![]() ![]() ![]() I also founded the Incarcerated Writer’s Initiative at Columbia, and continue to serve as an advisor.īefore relocating to New York, I lived in Chicago for almost a decade, where I worked at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, wrote about social practice art and the history of Chicago, and lectured on Hull-House, Jane Addams, historic house museums, and innovative curatorial practice at historic sites. I have an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia University, where I now teach creative writing. You can read more about it and order it here. The New York Times called it a “carefully researched and reported work of cultural history” and The Washington Post declared it “entertaining and wise.” Butts was named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Time, and Publisher’s Weekly, and was one of Amazon’s Top 20 Books of the Year. My first book, Butts: A Backstory came out in November 2022. ![]() A few of my favorites pieces of writing include this one about girls who love horses, this one about fly-fishing and gender, and this one about utopian jumpsuits. Spanning nearly two centuries, this vivid cultural history takes us from the performance halls of 19th-century London to the aerobics studios of the 1980s, the music video set of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back and the. I also write essays, criticism, and reported pieces for The Paris Review Daily, The Believer, Guernica, Topic, Longreads, The White Review, and others. In Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out. I’m a Contributing Editor and Reporter at Radiolab, the Peabody-award winning podcast from WNYC. ![]()
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