Episode: 230 Mad Libs
This week on The Easy Chair, it’s Family Mad Libs. From our vacation spot in The Hamptons, we play a spirited game of Mad Libs, World’s Grea...
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Author Laura Hurwitz reads you a story, continued week to week.
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Episode 229: Gift of the Magi
This week on The Easy Chair, it’s a reprise of “The Gift of the Magi,” the classic short story by O. Henry. This small sweet gem of a tale i...
Episode 228: Mightier Than the Sword, Holiday Survival Edition!
This week, it’s Mightier Than the Sword, Holiday Survival Edition, with co-host Stephanie Spaulding! Today we tackle the holidays. It’s a ti...
Episode 227: Midnight Morning Update (with Rachael Hurwitz)
Today on The Easy Chair, my guest is my daughter Rachael, and we talk about her indie folk band, Honey Magpie, and their second album, which...
Episode 226: The Point (by Laura Hurwitz)
Today on The Easy Chair, it's chapter one of my novel that’s been in progress (or arrested development) for quite a spell. I’ve been feeling...
Episode 225: In The Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried (by Amy Hempel)
This week on The Easy Chair, it’s the iconic short story writer Amy Hempel’s “The Cemetery When Al Jolson Is Buried.” This poignant story is...
Episode 224: “How to Become a Writer” (by Lorrie Moore)
This week on The Easy Chair, I am happy to share the subversively funny, life vs. art, absolutely all-too-true short story “How to Become a...
Episode 223: Mightier Than the Sword
This week, it’s the return of Mightier Than the Sword, with my wonderful co-host Stephanie Spaulding! Between one thing and another, it’s be...
Episode 222: The Patron Saint of Words
Today’s Easy Chair episode: “The Patron Saint of Words” with guest poet, artist, radio host, and journalist Karen (K.P.) Ponzio. K.P. reads...
Episode 221: Popsy (by Stephen King)
Just in time for Halloween, in this episode of The Easy Chair I read “Popsy”, Stephen King’s dark tale of a child abduction in which the tab...
Episode 220: Rape Fantasies (by Margaret Atwood)
This week on The Easy Chair, I read Margaret Atwood’s c. 1975 feminist short story, “Rape Fantasies”. Chatty narrator Estelle describes talk...
Episode 219: The Great Automatic Grammatizator (by Roald Dahl)
This week on The Easy Chair, I read a funny and thought-provoking short story by the late Roald Dahl, "The Great Automatic Grammatizator." F...
Episode 218: The Fat Girl (by Andre Dubus) Part Two
This week, on The Easy Chair, I read the conclusion of “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus. Louise has graduated college and now weighs less than...
Episode 217: The Fat Girl (by Andre Dubus) Part One
Today on The Easy Chair, I read Part One of “The Fat Girl”- a stunning short story by Andre Dubus. Louise has been fat since childhood, furt...
Episode 216: Mightier Than the Sword
This week on The Easy Chair, it’s Mightier Than the Sword, with my wonderful co-host Steph Spaulding. We’re both back at work in the classro...
Episode 215: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been Part Two (by Joyce Carol Oates)
This week on The Easy Chair, it’s the conclusion of Joyce Carol Oates’s stunner of a short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”...
Episode 214: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (by Joyce Carol Oates)
This week on The Easy Chair, I read the first half of Joyce Carol Oates's brilliant, twisted short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have Y...
Episode 213: Excerpts, Bird by Bird (by Anne Lamott)
This week on The Easy Chair, I read two funny and fabulous essays by author Anne Lamott from her seminal book on writing and life in general...
Episode 212: Mary (with Saul Fussiner)
This week on The Easy Chair: “Mary”, second of a two-part series by master storyteller Saul Fussiner. Like last week’s “Shane”, “Mary” is se...
Episode 211: Shane (with Saul Fussiner)
This week, I’m joined by writer/storyteller Saul Fussiner. It’s been a minute since Saul has been on the podcast, and the story “Shane” is f...