Book · Cultural history
Red Sovine and the Sound of American Sentiment
A biography of the country singer behind some of America’s strangest, saddest truck-driving songs.
Active primary-source research
Filed under: ongoing work
Digging through the movies we misread.
Books, screenplays, podcasts, and deep-archive film history from a Detroit writer who keeps the receipts.
On the desk
Book · Film history
Brautigan in Hollywood
The movies Richard Brautigan tried—and failed—to get made.
Advanced archival research
Book · Film history
Unmaking Elric
A history of the films that almost brought Moorcock’s hero to the screen.
Proposal drafted
Fiction · Novel
Channel Impossible
A nested psychological novel about screens, stories, and a man named Terry.
In progress
Weirding Way Media
Long-form listening for people who watch the credits.
Home of The Projection Booth and a network of shows devoted to Columbo, Bond, Chevy Chase, Harrison Ford, Barney Miller, and all the strange roads in between.
- Projection Booth episodes
- 1,500+
- On the air
- 15 yrs
- Shows & archives
- 12
Special Report: Double Trouble (2026)
Episode notes & transcript (opens in a new tab) · All Weirding Way Media shows (opens in a new tab)
Archive first. Hot take second.
Mike White is a full-time writer, podcaster, and film scholar specializing in neglected, misread, and sometimes never-made cinema. His work moves between university archives, recording studios, screenplay drafts, and the stubborn belief that every odd cultural artifact deserves a proper hearing.
- The People vs. George Lucas
- David Goodis: To a Pulp
- Metro Times
- Fangoria
- Slamdance Documentary Features
- BearManor Media
- Arrow Video