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Alta Journal: Ode to Desert Oracle

Alta Journal: An Ode To Desert Oracle


 

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Los Angeles Times: After Leaving the Political Blogging Fray, He Now Covers Desert’s Quiet Weirdness, Page A-1


 

Live from the Mojave, It’s Desert Weirdness
“For his cult radio show, “Desert Oracle,” Ken Layne channels Mark Twain and Tom Waits.” — New Yorker, by Abby Aguirre, Oct. 18, 2021


 

‘Out in the wild: how Ken Layne created an alternative to clickbait in the desert,’ by Dominic Rushe, The Guardian


 

“Voice of the Desert: After Making a Name at Gawker and Wonkette, Ken Layne Created the ‘Desert Oracle’ to Showcase the Wacky, Weird and Wonderful of the High Desert”Coachella Valley Independent, September 2019.


 

Our host & editor Ken Layne spent two hours with George Knapp on Coast To Coast AM, Jan. 27-28 overnight, 2019.


 

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Ken Layne is bringing the desert to the cornfields on Friday. — Smile Politely/Pygmalion Festival


 

‘Desert Oracle Is the Spooky Look At the Southwest We Need,’ Outside Magazine


 


 

‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost; In Desert Oracle, Ken Layne goes all in on the Mojave’s lore—and lure.’ By David L. Ulin, Alta Magazine.


 

Playlist of Desert Oracle book events, TV segments, etc. Collect them all!


 

‘Ken Layne Is the New Voice of the American Desert’< With the release of "Desert Oracle," the author and radio show host talks to InsideHook on embracing America's wastelands


 

“His style is crisp and straighforward, the proverbial fat is trimmed and his conversational tone pulls you in. That’s the payoff of thoroughly researched writing and an understanding of its mechanics. You get more with less.”—Jan Pytalski, Daily Yonder


 


“Mystery Wire: Desert Oracle”—George Knapp & Matt Adams, KLAS Las Vegas


 

The Weird, Wonderful World of ‘Desert Oracle’—Adventure Journal


 

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‘Salvation in the Desert,’ review of Desert Oracle Vol. 1 in Los Angeles Review of Books.


 

 

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Ken Layne on Magic and War in Los Alamos, LitHub.com


 

Ken Layne’s strange and wonderful Desert Oracle magazine and radio show lures 
followers into the deep, dark Mojave. Story by Steven Biller; photos by Peter Yang

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“Best Freaky Radio Program,” Palm Springs Life 2020 “Best of the Best”


 

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“Return of the Wild Things,” a pandemic-podcast review by Zach Brooke, AV Club.


 

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Publishing the Best of the Desert: An Interview With Ken Layne, by Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads


 

Desert Oracle journal peers into the Mojave’s myths — David Allen, San Bernardino Sun


 

“All aboard with the iconoclastic Ken Layne.” Book Review: “Desert Oracle” — Dwelling on the Fringe, by Drew Hart. Artsfuse, January 2021.


 

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“Since this stay-at-home order, I’ve pretty much only felt like listening to podcasts that will make me laugh and help me feel connected to other people. Here are 10 exceptional shows that are bringing me comfort and joy.”—Lauren Spohrer, co-creator and executive producer of the podcasts Criminal, This is Love, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery, for PocketCasts Guest List.


 

Trillbilly Workers Party: Halloween Special 2020 with Ken Layne, Gangsta Boo, Scarah the Damsel of the Doomed & Daniel Pujol.


 

“Layne’s radio show isn’t exactly a late-night lullaby (“Monsters of the Mojave” is a recurring theme), but it’s scarily addictive. His cult following tends get lost in his easy drawl for hours before they snap out of it and realize they’ve gone off the deep end.”—Roadtrippers, January 2019


 

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Ken Layne’s quarterly magazine, Desert Oracle, gives readers a sense of the profound solitude—and weirdness—of the Mojave Desert. Pacific Standard


 

Inside Podcasting featured Desert Oracle Radio on Jan. 29, 2019: “This podcast is a rare find. Ken Layne, with his gravelly, baritone voice (I would listen to him read the phone book) reports on the magical, otherworldly Mojave desert with an approach that is equal parts subversive humor, anthropological storytelling, madcap poetry, and ecological revelation.”


 

“Nowadays, the park and surrounding areas serve as a haven for the artistically-inclined, UFOlogists, solitude seekers, and otherwise offbeat creatives drawn to the power of the desert. Ken Layne, a writer, podcaster, and publisher of Desert Oracle (a desert-based publication and radio show) has lived in the area for years. He calls it a “one-of-a-kind place” with a “mix of weird geology and wide-open skies.”—THRILLIST: Ultimate Guide To Joshua Tree:


 

“When you get mixed up with the UFO people, your life becomes deeply weird ….”—Desert Oracle editor Ken Layne writes the cover story for the September 2019 issue of the Desert Sun‘s magazine.


 


Hunting spooky petroglyphs in the desert wilderness surrounding Area 51 with George Knapp and Matthew Adams from the KLAS I-Team, and Jeremy Corbell too!—KLAS TV 8, Las Vegas


 

Desert Oracle is an “Alta Pick” in Will Hearst’s Alta Journal, May 2019.


 

“Ken Layne is a forward-thinking curmudgeon and a lover of myth, like a clear-thinking Art Bell who cares a lot about desert conservation. His voice seems to seep up from the ground, or from a Tom Waits who’s tired of rhyming. I prefer to listen to him in the dark.”
Nick Douglas, Lifehacker


 

—”Desert Podcasts You Should Be Listening To,” DESERT Magazine (Desert Sun), March 2019.


 

“Layne recommends Edmund C. Jaeger, ‘a pioneering desert biologist’ known for his work on desert flora and fauna. Jaeger, a contemporary of Austin’s, arrived in Riverside in 1907 and became, in Layne’s words, “an early resident of the Palm Canyon bohemian community.” Read Jaeger’s work and visit the nature sanctuary named in his honor. His Desert Wild Flowers is still regarded as among the most incisive guides on the subject”—High Country News, December 24, 2018


 

“6 stops on your California desert literary road trip,” Los Angeles Times Books


 


“This Desert Life,” by Matthew Cabe, Victor Valley Daily Press


 

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Desert Oracle channels “the voice of the desert” but is being read well beyond the Mojave.—New York Times


 

The Vacuum Seal interview, by Chris Greenspon: Ken Layne of Desert Oracle Radio.


 

LA Weekly Desert Oracle Podcast

A Zine That Leans Into the Mojave Desert’s Weirdness Is Now a Spooky Podcast
Jennifer Swann, LA Weekly.


 

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The Lifehacker Staff’s Favorite Podcasts


 

San Francisco Chronicle, Travel, March 19, 2018.


 

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Mechanics Institute Library, San Francisco. 2018: A “wonderfully genuine expression of the spirit of the desert.”


 

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“The transmission intends to exhume secrets and pick at them like hungry crows.”
Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbel at OMNI.


 

San Diego Reader: Desert Oracle's Ken Layne

San Diego Reader: The Desert Oracle’s Ken Layne


 

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“Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire at 50, by Ken Layne, Los Angeles Times.


 

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LAndscape: Field Trip To Joshua Tree: Join your host “Frosty” on a two-hour-long audio field trip to Joshua Tree, with many creepy stories from the Desert Oracle. Red Bull Music Academy Radio. (Next broadcast: March 27, 2017.)


 

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NBC Bay Area/NBC Los Angeles: “Worth the Trip.” Desert Oracle: Love For Arid Expanses


 

Please tell us about your art.
Ken Layne: Desert Oracle is now a pocket-sized magazine, a weekly radio show in Joshua Tree, a podcast of that radio show, and various performances: spooky Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, live broadcasts of the radio program, etc. I do whatever needs to be done: photography, layout and design, writing, editing, proofreading, audio production, radio hosting, promotion, distribution. The work is all about one subject: the mystery of the desert wilderness.


 

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KCET, Los Angeles: The Desert Oracle Is Your New Favorite Guidebook


 

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Los Angeles Times: Discover our desert national parks and rediscover yourself. You can start with Joshua Tree


 

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Capital New York: Ken Layne, Desert Oracle


 

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WildSam Field Guides: The Desert Oracle, Joshua Tree


 

“Tourist Towns, with Ken Layne” —— Smart Mouth podcast, Feb. 17 2018


 

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Stack Magazines: Behind the Scenes With Desert Oracle


 

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Politico, On Media


 

“Feed your head with Desert Oracle”—Grass Guide, 04/18/2019.

Ace Hotel Instagram takeover: Desert Design, Desert Oracle Inspirations, Desert Oracle HQ.


 

“One can always rely on a textbook to provide the academic knowledge of the desert. Sometimes, however, we need to go a little further to find the true nature of those landscapes, and for that we now have Desert Oracle magazine, the self-described ‘Voice of the Desert.’ And what a voice it is.”—James Craine, Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers


 

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MEL Magazine: Desert Oracle’s Littlest Kingdom


 

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The Awl: Planet Desolate But Still Worth Reading About