Episode 412 - The Guest List 2020

With The Dark-Robed Mother: A Memoir (Wesleyan University Press), poet-translator-professor Rachel Tzvia Back explores her life with high-functioning depression, weaving Ancient Greek myth, poetry, family history, interviews, and more into an amazing tapestry of life in the dark ...  Show more

Essayist Sven Birkerts, one of my favorite past pod-guests, welcomes me back to the mic for a conversation about writing, art, mortality, resistance, technology, and selling rare books! We talk about what he's learned about writing from his Substack essay-experiment, how he redis ...  Show more

Support this podcast and hear episodes a week early, ad-free at patreon.com/beyondthedark The complete subscription-only series The Strata: Luna is also available now on Patreon. Content Warning: Blood, Gratuitous Violence, Gun SFX, Death Created by Mark R. Healy Cast: Michelle M ...  Show more

In Episode 131, Catherine (@gilmoreguide) and I share the best backlist books we read in 2022. We each share our top 5 backlist books from 2022, some underrated backlist gems, and our backlist reading stats. Catherine and I both had a successful year of backlist readin ...

Before 70 Over 70 goes on hiatus, Max sits down again with the person who inspired the show, his dad Marty, to talk about what he has learned from these conversations and what he hopes will stick with listeners. Thank you to the more than 70 people over 70 who helped make this sh ...  Show more

Case ########-1An assortment of personal statements. Thanks to this week's Patrons: Ashton, Andrea Paternoster, Isa, Laurie Rich, Lizzie Jacobs, Elisabeth Dixon, Robin Allez, Joe Bell, Veronica P, Sam and Phobos, Kira, Dr. Badvibes, Sara Freeman, Hannah Earnshaw, Anne Fabe, Kiro, ...  Show more