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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…

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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…

10 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…

10 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…

10 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…

10 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,…

10 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…

10 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.…

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821: Embrace the Suck

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

10 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…

10 months ago