Jul 28, 2021
Your host Becky Karush got to be in a writing salon with author Jodi Paloni the other day, and man, was it dizzyingly hot-damn amazing to hear her work. In this episode, we read from Jodi's short story collection, THEY COULD LIVE WITH THEMSELVES. We see how secondary characters mirror each other to show the inner life...
Jul 21, 2021
In this episode, we read the lyrics of Wedding Song, from the Tony- and Grammy-winning musical HADESTOWN by Anais Mitchell. We get to love up the song's questions, the dares, the seduction, the reckless hope, the promises, the love.
The episode was an experiment, too — the fifth-ever episode, the first with a live...
Jul 14, 2021
Today we get to talk to my friend Emily Bass, the debut author of the extraordinary book TO END A PLAGUE: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa. This book is…
An essential history of a U.S. government program.
A history of the evolution of AIDS activism, and human dignity activism, in the US and in several...
Jul 12, 2021
I met author Emily Bass in 1996, right around the time she was meeting AIDS activists in New York City.
I met Em when we were summer camp counselors together.
Neither of us knew that we’d become longtime friends. Neither of us knew that she was right at the inception of a 20-plus year journey to research, report, and...