{"id":35473,"date":"2018-06-20T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/?p=35473"},"modified":"2020-07-17T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T21:38:51","slug":"wild-ideas-worth-living-michael-finkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wild-ideas-worth-living-michael-finkel","title":{"rendered":"Wild Ideas Worth Living: Michael Finkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><p><strong>Michael Finkel on writing about the last true hermit and his other adventurous stories.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/451a1901-178a-4ca7-83cd-865052638124?dark=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michael Finkel is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit. The story chronicles a highly intelligent man that lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years without lighting a single fire, or talking to a single soul.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael\u2019s wild idea: To write captivating stories about people who live on the fringes of society and do wild things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An outdoors lover himself, who splits time between Montana and Southern France, Michael has a penchant for stories about those who live on the edges of society, and people who live with less. On assignment as a journalist for the likes of the New York Times and National Geographic, he\u2019s skied off the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, set sail on a Haitian refugee boat, joined a cult in Colorado, been in a car that was run over by a tank in Afghanistan, and covered the last hunter-gatherer tribes. His previous book, True Story, was adapted into a 2015 major motion picture produced by Brad Pitt starring James Franco and Jonah Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to this episode if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You want to be a writer.<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ve ever thought of leaving it all behind to live alone in the woods.<\/li>\n<li>You enjoy hearing from amazing storytellers.<\/li>\n<li>You love stories of survival and those who can thrive with less.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subscribe to Wild Ideas Worth Living on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/wild-ideas-worth-living-interviews-on-adventure-outdoors\/id1183017174?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__wildideasworthliving.us14.list-2Dmanage.com_track_click-3Fu-3D906ddcb8082befb4355543def-26id-3D25f6390c3b-26e-3D0c09d7b9b5&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=CqkB-gCiM4xW6iOknju0uA&amp;r=UyrdvYnZmSEdNxuILFi6MQ&amp;m=kdwW0N1UeXPtTPFy01q22fKcCcSb3LAuN6mtDLpXjcI&amp;s=aR01yqAiaCnZtaoK5JJEKk3Cak1oHTnObojYepcttBU&amp;e=\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Finkel on writing about the last true hermit and his other adventurous stories.\u00a0 Michael Finkel is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit. 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