Instructions for Divorce

KB Brookins on change, gym bros, and the stories that haven't been told. 

Drew Ackerman on insomnia, late-night radio, and soothing his inner cynic. 

Shin Yu Pai on professional breakup, desert art, and love in the archive. 

Neil and Catherine have the vocabulary you need to talk about this story. 

Robin Basselin and Liz Waid tell about a brave group of women. They confronted their abusers in an international court. 

I chat with Calli and Brenna about Woolf's A Room of One's Own. We ask why it's hard to create literary masterpieces and what particular obstacles women have faced through the centuries. We consider Woolf's claim that "it would have been impossible...for any woman to have written ... Show More

Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'. 

Mark and I take an intimate look into our marriage since we are ripe for a "Gray Divorce". And, I learn a valuable lesson when our very own marriage counselor joins the conversation.Special thanks to Dr. Linda Carter! 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s deeply disturbing 1847 poem about a woman escaping slavery and killing her child was written to shock its intended white female readership to the abolitionist cause. Browning was the direct descendant of slave owners in Jamaica and a fervent anti-slav ... Show More

Listen to Neil and Catherine talk about words with the suffixes -ness and -ity. 

We talk about the life-affirming poems of Adam Zagajewski. 

In today's episode I have a returning guest on the show, Kate Anthony who is a divorce coach and specialist and the host of the Divorce Survival Guide Podcast and the author of her new book which is out TODAY, The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage . In ... Show More