- A Brief Chat #226: Gretchen Gustavson on speech pathology
On this episode I talk with my sister, Gretchen Gustavson, about her job as a speech pathologist. She helps dispel some of the mystery around speech issues and how they’re ...
- A Brief Chat #225: Althea Collier on hiking the Appalachian Trail
Althea Collier hiked the 2,200-mile-long Appalachian Trail in 2022, starting when she was 17 and finishing when she was 18. In this interview she talks about how she decided to ...
- A Brief Chat #224: Faraaz Abdool on birding in Trinidad & Tobago
Faraaz Abdool is a birder, author, guide, and environmentalist. In this interview we talk about how he developed an interest in birding; finding a community of people interested in the ...
- A Brief Chat #223: Hester Blum takes a fresh look at Moby-Dick
Hester Blum is a professor of English at Penn State. She recently edited, and wrote the introduction for, the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Moby-Dick. In this interview, we ...
- A Brief Chat #222: Richard Biever on theater as a tool for social change
Richard Biever is an assistant professor of musical theatre at the School of Performing Arts at Wichita State University. In this interview, we talk about using the stage as a ...
- A Brief Chat #221: Clint Carrick on visiting small town skateparks
Clint Carrick is the author of the book Small Town Skateparks, which chronicles his journey from Vermont to California, visiting skateparks in out-of-the-way places across the country. The book is ...
- A Brief Chat #220: Alice Teeple on photographing homelessness in NYC
Alice Teeple is, among other things, a documentary photographer. Her photo essay on homelessness in New York City was recently featured on the website Interlocutor. In this interview, Alice talks ...
- A Brief Chat #219: Albert Goldbarth on poetry and ’50s sci-fi
Albert Goldbarth has been publishing poetry for five decades. Albert’s newest collection, Everybody, is available from Lynx House Press or your local bookseller.
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- ABC Travelogue #1: Providence, Bristol and Newport (TEASER)
In which I travel to various places in Rhode Island and tell you what I see. Get the entire episode and many more bonus shows (plus a whole lot more) ...
- A Brief Chat #218: Michael Schiavo on poetry and observation
A conversation with poet Michael Schiavo about:
random Instagram photography
daily writing vs inspiration
the creation of his book The Mad Song
Emerson and transcendentalism
his current projects
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