Bio

David Standish has been the editorial adviser for 12 magazine publishing project prototypes. He teaches magazine writing and works as a freelance writer, primarily for magazines. He was an editor at Playboy for 10 years, and has written many articles for that magazine. He has also written for Esquire, Travel & Leisure, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Audubon, Landscape Architecture, House Beautiful, Reader's Digest, and many others. He is the author of The Art of Money and Hollow Earth. Standish has a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Miami University. He completed course work on a Ph.D. in American Studies at Indiana University, but took a long detour into journalism and never finished his dissertation.

Past Shows

Hollow Earth: Fiction & History

Writer and teacher David Standish discussed his Hollow Earth research in both fiction and history. The late 17th century astronomer Edmond Halley (of Halley's Comet) proposed the idea of the Hollow Earth as a scientific theory in order to explain anomalous... more >>
Host: George Noory