Podcaster and writer Kelsey McKinney (You Didn't Hear This From Me: Notes on the Art of Gossip) "spills the tea" on all things gossip — from prayer circles to AI tattle; award-winning author Omar El Akkad discusses his first book of nonfiction One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, which traces his disillusionment with the West and the failure ... Show More
Mar 20
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Annabelle Gurwitch, and Max Gomez
Acclaimed poet Reginald Dwayne Betts explains how dogs of all types found their way into his newest collection Doggerel, as well as his own dogged efforts to build libraries in prisons across America; actor and writer Annabelle Gurwitch reflects on her shocking cancer diagnosis a ... Show More
52m 2s
Mar 13
Lidia Yuknavitch, Felipe Torres Medina, and Pedro the Lion (REBROADCAST)
Bestselling author Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her new memoir Reading the Waves, which explores memory and how a shift in position can reshape our complicated stories; award-winning humorist and writer Felipe Torres Medina (The Late Show With Stephen Colbert) takes us on an advent ... Show More
52m 28s
Aug 2024
Episode 601 - Jess Ruliffson
Comics journalist Jess Ruliffson joins the show to talk about the origins of INVISIBLE WOUNDS (Fantagraphics), her collection of stories from veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but we wind up talking about guys' butts, among other things. We get into her focus on male ... Show More
1h 52m
Aug 2024
Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart & Wright Thompson, Hard Knocks With Peter Schrager, Mt Rushmore Of Soft Things & Hank Has A B10 Team
It’s camp season and the Jets have memes in a meltdown looking for Florio’s everywhere. JJ McCarthy getting hurt is a huge bummer (00:00:00-00:17:17). Hank has picked his Big 10 team and we look at the AP poll being released (00:17:17-00:27:17). Mt Rushmore of soft things (00:27: ... Show More
2h 44m