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Thecuriousmanspodcast

Jul 24, 2018

In this interview Matt Crawford speaks to Jonathan Green the author of Sex, Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood and Betrayal. This is the story of the crack epidemic playing out in the projects of the Bronx from the perspectives of both the dealers and the cops. Green takes a deep dive into the history of the projects...


Jul 17, 2018

In this episode Matt Crawford talks to Stacy Horn about her new book Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th-Century New York. Known today as Roosevelt Island, Blackwell's Island in the early 19th century was home to an insane asylum, two prisons, an almshouse and a number of hospitals. The atrocities that...


Jul 10, 2018

In this episode Matt Crawford talks with New York Times best selling author Mark Adams about his new book Tip of the Iceberg: My 3000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, The Last Great American Frontier. Mark Adams blends travel and history in an exciting and informative book that you will thoroughly enjoy. Adams traces...


Jul 3, 2018

In this episode Matt Crawford interviews New York Time best selling author Carl Hoffman about his book The Last Wild Men of Borneo. In this unbelievable story two men from different sides of the world end up in the jungles of Bali searching for fulfillment. Two men on different paths that converge in a story that reads...