September 26, 2018: Jessica Bruder Jessica Bruder is a journalist who reports on subcultures and economic justice. In her recent book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, she spent months living in a camper van affectionately named “Van Halen”, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing and hit the road full time, enabling them to travel from job to job and carve out a place for themselves in our precarious economy. The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving—from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border.
Heard this interview on WFMU with the writer of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. Focuses on how the nomadic lifestyle in the US has expanded in the post 2008 recession US with the inclusion of masses of retirees now forced to live on the road and chase marginal jobs for the likes of Amazon and the Sugar industry.