Podcast Episodes

In which I read the final 25 poems from my 50 Days Till 50 Years series. The first 25 were in last month’s members-only episode, which you can access at ...

Writer Carolina Ciucci talks about Anne Brontë. For years the least known of the Brontë sisters, Anne has now taken her rightful place in the literary pantheon as both a ...

Chaundra Crouch talks about centering pleasure, but not at the expense of others or of the world at large. They discuss food and relationships and sex and sensuality and finding ...

Actor and baker Cory Anderson talks about dealing with the effects of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which she contracted as a result of getting COVID. It’s had a dramatic effect on ...

In this episode, Aaron and Patrick join me to talk about the deep and beautiful friendship we’ve created in a text chat that was originally meant to do some planning ...

In this episode I revisit five short audio essays from 2019 about my religious history, and then add an update on where I’m at now in 2023. Patreon Support the show by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...