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READ TO ME with Becky Karush

Oct 31, 2019

In this episode, we see how the short story is like both a bar band at a distance and a whale call heard above the water. We read from the dark heart of "Mabel, Mabel," from THEY COULD LIVE WITH THEMSELVES, linked stories by Jodi Paloni.


Oct 23, 2019

In this episode recorded under a blanket, we meet the putrid, mysterious, seductive, and star-studded skunk cabbage in Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth's WADING RIGHT IN. We learn how sentences of clarity, authority, and service can generate reverence. We learn what it takes to fall in love with a wetland,...


Oct 14, 2019

READ TO ME is the podcast where we listen for what we love, inspired by the Gateless Writing method. What does academic writing look like when it is meant to live beyond the academy? How do you turn research and theory into public scholarship? What happens to story? What happens to sentences? What happens to...


Oct 9, 2019

READ TO ME is the podcast where we listen for what we love, inspired by the Gateless Writing method. In this episode, we hear a chorus made of a Slayer, a Candidate, and a Writer. BUFFY SUMMERS comes to us on the brink of final apocalypse in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S7E10. We get an excerpt from TAFFY...


Oct 3, 2019

READ TO ME is the podcast where we listen for what we love, inspired by the Gateless Writing method. In this episode, we read ROSH HASHANAH: 5780, a poem from Verandah Porche, one of the most original minds and poets I know. We see the gobstopping power of mirror structures. We live an immigrant history. We bless...