Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo’s AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: Nadia Haddad works in a windowless room in Doha, reviewing what a machine has recorded. A Lebanese-American widow trained in the translation of medieval Andalusian poetry, she now spends her days correcting an artificial intelligence that listens to the phone calls of southern Lebanon […]
Author Archives: Lorenzo
Audiobook 15 – Our Interregnum, Spring 2026
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo’s AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: INTERREGNUM: the space between two orders. The time after the old world has begun to die, and before the new one has found its shape. Written in real time, alongside the events it describes, Our Interregnum is documentary fiction from inside the not-knowing. It […]
Audiobook 14 – KELTON, an anti-war novel
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo’s AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: Kelton, Illinois, is a canning town on the Fox River. Fifteen thousand people. A newspaper that comes out twice a week. A Lutheran church built in 1927. A VFW hall with bad carpet and cold coffee. A high school where the test scores have […]
Audiobook 13 – Coasting Uphill
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo’s AI Friend PROGRAM NOTES: Play Podcast In 1964, a twenty-two-year-old law student mails a letter addressed only to “Alan Villiers, Oxford, England.” Months later, a telegram arrives offering him a berth on a square-rigged sailing ship crossing the Pacific. He says yes. It is the first in a […]
Audiobook 12 – Ink and Thunder: The Soul of the Sixties
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: In the spring of 1964, a narrow bookstore opens on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz. The Hip Pocket Book Store becomes a portal, a sanctuary where language itself awakens, where words hum with the electricity of consciousness expanding. Through the eyes of Eliot, a young witness, […]
Audiobook 11 – Who Decides what the Machine Believes
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo and his AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: BRIEF VIDEOSUMMARY OF THIS BOOK Emma Marchetti is twenty-four years old, earning fifteen dollars an hour clicking through AI responses at a contractor in Austin, Texas. Her job is simple: mark each response as aligned or not aligned, according to guidelines she’s […]
Audiobook 10 – Captain Trips and the Engineer
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Audiobook 09 – Digital Wobblies: Sabotaging the Gig Economy
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo and his AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: Chicago: the city where the IWW was born in 1905, and where, in 1942, the world’s first controlled atomic chain reaction took place. A city of chain reactions: some splitting atoms, others forging solidarity. Moira Kowalski is twenty-six, drowning in debt, and […]
Audiobook 08 – The Diggers
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo’s AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: San Francisco, 1967. Emmett Grogan arrives from New York with forty-three dollars and a lifetime of hustling behind him. What he finds in Golden Gate Park changes everything: activists proving that people can organize around abundance instead of scarcity, gift instead of profit, trust […]
Audiobook 07 – The Floating Poet
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo and his AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: This is the story of Diane di Prima—poet, publisher, revolutionary, and one of the bravest women of the Beat generation. We follow her from a Brooklyn bedroom in the 1950s where she’s burning her college rejection letter, through smoky Village lofts where […]