Episodes

  • James Baldwin & Keith Haring: Love, Art, Race and the Courage to Tell the Truth

    James Baldwin & Keith Haring: Love, Art, Race and the Courage to Tell the Truth
    Sep 21 2026
    Looking at James Baldwin through the relationships that shaped his art: Nicholas Boggs joins me to talk about Baldwin: A Love Story. Then Brad Gooch explores Keith Haring’s mission to make art available to everybody.
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    58 mins
  • James Crawford on THE VANISHING EARTH + Max Page on New York and 9/11

    James Crawford on THE VANISHING EARTH + Max Page on New York and 9/11
    Sep 11 2026
    James Crawford asks what happens when extraction becomes civilization’s operating system, and whether repair can offer another way forward. Then, for the 25th anniversary of 9/11, an excerpt from my 2009 interview with Max Page about why generations of Americans imagined New York’s destruction long before the Twin Towers fell.
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    58 mins
  • Caring for Aging Parents: Money, Love and Hard Choices

    Caring for Aging Parents: Money, Love and Hard Choices
    Aug 28 2026
    Beth Pinsker and L. Annette Binder explore caring for aging parents, from the financial realities of elder care to Alzheimer’s, memory, love and loss.
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    59 mins
  • Joseph Kelly on The Biggest Lie and America’s Fascist Roots

    Joseph Kelly on The Biggest Lie and America’s Fascist Roots
    Aug 19 2026
    Historian Joseph Kelly traces the prehistory of American fascism and the lie that white supremacy gives one group the right to dominate another.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Victoria Hetherington + Silvia Park on Human-AI Relationships

    Victoria Hetherington + Silvia Park on Human-AI Relationships
    Aug 13 2026
    What happens when a machine becomes our friend, therapist, lover, or sibling? Victoria Hetherington and Silvia Park explore AI companionship and the increasingly uncertain boundary between human and machine.
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    1 hr
  • Ida Susser on the Yellow Vests, Abdul El-Sayed on Medicare for All

    Ida Susser on the Yellow Vests, Abdul El-Sayed on Medicare for All
    Aug 6 2026
    What can France’s Yellow Vests teach us about saving democracy? And how could Medicare for All reclaim healthcare from private profit? Ida Susser and Abdul El-Sayed join Writer’s Voice.
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    59 mins
  • Can Sci-Fi Save Us? John Feffer on SONGLANDS and Portia Elan on HOMEBOUND

    Can Sci-Fi Save Us? John Feffer on SONGLANDS and Portia Elan on HOMEBOUND
    Aug 1 2026
    John Feffer’s SONGLANDS and Portia Elan’s HOMEBOUND imagine futures shaped by climate crisis, AI, and corporate power. We talk with both authors about why care, creativity, and collective action still matter.
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    1 hr
  • Ada Ferrer on Keeper of My Kin + T.J. English on Havana & The Mob

    Ada Ferrer on Keeper of My Kin + T.J. English on Havana & The Mob
    Jul 26 2026
    Historian Ada Ferrer talks about Keeper of My Kin, her memoir of a Cuban family divided by revolution, migration, and exile. Then Writer’s Voice revisits a 2008 interview with journalist T.J. English about Havana Nocturne, the story of how the Mob took over Cuba and was stopped by the Cuban Revolution.
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    1 hr and 9 mins