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Alta Journal: An Ode To Desert Oracle
“Voice of the Desert: After Making a Name at Gawker and Wonkette, Ken Layne Created the ‘Desert Oracle’ to Showcase the Wacky, Weird and Wonderful of the High Desert”—Coachella Valley Independent, September 2019.
Ken Layne is bringing the desert to the cornfields on Friday. — Smile Politely/Pygmalion Festival
‘Desert Oracle Is the Spooky Look At the Southwest We Need,’ Outside Magazine
Playlist of Desert Oracle book events, TV segments, etc. Collect them all!
“Mystery Wire: Desert Oracle”—George Knapp & Matt Adams, KLAS Las Vegas
The Weird, Wonderful World of ‘Desert Oracle’—Adventure Journal
‘Salvation in the Desert,’ review of Desert Oracle Vol. 1 in Los Angeles Review of Books.
Ken Layne on Magic and War in Los Alamos, LitHub.com
Ken Layne’s strange and wonderful Desert Oracle magazine and radio show lures followers into the deep, dark Mojave. Story by Steven Biller; photos by Peter Yang
“Best Freaky Radio Program,” Palm Springs Life 2020 “Best of the Best”
“Return of the Wild Things,” a pandemic-podcast review by Zach Brooke, AV Club.
Publishing the Best of the Desert: An Interview With Ken Layne, by Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads
Desert Oracle journal peers into the Mojave’s myths — David Allen, San Bernardino Sun
William Burroughs in New Mexico / Desert Oracle, Santa Fe Reporter
“Since this stay-at-home order, I’ve pretty much only felt like listening to podcasts that will make me laugh and help me feel connected to other people. Here are 10 exceptional shows that are bringing me comfort and joy.”—Lauren Spohrer, co-creator and executive producer of the podcasts Criminal, This is Love, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery, for PocketCasts Guest List.
“Nowadays, the park and surrounding areas serve as a haven for the artistically-inclined, UFOlogists, solitude seekers, and otherwise offbeat creatives drawn to the power of the desert. Ken Layne, a writer, podcaster, and publisher of Desert Oracle (a desert-based publication and radio show) has lived in the area for years. He calls it a “one-of-a-kind place” with a “mix of weird geology and wide-open skies.”—THRILLIST: Ultimate Guide To Joshua Tree:
Hunting spooky petroglyphs in the desert wilderness surrounding Area 51 with George Knapp and Matthew Adams from the KLAS I-Team, and Jeremy Corbell too!—KLAS TV 8, Las Vegas
Desert Oracle is an “Alta Pick” in Will Hearst’s Alta Journal, May 2019.
“Ken Layne is a forward-thinking curmudgeon and a lover of myth, like a clear-thinking Art Bell who cares a lot about desert conservation. His voice seems to seep up from the ground, or from a Tom Waits who’s tired of rhyming. I prefer to listen to him in the dark.”
—Nick Douglas, Lifehacker
—”Desert Podcasts You Should Be Listening To,” DESERT Magazine (Desert Sun), March 2019.
“Layne recommends Edmund C. Jaeger, ‘a pioneering desert biologist’ known for his work on desert flora and fauna. Jaeger, a contemporary of Austin’s, arrived in Riverside in 1907 and became, in Layne’s words, “an early resident of the Palm Canyon bohemian community.” Read Jaeger’s work and visit the nature sanctuary named in his honor. His Desert Wild Flowers is still regarded as among the most incisive guides on the subject”—High Country News, December 24, 2018
—“6 stops on your California desert literary road trip,” Los Angeles Times Books
—“This Desert Life,” by Matthew Cabe, Victor Valley Daily Press
The Vacuum Seal interview, by Chris Greenspon: Ken Layne of Desert Oracle Radio.
A Zine That Leans Into the Mojave Desert’s Weirdness Is Now a Spooky Podcast
—Jennifer Swann, LA Weekly.
The Lifehacker Staff’s Favorite Podcasts
San Francisco Chronicle, Travel, March 19, 2018.
“The transmission intends to exhume secrets and pick at them like hungry crows.”
—Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbel at OMNI.
San Diego Reader: The Desert Oracle’s Ken Layne
“Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire at 50, by Ken Layne, Los Angeles Times.
LAndscape: Field Trip To Joshua Tree: Join your host “Frosty” on a two-hour-long audio field trip to Joshua Tree, with many creepy stories from the Desert Oracle. Red Bull Music Academy Radio. (Next broadcast: March 27, 2017.)
NBC Bay Area/NBC Los Angeles: “Worth the Trip.” Desert Oracle: Love For Arid Expanses
Please tell us about your art.
Ken Layne: Desert Oracle is now a pocket-sized magazine, a weekly radio show in Joshua Tree, a podcast of that radio show, and various performances: spooky Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, live broadcasts of the radio program, etc. I do whatever needs to be done: photography, layout and design, writing, editing, proofreading, audio production, radio hosting, promotion, distribution. The work is all about one subject: the mystery of the desert wilderness.
KCET, Los Angeles: The Desert Oracle Is Your New Favorite Guidebook
Los Angeles Times: Discover our desert national parks and rediscover yourself. You can start with Joshua Tree
Capital New York: Ken Layne, Desert Oracle
WildSam Field Guides: The Desert Oracle, Joshua Tree
“Tourist Towns, with Ken Layne” —— Smart Mouth podcast, Feb. 17 2018
Stack Magazines: Behind the Scenes With Desert Oracle
“Feed your head with Desert Oracle”—Grass Guide, 04/18/2019.
Ace Hotel Instagram takeover: Desert Design, Desert Oracle Inspirations, Desert Oracle HQ.
“One can always rely on a textbook to provide the academic knowledge of the desert. Sometimes, however, we need to go a little further to find the true nature of those landscapes, and for that we now have Desert Oracle magazine, the self-described ‘Voice of the Desert.’ And what a voice it is.”—James Craine, Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
MEL Magazine: Desert Oracle’s Littlest Kingdom
