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Rachel B. Doyle is travel writer and author based in Berlin, and a regular contributor to the New York Times and New York magazine. She is working on her first novel, a globalization satire set in Tennessee. In 2009, she co-wrote a cultural history book about the USA that was published by National Geographic Germany and France. Raised in the suburbs of Maryland, Doyle received an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and a B.A. in Journalism and American Studies from NYU. Her website is rachelbdoyle.com. Follow her on Twitter @racheldoyle

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Hilda Hoy grew up between the concrete jungles of Taiwan and the woods of central Ontario. A one-time hard-boiled news reporter for the Toronto Star and the Prague Post, she now fills her days working as the managing editor of sugarhigh, the Berlin email magazine she’s been heading since its founding in 2009. When not freelancing travel stories or translating from German to English, she’s working on working on a novel. Until that hits the shelves, follow her on Twitter @hildahoy10 Hilda Hoy

Listen to the podcast above. Author Eoin Hahessy is the recipient of an Irish national young writer’s award and is a freelance journalist with the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and Business & Finance in Ireland. Before leaving Dublin to travel to Berlin he reported for Newstalk radio and a few years prior to that, he worked in television news journalism in Washington DC with Japan’s State broadcaster, NHK. Photo by the author.

Siri Hustvedt is the author of four novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, and The Sorrows of an American, as well as two books of essays, A Plea for Eros, and Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting.

Robert A. LeVine is an anthropologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University. His most recent book is Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader (2008). He lives in Massachusetts but often visits his granddaughter in Berlin.

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