Michael Washburn

Michael Washburn is a Brooklyn-based writer and journalist. He is the author of the short story collections Scenes from the Catastrophe (2016), The Uprooted and Other Stories (2018), When We're Grownups (2019), and Stranger, Stranger (2020). Michael's story "Confessions of a Spook" won Causeway Lit's 2018 fiction contest.

Reading the Globe #006: Morocco Hearts Israel, Australia Lockdowns, Surfside Whistleblower, Port Chicago Revisited

Reading the Globe #006: Morocco Hearts Israel, Australia Lockdowns, Surfside Whistleblower, Port Chicago Revisited

Michael Washburn July 30, 2021

Press play to hear this AudioHopper Original podcast or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. One of...

Reading the Globe #005: Voter suppression California style, Weinstein undone, Hawley takes on Alien

Reading the Globe #005: Voter suppression California style, Weinstein undone, Hawley takes on Alien

Michael Washburn July 22, 2021

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Reading the Globe #004: Goldman Sachs’ low starting pay, Homeless New Yorkers in hotels, a Mayan ambassador

Reading the Globe #004: Goldman Sachs’ low starting pay, Homeless New Yorkers in hotels, a Mayan ambassador

Michael Washburn July 20, 2021

Press play to hear this AudioHopper Original podcast or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. People generally...

Reading the Globe #003: Lebanon implodes, Dutch journalist Peter de Vries assassinated, Portugal’s uneven Covid protocols

Reading the Globe #003: Lebanon implodes, Dutch journalist Peter de Vries assassinated, Portugal’s uneven Covid protocols

Michael Washburn July 16, 2021

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Reading the Globe #002: Robinhood’s bad week, Woke Corporate America, Nauru poses PC dilemma, Quebec nationalists

Reading the Globe #002: Robinhood’s bad week, Woke Corporate America, Nauru poses PC dilemma, Quebec nationalists

Michael Washburn July 1, 2021

Press play to hear this AudioHopper Original podcast or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Welcome to...

Reading the Globe #001: Hong Kong Crackdown, Spielberg on Netflix, Eric Adams on the verge in NYC

Reading the Globe #001: Hong Kong Crackdown, Spielberg on Netflix, Eric Adams on the verge in NYC

Michael Washburn June 24, 2021

Press play to hear this AudioHopper Original podcast or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Introducing Reading...