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Heidi Kraay Reads an Excerpt from "How to do Nothing" by Jenny Odell

On this week's episode of Something I Heard, Heidi Kraay reads an excerpt from Jenny Odell's book, "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.” (2020, Melville House)

An American multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in Oakland, Odell published her second book, “Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock,” in 2023.

Heidi Kraay is a playwright and multidisciplinary writer. Her plays include Take Me Away and How to Hide Your Monster. She was the inaugural Boise City Writer-in-Residence in 2023 and her memoir-adjacent book, 12 Lifetimes: A Century Cycle, was published in 2024.

I started working with Boise State Public Radio in 2018, first as a freelance podcaster of You Know The Place, and later as a contract producer for Reader’s Corner. The former ran for six award-winning seasons, visiting funeral homes, ostrich farms and nude retreats for the story. The latter is now in its 22nd year of interviewing NYT-bestselling, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning authors.

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