The Cold Millions is something of a hybrid text—fiction, yes, but also history. Combining imaginative storytelling with the lives of real, historical figures, Jess Walter has written a captivating story of Spokane, Washington, a place-based history of the region’s labor movements and of the free speech riots in the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the twentieth century.

In the second of their two-part conversation , host Lauren Korn and author and cultural critic Anne Helen Petersen continue their chat about Anne’s newest book, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation , from research methodology and mutual aid to hope in the time of COVID.

This week for Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read “ Elegy for the Disappeared ,” by Forrest Gander, which was written in collaboration with Kay Rosen (see “Phantom Limb”). The poem was originally published with the Shelter in Poems initiative on poets.org .

This week for Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read "Hey Nonny Nonny," by Canadian poet Sue Sinclair.

This week for Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read "Winter Field," by former University of Montana professor Joanna Klink. This poem was published both in the Boston Review and in her collection, Circadian , out from Penguin Poets.

This week for Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read "Then I Slept," by Heidi Seaborn.

In the first of a two-part conversation, author and cultural critic Anne Helen Petersen chats about the generational evolution of burnout and the challenges of the gig economy, which she writes about in her newest book, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.

This week for Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read "A River Is," by Jory Mickelson .

This week for Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read "Devotional (after a Muslim Prayer)," by Philip Metres. This poem is the winner of the 2016 Poetry Society of American Lyric Award.

This week for Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read "The Iron," by Ed Skoog , which can be found in his latest book Travelers Leaving for the City and online in Poetry Daily .