Podcast Episodes

REPLAY: What Does It Mean to Be a Minor Writer?

Original air date: October 12, 2025.

What does it mean to be a “minor writer” in a world obsessed with major success? In this episode, I talk with ⁠J…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

REPLAY: Ocean Vuong

⁠Ocean Vuong⁠ is the author of the novel ⁠The Emperor of Gladness⁠, available from Penguin Press.

Ocean's other books include the critically acclaime…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

REPLAY: Claire Hoffman

Original air date: June 10, 2025.⁠

Claire Hoffman⁠ is the author of ⁠Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

REPLAY: Jessa Crispin

Original air date: July 8, 2025.

Jessa Crispin⁠ is the author of ⁠What Is Wrong With Men: Patriarchy, The Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Best of 2025 - Part 2

Today on the program, we finish the year by highlighting the top-5 most-listened-to episodes of 2025. Big thanks to everyone who guested and everyon…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Best of 2025 - Part 1

Today on the program, we'll begin a countdown of the top 10 most-listened-to episodes of 2025. Please note that the countdown will unfold in two inst…

5 months ago

1015. Carla Kaplan

Carla Kaplan is the author of Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford (Harper Books).

Kaplan is an award-winning professor and write…

5 months ago

Excerpt from 'A Silent Treatment,' by Jeannie Vanasco

Vol. 4 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, Jeannie Vanasco reads from her ne…

5 months ago

We're Already in Hell: Our Year in Review

Volume 73 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Christmas shopping confusion...Brad anesthetizes himself with Ken Burns documentaries...Brad's friend has …

5 months ago

1014. Susan Straight

Susan Straight is the author of the novel Sacrament, available from Counterpoint Press.

Straight has published nine previous novels, including Mecca,…

5 months, 1 week ago