Truer Words

Mentioned in this Episode:

Christina Bryza

Our episode with Christina

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Stuff You Missed in History Class

Insight Timer

Headspace

Calm

Jessie Janowitz

Our episode with Jessie

You've Got Mail walking tour

Adrienne Kisner

Our episode with Adrienne

Jennifer (J. Albert) Mann

Our episode with Jen

Marianne Murphy

Our episode with Marianne

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Nova Ren Suma

Our episode with Nova

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

She Said by Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

Casey McQuiston

Kerry Winfrey

Our episode with Kerry Winfrey

Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall

Booksmart

To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You

Varda by Agnès

New York Film Festival

Varda: A Retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center

Star Wars

Rogue One

Solo

Little Women

Hustlers

Books of Wonder

The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh

Succession

Fleabag

Derry Girls

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Superstore

Justin Spitzer

The Office

Parks and Recreation

Lizzo

Robyn dance party on the subway

You're Wrong About

The Sauce Podcast

American Girls

Night Call

The Quibbler

The Indigo Girls

Pod Save America

Lovett or Leave It

What a Day

Says Who?

Hot and Bothered

The Worst Bestsellers

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Thirst Aid Kit

Fuckbois of Literature

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Abigail is the author of Loveboat, Taipei, which will be released on January 7th, 2020. She can be found on Twitter @abigailhingwen and Instagram @abigailhingwen. Her website is abigailhingwen.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Shelley Tanaka

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Sandra Nickel

Amanda Jenkins

Kristen Pettit

Phantom of the Opera

Les Misérables

Miss Saigon

Cleveland Playhouse

Judy Chu

Eddie Huang

Fresh Off The Boat

Loveboat, Taipei documentary

Valerie Soe

Andrew Yang

Sabaa Tahir

David Yoon

Nicola Yoon

Mulan (animated, 1998)

Mulan (live-action, 2020)

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Denise is a teaching artist, actor, and writer/editor who works with arts integration and arts program management. Denise is on Twitter at @dasantamouro and Instagram @denisesantomauro. Her editing services are available at Angellela Editorial and Story Studio Chicago. Denise's website is https://www.denisesantomauro.com/.

Marianne is a teaching artist, poet, performer, animator and modern day da Vinci (per Melissa). Her classes are available at The Writing Center. Marianne can be found on Twitter @flamingoboots, Instagram @flamingoboots, and her website is flamingoboots.com. You can also buy her prints at Society6.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Hebru Brantley

Nevermore Park

Inside Nevermore Park

L'Atelier des Lumières

Carrières des Lumières

Georges Méliès

Hieronymous Bosch

Argosy Book Store

Mrs. Astor's New York

Atlas Obscura

Martini Junction Train in the woods

Jim Henson

Leonardo da Vinci

Our episode with Christina Bryza

Oklahoma! revival on Broadway

Daniel Fish's Dark Take on "Oklahoma!" in The New Yorker

Jud Fry the Incel? in Theatermania

Patrick Vaill

Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month)

Making Comics by Lynda Barry

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Kathryn is the author of the young adult novels Tash Hearts Tolstoy, The Great Unknowable End, and The Sullivan Sisters, as well as the books for young readers The Water and the Wild, The Doorway and the Deep, The Current and the Cure, The House in Poplar Wood, and Midnight on Strange Street. Kathryn can be found on Twitter @kathsby and Instagram @kathsby. Kathryn's website is keormsbee.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Our episode with Ally Hord

Dave Holstein

Kidding on Showtime

Jena Friedman

Late Show with David Letterman

The Daily Show

Ted & Gracie

Our episode with Christina Bryza

Stephenie Meyer

Beth Phelan

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

The Crown on Netflix

Nanowrimo

A Christmas Duet

Christmas at Dollywood

Plus One movie on Hulu

Blake Edwards

The Pink Panther

Jessica Lange

Alfred Hitchcock presents

Good Evening: An Alfred Hitchcock Presents podcast

The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Innocents film co-written by Truman Capote

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

His Hideous Hearts edited by Dahlia Adler

The Mask of the Red Death

The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

The Adventure Zone podcast

My Brother, My Brother, and Me podcast

Oh no, Ross and Carrie! podcast

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Varda by Agnès

New York Film Festival

Tulsa Artist Fellowship

Molly Backes

Our episode with Molly Backes

Juliana Goodman

David Rakoff

Live Funny or Die

Larry King

The Brady Bunch

A Closer Look on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Sal Gentile

Pod Save America

Crooked Media

Impeachment sketch on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Funny or Die

Paley Center

Newseum

Lee Huebner

Nixon-Kennedy first televised debate

Women's March sketch from Late Night with Seth Meyers

Woman Scouts (Ally's pilot)

Christina Bryza

Our episode with Christina

Daria

Jane Espensen

Mee-Ow

Titanic Players

Adam Sachs

NSTV

Jake Szymanski (director of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and the greatest Robyn tribute ever)

Dave Holstein (creator of Showtime's Kidding)

Broad City

Stick Figure Productions

Lisa Loeb

#1 Single on E!

Chris Bruss

Mike Farah

Adam McKay

Will Ferrell

Studio 22Late Show with David Letterman

UTA job list

UCB Theatre

Harvey Weinstein sketch on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Tarana Burke

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

ICE Raids followed a massive sexual harassment settlement at Mississippi plants

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman on Hulu

The Break with Michelle Wolf on Netflix

RuPaul's Drag Race on VH1

Pose on FX

Succession on HBO

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen

The Dream podcast

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Cate is the author of the picture books PENGUIN AND TINY SHRIMP DON'T DO BEDTIME and the upcoming CHICKEN BREAK. Cate can be found on Twitter & Instagram @cateberryatx. Her website is CateBerry.com

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Podraland

Podraland article about Truer Words!

Our episode with Jen Doll

The Secret

Laws of Attraction

Prosperity Gospel

The Prosperous Heart by Julia Cameron

Leonardo da Vinci's Saint Jerome at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edith Wharton house

Fleabag

Ocean's Eleven

Die Hard

CBGB

Arlene's Grocery

Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen (with Matisse illustrations)

The Iridescence of Birds by Patricia MacLaughlan

Kwame Alexander

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything exhibit at the Jewish Museum

Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry

K.A. Holt

House Arrest by K.A. Holt

One by Sarah Crossan AWP

Mary Quattlebaum

Marianne Murphy

Meg Cook

Jen Mann (aka J. Albert Mann)

Our episode with Jen (J. Albert Mann)

Guess Again! by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Adam Rex

Martha Brockenbrough

Tammi Sauer

Sudipta Barhan-Quallen

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Nova Ren Suma

Our episode with Nova

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

Tom Birdseye

Nina LaCour's Keeping a Notebook podcast

Shadow Artist concept from The Artist's Way

Ira Glass quote about beginners

Liz Garton Scanlon

Kelly Barnhill

Deep Creek by Pam Houston

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Bristol is a hand-knitting designer and teacher. Her website is bristolivy.com and she can be found on Twitter: @bristolivy and Instagram: @bristolivy. Her designs can be found and purchased on Ravelry.

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Our episode with Nova Ren Suma

Our episode with Robin Benway

Raise Your Hand by Alice Paul Tapper

Goethe

The Secret

Our episode with Kerry Winfrey

Law & Order: SVU

WWOOF

Brooklyn Tweed

Bristol's designs on Ravelry

MyBluprint

Lovecrafts

Knitting Outside the Box by Bristol

Ravelry

New York Sheep and Wool Festival

The X-Files

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

Future Night of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price

Deep Work by Cal Newport

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Lauren is the author of two YA novels, YOUR DESTINATION IS ON THE LEFT and SHE'S THE WORST, and an associate literary agent at TriadaUS. Her website is LaurenSpieller.com and she can be found on Twitter: @laurenspieller and Instagram: @laurenspieller.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Forever 35 podcast episode with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin

Co-Star Astrology App

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything exhibit at the Jewish Museum in NYC

The Mount: Edith Wharton's house

Kripalu

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Hamilton

"Hurricane" from Hamilton

Tiffany Schmidt, author of Bookish Boyfriends series

Follow your curiosity - Elizabeth Gilbert

Dessert First by Dean Gloster

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Marc Maron

Glow

Alison Brie

Jim McCarthy (Lauren's agent)

City of Bones by Cassie Clare

Nova Ren Suma

Our episode with Nova Ren Suma

Fleabag

The Great British Baking Show

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Sawkill Girls by Claire LeGrand

Vita Nostra by Sergey and Marina Dyachenko

The Wolf of Cape Fen - Juliana Brandt

Lauren's manuscript wish list #mswl

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Julia Cameron

Julia Cameron Wants You to Do Your Morning Pages by Penelope Green, The New York Times

The Artist's Way in an Age of Self-Promotion by Carrie Battan, The New Yorker

Our interview with Christina Bryza

Micol Ostow

Viacom Permalance Slave System from Gawker (R.I.P.)

The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living by Julia

The Right to Write by Julia

Finding Water by Julia

Elizabeth Gilbert Facebook post about The Artist's Way

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Secret

The Laws of Attraction

The Worst Bestsellers episode on The Secret

Courtney Sheinmel

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything at the Jewish Museum

Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak's Design for Opera and Ballet at the Morgan Library

Cooper Hewitt Museum

Amanda Jenkins

Nova Ren Suma

Libba Bray

Djerassi Resident Artist Program

Corey Ann Haydu

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Kerry is the author of the YA novels Love and Other Alien Experiences and Things Jolie Needs To Do Before She Bites It and the adult romcom Waiting for Tom Hanks.

Find Kerry on Twitter: @kerryann and Instagram: @kerryann. Her website is kerrywinfrey.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Just Wright

Rosie's Theater Kids

U.N.I.T.Y. by Queen Latifah

Billy Wilder's Rules of Good Filmmaking

Conversations with Billy Wilder (Vanity Fair excerpt here) by Cameron Crowe

Margaret Bechard

Made of Honor - Patrick Dempsey / Michelle Monaghan movie

The Wedding Date - Debra Messing movie

Ghostbusters

How Red, White, and Royal Blue Became the Unlikely Book of Summer

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

The Last Holiday

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

You've Got Mail

Sleepless in Seattle

I'll Have What She's Having by Erin Carlson

"Instant Messenger May Be Dead, but You've Got Mail is Forever" by Hilary Weaver

A Year of Romcoms tumblr

Meg Cabot

Nora Roberts

You've Got Mail walking tour

Cafe Lalo

Boat Basin

Books of Wonder

Colson Whitehead quote from The Colossus of New York

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Fitzgerald as Screenwriter: No Hollywood Ending

HelloGiggles

Glasstown Entertainment

Lauren Oliver

Lexa Hillyer

"Why is Gen Z Obsessed with The Office?" by Sonia Saraiya

Jen Maschari

Jody Casella

The Book Loft

Tom Hanks and the Great Lakes Theater Festival

Rainbow Rowell

"Real Romance" - Nora Roberts profile in The New Yorker by Lauren Collins

Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

The Holiday

Our interview with Jasmine

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].