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 →
Maybe you have a fulfilling, financially lucrative, and flexible work situation. Maybe you have a kid who sleeps through the night, doesn’t nurse like a starving pterodactyl and never gets sick with the kid puking plague. Maybe you’ve reached that mythical asymptotic place on the curve of work and kids that gets as close to having it down as it possibly gets. Or maybe you’re more like me and literally every woman I know when it comes to work and kids:
Another week, another news alert about some Voldemort jerkoff turdface dude in politics, comedy, or Hollywood who's made women’s lives miserable. I submit, as one possible avenue of dealing with this now-routine terribleness, making sure your podcast playlist is as full as possible of interviews with tough, cool, talented women like these. Lisa Ling... Continue Reading →
An old friend of mine requested a playlist for an upcoming 6-hour road trip. He’s got little kids, but they won’t be coming along. Of course I suggested S-Town for one leg of the trip since he hadn't listened to it yet, but I suggested he mix it up for the ride up there. Here’s... Continue Reading →
I’ve been having a hard time nailing down what it is about WTF with Marc Maron that I love so much, but let me try. He’ll sometimes meander into a four minute story about some divey place he used to do standup or some guitar he’s trying to find strings for, or he’ll skip talking... Continue Reading →
Dear Sugars: Hillary Clinton: Hillary helps the Sugars answer a letter from a woman who faces what they call the "double bind of female ambition." If so much of 2017's politics felt achingly personal, or if you ever wrote Hillary a letter asking for advice in your head, this one's for you. Why Oh Why:... Continue Reading →
The last week of December is for eating cookies and thinking about self-improvement! These are my podcast-related goals for 2018: Listen to More Fiction Podcasts: I love reading fiction and used to be in the habit of listening to The New Yorker Fiction Podcast and Selected Shorts when I had a long commute. I just... Continue Reading →
