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The Blind Dog and Other Radio Stories: A Conversation With Scott Carrier

Shane Epping.

Peabody-winner Scott Carrier is a master of both personal and political radio. He talks about the importance of bearing witness, about telling difficult stories, spinning tales of human oddness, and about the reporter’s responsibility to challenge power structures. The interview took place in front a live audience in Columbia, Missouri (September 2016). Interviewer: Julija Šukys.

You can hear Scott Carrier’s work at http://homebrave.com/

Julija Šukys is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she teaches the writing of creative nonfiction. She is the author of Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (Nebraska, 2007) and Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimait? (Nebraska, 2012), winner of the 2013 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature. Šukys is the co-founder of the Missouri Audio Project.