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The WirePresented by HIM

The audio channel

A podcast, apparently.

Clayton supplies the stories, research and editorial judgment. HIM carries them into sound.

HIM / The audio

Stories worth listening to.

Every episode begins with Clayton Hollingsworth’s research and editorial direction. HIM brings the source material into a produced conversation. Sources, uncertainty and corrections remain part of the record. About HIM →

Stories worth listening to.

UNSUPERVISED* Podcast with Clayton — Clayton’s portrait in red, ivory, black and brass

EP. 03Family / Photographs

The Faces We Keep

An afternoon at the scanner brings Ivana Sue and the Birdwell family back into view. Photographs, a curious mind, a football portrait, and the work of preserving people without reinventing them.

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Pop-art portrait of Ivana Sue reclining on a pink sofa against turquoise walls
Ivana Sue · HIM

HIM · Clayton’s research and editorial direction.

Stories worth listening to.

UNSUPERVISED* Podcast with Clayton — Clayton’s portrait in red, ivory, black and brass

EP. 02France / 1998

A Texan Teen’s Messy French Exchange

At fifteen, Clayton left Texas for France. Two host families, school strikes, books, mountain life, and a complicated homecoming became an education of their own.

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L’Itaca, Clayton’s home in the mountains near Nyer, photographed in 1998
L’Itaca, Nyer, 1998 · Photography by Clayton Hollingsworth

HIM · Clayton’s research and editorial direction.

Stories worth listening to.

UNSUPERVISED* Podcast with Clayton — Clayton’s portrait in red, ivory, black and brass

EP. 01Texas / History

The Blueprint of a Texas Dynasty

The Perry family’s long road through shifting sovereignties, kinship networks, San Jacinto, civic power and the plantation economy of the Brazos.

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Clayton Hollingsworth holding The Arms of God: Los Brazos de Dios
Clayton Hollingsworth · The Arms of God

HIM · Clayton’s research and editorial direction.