As Told To Podcast
1) Episode 102: Gathering of the Ghosts 2025
Join podcast host Daniel Paisner as he moderates a panel discussion at the second annual Gathering of the Ghosts ghostwriting conference earlier this year. Dan is joined by former As Told To guests ...Show More
2) Episode 101: Samantha Rose
"As a ghostwriter, I've trained my ear to listen for what's really there or not there, to discern what's underneath or between someone's words," writes veteran collaborator Samantha Rose, in her stirr...Show More
3) Episode 100: Alex DeMille
Nelson and Alex DeMille's The Tin Men is an electrifying read and a chillingly timely one," writes The New York Times best-selling novelist Megan Abbott of the third and final father-son collaboration...Show More
4) Episode 99: Matthew Winkler
Student journalist and first-time documentary filmmaker Matthew Winkler joins us to discuss his work on a film chronicling the life and career of Joya Sherrill, an unsung American jazz vocalist who wr...Show More
5) Episode 98: Michael E. Long
Podcast guest Michael E. Long calls himself “a professional explainer with a restive mind.” He is just that. Trained as physicist, Mike is the co-author of the international bestseller The Molecul...Show More
6) Episode 97: Emma Heming Willis and Michele Bender
“No two caregiving journeys are alike,” writes Emma Heming Willis, the wife of actor Bruce Willis, who was diagnosed in 2023 with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), a rare form of dementia affecting behav...Show More
7) Episode 96: Samuel G. Freedman
“Pull the heart of your work out of your chest and lay it out there for the gods,” podcast guest Samuel G. Freedman told his Columbia Journalism School graduate students on the first day of his final ...Show More
8) Episode 95: Jane Leavy
Jane Leavy is the New York Times best-selling author of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, and The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Cr...Show More
9) Second Printing: D. Watkins
Episode originally aired on Nov. 2, 2021. “Don’t make it out, make it better.” That’s a line from podcast guest D. Watkins, offered in the book trailer for his book of essays We Speak for Ourselves: A...Show More
10) Second Printing: Nell Scovell
Episode originally aired on April 11, 2023 “Writing is not what you start,” writes podcast guest Nell Scovell in her scathingly funny memoir Just the Funny Parts. “It’s not even what you finish. It’s ...Show More