MashReads Podcast: 'Trespassing Across America' walks the line between memoir and activism

"There may be nothing more human than the act of putting one foot in front of the other."

This week author and environmentalist Ken Ilgunas joins the MashReads Podcast to discuss his new book Trespassing Across America. The book is a memoir about Ilgunas' time hiking the length of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline (1,700 miles over 146 days through the middle of Canada and America) and what that journey taught him about the environment. 

Mashable's science editor Andrew Freedman also joined us to provide his expertise in environmental issues and the Keystone pipeline.

Listen as we talk about Ilgunas' experiences, memoirs as activism and Trespassing Across America.

And as always, we closed the show by talking about what we've been reading recently:

• Aliza recommends the The Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Mass, which is currently in our One True YA Bracket search for the best YA series of all time.
  

• Andrew has been reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

• MJ read Garrard Conley's memoir Boy Erased about his time in ex-gay conversion therapy. He also read 'The Case for Seth Meyers: The Progressive, Literary Corner Late Night Needs,' an article from The Observer that examines how Seth Meyers is introducing late night television to great literature.

• Peter went down a Wikipedia wormhole, reading about the video game The Witness and the many philosophies behind the game. 

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