//podcastplus.net/feed/writers-voice-with-francesca-rheannon~28513c50 Francesca Rheannon talks to writers of all genres about matters that move us and make us think. Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:22:47 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-08-13_HonoreeJeffers-CatherineColemanFlowersClip.mp3 Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Episode Summary Award-winning author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers joins Writer’s Voice to talk about her bold and beautiful nonfiction debut, Misbehaving at the Crossroads—a matrilineal memoir braided with African American history, intersectional feminism, and unflinching truth-telling. “The crossroads represents… a place where trouble meets possibility … Continue reading Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on MISBEHAVING AT THE CROSSROADS & Catherine Coleman Flowers on Environmental Justice → Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:16:31 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-08-13_HonoreeJeffers-CatherineColemanFlowersClip.mp3 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-08-06_DavidBollier_Commentary.mp3 Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Episode Summary This week on Writer’s Voice, we speak with David Bollier about the newly updated edition of his influential book Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons. Bollier argues that commons are neither relics of the past … Continue reading David Bollier on Why The Commons Could Save Us → Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:04:51 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-08-06_DavidBollier_Commentary.mp3 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-07-30_RossBenes-SophieGilbert.mp3 Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Episode Summary This week, Ross Benes joins us to talk about his book 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times. From Limp Bizkit and Jerry Springer to reality TV and pro wrestling, Benes reveals how the trashy entertainment of … Continue reading From Limp Bizkit to Reality TV: How 1999 Changed Everything → Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:16:54 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-07-30_RossBenes-SophieGilbert.mp3 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-07-23_RussellShorto-ChrisPavone.mp3 Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform Episode Summary This week on Writer’s Voice, we explore New York from two perspectives: its dramatic colonial origins and its modern-day extremes. First, historian Russell Shorto reveals the pivotal moment when Manhattan shifted from Dutch to English hands—and how that “merger” shaped the DNA … Continue reading Russell Shorto on the Origins of New York & Chris Pavone’s Thriller of Class, Money, and Morality → Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:48:08 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-07-23_RussellShorto-ChrisPavone.mp3 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-07-16_WillPotter-ProjectCensored.mp3 Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform Episode Summary Today, a double episode on press freedom under siege. Investigative journalist and author Will Potter joins us to talk about Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable. It’s a powerful exposé of how the agriculture industry attacks journalism to … Continue reading Exposing Hidden Agendas: Will Potter on Factory Farm Secrecy & Project Censored on Press Freedom Under Siege → Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:38:07 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2025-07-16_WillPotter-ProjectCensored.mp3 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-05-08_LarryTye.mp3 Larry Tye tells us about his new book, The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America. It’s a fresh look at three titans of the Jazz Age. Then, we re-air our 2020 interview with Larry Tye about his biography of Senator Joe McCarthy, Demagogue. Writers Voice— in depth conversation with writers … Continue reading Two Biographies by Larry Tye: THE JAZZMEN & DEMAGOGUE → Fri, 10 May 2024 22:46:25 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-05-08_LarryTye.mp3 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-05-01_AdelleWaldman-PaulAuster.mp3 A bestselling novelist took a job at a big box store, was shocked by what she found, and decided to write a novel about it. We talk with Adelle Waldman about her new novel, Help Wanted. It’s about what happens when a group of workers at a big box store scheme to get their overbearing … Continue reading Adelle Waldman, HELP WANTED & Remembering Paul Auster → Fri, 03 May 2024 19:23:52 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-05-01_AdelleWaldman-PaulAuster.mp3 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-04-24_GregWrenn-ElizabethKolbert.mp3 We talk with Greg Wrenn about his book Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis. It’s about healing the maladaptive imprinting of childhood trauma with Nature — and psychedelics. Then, a climate journalist tries a new tack to craft a narrative about the climate emergency. We talk with Elizabeth Kolbert about her illustrated alphabet book, … Continue reading Earth Day Special: Greg Wrenn, MOTHERSHIP & Elizabeth Kolbert, H IS FOR HOPE → Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:06:42 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-04-24_GregWrenn-ElizabethKolbert.mp3 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-04-17_HowardMansfield-SashaVasilyuk.mp3 In this episode of Writer’s Voice, we feature two stories about war and secrets. First, we talk with Howard Mansfield about his book, I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid About World War II. The book uncovers the truth about the terrible toll that war took on American airmen like Mansfield’s … Continue reading War & Secrets: Howard Mansfield, I WILL TELL NO WAR STORIES & Sasha Vasilyuk, YOUR PRESENCE IS MANDATORY → Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:40:53 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-04-17_HowardMansfield-SashaVasilyuk.mp3 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-04-10_BradGooch.mp3 Brad Gooch talks about his acclaimed new biography of Keith Haring, RADIANT. Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:41:52 +0000 https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-04-10_BradGooch.mp3