Writing and Audio
Shannon’s Books
On My Honor: Real Life Lessons From America’s First Girl Scout, Sourcebooks
The Dinner Club: How the Masters of the Internet Universe Rode the Rise and Fall of the Greatest Boom in History, The Free Press/Simon & Schuster
Shannon has written hundreds of stories for newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post, The New York Times, American Banker, TechCapital, Washington Technology, Edible Madison and The Christian Science Monitor.
Selected Interviews by Shannon airing on To The Best Of Our Knowledge:
Poetry, Writing and Art
“Docupoetry” with Philip Metres and Suncere Ali Shakur
“Welcome to My Crossworld” with Anna Shechtman
“Reclaiming Journalism in a Fast-Changing Landscape” with Deborah Blum
“‘All Writing is Political’: On Tenacity, Growing Up Black and British, and Winning the Booker Prize” with Bernardine Evaristo
“A Physician-Poet Bears Witness to the Pandemic’s Lost Voices” with Rafael Campo
“A Sonnet for a Lineworker” with Rodrigo Toscano
“What to Do with an Arrow in Your Heart” with Alice Walker
“A Dreaming Mind, Illustrated” with Roz Chast
“The Painting Tells a Story: ‘The Marriage Portrait’ Author on Love, Loss and Layers of Meaning in the Italian Renaissance” with Maggie O’Farrell
Science, Technology and Nature
“Translating Whale with the Help of AI” with Shane Gero
“Why are Islands in the South Pacific Disappearing?” with Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson
“Utterly Unlike Other Birds: the Inscrutable Brilliance of Owls” with Jennifer Ackerman
“Adventure, Goofiness and Trail Snacks: Notes from a Dog-Musher’s Journal” with Blair Braverman and Quince Mountain
“The Climate Crisis Gets Biblical” with Lydia Millet
“We Call them Fish. Evolution Says They’re Something Else” with Lulu Miller
“The High Costs – and Potential Gains – of Migration, Both Animal and Human” with Sonia Shah
“Rebuilding Detroit, Hive by Hive” with Nicole Lindsey and Timothy Paule
Politics and Culture
“The All-Encompassing Worlds of Motherhood and Poverty” with Stephanie Land
“A Parenting Movement Emerges from the Pandemic” with Alissa Quart and Brittany Powell
“The Revolution Will be Joyful: Feminist Lynne Segal On Fighting Power with Pleasure” with Lynne Segal
“What Can We Learn About Today from the McCarthy Era Blacklist?” with David Maraniss
“When We Gather, We Need Rituals” with Priya Parker
“To Make Big Social Change, Start with the PB&J Sandwiches” with DeRay Mckesson
“Fixing a Workplace by Handing it to the Workers” with Niki Okuk
“The First Job, the Polling Place, the Community Space: How McDonald’s Became ‘The Closest Thing to Home’ for Black Communities” with Marcia Chatelain
“The Spirit of Jim Thorpe” with David Maraniss
Spirituality and Philosophy
“On Pilgrimage With Dorothy Day” with Fr. James Martin, Robert Ellsberg, Martha Hennessey and others
“Pico Iyer’s Second Home” with Pico Iyer
“A Sense of Wonder through the Eyes – and Ears – of a Child” with Lulu Miller
“Spellcraft, Field Hockey and Emilio Estevez – the Girl Power of Novelist Quan Barry’s Teen Witches” with Quan Barry
Health and Body/Mind
“The Things that Keep Gen X Women Up Overnight” with Ada Calhoun
“Reclaiming Scars as Works of Art” with Alissa Waters
“Multiple Identities, One Body: Black Disability Politics” with Sami Schalk
“Your Miraculous and Mysterious Body” with Josh Mezrich, Missy Makinia and Porochista Khakpour
Food and Gardens
“The Comfort and Community of Ancestral Food” with Crystal Wilkinson
“From Candy Caps to Morels: Notes from a Mushroom Hunter’s Journal” with Eugenia Bone
“A Garden of Deadly Delights” with Amy Stewart
“A Little Grammy, A Little Bubbe: A Writer Embodies Family History Through Food” with Michael Twitty
Essays
“A Book Club on the Day of the Book Choosing” – Audio essay
“What Would A Free Catalonia Mean for Spain – and the World?” – Audio Essay
The Power Of Music And Memory: ‘Music Was Waking Up Something Within Each Of Them’ – Audio essay
Special Series
“Going for Broke” – co-executive producer with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project of this three-part award-winning series about Americans on the edge of the economy.
“Going for Broke: Change of Address”