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Jul 30, 2018

This is an audio retelling of an amazing story I wrote for Good Housekeeping magazine. When the entire Ursrey family and 4 other swimmers were trapped in a deadly rip current off the coast of a Panama City, FL., it seemed like they might not make it. But they were spotted by Jessica an Erik Simmons who wrangled together...


Jul 24, 2018

We lost a great writer last week: Jonathan Gold, food critic for the LA Times, and the only food writer to have ever won a Pulitzer Prize. A few months ago, I had the good fortune of sitting down with Laura Gabbert who directed the beautiful film "City of Gold," which chronicles Gold's culinary journey into ethnic...


Jul 17, 2018

Jarie Bolander is a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and engineer, who brought such innovations as USB, Bluetooth, and DNA sequencing to market. He also happens to be a co-host on the "Story Grid Editors Roundtable" podcast and author of three books, including The Entrepreneur Ethos: How To Build a More Ethical,...


Jul 10, 2018

What happens when two divorced TV comedy writers meet on the picket line of a writer's strike? You'll just have to listen to the podcast to find out. But this is not just the story of Hunter Covington and Stacy Traub's unlikely courtship but also a handy guide on how to break into the world of comedy writing and...


Jul 2, 2018

Twenty-plus years after the murders of rap legends Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, investigators still haven't solved either case. But Kyle Long, my special guest on this episode of Write About Now, is pretty confident he knows who did it. Long is the creator and executive producer of Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and...