Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon

Looking at James Baldwin through the relationships that shaped his art: Nicholas Boggs joins me to talk about Baldwin: A Love Story. Then Brad Gooch explores Keith Haring’s mission to make art available to everybody.

James Crawford asks what happens when extraction becomes civilization’s operating system, and whether repair can offer another way forward. Then, for the 25th anniversary of 9/11, an excerpt from my 2009 interview with...

Beth Pinsker and L. Annette Binder explore caring for aging parents, from the financial realities of elder care to Alzheimer’s, memory, love and loss.

What happens when a machine becomes our friend, therapist, lover, or sibling? Victoria Hetherington and Silvia Park explore AI companionship and the increasingly uncertain boundary between human and machine.

What can France’s Yellow Vests teach us about saving democracy? And how could Medicare for All reclaim healthcare from private profit? Ida Susser and Abdul El-Sayed join Writer’s Voice.

John Feffer’s SONGLANDS and Portia Elan’s HOMEBOUND imagine futures shaped by climate crisis, AI, and corporate power. We talk with both authors about why care, creativity, and collective action still matter.

Historian Ada Ferrer talks about Keeper of My Kin, her memoir of a Cuban family divided by revolution, migration, and exile. Then Writer’s Voice revisits a 2008 interview with journalist T.J. English about Havana...

Historian Ada Ferrer talks about Keeper of My Kin, her memoir of a Cuban family divided by revolution, migration, and exile. Then Writer’s Voice revisits a 2008 interview with journalist T.J. English about Havana...

What happens when the promise of higher education no longer delivers economic security? New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber argues that millions of college graduates increasingly face the same insecurity that has long...

What makes an ordinary person become a dissident? Gal Beckerman explores moral courage through figures like Alexei Navalny, Osip Mandelstam and Etty Hillesum. Then Buzzy Jackson revisits the story of Dutch Resistance...

What if patriotism isn’t about claiming America is perfect, but helping it become better? This Independence Day on Writer’s Voice: John de Graaf on the true story behind America the Beautiful Stephanie Dray & Laura...

Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Who gets to tell the story, and who gets erased? This week on Writer’s Voice, we talk with media scholar Robin Andersen about her...

For SEO, I’d make it shorter and keyword-rich: Alex Woodard discusses Ordinary Soil, a sweeping multigenerational novel about a Choctaw farming family in the Oklahoma Panhandle, exploring the deep connections between...

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