Extreme Perspectives | Life in the margins. How myths are made and why some disappear?

So often we focus on future trends. But we forget to look back. To what brought us to this place. We can learn from what has slipped into obscurity and what has stood the test of time.

In this episode of Extreme Perspectives I speak with geological outlier, author, literary editor, and proprietor of many intellectual rabbit holes, Noa Menhaim.

Noa describes herself as the crazy aunt who badgers people with weird and wonderful facts. So she collated all of her tidbits in her new book, The Life Fantastic. Crammed full, the content overflows into the margins. Listen in as we find out how myths are made, why some disappear, and how Noa does research. We’ll talk unicorns, witches, mermaids, and werewolves.

Notepads at the ready…

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

• Buy The Life Fantastic: Myth, History, Pop and Folklore in the Making of Western Culture.
• See reviews for The Life Fantastic.
• Read Noa Menhaim’s blog: From the Nazi’s link to the lost city of Atlantic to the Photogenic fashion of the KKK.

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