00:45

Alan Light - America – from Five American Musicians

02:01

Trygve Olson - America – and the Enduring Example of Our Democracy

01:15

Beto O’Rourke - America – and Our Common Ground

03:42

Stephanie Land - Writing, From the Margins of America

04:54

Kim Addonizio - Shaping the Personal Essay

02:38

Peter Orner - The Art of Re-Reading (and Re-Re-Reading)

01:04

Andre Dubus III - The Nature of Memory and Memoir

05:29

Stuart Stevens - The Conspiracy to End America

02:24

Sari Botton - What Aging Means to Oldsters

01:49

Claire Bidwell Smith - Living and Writing After Loss

03:12

Grant Faulkner - Writing With Vulnerability

04:27

Susan Orlean - Finding the Perfect Story

01:38

Brooke Warner - How Creative Women Thrive

04:35

Steve Almond - Writing, Failing, and Trying Again

02:16

Jerry Saltz - How Art Happens – In Six Great Works

02:36

Liza Donnelly - Liza Donnelly

02:02

Poetic Form - Maya C. Popa

01:17

Andre Dubus III - Writing as Dreaming

03:05

Greg Sandow - The Death of Classical Music

02:24

Camille Dungy - Tending the Gardens of Creativity and Motherhood

02:33

Joseph Fasano - The Craft and Magic of Poetry

04:04

Matt Strain - The Ways A.I. is Revolutionizing the Writing Process

03:27

Steve Almond - The Wisdom of Failure

03:58

Cheryl Strayed - Nurturing Your Artistic Life While Keeping the Almighty List

01:53

Richard Panek - Writing What You Don’t Know

02:06

Julianna Baggott - Balancing Family, Writing, and the Work:Life Blur

02:21

Matthew Zapruder - Honoring Family as a Source of Creativity

03:41

Andrew Penn - Psychedelic Science and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

02:25

Holly Lynn Payne - The Power of Page One

00:53

Valerie June - Cultivating Music, Creativity, and Your Own Badass Self – in Five Songs

02:34

Matt Strain - Getting Started with A.I. – for Real People

02:18

Peter Orner - Prose Momentum – in Five Great Paragraphs

02:26

Dr. Eric Verdin - Covid-19, Aging, and the Immune System

02:44

Rebecca Makkai - Getting Unstuck

02:37

Meg Wolitzer - Writing about Family

02:12

Benjamin Dreyer - How to Make Writing Better

04:11

Pauline Frommer - The Power of a Life-Changing Vacation

03:10

Steve Almond - Where Stories Come From

00:53

Elissa Epel - Stress and Aging

02:14

Nataliya Gumenyuk - Confronting War Crimes, from the Front Lines

02:11

Grant Faulkner - The Art of Brevity

01:15

Steven Austad - What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives

01:40

Laurie R. King - What Makes Mysteries Great

02:19

Brooke Warner - What it Takes to Get Published

05:46

Jerry Saltz - Where Art and the Art World are Right Now

03:55

Phil Klay - Thinking and Writing about Citizenship

03:03

Lewis Watts - Documenting Migration and Culture

02:44

Roosevelt Montás - Self-Transformation, by Reading Ancient Books

03:16

Steven Johnson - Where Creativity Comes From

02:41

Rabih Alameddine - Being Grumpy

02:23

Alexander Vindman - Responding to Russian Aggression and the War in Ukraine

02:38

Joe Henry - by Song

04:26

Molly Haskell - Movie Love in the Sixties and Seventies

01:38

Mary Gauthier - The Healing Power of Songwriting – in Five Songs

03:38

Marc Freedman - The Power that Comes from Connecting Generations

03:40

Paul Irving - The Upside of Aging

02:37

Larissa Zimberoff - What Will Be On Our Plate in Ten Years

01:31

Rick Wilson - How We Win the Messaging Wars and Save Democracy

03:36

Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate - Cinema’s Past, Present, and Future

03:37

Hayes Carll - Songwriting – in Five Songs