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SongWriter turns stories into songs, ft. Questlove, Joyce Carol Oates, David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Roxane Gay, Amanda Shires (The Highwomen), Susan Orlean, Steve Earle & Katie Melua
Filmmaker and actress Isabella Rossellini describes the night she went to see Temple Grandin speak at Hunter College, and ended up enrolling...
In this episode Niyonagira Laurence recounts her experience of the Rwandan genocide. She talks about the process of forgiving Mutiribambe Al...
At a live performance at The Guild in Charlottesville, Virginia, bestselling novelist and professor Bruce Holsinger reads a short story he w...
Filmmaker and director Ali Selim shares a story about his complicated relationship with his father. Dr. Emily Gaarder talks about her work i...
Brazilian poet and film editor Maria Rezende reads a poem about a man who could not forgive her. Dr. Rita de Cacia Oenning da Silva and Kurt...
Director Helen Cho shares a story that she wrote for SongWriter about learning to appreciate her mother’s perspective on caregiving and life...
Filmmaker and director Silas Howard reads a story about caring for his mother in the years before her death. Dr. Fayron Epps speaks about he...
Bahamian playwright and teacher Patrice Francis performs a dramatic piece about recovering from Hurricane Dorian, live at the Fuze Art Fair...
At a live show at Metro in Chicago, bestselling author Kaveh Akbar reads a poem about empathy that he wrote for Jamila Woods . Jamila and Ka...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen ( The Sympathizer ) gives a talk about belonging at a live performance at the Litquake Festi...
Journalist and bestselling author Beth Macy ( Dopesick ) reads a piece she wrote to accompany her new memoir Papergirl , about her family's...
The trailer for season seven includes mention of the themes we'll be working on, and some of the upcoming guests, including Jennifer Egan, J...
Poet, author, and playwright Ben Okri reads his story “A Wrinkle in the Realm,” and talks about music and dream logic. Stanford’s Dr. Tomás...
At a live performance in London, journalist, filmmaker, and author Sarfraz Manzoor reads a piece he wrote for SongWriter about the things he...
Turkish journalist and author Asli Perker shares a story she wrote for SongWriter about a terrible car accident, and how it helped to make h...
Palestinian poet and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan shares her poem “Dear Gaza,” about guilt, memory, and hope. Scientist Dr. Salma Mousa...
Poet Maggie Smith reads her viral poem Good Bones and reflects on what it means to raise children in a world that is both beautiful and frig...
Filmmaker and author Naz Riahi tells a heartbreaking story she wrote for SongWriter about the loss of a beloved pet, and how her experience...
Filipinx American poet Ina Cariño shares a brand new “sonnet crown” poem that they wrote for SongWriter on the subject of family and empathy...
Author Kate Cohen reads a piece she wrote for SongWriter about how – despite her firm atheism – the Jewish religious ritual that she grudgin...
Freddy Mutanguha , who is the CEO of the Aegis Trust – the organization that built the Kigali Genocide Memorial – describes surviving the ge...
During a performance at KQED Live , comedian and filmmaker W. Kamau Bell tells a story about his father’s 80th birthday party, and an extrao...
Bestselling Cameroonian-American author Imbolo Mbue shares an excerpt she chose from How Beautiful We Were , about a village’s collective fi...
At a live performance at Queens College, legendary author Joyce Carol Oates reads a piece about her beloved late husband Charlie Gross, call...
At a live performance at KQED in San Francisco, bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean tells a story about homing pigeo...
Season 6 is here, with the return of friends like Joyce Carol Oates and Susan Orlean, and new ones like W. Kamau Bell, Imbolo Mbue, Crys Mat...
Bonus episode! News of the mildly delayed season six, as well as some upcoming live shows, including: 5/11 Joyce Carol Oates + Ali Sethi wit...
Bestselling author David Sedaris reads an excerpt from Theft By Finding , a collection of his diaries from when he was a young artist. Jacob...
Bestselling author Raven Leilani reads an excerpt of her short story “Breathing Exercise,” and talks about art, racism, and carnality in her...
This is part one of a two-part episode featuring "Sea Oak" by George Saunders. Part one contains a song written by Ben Arthur , Vienna Teng...
This is part one of a two-part episode featuring "Sea Oak" by George Saunders. Part one contains a song written by Ben Arthur, Vienna Teng,...
Bestselling author, screenwriter, and founder of McSweeney’s, Dave Eggers reads an excerpt from his short story, “The Museum of Rain,” and t...
Andrew Sean Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for his comic novel, Less . For this episode he reads an excerpt from the follow up book, Less is L...
Sally Rooney ’s bestselling novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You? is a follow-up to her wildly successful novel Normal People , which was m...
Kevin Allison is a storyteller, the host of the wildly popular RISK! podcast, and a former member of MTV’s The State. He tells a story about...
Author and illustrator Dolan Morgan reads an excerpt from his story, “The Quartering Act,” which combines fantasy and emotional realism to e...
Charlie Gilmour reads an excerpt from his bestselling memoir, Featherhood , which connects the story of raising an abandoned magpie with exp...
Bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz reads an excerpt from her recent novel, The Latecomer , and talks about the connections and disconnec...
New Yorker staff writer, Russian dissident journalist, and author Masha Gessen (@MashaGessen) tells the story of being called in for a death...
New York Times writer Dan Bergner reads an excerpt from The Mind and the Moon , which explores the lives of three people coping with serious...
Bestselling author and storyteller Neil Gaiman ( @NeilHimself ) talks about his long collaborations with the FourPlay String Quartet ( @Four...
Cheryl Strayed ( @CherylStrayed ) returns to SongWriter to read another letter from "Tiny, Beautiful Things" (which is now a series on Hulu...
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Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine ( @cajundiscordian ) describes how he came to the conclusion that LaMDA, an AI developed by Google, is...
Questlove (@Questlove) reads an excerpt from his critical history of modern America, Music is History , about songwriter Bill Withers. Songw...
Grammy Award-winning songwriter Mary Gauthier ( @MaryGauthier_ ) talks about her memoir Saved By a Song , and describes grappling with her h...
Bestselling author Jonathan Franzen reads an excerpt from his newest novel, Crossroads, and talks about a band that he loves, Wussy ( @Wussy...
Bestselling author Ashley C. Ford ( @iSmashFizzle ) reads an excerpt from her memoir, Somebody's Daughter, about her complicated relationshi...
Southern author Tom Franklin reads two pieces of short fiction – including one about a visit to the beach near Chicago – and talks about his...
Author and former longtime “lieutenant” for Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever , ( @LaurieWoolever ) tells an exclusive story about a day in...