All Episodes
Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini — 70 episodes
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
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