Caring for Aging Parents: Money, Love and Hard Choices
Beth Pinsker and L. Annette Binder explore caring for aging parents, from the financial realities of elder care to Alzheimer’s, memory, love...
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Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon
Francesca Rheannon talks to writers of all genres about matters that move us and make us think.
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20 of 37 episodesJoseph Kelly on The Biggest Lie and America’s Fascist Roots
Historian Joseph Kelly traces the prehistory of American fascism and the lie that white supremacy gives one group the right to dominate anot...
Victoria Hetherington + Silvia Park on Human-AI Relationships
What happens when a machine becomes our friend, therapist, lover, or sibling? Victoria Hetherington and Silvia Park explore AI companionship...
Ida Susser on the Yellow Vests, Abdul El-Sayed on Medicare for All
What can France’s Yellow Vests teach us about saving democracy? And how could Medicare for All reclaim healthcare from private profit? Ida S...
Can Sci-Fi Save Us? John Feffer on SONGLANDS and Portia Elan on HOMEBOUND
John Feffer’s SONGLANDS and Portia Elan’s HOMEBOUND imagine futures shaped by climate crisis, AI, and corporate power. We talk with both aut...
Ada Ferrer on Keeper of My Kin + T.J. English on Havana & The Mob
Historian Ada Ferrer talks about Keeper of My Kin, her memoir of a Cuban family divided by revolution, migration, and exile. Then Writer’s V...
Noam Scheiber on the Mutiny of the New Working Class
What happens when the promise of higher education no longer delivers economic security? New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber argues that mi...
How to Be a Dissident, Lessons from Resistance Then and Now
What makes an ordinary person become a dissident? Gal Beckerman explores moral courage through figures like Alexei Navalny, Osip Mandelstam...
Patriotism Redefined: The Moral Legacy of Bates and Adams
What if patriotism isn’t about claiming America is perfect, but helping it become better? This Independence Day on Writer’s Voice: John de G...
U.S. Media’s Gaza Failure with Robin Andersen | Plus: Trans Youth and Anti-Trans Laws with Nico Lang
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Who gets to tell the story, and who gets erased? T...
Ordinary Soil: A Journey Through Land and Legacy + Carey Gillam on Monsanto
For SEO, I’d make it shorter and keyword-rich: Alex Woodard discusses Ordinary Soil, a sweeping multigenerational novel about a Choctaw farm...
Syria’s Lost Democratic Revolution with Anand Gopal
Writer’s Voice talks with journalist Anand Gopal about his remarkable book Days of Love and Rage. It’s a deeply human story of the Syrian re...
Lost Worlds: The Untold Story of Human Adaptation
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Episode Summary What if the story we tell about ci...
Omar Zahzah: How Silicon Valley Suppresses Palestinian Voices | Terms of Servitude
In this episode of Writer's Voice, Francesca speaks with Omar Zahzah, Palestinian-American scholar, activist, journalist, and author of Term...
America’s Death Penalty Crisis + Abdul El-Sayed on Healing Politics
This week on Writer’s Voice: Elizabeth Vartkessian discusses The Undeserving and the human realities behind America’s death penalty system....
Tim Weed’s The Gatepost + Farah Naz Rishi’s The Flightless Birds of New Hope
This week on Writer's Voice: Tim Weed explores psychedelics, Mesoamerican mythology, and consciousness in The Gatepost. Farah Naz Rishi talk...
Caroline Bicks on Stephen King, Maria Adelmann on Adjunct Labor
Caroline Bicks joins Writer’s Voice to talk about Monsters in the Archives, her fascinating exploration of Stephen King’s private papers, cr...
Women Who Changed Journalism + Nature’s Hidden Relationships
This week’s Writer’s Voice: Julia Cooke discusses Starry and Restless, her portrait of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and Emily Hahn, women...
Bill McKibben on Solar’s Breakthrough, Anne Fadiman on the Hidden Life of Ordinary Things
For Earth Day on Writer’s Voice, Bill McKibben on why solar may be arriving faster than we realize. Then, Anne Fadiman on frogs, pronouns, a...
Free Press 2026, Media Censorship & Daniel Ellsberg’s Moral Legacy
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rhean...