All Episodes
AWM Author Talks — 246 episodes
Episode 245: Lilia Fernández & Felipe Hinojosa
Episode 244: Writing Maps
Episode 243: Jenny Gorelick
Episode 242: Lauren Groff & John Stauffer
Episode 241: Suspense & Humor
Episode 240: SFWA Nebula Award Finalists
Episode 239: Annabelle Gurwitch
Episode 238: Daniel Kraus & Susan Orlean
Episode 237: A Nation Wrestles with God
Episode 236: Randall Sullivan
Episode 235: America at 250: Untold Stories
Episode 234: Rory O’Neill
Episode 233: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong – “Parks and Rec”
Episode 232: Naoko Fujimoto
Episode 231: Marilyn Hacker & Deema K. Shehabi
Episode 230: Kati Curts
Episode 229: Oscar Brown, Jr.
Episode 228: Rima Vesely-Flad
Episode 227: Lisa Marie Gring-Premble & Martha Watson
Episode 226: Mary Ann Ahern
Episode 225: Alan Light
Episode 224: Christopher W. Hunt
Episode 223: Divine Love
Episode 222: Thomas A. Tweed
Episode 221: Faith is Funny
Episode 220: Susan Orlean
Episode 219: Horror Writing and Religion
Episode 218: Paul Elie
Episode 217: Nicholas Meyer
Episode 216: Dave Barry
Episode 215: Making New Gods
Episode 214: Thi Bui, Vu Tran & Rita Bullwinkel
Episode 213: Sash Bischoff
Episode 212: Melvin Dixon & Black Queer Poetry
Episode 211: Worlds and Words of Chicago – Immigrant Stories
Episode 210: The Next Phase of Representation in Children’s Literature
Episode 209: Eve L. Ewing
Episode 208: Writing Love Stories
Episode 207: Writing the Dark Testament – Black History
Episode 206: Gail Crowther
Episode 205: YA Lit Today
Episode 204: Forms & Fissures
Episode 203: Donna Seaman
Best of 2024!
Episode 202: Writing the Story of Jazz
Episode 201: Mike Thomas and Rick Kogan
Episode 200: Best of Episodes 101-199
Episode 199: Writing Memoir
Episode 198: Writing Family History
Episode 197: Fake News & Media Literacy
Episode 196: Writing Literary Fiction
Episode 195: Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing
Episode 194: Indigenous History & Memory
Episode 193: Writing True Crime
Episode 192: Level Up – Writing & Gaming
Episode 191: Freedom to Read
Episode 190: Writing Latino History
Episode 189: The Lasting Influence of Lorraine Hansberry
Episode 188: Writing Labor History
Episode 187: Writing About Writers
Episode 186: New Fiction
Episode 185: Polarizing America – Chicago 1968
Episode 184: Ardent Dance Company
Episode 183: Writing Other Worlds
Episode 182: Making Up True Stories
Episode 181: John Berendt and Taylor Mac
Episode 180: Writing Politics Today
Episode 179: Writing Chicago Food & Comedy
Episode 178: Paul Tremblay
Episode 177: R. O. Kwon
Episode 176: Gods & Gaming
Episode 175: Sara Paretsky
Episode 174: Daniel de Visé
Episode 173: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Episode 172: Ed Zwick
Episode 171: Tim Spofford
Episode 170: Laurence Leamer
Best of 2023!
Episode 169: Gabriel Bump
Episode 168: Clara Kumagai
Episode 167: Jonathan Taplin & Michi Trota
Episode 166: Curtis Chin
Episode 165: Patti Hartigan
Episode 164: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Episode 163: Sterling L. Bland Jr.
Episode 162: Pearl Cleage
Episode 161: Patty Lin with Zibby Owens
Episode 160: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman & Sara Paretsky
Episode 159: Tom Piazza
Episode 158: Kathleen Rooney
Episode 157: Growing Up Chicago
Episode 156: Small Odysseys
Episode 155: Jabari Asim
Episode 154: Todd Brewster
Episode 153: Elizabeth Nunez
Episode 152: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson and Rebecca Makkai
Episode 151: Logan Steiner and Elizabeth Blackwell
Episode 150: Juneteenth Celebration
Episode 149: Juno Dawson
Episode 148: Lisa See
Episode 147: Zachary Zane
Episode 146: Writing Across Borders
Episode 145: The People’s Tongue
Episode 144: Nicole Chung
Episode 143: The Future of Black
Episode 142: John Scalzi & Michi Trota
Episode 141: Michael Warr
Episode 140: The Slippery Slope of Censorship
Episode 139: National Student Poets
Episode 138: Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
Episode 137: Amanda Flower
Episode 136: Caits Meissner & Nicole Shawan Junior
Episode 135: Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson
Episode 134: Deborah Cohen
Episode 133: Natalie Y. Moore
Episode 132: Clarence Lusane
Episode 131: Will Jawando
Episode 130: Ashley C. Ford and Eve L. Ewing
Episode 129: Elie Mystal
Episode 128: Richard Bradford
Episode 127: Brooks E. Hefner
Episode 126: Leonard Moore
Episode 125: Comedy Writing Panel
Episode 124: The Best of 2022
Episode 123: Jed Rasula
Episode 122: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022
Episode 121: Ukrainian & Dissident Writers Tour
Episode 120: Stuart N. Brotman
Episode 119: Imani Perry
Episode 118: Fierce Reads Nonfiction Panel
Episode 117: Ross Gay
Episode 116: Dhonielle Clayton & Jacqueline Woodson
Episode 115: Reyna Grande
Episode 114: Carell Augustus
Episode 113: Joy Harjo and Marie Arana
Episode 112: Kelly Lytle Hernández
Episode 111: David W. Blight
Episode 110: David Maraniss
Episode 109: Sara Paretsky
Episode 108: Andrea Beaty
Episode 107: Ingrid Michaelson & Bekah Brunstetter
Episode 106: Schele Williams
Episode 105: Kim Michele Richardson
Episode 104: Kosoko Jackson
Episode 103: Maxine Hong Kingston
Episode 102: Sudhir Venkatesh
Episode 101: Aaron Sorkin
Episode 100: A Celebration Count Down!
Episode 99: Archie Bongiovanni
Episode 98: Vincent Tirado
Episode 97: Aaron Sachs
Episode 96: Karl Marlantes
Episode 95: Gene Scheer
Episode 94: Douglas Conant and Amy Federman
Episode 93: Who’s Black and Why?
Episode 92: Jennifer Finney Boylan with Kathy Griffin
Episode 91: Joan Osborne
Episode 90: Katherine Schweit
Episode 89: Lolita in the Afterlife
Episode 88: Elizabeth Berg
Episode 87: Daniel Ellsberg
Episode 86: Deborah Blum
Episode 85: Sarah Parcak
Episode 84: Deborah Nelson Linck
Episode 83: Rebecca Hall
Episode 82: Nancy Johnson
Episode 81: Hanif Abdurraqib & Ashley Evans
Episode 80: Angela Terry
Episode 79: Layla Saad
Episode 78: Jonathan Lethem & Stacie Williams
Episode 77: Gertrude Beasley
Episode 76: Scott Turow
Episode 75: Sigrid Nunez
Episode 74: A. O. Scott & Rafia Zakaria
Episode 73: Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis
Episode 72: Tom Roston
Episode 71: Asali Solomon
Episode 70: Scott Peeples on Edgar Allan Poe
Episode 69: Joanne Lee Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
Episode 68: Sarah Gubbins
Episode 67: Juan Martinez
Episode 66: Dear McSweeney’s
Episode 65: Lilliam Rivera
Episode 64: Shay Bravo
Episode 63: Leonard S. Marcus & Meg Medina
Episode 62: Elly Fishman
Episode 61: Charles Ardai
Episode 60: Christie Hefner
Episode 58: Kathleen Rooney
Episode 57: Dr. Haki Madhubuti
Episode 56: Jess McHugh
Episode 55: Dominic A. Pacyga
Episode 54: Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Episode 53: Khaled Mattawa
Episode 52: Rebecca Deng
Episode 51: Nicole Chung
Episode 50: Sean Latham
Episode 49: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan & T Kira Madden
Episode 48: June Hur
Episode 47: R. O. Kwon
Episode 46: Rigoberto González and Johanny Vázquez Paz
Episode 45: Layli Long Soldier, Mark Turcotte, and Tanaya Winder
Episode 44: Sahar Mustafah
Episode 43: Billy Collins
Episode 42: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Episode 41: Claudio Lomnitz
Episode 40: Alice McDermott & Joseph O’Neill
Episode 39: Nicole Perlroth
Episode 38: Sara Paretsky
Episode 37: Aarti Shahani
Episode 36: Dr. John Stauffer
Episode 35: Jasmine Guillory
Episode 34: Walter Mosley
Episode 33: Gary Paulsen
Episode 32: Jacqueline Woodson
Episode 31: Jacob Soboroff
Episode 30: Uri Shulevitz
Episode 29: Daniel Yergin
Episode 28: Catharine Arnold
Episode 27: Glory Edim
Episode 26 – The Peanuts Papers
Episode 25: Manisha Sinha
Episode 24: Colin Asher on Nelson Algren
Episode 23: Norman Mailer discussion
Episode 22: Nicholas Buccola
Episode 21: Baseball Writing
Episode 20: Frank Waln & Tanaya Winder
Episode 19: Juan Felipe Herrera
Episode 18: Adrianna Cuevas
Episode 17: Louie Pérez
Episode 16: Julissa Arce
Episode 15: Michelle Duster
Episode 14: Isabel Ibañez
Episode 13: John Scalzi
Episode 12: Annalee Newitz
Episode 11: J. Michael Straczynski
Episode 10: Natasha Trethewey
Episode 9: Tayari Jones
Episode 8: Ross Gay & Eve L. Ewing
Episode 7: Keah Brown
Episode 6: Saeed Jones
Episode 5: David Treuer
Episode 4: Ngozi Ukazu
Episode 3: Laila Lalami
Episode 2: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kao Kalia Yang & Vu Tran
Episode 1: Sandra Cisneros & Fernando A. Flores