Dedicated to promoting books and culture through engaging and informative podcasts. Our mission is to inspire our listeners to explore the literary arts and appreciate the diversity of ideas within our amazing world. We invite a diverse range of writers, historians, and cultural influences to share their expertise. From established artists to up-and-coming creatives, our guests provide unique perspectives on writing, the literary arts, and culture. Hosted by Ken Budd, Jennifer Disano, and William Miller.
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Signup to Generate a PitchDedicated to promoting books and culture through engaging and informative podcasts. Our mission is to inspire our listeners to explore the literary arts and appreciate the diversity of ideas within our amazing world. We invite a diverse range of writers, historians, and cultural influences to share their expertise.
Recent episodes include "Liam Callanan - Stone Age Astronaut" (29 October 2026, 58 minutes), "Lois Romano, Mary Todd Lincoln: An Inconvenient Widow" (20 October 2026, 66 minutes), and "Ilan Stavans, A Nation Wrestles with God" (8 September 2026, 53 minutes).
Upstart Crow publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 49 minutes.
Booking probability for Upstart Crow is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Upstart Crow requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Upstart Crow's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Upstart Crow are Artists, Writers & Performers and News, Magazine & Book Publishing. Upstart Crow has an arts audience.
Upstart Crow is an arts podcast.
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Episode #51
What makes an extraordinary accomplishment disappear from the history books? And what does it take to leave one life behind and begin another? Liam Callanan, author of four novels, a short story collection, and his...
Lois Romano – Mary Todd Lincoln: An Inconvenient Widow This is the first of four interviews in the Upstart Crow–Fairfax County Public Library Interview Series, presented as part of the celebration of America’s 250th...
Episode #49
Internationally known, award-winning writer and editor Ilan Stavans sees an anthology as something akin to a library where the books come down from the shelves at night and fly around, mixing and mingling and enriching...
Episode #47
Marty Ross-Dolen’s memoir Always There, Always Gone , winner of the 2026 Ohio Book Awards Readers’ Choice Award, carries the subtitle “A daughter’s search for truth.” Marty Ross-Dolen is the daughter. What she searches...
Episode #46
Kathryn DeZur – Objects of Affection The things Kathryn DeZur focuses on—a doll, a quilt, bookshelves, a gun, an ashtray, a table, a finial—in this book of 15 essays are things that connect her to and shape her...
Episode #45
Emil Wilson – The Nightingales. Based in San Francisco, Emil Wilson is an advertising art director and illustrator as well as a comic artist. His work has appeared in magazines and newspapers, on websites, the Oscars...
Episode #44
<p>Lina Patton – The Lake Club</p><p>A spirited read about the sort of people who spend summer days sitting poolside and playing golf, versus ambitious young adults starting their lives and wanting to right all the...
<p>Melody Lomboy-Lowe — Founder, Luna Peak Foundation</p><p>Melody Lomboy-Lowe was 6 years old when she planned her own funeral. She had been diagnosed with leukemia, and in 1983, treatment options were limited. But...
Episode #42
<p>Caroline Bock – The Other Beautiful People</p><p>In the entertainment world, there are the on-stage, front-of-camera, beautiful people, and there are those who actually make things happen. The ones who work behind...
<p>Zach Powers – The Migraine Diaries: A singular, first-person novel.</p><p>This story goes into the interior life of a thirty-something man who has just lost the best friend he ever had, a man he has known for ten...
<p>Caroline Bicks – Monsters in the Archive: My Year of Fear with Stephen King</p><p>Monsters in the Archives – that’s the main title of Caroline Bicks’ latest book, which is based on her experience digging through the...
Episode #39
<p>Olufunke Grace Bankole – The Edge of Water</p><p>In an immigration novel not like others, a Nigerian daughter wants to try life in America, and so once more she enters the visa sweepstakes. Her mother says nothing...
Episode #38
<p>Jung Yun – All the World Can Hold</p><p>It is Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001. The Sunday after 9/11. Five days after the Tuesday when hijacked planes are flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the...
Episode #37
<p>Cristina Jimenez – Dreaming of Home</p><p>The subtitle of Cristina Jimenez’s memoir is, “How we turn fear into pride, power, and real change.” In the book, she defines “home” as a place of self-acceptance, which was...
Episode #36
<p>Shubha Sundra – Optional Practical Training</p><p>In 2006, when this novel is set, American immigration law allows students, scholars, trainees, teachers, etc., on temporary visas to have a year of practical training...
Episode #35
<p>Margaret Hutton – If You Leave</p><p>With the intrusive, catalytic forces of two wars, World War II and Vietnam, Margaret Hutton’s debut novel, If You Leave, tells of two women who mother one baby girl into her own...
<p>Linda Chavez – A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition: The Silver Candlesticks</p><p>Linda Chavez began working on The Silver Candlesticks after appearing on the PBS series Finding Your Roots during which she discovered...
<p>W. Ralph Eubanks – When It’s Darkness on the Delta</p><p>Some today would cross off the Mississippi Delta as a backwater beyond redemption or a region where bad history happened, but W. Ralph Eubanks drives the area...
Episode #32
<p>Mary Kay Zuravleff – American Ending</p><p>Mary Kay Zuravleff is the author most recently of the novel American Ending, a story inspired by the experiences of her grandparents, Old Believer Russian Orthodox emigres...
<p>Upstart Crow: Library Reads Special Edition – Fairfax Local Author Festival</p><p>In this special edition of Upstart Crow, host Jennifer Disano visits the Fairfax Regional Library for the Local Author Festival...
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Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Values Centered Innovation
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Shakespeare scholar, New York Times contributor, podcaster, playwright, actor, Stephen E. King Chair at the University of Maine, University of Maine
Vice Chair, Open Society, Niskanen Center, Becoming American Initiative
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