Episode 599 - Mirana Comstock

Episode 599 - Mirana Comstock

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Episode 671 - Rachel Tzvia Back

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

Episode 670 - Sven Birkerts

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

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