Travel memoir lab: How your journeys can inspire fictional adventure stories
Sep 7, 2026 - 00:47:39
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Society & Culture
Kansas Never Plays Itself: How movies lie when they take us places
In this feature-length video essay that explores the role places play in storytelling, Rolf examines how Kansas -- his home state -- has been imagined, distorted, and mythologized in cinema and television for more than a...
Related Episodes
Continue listening to more episodes from Deviate with Rolf Potts.
Best of Travel: Paul Theroux on the necessary obstacles of meaningful journeys
Aug 4, 2026 - 00:51:41
The geography of sports movies (with Chuck Klosterman and Michael Weinreb)
Jul 3, 2026 - 00:58:13
Designing a creative life on your own terms (with Cedar Van Tassel)
Jun 2, 2026 - 00:53:48
What movies (do and don't) show us about places before we travel there
May 5, 2026 - 00:42:02
Exploring the idiosyncrasies of male friendship, with Andrew McCarthy
Apr 8, 2026 - 00:51:24
Debunking the mythology of BEFORE SUNRISE, with co-writer Kim Krizan (in Paris)
Mar 10, 2026 - 00:37:52
Super Bowl special: Why football kind of matters, with Chuck Klosterman (kind of)
Feb 5, 2026 - 00:45:51