Slate Conversations
A feed of the up close and the personal, drawn from Working and across the Slate podcast network. Let’s talk.
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Working: Writer Anne Lamott’s Difficult Persona...
The Bird By Bird author discusses her new book about love, her proclivity for deeply honest memoir writing, and some of her go-to advice about writing and publishing.
49 min
2
Dear Prudence: My Brother Is a Budding Alex Jon...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by writer, producer, and host Heben Nigatu.
30 min
3
Care & Feeding: Kid-Friendly Kitchen Adventures...
Slate’s parenting podcast on global flavors, sans jetlag.
38 min
4
Well, Now: How a Former Surgeon General Took on...
Even surgeon generals get sticker shock. Here are Jerome Adams’s suggestions for how to fight back.
40 min
5
Hear Me Out: Student Protests Can Backfire (Badly)
It’s the law of unintended consequences.
41 min
6
Money Talks: How to Get Fit Like the 1%
Wall Street Journal fitness writer Jen Murphy shares tips for staying in shape while running the rat race.
31 min
7
How To!: Carvell Wallace on Another Word for Love
Courtney Martin talks with Carvell Wallace about writing, interviewing—and his new memoir.
32 min
8
Care & Feeding: That Nagging Feeling That You’r...
Slate’s parenting podcast on baby races.
20 min
9
Working: Interviews That Get to the Point
Death, Sex & Money host Anna Sale shares her strategies for conducting interviews about things that really matter.
45 min
10
Dear Prudence: My love language with friends is...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by NYT relationship and sex columnist Gina Cherelus
39 min
11
Well, Now: Living and Loving With OCD (feat. Al...
And finding humor with it, too.
36 min
12
How To!: Find Your People After a Mental Health...
Dr. Aleksandra Rayska on the stigma and self-doubt that can curtail new friendships.
36 min
13
Hear Me Out: Third Parties Are Saving Democracy
It’s just that their job isn’t winning (yet).
32 min
14
Death, Sex & Money: A Tarot Reader Explains Why...
North Carolina-based witch Rebecca Auman helps Anna through a rough patch. Then she explains why it’s so hard for some of us to make sense of our own inner voices.
39 min
15
Working: How Fact-Checking Can Improve Your Fic...
Novelist Julia Hannafin and ecologist Adam Rosenblatt talk about Julia’s new novel Cascade and its commitment to scientific accuracy.
45 min
16
Dear Prudence: My Wife’s Bipolar Diagnosis Is C...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by author and mental health advocate Bassey Ikpi.
31 min
17
Care & Feeding: Ask A Weed Mom
Slate’s parenting podcast on lighting up.
39 min
18
Well, Now: We Don’t Need to Cure Autism
“If your kid didn’t have autism anymore, they would be a different person. A person that doesn’t exist.”
37 min
19
How To!: ‘Do the Work’ of Racial Justice
Garrett Bucks on a case study for difficult conversations
35 min
20
Money Talks: Felix Wins His Crypto Bet
An old bill comes due for tech investor Ben Horowitz, who discusses the future of crypto and blockchain with partner Chris Dixon.
32 min
21
Death, Sex & Money: A Sociopath's Guide to Deat...
Patric Gagne says being a sociopath is like having an emotional learning disability. In this episode, she talks about the good and the bad of having limited access to shame and guilt, how she overcame violent compulsions, and becoming a wife and mother.
44 min
22
Hear Me Out: Legalize Weed, But Not Like This
Smoke and mirrors.
34 min
23
Care & Feeding: Parenting While Polyamorous
Slate’s parenting podcast on chosen family.
42 min
24
Working: A Clarinetist Finds His Flow State
Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic, explains what it’s like to both perform and take in the beauty of the orchestra simultaneously.
45 min
25
ICYMI: What “Quiet on Set” Leaves Out
The 5-part docuseries skirts around important details that leave viewers questioning and interrogating its intention online.
48 min