All Episodes

140: Artists in Love – A Digital Exhibition by Masha Ryskin & Serge Marchetta

139: Is Pop Music Still Pushing Boundaries? – A Conversation with John Garrison

138: Do the Voiceless Need a Voice? – A Conversation with Glenn Kurtz

137: Resurrect Your Darlings

136: Male Loneliness and Space Mirrors – A Conversation with Josh Weil

135: Are the Universities Collapsing? – A Conversation with Jorge Grossman

134: Our Families Discarded Us…Now What? – A Conversation with Ben Miller

133: Listen to This Before Starting Your Nonprofit – A Conversation with Mitch Cope

132: Where Your World and My World Meet – A Conversation with Andrea Clearfield

131: What's a Book Really Worth? – A Conversation with Kevin Brockmeier

130: Utopias Lost and Found – A Conversation with Heide Fasnacht & Nancy Princenthal

129: What Is Our Moral Imperative? – A Conversation with Rose Whitmore

128: But Isn’t the Publisher Supposed to Do That? – A Conversation with Roger Matthew Grant

127: The Virginity Consultant – A Reading and Discussion by Itto & Mekiya Outini

126: The Stranger in Your House – A Conversation with Adam Gnuse

125: I Shouldn’t Tell You This, But... – A Conversation with Peter Gilbert

124: What's Keeping Good Books from Getting Published? – A Conversation with Kathleen Peirce

123: The Adventures of Sweaterman – A Conversation with Mark Newport

122: Executive of Nonsense – A Conversation with Eric Lyon

121: How a Poem Learns to Think – A Conversation with Dan Beachy Quick

120: Three Immigrant Stories – A Reading and Discussion by Itto & Mekiya Outini

119: Why Are So Many Blockbusters Still Losing Money? – A Conversation with Mildred Inez Lewis

118: Why Is It So Hard to Launch a Nonprofit? – A Conversation with Robert Paterson

117: What Matters Most in Historical Fiction? – A Conversation with Ron Nyren

116: Encounters with the Infinite – A Digital Exhibition by Matt Marello

115: Why Do They Want to Keep Us Young? – A Conversation with Joe Cantrell

114: What’s Wrong with Philosophy? – A Conversation with Troy Jollimore

113: How to Make Art and Escape from Home School – A Conversation with Keith Crowley

112: Classical Music Has a Marketing Problem – A Conversation with Marti Epstein

111: Why Do They Hate Us? – A Conversation with Christopher Merrill

110: Don’t Give in to Loneliness. Do This Instead – A Conversation with Lesley Dill

109: The Art of Mispronouncing Names – A Conversation with Bobby Ge

108: Do Women Have it Harder in the West? – A Conversation with Shiri Mordechay

107: Brief Encounters with the Oklahoma City Bomber – A Conversation with Connie Squires

106: Why Were These Doctors Killing Their Patients? – A Conversation with Ray Lustig & Max Hein

105: Which Is the Better Life: Material or Spiritual? – A Conversation with Julie Heffernan

104: To Know One Truth Is to Know Nothing – A Conversation with Dean Rader

103: Will AI Keep Writing Your Books When You're Gone? – A Conversation with John Dalton

102: Is Luck Enough to Get a Residency? – A Conversation with Kati Gegenheimer

101: What Can You Do with a Dead Man’s Fingers? – A Conversation with Sheryl Jaffe

100: What You're Getting Wrong about Copyright Law – A Conversation with Elissa D. Hecker

99: Will AI Replace Visual Artists? – A Conversation with David Molesky

98: Is the American Dream Alive for Artists? – A Conversation with Anthony Gatto

97: Peacocks on the Streets – A Conversation with Michele Wolf

96: The Art of Data Mining – A Conversation with Kamala Sankaram

95: Can AI Write Your Poetry for You? – A Conversation with Peter Kline

94: The Church of Inconvenience – A Conversation with Helen O’Leary

93: Forget AI: Will a Puppet Take Your Job? – A Conversation with Nami Yamamoto

92: What Would Camus Do (with Emojis)? – A Conversation with Steve Chang

91: Is Writing a Waste of Time? – A Conversation with Alexia Nader

90: Is AI Taking Music Jobs? – A Conversation with Ben Krause

89: Will Plastic Surgery Make You Beautiful? – A Conversation with Anne Harris

88: How to Be a Grownup When You’re a Bit of a Mess – A Conversation with Thea Chacamaty

87: What Is a Home? – A Conversation with Josue Bessiake

86: Art, Grief, Loss – A Conversation with Tom Levy

85: How to Put Together a Poetry Collection – A Conversation with Derrick Austin

84: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome – A Conversation with Jeremy Podgursky

83: Lessons from a Year in Siberia – A Conversation with Brendan Isaac Jones

82: Lessons from 50+ Years in the Visual Arts – A Conversation with Joyce Kozloff

81: Can Writers Bring People Together? – A Conversation with Jeff Bender

80: How to Tell a Ghost Story – A Conversation with Timothy Nolan

79: What if Someone in Your Family Is a Monster? – A Reading by Itto and Mekiya Outini

78: How to Keep Readers from Walking Away – A Conversation with Emma Binder

77: From Appalachia to Cornell – A Conversation with Robert Ray Morgan

76: Can Poetry Change the World? – A Conversation with Susan Kelly DeWitt

75: Can Literature Keep an Indigenous Language Alive? – A Conversation with William Rose

74: How Does Multiculturalism Shape Your Artistic Practice? – A Conversation with Abeer Hoque

73: Can Liberals and Conservatives Find Common Ground? – A Conversation with Boris Fishman

72: How to Succeed as a Multidisciplinary Artist – A Conversation with Ashley Wren Collins

71: Voodoo, Vacuum Cleaners, Eurydice, and LSD – A Conversation with Anne LeBaron

70: What Happens When God Doesn’t Answer Your Prayers? – A Conversation with Matthew Dunivan

69: Can Hardship Enhance Your Creative Practice? – A Conversation with Julian Kreimer

68: There Is No Nation Greater Than Imagination – A Conversation with Eric 'Wally' Wallach

67: To the Island and Halfway Back, by Itto and Mekiya Outini

66: How to Make a Living as a Classical Composer – A Conversation with Joel Hoffman

65: How Do You Know if You’re Writing a Novel? – A Conversation with Reena Shah

64: Turning Trauma into Drama – A Conversation with Gabriel Jason Dean

63: What Happens When You Ask the Wrong Questions? – A Conversation with David Biespiel

62: How to Translate the Untranslatable – A Conversation with Hugo dos Santos

61: Should Writers Get Paid for Their Labor? – A Conversation with Laura Goode

60: Where Is the Art Market Going? – A Conversation with Elizabeth Johnson

59: How to Keep Your Creative Practice Sustainable – A Conversation with Scott Pinkmountain

58: How to Get Your Artwork in Museums and Galleries – A Conversation with Fran Siegel

57: A Better World Is Possible – A Conversation with Danica Novgorodoff & Meera Subramanian

56: An Editor's Take on Submitting to Presses and Magazines – A Conversation with Peter Campion

55: Is Writer's Block a Myth? – A Conversation with Sean Behrens

54: How to Publish a Story Collection? – A Conversation with Laura Hulthen Thomas

53: How to Beat Burnout as a Working Writer – A Conversation with Yaram Yahu

52: The Story Behind the Story – A Reading and Discussion with Itto and Mekiya Outini

51: Who Was the 18th Century's Messiah? – A Conversation with David Crespy

50: Listen, Read, Live Many LIves – A Conversation with Wesley Warshawer

49: What's the Difference between Thrillers and Mysteries? – A Conversation with Michael Wendroff

48: How Do You Know if It's a Cult? – A Conversation with Luna Westish

46: How to Publish in the US and Abroad – A Conversation with Dipika Mukherjee

45: How to Spot Red Flags in Publishing Contracts – A Conversation with Armand Rosamilia

43: Three Moroccan Stories by Itto & Mekiya Outini

42: How to Break into the Art World – A Conversation with Virginia Wagner

41: We Don’t Want a Hero Who Doesn’t Have Flaws – A Conversation with Brownell Landrum

37: Writing for a Forgotten Market – A Conversation with Andrea Harrison

36: Can You Write and Still Be Happy? – A Conversation with Rachel Whalen

33: What Is Literary Science Fiction? – A Conversation with JD Adler

31: What Is Enstrangement, and Why Does It Matter? – A Conversation with Douglas Boyce

30: It's Never Too Late to Start Writing – A Conversation with Susan Carlisle

28: Art, Globalization, and What Really Matters – A Conversation with Siavash Golkar

26: How to Write a Book Review – A Conversation with Ann Kjellberg

25: What Counts as Art? – A Conversation with Kai Franz

24: Of Shakespeare and Women – A Conversation with Elizabeth Sylvia

23: Russian Literature, Soviet Life – A Conversation with Stanley Ridgley

22: Writing Short Films – A Conversation with Susan Kougell

20: Art Couple Talk! – A Conversation with Jennifer Griffith & William Gadea

18: Turning an MFA Thesis into a Book – A Conversation with Mary Simmons

17: Redeeming Suburbia – A Conversation with Charles Ritchie

16: What Does It Take to Write a Memoir? – A Conversation with Jane Wong

15: What Does Speculative Fiction Have to Do with Dostoevsky? – A Conversation with Laurie Sheck

14: Write What You Don't Yet Know – A Conversation with Abhishek Pandit

13: Writing as a Profession – A Conversation with Rebecca Macijeski

12: The Artist's Quest for Work-Life Balance – A Conversation with Tamara Nemirovsky

11: Myth Alive! – A Conversation with Spencer Sutton

10: A New Old Poetic Vision – A Conversation with Crisosto Apache

9: On Death and Choosing – An Interview with Kathryn Trueblood

8: Writing Beyond Borders – A Conversation with Michael David Lukas

7: The Italian-American Racial Reckoning - A Conversation with Michele Reale

6: What Is a Book Coach...And Do You Need One?

5: Blurring the Lines – A Conversation with Luis Quijano

4: Can Music Remake the Internet? – A Conversation with Laurence Warner

3: Reviving a Legacy - a Conversation with Joanne Mulcahy

1: You've Got a Book In You