MEDIA
PODCASTS & RADIO
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? with Chris Hayes, MSNBC, January 30, 2024
DAN SNOW’S HISTORY HIT, Explorers: First Polynesians, August, 24 2023
GO AHEAD, WRITE SOMETHING with Tessa McGovern, Westport Library, July 7, 2022
KEMBALI20 with Simon Winchester, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, October 2021
THE ANCIENTS with Tristan Hughes, Polynesian Mythology, June 3, 2021
THE ANCIENTS, Ancient Polynesia: Pioneers of the Pacific, May 23, 2021
FALL FOR THE BOOK, George Mason University, March 10, 2021
THE ANCIENTS with Tristan Hughes, The Polynesians: Ancient Mariners of the Pacific, September 26, 2020
LOST AND FOUND—OAHU with Jonathan Green, ABC RADIO NATIONAL, August 30, 2020
THE DAILY with Dave Hodgson, TALK RADIO EUROPE, March 25, 2020
UNCOMMON SENSE on RRR MELBOURNE, March 24, 2020
TRAVEL WITH RICK STEVES, Polynesian Explorers, January 18, 2020
WRITERSCAST, Jan 14, 2020
RECALL THIS BOOK, August 2, 2019
THE CURIOUS MANS PODCAST, June 25, 2019
SATURDAY EXTRA, with Geraldine Doogue, ABC RADIO NATIONAL, May 25, 2019
SATURDAY MORNING with Kim Hill, RADIO NEW ZEALAND, April 20, 2019
TRAVEL WITH RICK STEVES, The Puzzle of Polynesia, April 13, 2019
NICK SCHENKEL on WBAA, April 12, 2019
RADIO BOSTON, WBUR, March 29, 2019
WRITER 2.0 (2015)
WRITERSCAST (2011)
PRINT INTERVIEWS
MADAM MAYO, January 25, 2021
BOOK Q&A WITH DEBORAH KALB, September 22, 2019
HARVARD GAZETTE, March 22, 2019
READ MORE, April 8, 2019
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, November 2, 2018
Q&A WITH NEH PUBLIC SCHOLAR, December 17, 2015
LITERARY MAMA WITH Suzanne Kamata (2009)
ARTSAKE NANO-INTERVIEW (2009)
REVIEWS
TLS, February, 21, 2020
STUFF, NZ, August 18, 2019
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW,
June-July 2019
NEW YORK TIMES, May 14, 2019
HARPER’S MAGAZINE, May 2019
BOSTON GLOBE, April 4, 2019
LITERARY REVIEW, April 2019
THE INKSLINGER, Spring 2019
THE SPECTATOR, March 23, 2019
WALL STREET JOURNAL, March 15, 2019
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD,
March 15, 2019
NPR, March 13, 2019
DIG BOSTON, March 7, 2019
NATURE, March 7, 2019
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER, March 6, 2019
BOOKLIST, March 1, 2019
THE AUSTRALIAN, February 23, 2019
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, November 2018
KIRKUS, November 21, 2018
VIDEO
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA, “Palapala: A Story of Reading, Writing, and Books,” NLA, Canberra, ACT, Australia, March 26, 2024
DAVIS MUSEUM, “How Do We Tell the Story of What Happened?,” Wellesley College, October 20, 2022
LINDBLAD EXPEDTIONS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, “The Epic Polynesian Voyagers Who Ventured into the Unknown,” April 2022
TRANSFORMATIONAL HISTORIES, History Council of NSW, October 2, 2020
NEW ENGLAND AUTHORS TV with Kameel Nasr, May 2019
THE EXPLORERS CLUB, NY, March 25, 2019
LINCOLN TV, April 24, 2017
BOOKGIRL TV with Tessa McGovern, 2013