Podcast
The American Writers Museum Podcast Network features conversations with contemporary leading writers and scholars of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, television and more. AWM Author Talks, a weekly series, features one of our past live programs with contemporary writers and covers a range of topics including process, writing influences, and the life of a writer. The Nation of Writers Podcast is a monthly series in which we talk about writers of the past with experts and scholars who know them best, so you can know your favorite writers better too. Dead Writer Drama is another monthly series that examines controversial literary legends of the past in light of our current world.
AWM Author Talks
In this weekly series, we air previously recorded conversations with leading authors, poets, graphic novelists, playwrights, songwriters, historians and more about craft, processes, influences, inspirations, and what it’s like to live as a writer. These episodes are edited and condensed versions of our programs and are a great way to discover new writers. Listen to a program you missed, or relive one you loved!
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Most Recent Episodes
Ep. 93:Â Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
Andrew S. Curran, editor; and Nina G. Jablonski, biological anthropologist
Ep. 92: Jennifer Finney Boylan & Kathy Griffin
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
Ep. 91: Joan Osborne
Songs of Bob Dylan
Coming Soon
May 16: Doug Conant
May 23: Gene Scheer
Nation of Writers
A monthly series that explores our ever growing Nation of Writers by examining powerful and significant American voices throughout history. We talk with scholars and authors around the country about the writers that have shaped our nation with their words and you’ll get the inside scoop about these writers and their processes. This podcast is presented in conjunction with our virtual exhibit American Voices.
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Most Recent Episodes
Coming Soon
May 25: Nora Ephron
Dead Writer Drama
In this monthly series, co-hosts Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Zakiya Dalila Harris discuss the professional feuds, sex scandals, messy public breakups, and controversial legacies of history’s literary legends and how those are relevant in light of current culture, issues, discussions and literature. By bringing these authors to life through a modern lens, we’ll gain a deeper understanding of their work and legacies.
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Most Recent Episodes
Ep. 3: Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald
Coming Soon
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PAST EPISODES
AWM Author Talks
- Episode 93: Who’s Black and Why?
- Episode 92: Jennifer Finney Boylan with Kathy Griffin
- Episode 91: Joan Osborne
- Episode 90: Katherine Schweit
- Episode 89: Lolita in the Afterlife
- Episode 88: Elizabeth Berg
- Episode 87: Daniel Ellsberg
- Episode 86: Deborah Blum
- Episode 85: Sarah Parcak
- Episode 84: Deborah Nelson Linck