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Writing from Personal Experience: Janet Fitch on using the deep parts

Janet Fitch is an author  and teacher of fiction writing. A profile on her site says she is “the author…

8 months ago

817: The Cavalry Is Not Coming

When you realize that help is not on the way, what do you do next? Prologue: Saddam Sayyaleh’s job right…

8 months ago

Music Review: Cut Worms – Cut Worms

( Jagjaguwar) Nearly three years after releasing their beautiful and sprawling double album Nobody Lives Here Anymore, Cut Worms (the…

8 months ago

Longform Podcast #565: Susan B. Glasser

Susan Glasser, the former editor of Politico and Foreign Policy, writes the "Letter from Washington" column for the The New…

8 months ago

Addiction and Creative People

Addictive behavior can interfere with our creative life “I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to…

8 months ago

816: Poultry Slam

During the highest turkey consumption period of the year, we bring you a This American Life tradition: stories of turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks,…

8 months ago

Music Review: The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons – The Hives

Music Reviews (The Hives AB) Time can be unkind to a band like the Hives. Despite not releasing an album…

8 months ago

Longform Podcast #547: Jamie Loftus

Jamie Loftus is a comedian, writer, and podcaster. Her new book is Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs.…

8 months ago

821: Embrace the Suck

People finding themselves in situations that are worse than they thought and deciding to really go with it. Prologue: A…

8 months ago

Longform Podcast #546: Javier Zamora

Javier Zamora is the author of Unaccompanied, a poetry collection, and Solito, a memoir. “There was something that I felt…

8 months ago