If there's a common thread in all my favorite podcasts of 2018, it was seeing another side of something I thought I knew. And if there's one question I have a hard time answering for myself, even with a trip down a good old Google rabbit hole, it's, "Where should I start with this new-to-me podcast?"... Continue Reading →
It’s almost Christmas, which is the perfect excuse to drop some very obvious hints about what podcast-related swag YOU might want, or to casually ask your podcast-obsessed loved ones which shows they like so you can pick out a shirt with an inside joke you don’t understand (but that they will love, I promise!!!). Why... Continue Reading →
A good storyteller can use almost anything as an entry point into showing us how people change, how culture shifts, and how we understand or misunderstand each other. Almost all of my favorite podcasts do this in one way or another. But That’s Another Story asks what books changed people’s lives to begin the conversation,... Continue Reading →
My husband got a new computer that turned out to be a lemon, and somehow after sending it back to get fixed five times and enduring seven hundred hours on the phone with the nice folks at Apple, managed to convince them to give him a new one and a few hundred bucks in credit... Continue Reading →
The Dear Sugars podcast has only been on since 2014, but their advice feels like it’s been a constant for me much longer. When it debuted, I was a brand new mom to an infant, living two thousand miles away from my family, and looking for wisdom and assurance about surviving life’s most seismic... Continue Reading →
With the tragic loss of public figures Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain comes a collective heavy heart and a reckoning with how their work and lives intersected with our own. Bourdain’s TV shows were so full of moments of real human connection and understanding across cultures. I read Kitchen Confidential immediately after I had... Continue Reading →
The idea behind But That’s Another Story is to get notable people talking about a book that changed them, changed the way they saw the world, or found them at just the time in their lives when they needed it. Host Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club and editor at Macmillan publishers, says he got... Continue Reading →
From history to tech to murder, these eleven women-hosted podcasts are taking podcasting to another level and are in my heavy rotation every day: By The Book: Each week, hosts Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer read a self help book and live by it to the letter. It’s irreverent, addicting, and honest, and the... Continue Reading →
NPR’s roundtable discussion of what to watch, read, and listen to is my go-to podcast for discovering what’s worth being on my precious post-kid-bedtime-binge-list, but it’s also more than that. The panelists do such a good job of talking about pop culture’s role in our lives: its importance in making us feel less alone,... Continue Reading →
