Carvell Wallace is a podcast host and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. He is the co-author, with Andre Iguodala, of The Sixth Man.“So much of my life experience coalesces into things that are useful… All those years that I was obsessing over this that or the other thing, all the weird stuff that I would do, all the weird things ... Show More
Sep 2025
Introducing "Origin Stories"
Have you ever wondered how your favorite movie or book—or podcast, TV series, documentary, or article—got made? Origin Stories has you covered. Each week, veteran journalist Matthew Shaer talks to a different writer or director about the creation of a work close to their own hear ... Show More
5m 13s
Jun 2017
The Musings of Wallace Shawn
There are two Wallace Shawns. There's the character actor, known for playing eccentrics in The Princess Bride and The Good Wife and voicing cartoon dinosaurs. ("I don't get cast as a lot of real people," he notes.) Then there's the acclaimed playwright, thinker, and ardent leftis ... Show More
28m 21s
Feb 2025
Stephen Weinstock on Music, Theater, and Writing — The Writing Coach 214
In the latest episode of The Writing Coach podcast, I speak with musician, educator, and author Steve Weinstock.
41m 15s
Sep 2024
The Benefits of Embracing Our Limitations, with Oliver Burkeman
The podcast welcomes back Oliver Burkeman for this episode. The writer whose popular column for The Guardian ‘This Column Will Change Your Life’ made him into one of the most astute interrogators of the wellness and self-help fields, returns with a new book, Meditations for Morta ... Show More
44m 29s
Mar 2021
64/In the End, It Was All About Love (with Musa Okwonga)
<p><strong>Today we'll be talking to</strong> <a href="http://twitter.com/okwonga/">Musa Okwonga</a>. Musa is a writer, broadcaster, poet, speaker, musician. author, sportswriter, broadcaster and commentator on current affairs. He's also the first person to come on the podcast th ... Show More
1h 35m