Working
Hosts Isaac Butler, Ronald Young Jr., and June Thomas interview creative people about how they write, compose, paint, and more.
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Working Overtime: Revisiting Your Resolutions
21 min
2
A Newspaper Comic That Shows a Changing America
Candorville creator Darrin Bell talks about getting the strip into print in the early 2000’s and the ways his characters keep evolving.
45 min
3
An Author’s Mission to Make Her Readers Belly L...
Writer Sally Franson talks about her hilarious new novel Big in Sweden, which was inspired by her real-life experience as a reality TV contestant.
48 min
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Working Overtime: How to Ease Back into Work Af...
18 min
5
How to Photograph a Hardcore Punk Show
Music photographer Jim Saah talks about the iconic images he created of the D.C. punk scene in the 80’s and 90’s.
44 min
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How One of the Best Podcast Sound Designers Exe...
Musician, editor, and sound designer John DeLore explains how he brings podcast audio to the next level.
45 min
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Working Overtime: How to Get Back into Books
23 min
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A New Kind of “Live Documentary” Honors the Tem...
Filmmaker Sam Green explains why he decided to start presenting his work in a more performative and ephemeral way.
52 min
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How a Colonial Williamsburg Actor Humanizes His...
Actor and historical interpreter Stephen Seals shares his process for performing and educating simultaneously.
45 min
10
Working Overtime: Storing and Revisiting Your O...
20 min
11
A Master Class in Character Description
Writer Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her new novel Housemates and explains why she took special care to describe her characters’ clothes and bodies.
45 min
12
Working Overtime: Money Advice for Freelancers
Personal finance whiz AJ Ayers offers actionable tips for creative people whose income streams can be a little inconsistent.
35 min
13
A Broadway Hit That Defies Genre
Choreographer Justin Peck talks about his new show Illinoise, which is based on a beloved Sufjan Stevens album.
47 min
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Working Overtime: When Life Gets in the Way
18 min
15
A Classic Opera Gets an Overdue Update
Francesca Zambello, artistic director of the Washington National Opera, talks about a bold new staging of Puccini’s unfinished final opera, Turandot.
44 min
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A Much-Needed History of Queer Women’s Spaces
Writer June Thomas talks about bringing journalistic rigor to a subject that’s close to her heart.
42 min
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Working Overtime: Keeping the Faith
23 min
18
The Evolution of One of Scotland’s Best Indie B...
Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura talks about writing new music after the band's long hiatus.
48 min
19
Writer Anne Lamott’s Difficult Personal Truths
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
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Working Overtime: Staying Accountable To Yourself
25 min
21
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
22
How Fact-Checking Can Improve Your Fiction
Novelist Julia Hannafin and ecologist Adam Rosenblatt talk about Julia’s new novel Cascade and its commitment to scientific accuracy.
45 min
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Working Overtime: Collaborating Through Conflict
17 min
24
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
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How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator
NPR host Linda Holmes explains how her work as a professional pop culture critic impacts her work as a novelist, and vice versa.
43 min