Stories, Poems & Music - The Creative Process Podcast
1) To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN - Highlights
“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, lang...Show More
2) The Theory of Water with LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON
“So I think that part of colonialism for Indigenous peoples has been this idea that Indigenous peoples aren't thinking peoples and that we don't have thought on a kind of systemic level. One of the th...Show More
3) On Writing, America's Forever Wars & Challenging Power with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN
“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an o...Show More
4) Writing, Imagination & Memory w/ Author & Filmmaker JAY PARINI
“Poetry is the prince of the literary arts to me. It's at the very top because it's language refined to its apex of memorability. I am interested in poetry as memorability and poetry as something you ...Show More
5) THE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMI
What happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in ...Show More
6) Examining Monuments, Memory & The History of White Supremacy IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR. - Highlights
“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going thro...Show More
7) An Actor Prepares - SHARON LAWRENCE on Crafting Complex Characters - Highlights
“I would encourage you, as I do if you're an actor, to know your own equipment, know your own psychology, and use the great teachers that are synthesized in my favorite teacher's book, Moss, who I stu...Show More
8) Exploring Family Dynamics & Fierce Female Friendships with Novelist MEGAN ABBOTT
“I think that it all goes back to childhood. I’ve always really been writing about family. I suppose we always are. I do think that it is the original wound, and it's where we are kind of wired and bu...Show More
9) All the Water in the World with Writer & Musician EIREN CAFFALL
“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnect...Show More
10) Building Bridges, Breaking Cycles: Personal Stories of Healing, Social Justice & Activism
How do our personal relationships affect political movements and activism? What can we learn from Native American tradition to restore ecological balance? How can transforming capitalism help address ...Show More