is against simplification and polarization. We are so susceptible to binary goid/bad narratives. They’re our catnip. Our addiction. Our failing. So f course your nuanced, amused portrait of human complication is being misrepresented.

[Rob Lee @RALee85]

The best thing the US can do to help Ukraine is to convince Putin that de-escalation is a less costly and risky option for him than continuing the war. Calling for regime change or assassination does the opposite.

[Anne Strainchamps @Strainchamps]

This beautiful, profound thread- how hard it is to report with love and truth. Most of us can’t even bear to examine ourselves this closely.

[Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya]

A short thread that's very difficult to write.

Those of us with friends, loved ones, or colleagues in Ukraine — or who are simply in love with the country — have been in a state of continual heartbreak for weeks, and especially in the last few days as Russian atrocities mount.

[Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya]

A short thread that's very difficult to write.

Those of us with friends, loved ones, or colleagues in Ukraine — or who are simply in love with the country — have been in a state of continual heartbreak for weeks, and especially in the last few days as Russian atrocities mount.

[Anne Strainchamps @Strainchamps]

I’m told not to look up the playwright or play in advance. You know how hard that is for a journalist? Looking stuff up is my life.

[To The Best Of Our Knowledge @TTBOOK]

On 3/11, @Strainchamps is taking part in an interesting experiment — she'll meet Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour on stage to perform from an unseen script, delivered to the stage sealed in a box.

Tickets and info @OvertureCenter in Madison: https://t.co/EftrnsRBFy

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

Please take note of how dramatically Twitter has changed since the freezing of Russian assets. Suddenly all those anti-Biden “American patriots” have disappeared.

[Anne Strainchamps @Strainchamps]

“We’ve been at war for 8 years. We just didn’t know it.”

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Ok. Deep breath.

I think we may look back on this as the first Great Information War. Except we're already 8 years in.

The first Great Information War began in 2014. The invasion of Ukraine is the latest front. And the idea it doesn't already involve us is fiction, a lie.
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[Anne Strainchamps @Strainchamps]

Heartening as it is, the ubiquitous universal condemnation of Russia/Putin is making me very very nervous.

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

My translation of Maxim Osipov’s honest, self-interrogating piece on the consequences of this war for Russia, Russians, and the Russian language is now up @LAReviewofBooks: https://t.co/FSagt4XU3C