Aug 28, 2018
Paul Shirley played professional basketball for eight years for such teams as the Atlanta Hawks and the UNICS of Kazan, Russia. He is also the author of two memoirs, 'Can I Keep My Jersey?', which chronicles his years on the court, and 'Stories I Tell On Dates', which chronicles his life on the court of love. The latter...
Aug 20, 2018
Michelle Kholos Brooks is an award-winning playwright with productions across the U.S. and Canada. Her new play Hostage, based on a true story of a Midwestern mother who traveled to Tehran in 1979 to negotiate the release of her hostage son, was selected as a finalist for the 2016/17 Woodward/Newman Drama Award, the...
Aug 13, 2018
Dave Itzkoff is a culture writer for The New York Times and the author of Robin, the new bestselling biography of comic icon Robin Willams. On the podcast, we talk about how Itzkoff landed the job, the process of researching and writing such a weighty book (it's 250,000 words) while working full-time at the newspaper...
Aug 6, 2018
My guest Sarah Rhea Werner hosts a popular podcast with a frighteningly similar name to my own show — Write Now with Sarah Rhea Werner. Her podcast came out years before mine but in my defense, I hadn't heard of it until it started popping on my page under 'You're listeners also subscribe to..." A writer for Forbes,...