The Process with Jude Brewer

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The Process with Jude Brewer episodes

September 25, 2023 Introducing: The Process

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1 min
June 27, 2023 Badass of the Week: RCGS Resolute & Stanislav Petrov
Way back in the early years of the internet, Ben Thompson decided to start a website. Each week he filled that website with incredible tales of guts, glory, and everything in between as he told stories of Ninjas, Vikings, war heroes, scientists, explorers and even the occasional badass dog! Millions of views, hundreds of stories, multiple books and decades later, Ben’s beloved website www.badassoftheweek.com finally has a podcast! And of course, it wouldn’t be Badass of the Week, if it wasn’t weekly.
Joining Ben Thompson on this audio adventure, to class the joint up a bit, is his co-host, former colleague, and long-time friend, Dr. Patricia Larash who brings degrees in the classics and philology from Harvard and UC Berkley respectively.
Each week Ben and Pat trade fun over-the-top stories of badasses from history, mythology, fiction and wherever else they can be found. In season 1, they’ll talk about Hercules and The Virginia Hercules, Voytek the Bear that fought for the Polish Army in WWII, woman pirates Ann Bonney and Mary Read, The Indian Warrior Queen Rani Lakshmi Bai who rode into battle with her child on her back, American war hero turned traitor Benedict Arnold, Roman Emperor Vespasian, and the very explosive Volcano Krakatoa, among so many other badasses. Now and then, they’ll be joined by guests, celebrities and experts to chime in with insight, humor and even their own stories of badassery.
Download. Listen. Subscribe. Follow. Tell your friends. Listen Again. Rate. And all that good stuff! New episodes of Badass of the Week arrive every week which is a good thing because we have so many stories to tell. We hope you check it out!
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43 min
April 06, 2023 Ursa Short Fiction: ZZ Packer
Ursa Short Fiction Podcast Returns with the 20th Anniversary Celebration of ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Ursa Short Fiction, named by Apple Podcasts as one of its "Shows We Love" for 2022, is returning for Season Two on March 29, with a very special episode celebrating the 20th anniversary of DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE, the acclaimed short story collection by ZZ Packer that has inspired so many writers and kicked off a renaissance for short fiction.
Co-hosts Deesha Philyaw (THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES) and Dawnie Walton (THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV) go in-depth with Packer about the origin of her collection and the writers who inspired (and continue to inspire) her own work.
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DEESHA: So many of our interviews and stories have led us to this very exciting moment. In all of the conversations we've had here on Ursa Short Fiction, there are a few books and a few writers who keep coming up over and over again as a source of inspiration. So many of us read these stories and it opened us up to what was possible with short fiction.
DAWNIE: I know exactly what you mean, and I also know exactly who you're talking about.
DEESHA: That's right. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer, first published in 2003. We are now here celebrating the 20th anniversary of this wonderful collection by talking to ZZ Packer. We're gonna learn about her journey as a writer and who inspired her work, which in turn, inspired so many of us.
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Ursa Short Fiction is returning with a star-studded list of writers — including Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Dantiel W. Moniz, Jonathan Escoffery, Sidik Fofana, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, and Denne Michele Norris, among many others — as well as both original audio stories and modern classics.
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47 min
August 23, 2022 Introducing Missing Pages
Today, we’d like to introduce you to the new podcast from The Podglomerate, Missing Pages. Missing Pages is an all-new investigative podcast hosted by world-renowned literary critic and publishing insider Bethanne Patrick.
In its first season, Missing Pages uncovers the power struggles, mistaken identities, and unfathomably bad behavior within the secretive world of book publishing. Learn about the untold story behind alleged Harvard plagiarist Kaavya Viswanathan and the web of lies told by the author of The Woman in the Window.
Each episode brings in authors, experts, publishing insiders, and a circus of NYC media elites to tell the real story; unfit for print. Missing Pages is available now. Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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6 min
July 27, 2022 STORYBOUND: Tommy Davidson
Tommy Davidson reads an excerpt from "Living in Color," backed by an original Storybound remix with sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer.
Tommy Davidson started his career as a stand-up comedian in Washington DC, and since then, he's done it all. His standup career has led him to share bills with the likes of Patti LaBelle and Kenny G, and he was a cast-member on the hit show "In Living Color," also starring Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey, and Damon Wayans. He's done three specials for Showtime and appeared on Disney's "The Proud Family" and Spike Lee's "Bamboozled." His book, "In Living Color," released in 2020, details his journey in show business and how he found success.

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24 min
July 19, 2022 STORYBOUND: Daniel Abraham
Daniel Abraham reads an excerpt from "Age of Ash," backed by an original Storybound remix with sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer.
Daniel Abraham is the author of the critically acclaimed "Long Price Quartet," "The Dagger and the Coin series," and the "Kithamar Trilogy." He writes with Ty Frank as James S.A. Corey, and as MLN Hanover. He has been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and won the Hugo award and International Horror Guild award.

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29 min
July 12, 2022 STORYBOUND: Imogen Binnie
Imogen Binnie reads an excerpt from "Nevada," backed by an original Storybound remix with sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer.
Imogen Binnie is the author of the novel "Nevada," which won the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. In 2022, "Nevada" was reissued by FSG Books. A writer for several television shows and a former columnist for Maximum Rocknroll, she lives in Vermont with her family.

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31 min
July 05, 2022 STORYBOUND: Vauhini Vara
Vauhini Vara reads an excerpt from "The Immortal King Rao," backed by an original Storybound remix with sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer.
Vauhini Vara started as a journalist, working as a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal and later launching, editing and writing for the business section of the New Yorker’s website. Since then, her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New Republic, Businessweek, Fortune, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to Wired and can sometimes be found working as a story editor at the New York Times Magazine. She has also edited for the website of the Atlantic and for the nonprofit Fuller Project.
Her debut novel, "The Immortal King Rao" (W.W. Norton), is an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce selection, and New York Magazine’s Vulture, Esquire, Oprah Daily, the Times of India, and the Observer are among some publications that named it one of their most-anticipated books of the year. Her story collection, "This is Salvaged," is due out in 2023.

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54 min
June 28, 2022 STORYBOUND: Benjamín Labatut
Benjamín Labatut reads an excerpt from "When We Cease to Understand the World," backed by an original Storybound remix with sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer.
Benjamín Labatut is a Chilean author born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 1980 who spent his childhood in The Hague, Buenos Aires and Lima, before settling in Chile. His first book of short stories, "Antarctica" starts here, won the 2009 Caza de Letras Prize in Mexico, and the Santiago Municipal Prize, in Chile. His second book, "After the Light," consists of a series of scientific, philosophical and historical notes on the void, written after a deep personal crisis. "When We Cease to Understand the World" was published in September 2021.

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56 min
June 21, 2022 [REWIND] Soraya Nadia McDonald: "Wandering In Search of Wakanda" ft. Marco Pavé
Soraya Nadia McDonald reads her essay "Wandering In Search of Wakanda," with sound design and music composition from Marco Pavé.
Soraya Nadia McDonald is the senior cultural critic for Andscape (formerly known as The Undefeated). She writes about film, television, and the arts. She is the 2020 winner of the George Jean Nathan prize for dramatic criticism, a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the runner-up for the 2019 Vernon Jarrett Medal for outstanding reporting on Black life.
Marco Pavé ’s has opened for Mobb Deep, Waka Flocka Flame, and Young Dolph and worked with GRAMMY Award-winning producers like Carlos Broady. Pavé's work has been written up in outlets like The Source, The Root, and MTV News. His latest album, "Requiem for the Enslaved," is available now wherever you listen to music.
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42 min