The creator of the "Desert Oracle" magazine and radio show talks about the magic, myth and mystique of the Mojave, and what the raw, wild beauty of the desert reveals about the contrasts within California.
Ken Layne is the creator of Desert Oracle magazine and Desert Oracle Radio.
I like a mythological landscape, you know? If you can figure out how to live in a landscape like that–at least for my temperament–that’s everything.
Notes and references from this episode:
@KenLayne - Ken Layne on Twitter
Desert Oracle magazine - home page
Desert Oracle Radio - home page
Desert Oracle Radio - Apple Podcasts
Desert Oracle Vol. 1 - MCD/Picador
Robinson Jeffers - Poetry Foundation
The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Austin
Art Bell - Radio Hall of Fame
“Out in the wild: how Ken Layne created an alternative to clickbait in the desert,” by Dominic Rushe, The Guardian
Ambrose Bierce - Wikipedia
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