Press & appearances
Laura Krantz
Reviews, interviews and appearances for Wild Thing and the Wild Thing books. For interviews, email laura@foxtopus.ink.
5 million downloads · #7 on Apple Podcasts
Wild Thing
50 Best Podcasts of 2018 and 2020
The Atlantic
“One of 2018’s most delightful new podcasts”
Vox
Podcast of the Week
The Irish Times
Best outdoor podcasts of all time
Outside
Indies Introduce selection, 2022
American Booksellers Association · The Search for Sasquatch
“Thoughtful… engaging… equally palatable to skeptics, true believers, and the curious.”
Booklist · Do You Believe in Magic? · Junior Library Guild selection
Recent
Appearances & events
- May 2026Mountain Words Festival, Crested Butte ↗On Martians! with David Baron; live podcast taping with River Selby (Hotshot)
- Apr. 2026Sasquatch Chronicles ↗Podcast interview
- Aug. 13, 2025WDET · The Metro ↗Interview on nuclear energy
- May 2025Mountain Words Festival, Crested Butte ↗In conversation with Leah Sottile and with Mark J. Easter
- May 2023Mountain Words Festival, Crested Butte ↗“Creative Alchemy” workshop with Scott Carney
- July 20, 2022Mixed Taste · MCA Denver ↗Tag-team lecture: Roswell & Georgian Polyphonic Singing, with Gio Barabadze
Book · 2024
Do You Believe in Magic?
- 2025Junior Library Guild ↗High-Interest Nonfiction selection
- Feb. 6, 2025AIPT ↗Review
- Dec. 2024Colorado Public Radio ↗The Bookies’ holiday book picks
- Oct. 2024CPR · Colorado Matters ↗Interview with Andrea Dukakis
- Oct. 8, 2024FOX31 · Great Day Colorado ↗Launch-day TV interview
- 2024BooklistReview
Book · 2023
Is There Anybody Out There?
- 2023Junior Library GuildSelection
- Sept. 29, 2023NPR · Here & Now (WBUR) ↗Interview and book excerpt
- Sept. 2023Space.com ↗Q&A: How to talk to your kids about aliens
- 2023KCRWInterview
- 2023Hysteria 51 ↗Podcast interview
- 2023Blurry Photos ↗Podcast interview, ep. 280
Book · 2022
The Search for Sasquatch
- Oct. 11, 2022NPR ↗She wrote a Bigfoot book for kids. It was no small feat
- Oct. 2022NPR · Morning Edition ↗Interview with A Martínez
- Sept. 2022American Booksellers Association ↗Indies Introduce Q&A
- 2022Blurry Photos ↗Podcast interview, ep. 276
Wild Thing · Season 3 · 2022
Going Nuclear
- July 4, 2022CBC Radio · Podcast Playlist ↗Interview and excerpt
- June 22, 2022Boston Globe ↗12 gripping podcasts for the road
- June 15, 2022High Country News ↗New Western podcasts
- June 15, 2022MonsterTalk ↗Podcast interview
- June 14, 2022KCRW · Press Play ↗Interview with Madeleine Brand
- June 13, 2022Westword ↗Laura Krantz simplifies science
- June 1, 2022CPR · Colorado Matters ↗Live interview
- May 23, 2022Boise State Public Radio · Idaho Matters ↗Live interview
- May 23, 2022Podsauce ↗Review
- May 20, 2022Vice · Motherboard ↗America’s complicated relationship with nuclear power
- May 19, 2022Haunted AF ↗Podcast interview
- May 18, 2022Vulture · 1.5x SpeedNewsletter pick
- 2022The Lever · Lever Time ↗Interview with David Sirota
Wild Thing · Season 2 · 2020
Space Invaders
- Mar. 18, 2021Prevention ↗Podcasts for a longer walk
- Jan. 28, 2021Haunted AF ↗Podcast interview
- Dec. 26, 2020The Atlantic ↗The 50 Best Podcasts of 2020
- Dec. 14, 2020MonsterTalk ↗Podcast interview
- Dec. 2020Johns Hopkins Magazine ↗Interview
- Nov. 13, 2020Rolling Stone ↗New podcasts to hear
- Oct. 28, 2020Transfer Orbit (Andrew Liptak)Interview
- Oct. 27, 2020Whitman Magazine ↗Aliens, Bigfoot and the Podcaster
- Oct. 21, 2020Scientific American ↗Recommendation
- Oct. 16, 2020CBC · Podcast Playlist ↗Interview and excerpt
- Oct. 2, 2020Mysterious Universe ↗Podcast interview
- Sept. 24, 2020CPR · Colorado Matters ↗Interview
- Sept. 18, 2020KPCC · Take Two ↗Interview
- Sept. 17, 2020KCRW · Press Play ↗Interview
- Sept. 17, 2020Outside Podcast ↗Recommendation
- Sept. 17, 2020Boulder Weekly ↗Still Wild Enough
- Sept. 16, 2020Westword ↗Feature
- Sept. 16, 2020Vulture · 1.5x Speed ↗Recommendation
- Sept. 13, 2020Idaho Falls Post Register ↗Local woman’s podcast goes from Bigfoot to aliens
- Sept. 9, 2020Wall Street Journal ↗Recommendation
- Sept. 7, 2020Esquire UK ↗Best podcasts
Wild Thing · Season 1 · 2018–19
Bigfoot
- Dec. 10, 2019Brains On! (APM) ↗Interview
- July 26, 2019Outside ↗Best outdoor podcasts of all time
- June 2019Archie McPhee ↗Essay: All About Bigfoot
- June 6, 2019Washington Post ↗The FBI’s Bigfoot hair analysis
- June 4, 2019Coloradan ↗Searching for Bigfoot
- Apr. 9, 2019KCRW · Press Play ↗Interview
- Apr. 1, 2019High Country News ↗Essay: Even if Bigfoot isn’t real, we still need him
- Jan. 25, 2019Radio New Zealand ↗The Podcast Hour
- Dec. 24, 2018Outside ↗Best of 2018
- Dec. 23, 2018The Atlantic ↗The 50 Best Podcasts of 2018
- Dec. 2018Mashable ↗Best new podcasts of 2018
- Dec. 19, 2018The Verge ↗Best podcasts of 2018
- Dec. 15, 2018IndieWire ↗Best podcast episodes of 2018
- Dec. 11, 2018Vox ↗Review and Q&A
- Dec. 10, 2018MeatEater with Steven Rinella ↗Podcast interview
- Dec. 5, 2018LA Review of Books · Podcast Review ↗Review
- Nov. 29, 2018HuffPost ↗Favorite podcasts of 2018
- Nov. 28, 2018Seattle Times ↗Bigfoot hunters aren’t crazy, just curious
- Nov. 27, 2018Hot Pod · Nieman Lab ↗Newsletter feature
- Nov. 1, 2018Denver Post ↗Best new Colorado podcasts
- Oct. 31, 2018Smithsonian · Sidedoor ↗Seriously Seeking Sasquatch
- Oct. 31, 2018Smithsonian Magazine ↗The scientist who risked it all chasing Bigfoot
- Oct. 30, 2018MonsterTalk ↗Podcast interview
- Oct. 29, 2018Sunrise (Australia)Live TV interview
- Oct. 25, 2018Westword ↗Feature
- Oct. 20, 2018The Irish Times ↗Podcast of the Week
- Oct. 19, 2018FOX31 Denver ↗TV interview
- Oct. 17, 2018Boing Boing ↗Like Serial, but about Bigfoot
- Oct. 14, 2018NPR · Weekend All Things Considered ↗Interview with Shereen Marisol Meraji
- Oct. 12, 2018KPCC · Take Two ↗Interview
- Oct. 10, 2018Outside Podcast ↗Aired episode one
- Oct. 8, 2018Popular Mechanics ↗The history of Bigfoot
- Oct. 8, 2018A.V. Club ↗Review
- Oct. 3, 2018CBC · Radio WestLive interview
- Oct. 2, 2018Los Angeles Times ↗Wild Thing is like Serial for Sasquatches
- Oct. 2, 2018CPR · Colorado Matters ↗Launch-day interview
- Sept. 28, 2018Christian Science Monitor ↗Q&A: Wild Sound
Writing
Stories by Laura
- Apr. 1, 2019High Country News ↗Even if Bigfoot isn’t real, we still need him
- Sept. 26, 2016Popular Science ↗A Sea of Plastic
- Apr. 1, 2016TakePart ↗The Inspiring Heroes Battling the Hidden Poaching Epidemic
- Nov. 2015Smithsonian Magazine ↗How Technology May Help Save the Rhino From Extinction
- Aug. 9, 2015NPR · Code Switch · Race and Recreation series ↗During Segregation, a Mountain Oasis Gave Black Families a Summer Escape
- July 12, 2015NPR · Code Switch · Race and Recreation series ↗Outdoor Afro: Busting Stereotypes That Black People Don’t Hike or Camp
- June 12, 2015Outside ↗When Prescribed Burns Go Wrong
- 2015Outside ↗You Could Foot the Bill for the Next Big Wildfire
- Feb. 28, 2015NPR · Code Switch · Race and Recreation series ↗‘The Black Summit’ Draws African-American Skiers and Boarders to Aspen
- Feb. 13, 2015Newsweek ↗The West’s Forest Fire Problem Costs More Every Year
- Dec. 11, 2011NPR · The Picture Show ↗Russia by Rail: An Idaho Native Ponders the Russian Potato
- Sept. 7, 2008NPR ↗When Fire Threatened Yellowstone’s Wooden Inn