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UPCOMING MEDIA & EVENTS
June 26 — “On the Bookshelf” w/ host Dave “Doc” Kirby, WTBF (Troy, Alabama & syndicated)
June 17 — “A Public Affair” w/ Esty Dinur, WORT-FM, Madison, Wisconsin
June 26 — “On the Bookshelf” w/ host Dave “Doc” Kirby, WTBF-FM (Troy, Alabama)
Date TBD — “Writer’s Voice” w/ Francesca Rheannon (syndicated podcast)
Date TBD — “Keeping Democracy Alive” w/ Burt Cohen, WSCA-FM (3 NH stations + podcast)
Date TBD — “Ozarks at Large,” w/ Kyle Kellams, KUAF-FM, Arkansas Public Radio
Date TBD — Review in Contemporary Sociology
MEDIA & EVENTS, 2022
May 21 — Berkeley Public Library Foundation annual Authors Dinner.
May 12 — “American journalist sheds light on plutocrats’ anxieties,” by sociologist Hans Dembowski, editor-in-chief, Development+Cooperation
May 4 — Live in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Barstow at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Rewatch below:
May 3 — “Gathering Peace” w/ Joseph Gainza, Central Vermont Community Radio, WGDR-FM. Listen here.
May 2 — “Between the Lines” w/ Scott Harris, WPKN-FM (Bridgeport, Connecticut), 9:10 ET/6:10PT
April 29 — “The Bill Newman Show” WHMP-FM, Amherst, Northampton & Greenfield, Mass. My segment begins at 17:18.
April 28 — “The Jefferson Exchange,” w Geoffrey Riley, Jefferson Public Radio, Southern Oregon, Northern California
April 7 — “IdeaSphere” w/ Guy Rathbun, KCBX-FM, San Luis Obispo, CA, NPR affiliate. Listen here.
April 6 — “The Exchange” w/ Mary Hartnett, Siouxland Public Media. Listen here.
April 4 — “Radio with a View” w/ Marc Stern, WMBR-FM, Cambridge, Mass.
April 1 — “Wade’s World” WAMF 90.3 FM, New Orleans + 8 sister stations
March 31 — “The Michaelangelo Signorile Show,” SiriusXM
March 23 — “It’s Our Money, with Ellen Brown“ (Public Banking Institute podcast)
March 18 — The Jimmy Malone Show (iHeart Cleveland Radio, 1350 AM)
March 7 — “The Rick Smith Show,” Cleveland, Ohio, and syndicated. Listen here.
March issue — Profile: “East Bay Expense Account,” Diablo magazine
MEDIA & EVENTS, 2021
Nov. 27 — “Als Miljonair kun je je ook arm voelen.” A Jackpot article in NRC Handelsblad, the Netherlands’ newspaper of record. I can’t read Dutch, but I assume it’s glowing praise!
Nov. 19 — Podcast: Had a great conversation about the surreal lives of the super-rich with conservative Daily Beast senior columnist Matt Lewis. (Which goes to show you can enjoy Jackpot no matter your politics.)
Nov. 8 — “Goons and Stooges and Rough-Jacks” In which I team up with the Slate Money podcast cohosts—Axios’s Felix Salmon and journalist Emily Peck—for a saucy episode recap of HBO’s Succession. We debate whether the show is a comedy, how true it hews to real life, and how patriarch Logan Roy uses his love to manipulate his children.
Oct. 29 — “Into the realm of the super-rich: Oakland author reports from the gilded edge,” The Mercury News (and sister newspapers)
Oct. 6 — “Rich Management,” a short excerpt in Metro, Silicon Valley
Sept. 21 — “The Lowdown” with Ira Wood, WOMR-FM, Cape Cod
Sept. 3 — Podcast: The Tully Show, with comedian and New York Times best-selling author Mike Tully
Aug. 21 — “‘Vivons heureux, vivons caché: le mantra des milliardaires américains” ( “Let’s live happily, let’s live in hiding: the mantra of American billionaires”), by Philippe Boulet-Gercourt, L’Obs (a.k.a Le Nouvel Observateur). This article is in French, and behind a paywall—malheureusement.
Aug. 10 — “A Fresh Take on Concentrated Privilege From ‘Jackpot,'” by Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed
Aug. 6 — “Winner Takes All: Michael Mechanic’s Deep Dive into the Super-Rich,” by Lauren Sarazen, Los Angeles Review of Books
Aug. 3 — Event: “The Rich Get Richer: How Our Quest to Accumulate Wealth has Divided America,” live signing and conversation with author/researcher Chuck Collins (“The Wealth Hoarders“) at 118 Elliot gallery, Brattleboro, VT. Sponsored by Everyone’s Books.
July 26 — “No, the rich aren’t like the rest of us: Michael Mechanic on the secret worlds of wealth,” by Chancey DeVega, Salon
July 11 — Review in “This Land,” the newsletter of Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn
July 2 — Radio: “Unheard Voices,” KSQD community radio, Santa Cruz
June 22 — “The Millionaires Who Want to Abolish Extreme Wealth,” by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic
June 16 — “Editor’s Picks: What to Read and Watch This Summer,” California magazine.
June 11 — “The Bradcast” w/ Brad Friedman’s KPFK-FM (Los Angeles, and syndicated)
June 8 — Instagram Live: With journalist Jesse Mechanic (no relation)
June 7 — Interview: The Giving Review, Part 1 & Part II
June 3 — “Life of the 1 Percent” Cover story/excerpt in Monterey County Weekly. Online version here.
May 31 — “The Poor Subsidize the Giving of the Rich,” FrankNews
May 21 — “Stand Up! With Pete Dominick” (Podcast, starting at ~29:00.)
May 19 — “The Sit-Down,” with DJ Sixsmith, CBS Local
May 18 — “Back to School,” a podcast hosted by comedian and “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” guest host Maz Jobrani.
May 13 — “The Wealth Myth,” by Jeffrey Anderson, Red Canary Magazine. Plus a Jackpot excerpt.
May 13 — Radio: “It’s the Economy,” with host Claudia Cragg, on KGNU-FM community radio, Denver/Boulder, Colorado.
May 6 — Radio: The Rick Ungar Show, a syndicated program wherein we talk about the gutting of the IRS’s ability to go after wealthy tax cheats.
May 5 — Profile: “Wasteful World,” in Oakland’s weekly East Bay Express
May 3 — “How the Extreme Wealth Gap Harms Us All” On Point, with Megna Chakrabarti. WBUR-FM (Boston and syndicated on hundreds of NPR stations.)
April 29 — “Background Briefing with Ian Masters,” KPFK-FM (Los Angeles)
April 28 — “‘Jackpot’ Looks at How Inequality Is Experienced by the Very, Very Rich,” by Jen Szalai, New York Times.
April 27 — “Late Mornings with Jeff Schechtman,” KVON-FM (Napa, California).
April 27 — “The Majority Report” with Sam Seder (YouTube/Podcast)
April 23 — “The Secret Credit Card That’s Only for the Rich,” excerpt on Timothy Noah’s “Backbencher” substack
April 22 —Mike talks wealth and inequality with Dashka Slater, author of the nonfiction best-seller The 57 Bus, via A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland, California.
April 20 — “How the Rich Mask Their Greed With Ostentatious Philanthropy, by Lewis Beale, the Daily Beast
April 20 — A Jackpot chat with bestselling author and veteran DC reporter David Corn via Labyrinth Books (Princeton, NJ).
April 19 — “Get Up!” w/ Michael Causey, WOWD-FM (Takoma Park, Maryland)
April 14 — “America’s Wealth Gap Is Much More Obscene Than You Had Imagined,” by Molly Schwartz. And audio: The Mother Jones Podcast, w/ Jamilah King.
April 14 — “Michael Mechanic Takes on the Absurdities of the Super-Rich,” by Christina Waters, Good Times. (Plus a shout-out from editor Steve Palopoli.)
April 13 — Yahoo Finance TV
April 13 — “It’s All Political,” podcast w/ SF Chronicle reporter Joe Garofoli
April 12 — “Want to Be Really Rich? First Read This!” by former Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Millenson, via Medium
April 9 — “The 20 Best Books of Spring 2021” & “The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 (So Far),” Esquire
April 7 — “Princeton High School Graduate Discusses His Book About Super-Rich,” by Anne Levin, Town Topics (Princeton, NJ)
April 7 — “Oakland Writes,” East Bay Express.
April 4 — “Research Proves It: There’s No Such Thing as Noblesse Oblige,” except in The Atlantic
March 2 — “The 42 Must-Read Books of Spring 2021,” Town & Country magazine
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