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Back to Search523: Aaron Angello!
Episode 523
In this week's episode, I talk to Aaron Angello about his new book, The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications, the creative benefits of daily ritual, writing (cough) early in the morning, …
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
522: Ann Hood!
Episode 522
In this week's episode, I talk to Ann Hood about the challenges of writing nonfiction, the intertwining of feminism and women's rights and the history of aviation before and after deregulation, the v…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
521: Nita Noveno!
Episode 521
In this week's show, I speak with the creative nonfiction writer Nita Noveno about the Peace Corps, having a writing community, the Kerouac House, gators, gators, and more gators, and bears, and all …
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
520: A Discussion of Anne Sexton with Rachael Tillman!
In this week's show, I speak with Rachael Tillman about the poetry and practice of Anne Sexton.
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
519: Marisa Siegel!
In this week's show, I speak with the poet Marisa Siegel about the value of combining poetry with graphic art, language poetry, discovering poetry early in life, and the Mills College MFA Program in …
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
518: Vidhu Aggarwal!
Episode 518
In this week's show, I speak with the poet Vidhu Aggarwal about humor in poetry, the physicality of laughter, symbology, physics and spirituality, The Mahabharata, Samuel Beckett, and Shakespeare.
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
517: Kimberly Ann Priest
Episode 517
In this week's show, I speak with the poet Kimberly Ann Priest about purposeful ambiguity in poetry and the minor disturbing oddities in Hieronymus Bosch.
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
516: A Discussion of Sally Rooney's Novels, with Rachael Tillman!
Episode 516
On #516 Rachel Tillman and I discuss the novels of Sally Rooney.
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
515: Sara Manning Peskin!
On #515, I talk to Sara Manning Peskin about the history of the mysteries and discoveries of medical science.
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
514: Laura Costas!
Episode 514
In this week's show, I talk to Laura Costas about the pleasures of disorientation, the surprises of actual history, the complexity of myth, and postmodernism.
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago