READ TO ME with Becky Karush

READ TO ME with Becky Karush

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READ TO ME with Becky Karush episodes

  • READ TO ME from... How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

    READ TO ME is the podcast where we listen for what we love, inspired by the Gateless Writing method. What does academic writing look like when it is meant to live beyond the academy? How do you turn research and theory into public scholarship? What happens to story? What happens to sentences? What happens to rhythm? IBRAM X. KENDI shows us, as well as a vision for surviving, maybe someday curing, metastatic racism.

    29 min
  • READ TO ME from... Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Taffy Brodesser-Akner

    READ TO ME is the podcast where we listen for what we love, inspired by the Gateless Writing method. In this episode, we hear a chorus made of a Slayer, a Candidate, and a Writer. BUFFY SUMMERS comes to us on the brink of final apocalypse in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S7E10. We get an excerpt from TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER's The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson. Great writing calls to other greatnesses.

    20 min
  • READ TO ME from... ROSH HASHANAH: 5780 by Verandah Porche

    READ TO ME is the podcast where we listen for what we love, inspired by the Gateless Writing method. In this episode, we read ROSH HASHANAH: 5780, a poem from Verandah Porche, one of the most original minds and poets I know. We see the gobstopping power of mirror structures. We live an immigrant history. We bless butterflies. We turn to the coming year charged to do better, and shown how.

    19 min
  • 19: READ TO ME from... The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Richards by Molly Ivins
    READ TO ME is the podcast where we listen for what we love, inspired by the Gateless Writing method. In this episode, WE'RE IN TEXAS with a live, participating studio audience. IN TEXAS. We recorded at The Intensive, a three-day writing workshop in the Gateless tradition. In honor of great writing, the extraordinary attendees, and the fact that WE ARE IN TEXAS, we read from that unparalleled Texas columnist MOLLY IVINS, writing about that unmatched Texas leader, ANN RICHARDS.
    23 min
  • 18: READ TO ME from... Listful Living by Paula Rizzo
    READ TO ME is the podcast where we listen for what we love, inspired by the Gateless Writing method. In this episode, we celebrate the launch of Paula Rizzo's brand new book, LISTFUL LIVING! How do you establish authority in a how-to book? How do you position the book to be in authentic service to the reader? How do you bring your personality into the sentences without making the book about you? This is how.
    18 min
  • 17: READ TO ME from... Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    READ TO ME is the podcast where we listen for what we love, inspired by the Gateless Writing method. In this episode, to the moors, to the moors we go! O, romantic and foreboding mists! O fierce upwelling of green! O proto-feminism, mettle, and a singular communion with God! O, O, Jane Eyre!
    23 min
  • 16: READ TO ME from... Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
    READ TO ME is the Gateless Writing-inspired podcast where we listen for what we love. In this episode, we read a small piece of MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY by Mary Ruefle. These collected lectures are about poetry (the writing, reading, and living of it), and here Ruefle writes about secrets. And opera. And Osage stories. And listening. How do you respond to work that is like the inside of a poem? You let it love you.
    22 min
  • 15: READ TO ME from... Demeter in Winter by Diana Whitney
    READ TO ME is the Gateless Writing-inspired podcast that trains us to listen for what we love. In this episode, we read DEMETER IN WINTER by Diana Whitney. It's set in the brutal cold season, but the poem is hot, thick with imagery, thick with the mythic, climatic, and personal. We get to be inside a poem that makes you feel like you were rolled around in hot honey, licked clean by a catamount, and presented to the goddess queen.
    17 min
  • 14: READ TO ME from... Toni Morrison and Vicki Vertiz
    READ TO ME is the Gateless Writing-inspired podcast that trains us to listen for what we love. In this episode, we first pay homage to Toni Morrison with a short excerpt from the perfect SULA, in honor of The Free Black Women's Library. Because Morrison shaped American literature, one reading isn't enough — so we also gravitate and catapult to Vickie Vértiz's poem, ONLY WE MAKE BEAUTIFUL THINGS JUST TO DESTROY THEM.
    25 min

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On Read to Me, we practice listening — the invisible skill that fuels great work. We listen for what we love in an excerpt of exceptional writing, and then we put words to why it's so, so good.