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S4E12 - Get In the Cage
S4E12 - Get In the Cage
For our Season 4 finale, we watched the new Nicholas Cage movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Elena’s idea) a... Read more
12 May 2022
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2hr 12mins
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S4E11 - Revision
S4E11 - Revision
This week, we’re talking about revision. We discuss a chapter of Stephen Koch’s The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop tha... Read more
20 Apr 2022
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1hr 47mins
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S4E10 - March Faxness: the Final Four
S4E10 - March Faxness: the Final Four
This week we’re checking in with March Faxness again, now that the field has narrowed to four songs/essays (including Da... Read more
29 Mar 2022
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1hr 10mins
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S4E9 - March Faxness Round 1 Recap
S4E9 - March Faxness Round 1 Recap
This week we’re talking about possibly the best essay-related week of the year: March Faxness round 1, in which 64 essay... Read more
10 Mar 2022
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1hr 18mins
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S4E8 - March Faxness Preview
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This week we’re talking about the real reason this podcast exists: the annual March Xness essay/song tournament, which i... Read more
23 Feb 2022
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S4E7 - There's No I in Essay
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This week we’re talking about essays that aren’t in the first person. Elena picked one example, Eliot Weinberger’s “The ... Read more
9 Feb 2022
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1hr 59mins
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S4E6 - The Pushcart Prize 2022
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This week we’re talking about this year’s edition of the Pushcart Prize anthology. We compare it to Best American, discu... Read more
28 Jan 2022
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S4E5 - Best American Essays 2021
S4E5 - Best American Essays 2021
This week we’re talking about this year’s edition of Best American Essays. We compare it to previous years (spoiler: thi... Read more
29 Dec 2021
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1hr 54mins
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S4E4 - The Address Book
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This week we discuss our first listener pick, Sophie Calle’s “The Address Book,” which was suggested by Will Howard. Als... Read more
15 Dec 2021
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S4E3 - Essays About Feelings
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This week we discuss our feelings, how to write about feelings, our feelings some more, and two essays about feelings: J... Read more
1 Dec 2021
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1hr 53mins
