Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Arlie R. Hochschild, author most recently of Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right, published in September by the new press and a finalist for the National Book Award.

Her previous works include The Outsourced Self, The Unexpected Community, So How’s The Family and Other Essays, The Managed Heart and many others.


Each of these and her other work focuses in good part on emotions and how the control of those emotions or the direction of each, helps to create the everyday world we live in and drives the stressors and motivation and motivates each of us as we live our workaday lives.


Strangers In Their Own Land is about as timely a book as you could imagine. It rides the swell of alt-right anger and mourning and comes close to an expression of the phenomenon that we find ourselves immersed in today as we speak. And dependent on whether you are one of those strangers, or an alt-left like me, you are either ebullient and feel that you are ready for the zombie apocalypse.

With that Arlie, welcome and thanks so much for joining us today.