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Inner States — 162 episodes · page 1 of 2
Introducing Nice Work
Dad Took the Cake (Recipe)
Action + Agency: 3 Live Interviews
Borders Part II: Where Is Home?
Borders Part I: Resettling Refugees Before 2025
How to Preserve an Orange (Inner States Bonus)
Oranges, Play, and the Pursuit of Transformation
Saving Local News Through Print
Nathan Dillon: Troubadour for Seniors
Ready Parrot One
Can art resist fascism?
The Challenge of Challenging Gender Norms
The Inner States (complicated feelings about) Christmas Special!
Whose Heartland?
The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 4: Rita's Village
The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 3: Missing Rita
The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 2: Finding Rita
The Third Time Rita Left: A Lost Cat in Election Season
The Elusive Rural Indiana Democrat
Fitting In Is Easy. Midwest Punk Is Harder.
Your Trash is Mary’s Treasure
A Long-Dead Unionist’s Biggest Fan
What’s Fun About City Government? Ft. Isak Asare
Justin Carney’s Photography Reworks Family Grief
Amy Oelsner and Girls Rock Bloomington Start Rocking
Who and How to Remember: On Public Art and Memory
Nanette Vonnegut: Self-Portrait at 14
Joyce Jeffries and the Cutters
Southern Rock, Midwestern Soul
Doubting Her Paralysis
Voices from the Encampment
Ross Gay on How We Can Change, Sentence By Sentence
If My Hands Could Look Like Hers
Indiana's Oil and Gas Boom Still Echoes Today
Does The Future of Libraries – or Narrative Itself – Include Books?
Orli Shaham On Where Music Is and Where It’s Going
Mixtape: Stories about Music, Love, and More
NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans and Comedian Sara Schaefer Say What Needs to Be Said
How the Midwest Helped Yalie Saweda Kamara Write Her First Full-Length Poetry Collection
Jad Abumrad on Talking with Humans
A Net Maker, and Remembering the Founder of the Ryder Magazine and Film Series
Inner States presents Inferno at Whiting
Why Set Your Novel in Indiana, and How Comedy Isn't Therapy
A Nature Walk in the Future, a Cyclist in the Past
Your Neighborhood Shapeshifter
Singing for Ukraine
Don't Fight Your Political Enemies. Out-Organize Them.
Becoming a Participant in the Landscape
Don't Go Pro
Postcard from Paoli
How to Watch Old Movies
Quitting, Then Quitting Some More
The Inner States (Complicated Feelings About) Christmas Special!
Middle School and Queer Superpowers, and a Comedian in a Car
Comics and the Moral Arc of the Universe
Thinking With Freud
Two Rivers, One Watershed
Jack, Seigen, and a Federal Execution
The Left, The Enlightenment, and Being Woke
20th-Century Memory Work
The Teens Are Accomplished and Splendid. The Poets Bring the Slam.
Comedy and Conspiracy on Welcome to Night Vale…and Other Panics
Hector Loves Water Treatment
Family Policing with Micol Seigel
Ross Gay on the Transformation that Thinking Makes Happen
Vets Do Art
Mixtape (fixed)
Comedy Isn’t Therapy, Therapy Is - and the Missing Cat Story Concludes
Why Set Your Novel in Indiana, then an Invitation to Exhume a Dead Cat
A Good Divorce, and a Kitten Comes Back as a Cat
The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 4: Rita's Village
The Third Time Rita Left Chapter 1: Losing Rita
The Funny Times Keep Coming, and a Cat Disappears
Comic Books and Billboard Charts
Oscar Wilde on trial, then two puppets get married
Ross Gay on Joy and the Ends of the Earth
Postcard from Paoli
Latinx Politics in East Chicago and The Shaggs
The Prison They Didn't Build
Leah Johnson's new book is about middle school, superpowers, and queerness
How to Survive the Future Episodes 4 & 5
Conspiracy becomes comedy on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale
How to Survive the Future Episodes 1 & 2
Can art about the 20th century help us change the 21st?
3 Music Stories
Left is Not Woke with Susan Neiman
Veterans Doing Art
Replay: Becoming a Participant in the Landscape
Can I ask you a couple questions?
Family Policing
Mixtape
Jack and Seigen
The 21st-Century Conservatory Needs to Challenge Itself
Comic Books and Billboard Charts, Collecting and Ranking
Fiction Without Narrative, Teaching Without Grades, Indiana Beyond Sugar Cream Pie
Censorship and Freedom
A Graphic Novel about the Medicalization of Death and Dying
Mothering on Two Sides of the Atlantic
People from Bloomington: A Short Story Collection from Indonesia (replay)
Who Makes Decisions At Work