The Legend of Young Beaver
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Volume 58 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad and Mira go to karaoke, don't speak to one another, worry about communicable disease...Angry Adam on Taylor Swift...Burning Man murder mystery....Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun in love....more on the Swift-Kelce engagement...Trump is obsessed...Blake Lively remains in exile....The Hilaria Baldwin surrogate conspiracy...imagining the Baldwins on The Playa...and more... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , , etc....
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989. Susannah Cahalan
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is the author of (Viking). Cahalan is a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, journalist and public speaker. Her first book, Brain on Fire, has sold over a million copies and has been translated into more than twenty languages. Her second book, The Great Pretender, was shortlisted for the Royal Society’s 2020 Science Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey with her family. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , , etc. Get the debut audio course from...
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988. Sylvia Jones
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is the author of the debut poetry collection , available from Meekling Books. Jones is an adjunct professor at George Washington University. She also works as poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press and serves as a first reader for Ploughshares. Her next book, Dope Callisthenics, is forthcoming from Relegation Books in the Fall of 2026. She earned her M.F.A. from American University in Washington D.C. and lives in Baltimore, MD. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , ,...
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Ken Burns Presents 'The Swiftie Civil War'
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Volume 57 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad leans on A.I. for emotional validation...Angry Adam weighs in...Mira's Grandpasaurus has a massive stroke (survives)...Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get engaged...the Taylor Timer shatters...Lil Nas X walks nude through Studio City...a finger in a chicken wrap...and more... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , , etc. Get the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration,...
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987. Lydi Conklin
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is the author of the debut novel , available from Catapult Press. It was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, and American Short Fiction. They have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine. Their story collection, Rainbow...
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986. Donald Berger
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is the author of the poetry collection , available from SurVision Books. Winner of the 2024 James Tate International Poetry Prize. Berger's other books include Pizza Necklace, The Long Time—winner of the Poetry Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry—and Quality Hill (Lost Roads Publishers). His poems have appeared in journals in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and he currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available...
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Billionaire Death Party
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Volume 56 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Mira's hummingbird death angel friend...a letter from a listener who got run over by a car...Angry Adam returns (we forgot to play his audio last week)...Lana del Rey vs. Ethel Cain...billionaires in submersibles getting coffee and going to visit the disintegrated remains of peasants at the bottom of the ocean...in a shocking turn, Brad discovers an easter egg in Taylor Swift's new album...Katy Perry's continued run of shockingly bad luck...and more... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's...
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985. Chelsea Bieker
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is the author of the novel , now available in trade paperback wherever books are sold. Bieker's first novel, , was longlisted for The Center For Fiction’s and her story collection, won the . She is the co-creator of , writes about creative practice at her substack, and is at work on a new novel. *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , , etc. Get the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of...
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A Conversation with a Witch: Amanda Yates Garcia on Empire, Resistance, Contemporary Culture, and Radical Enchantment
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A special Sunday episode featuring , also known as The Oracle of Los Angeles. Amanda is a writer, socially engaged artist, public witch, and doctoral student in the department of World Arts Cultures and Dance at UCLA. Her first book, , received a starred review from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and has been translated into six languages. Amanda hosts the Between the Worlds podcast, which looks at the Western Mystery traditions through a mythopoetic lens and has been downloaded over 2.5 million times, with over 1,900 five-star reviews. Amanda is the founder of , a 20k strong online and...
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Our Lives Are Brilliant, Our Love is Pure
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Volume 55 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's new company, DeepDive, launches, he is now a startup founder...Brad takes his family to see The Naked Gun ...Mira sees Weapons (and gets Chappell Roan tickets)....Brad's strangely intimate knowledge of the James Blount phenomenon...T-Swift announces a new era...the Anna Delvey Brooklyn bunnicide...Katy Perry's masterclass in public relations disasters...and more... *** is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: , , , etc. Subscribe...
info_outlineSylvia Jones is the author of the debut poetry collection Television Fathers, available from Meekling Books.
Jones is an adjunct professor at George Washington University. She also works as poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press and serves as a first reader for Ploughshares. Her next book, Dope Callisthenics, is forthcoming from Relegation Books in the Fall of 2026. She earned her M.F.A. from American University in Washington D.C. and lives in Baltimore, MD.
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