Podcast Episodes

The Musician Who Sings to Animals - PLUMES on Trust & Cross-Species Communication - Highlights

Season 15 Episode 1208

On Music, Trust and Connection with the Animal World

“Mostly I’ll play in a minor key, something sad, which I think can work for an animal because they can sense the sadness, and they try to reassure …

Published on 3 hours ago

Animals & The Healing Power of Music with Musician PLUMES

Season 15 Episode 1207

How is music a pathway to understanding animals?

Musician Plumes‍ takes his guitar to the world's most unlikely concert halls—farms, sanctuaries, and wild habitats. A passionate advocate for veganism …

Published on 3 hours ago

The Writer's Voice: Novelists, Poets, Memoirists & Editors Share Their Stories

Season 15 Episode 1204

How do writers develop their voice, showing us what is important in life?

ADA LIMÓN (24th U.S. Poet Laureate, Startlement, The Carrying) explains that her poetry begins with a bodily sensation or curi…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Writers on Memory, Language & the Power of the Unconscious

Season 15 Episode 1203

How can we use negative spaces in fiction to engage with readers’ imaginations? How are memory and trauma passed onto us through language? How do we become more than the stories we tell ourselves?

KAT…

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Mind Games, Power & Obsession - Veteran Showrunner HOWARD GORDON & Writer DANIEL PEARLE on THE BEAST IN ME - Highlights

Season 15 Episode 1190

“How do you render something interior filmically? How do you communicate the details of the lost child, of the amount of time of the stuck creative process, and even the exterior, or the externalizat…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave with Poet MAYA SALAMEH

Season 15 Episode 1176

“Poetry is like one of the great loves of my life, and I think it's probably the longest relationship I'll ever have. I read a lot of poetry. I also wrote these short stories even when I was pretty y…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis: ETGAR KERET on Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - Highlights

Season 15 Episode 1174

“I feel that when you don't tell your story, it's as if you have a limited existence. We can always have some kind of choice, but I'm saying that the story we choose may be the most crucial choice th…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN - Highlights

Season 15 Episode 1153

“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, lan…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The Theory of Water with LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON

Season 15 Episode 1151

“So I think that part of colonialism for Indigenous peoples has been this idea that Indigenous peoples aren't thinking peoples and that we don't have thought on a kind of systemic level. One of the t…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

On Writing, America's Forever Wars & Challenging Power with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN

Season 15 Episode 1150

“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago