Podcast Study Club: The Garden of Forking Paths

Join Tayo Basquiat, host of The Study Podcast, for a live conversation inspired by his episode with Ari King about Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The Garden of Forking Paths.” These special Podcast Study Club sessions offer a chance to go beyond the episode, explore its questions more deeply, and connect with others through thoughtful conversation.

The episode explores Borges’ use of labyrinths and the ways the story challenges familiar ideas about time, choice, fate, memory, and reality. Tayo and Ari consider what it means to move through a world without clear answers, how our understanding of the past shapes the present, and why some works remain meaningful precisely because they resist a single interpretation.

Please listen to the related podcast episode and read Jorge Luis Borges’ short story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” before the session. No other preparation is required. Come curious. Leave connected.

(Episode available September 1.)

In addition to being The Study Podcast host, Tayo Basquiat is a synthetic thinker, drawn to the connections between seemingly disparate ideas and the deeper questions that drive exploration. Once a teacher of philosophy and religion, he now works as a wilderness ranger and community science coordinator, and volunteers with the Mountain Rescue Association and the New Mexico Medical Reserve Corps. He lives off-grid in the high desert of New Mexico with a passel of creatures, grounded in a daily relationship with this beautiful and wondrous planet.