Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

565 - John Colapinto (Author/Journalist/Sophisticated Gentleman)

May 26, 2023

01:36:08

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Episode notes

Introduction

6min

How to Talk to John Colopinto

3min

The Elephant Desk: A Balanced Retreat

6min

The Interpreter by John Colopinto

4min

The Best Prank I've Ever Pulled

3min

The Importance of Being a Good Guy

3min

The Puritan in Me

5min

The Importance of Normal Conversations

2min

The Pinahaha People in the Amazon Basin

2min

10.

The Monolingual Tribe in the Amazon

4min

11.

The Fear of Flying Into Untrampled Ground

3min

12.

The Importance of Language

5min

13.

The Pitaan and the Evolution of Language

2min

14.

The Pita Han and the Red Boat on the Shore

4min

15.

The Legend of the Balsa Wood Float Plane

4min

16.

Bridging the Golf: The Unexpected Thing About Women

2min

17.

Nisa and ISA

4min

18.

The Importance of Living With the Tribe

5min

19.

Kenneth Goode's Prank on the Yanomami

3min

20.

The Pita Han's Journey to Learning the Language

3min

21.

Tom Waits and the Navajos

3min

22.

The New Yorker's Dan and Dorothy Wickenton

2min

23.

The New Yorker's Story on Medical Leeches

4min

24.

The Reflexive Tip of My Fingers Instinct

4min

25.

The Importance of Accepting Your Perspective

4min

26.

The Importance of Vitality in Writing

5min

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John Colapinto has written two novels, About the Author (2001) and Undone (2015). In 2000, he published As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (2000), about the tragic case of David Reimer, who had undergone a sex change as an infant after a medical mishap.