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Books & Writing episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of the Pulitzer, Academy Award, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, Booker, Nobel Prize, and other honors. Leaders & public figures share real experiences & offer valuable insights. Notable guests include: Neil Gaiman, Roxane Gay, Ada Limón, George Pelecanos, George Saunders, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jericho Brown, Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, Siri Hustvedt, Jeffrey Sachs, Jeffrey Rosen (National Constitution Center), Tom Perrotta, Ana Castillo, David Tomas Martinez, Rebecca Walker, Isabel Allende, Ian Buruma, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, John d’Agata, Rick Moody, Paul Auster, Robert Olen Butler, Yiyun Li, Rob Nixon, Tobias Wolff, Yann Martel, Junot Díaz, Edna O’Brien, Eimear McBride, Jung Chang, Jane Smiley, Marge Piercy, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sara Paretsky, Carmen Maria Machado, Neil Patrick Harris, Etgar Keret, Hala Alyan, E.J. Koh, Lan Samantha Chang (Iowa Writers Workshop), Alice Fulton, Alice Notley, Emma Walton Hamilton, Krys Lee, Richard Wolff, Carl Safina, Suzanne Simard, among others.
The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition. www.creativeprocess.info
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How to Protect Bookstores and Why - Highlights - DANNY CAINE, Bookseller, Poet
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May 15, 2024 |
What Lies Ahead for Bookstores in the Age of Generative AI? - DANNY CAINE, Bookseller, Poet
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May 15, 2024 |
Remembering PAUL AUSTER - Writer, Director (1947-2024)
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May 01, 2024 |
Feminism, Resistance & the Global South - Highlights - INTAN PARAMADITHA
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Travel, Literature & Identity with INTAN PARAMADITHA - Author of The Wandering
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Voices of the Earth: Reflections on Nature, Humanity & Climate Change
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Apr 23, 2024 |
There’s another side to every war. Satire, War & Hollywood - Co-creator DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer
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Apr 16, 2024 |
DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer with Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., Park Chan-wook
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How do our families shape who we become?- Highlights - DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP
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Apr 12, 2024 |
Exploring American Rust: Broken Justice w/ DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP - Award-winning Screenwriters/EPs
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Apr 12, 2024 |
The Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Exploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS III
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Mar 19, 2024 |
What does the future hold for our late-stage capitalist society with mega-corps controlling everything? - Highlights - KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI
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Feb 27, 2024 |
Comics, Music, Ethics & AI: KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI on the Making of Moon Man
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Feb 27, 2024 |
Reshaping Our World: Climate Change, Education, Mental Health & Advocacy for Nature
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Feb 26, 2024 |
Songs of Nature - Musicians, Writers, Ecologists, Philosophers on the Mysteries of the Natural World
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Feb 25, 2024 |
What are we willing to give up to find meaning & a sense of belonging? - TARA ISABELLA BURTON
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Feb 23, 2024 |
Spirituality & Selfhood: TARA ISABELLA BURTON - Author of Here in Avalon, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
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Feb 23, 2024 |
How does knowing a second language increase your creativity & humanity? - Highlights - ALAN POUL
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Feb 15, 2024 |
ALAN POUL - Emmy & Golden Globe-winning Producer/Director - Tokyo Vice - Six Feet Under - Tales of the City - My So-Called Life
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Forty Years in Hollywood - Highlights - ED ZWICK
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Feb 09, 2024 |
ED ZWICK - Academy Award-winning Writer, Director & Producer - Glory, The Last Samurai, Shakespeare in Love, Thirtysomething
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Feb 09, 2024 |
From Ancient Wisdom to the Language of the Earth
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Highlights - How do we navigate ambiguity, uncertainty & move beyond linear thinking? - RUPERT SHELDRAKE
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Jan 05, 2024 |
RUPERT SHELDRAKE - Biologist & Author of The Science Delusion, The Presence of the Past
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Jan 05, 2024 |
Are we living in a Simulated Universe? - Highlights - MELVIN VOPSON
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Dec 28, 2023 |
MELVIN VOPSON - Physicist - Author of Reality Reloaded: The Scientific Case for a Simulated Universe
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Dec 27, 2023 |
What makes a good life? - Highlights - ROBERT WALDINGER, Psychiatrist, Author, Zen Priest
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Dec 22, 2023 |
ROBERT WALDINGER - Co-Author of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
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Dec 22, 2023 |
MAX BENNETT - Author of A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains - CEO of Alby
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Highlights - JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Author, Founder of The White Feather Foundation, Doc Filmmaker
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Dec 08, 2023 |
JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Author, Doc Filmmaker, Exec. Producer of Common Ground
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Dec 08, 2023 |
DUANE L. CADY - Philosopher, Author of Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking & From Warism to Pacifism
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Dec 05, 2023 |
HOWARD GARDNER - Author of A Synthesizing Mind & Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Co-director of The Good Project
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Nov 29, 2023 |
Speaking Out of Place: BILL McKIBBEN, Co-Founder of 350.org, Founder Third Act & CAROLINE LEVINE, Author of The Activist Humanist
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Nov 27, 2023 |
GLADYS KALEMA-ZIKUSOKA - Founder/CEO, Conservation Through Public Health - UN Champion of the Earth for Science & Innovation
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Nov 24, 2023 |
MARY HAYASHI - Healthcare Advocate, Former Assemblymember - Author of Women in Politics
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Nov 20, 2023 |
Highlights - LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
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Nov 13, 2023 |
LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist - Founder of IE Platform & @GreenGirlLeah
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Nov 13, 2023 |
Highlights - ANDREW KLAVAN - Author of True Crime dir. Clint Eastwood - Don’t Say a Word starring Michael Douglas
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Nov 11, 2023 |
ANDREW KLAVAN - Edgar Award-winning Author of The House of Love and Death - True Crime - Don’t Say a Word
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Nov 10, 2023 |
Highlights - MICHAEL S. ROTH - President of Wesleyan University - Author of The Student: A Short History
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Nov 10, 2023 |
MICHAEL S. ROTH - Author of The Student: A Short History - President of Wesleyan University
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Nov 08, 2023 |
Highlights - BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON - Director of the ASU Threatcasting Lab - Author of The Future You
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Nov 04, 2023 |
BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON - Author of The Future You: How to Create the Life You Always Wanted - Futurist in Residence, ASU’s Center for Science & the Imagination
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Nov 03, 2023 |
Highlights - RICK BASS - Author & Environmentalist - “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
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Nov 02, 2023 |
RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
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Nov 02, 2023 |
JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston
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Nov 01, 2023 |
Highlights - JIM SHEPARD - Award-winning Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come, Like You’d Understand, Anyway
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Nov 01, 2023 |
Highlights - MARCIA DeSANCTIS - Author of "A Hard Place to Leave", "100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go"
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Oct 31, 2023 |
MARCIA DeSANCTIS - Author of A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life
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Oct 31, 2023 |
Highlights - SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Fmr. Distinguished Scholar, US Library of Congress
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Oct 30, 2023 |
SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Director, Center for the Future Mind, FAU, Fmr. NASA Chair at NASA
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Oct 30, 2023 |
Highlights - TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022
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Oct 30, 2023 |
TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022
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Oct 30, 2023 |
We All Live on One Planet We Call Home - Part 4 - Environmentalists, Economists, Policymakers & Architects Share their Stories
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Oct 29, 2023 |
LOVE - What is love? Filmmakers, poets, aviators, musicians, cave divers, environmentalists, writers, and artists explore what love means to them
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Oct 28, 2023 |
DEAN SPADE - Author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
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Oct 28, 2023 |
Highlights - HALA ALYAN - Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner - Palestinian-American Poet, Novelist & Clinical Psychologist
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Oct 27, 2023 |
HALA ALYAN - Palestinian-American Poet, Novelist & Clinical Psychologist - Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner
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Oct 27, 2023 |
AI & THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
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Oct 27, 2023 |
Highlights - Carl Safina - Author of “Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace”
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Oct 27, 2023 |
CARL SAFINA - Ecologist - Founding President of Safina Center - NYTimes Bestselling Author
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Oct 27, 2023 |
We All Live on One Planet We Call Home - Part 4 - Environmentalists, Economists, Policymakers & Architects Share their Stories
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Oct 26, 2023 |
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator
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Oct 26, 2023 |
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator
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Oct 26, 2023 |
ALAIN ROBERT - Famous Rock and Urban Climber - Author of With Bare Hands
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Highlights - DAVID FARRIER - Author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils
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Oct 25, 2023 |
DAVID FARRIER - Author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils - Prof. U of Edinburgh
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Highlights - ALAIN ROBERT - Famous Rock and Urban Climber - Author of With Bare Hands
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Oct 24, 2023 |
What Kind of World Are We Leaving for Future Generations? - Part 3 - Activists, Environmentalists & Teachers Share their Stories
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Oct 23, 2023 |
Highlights - SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA - Booker Prize-winning Author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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Oct 23, 2023 |
SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA - Booker Prize-winning Author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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Oct 23, 2023 |
Highlights - ERICA BERRY - Author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
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Oct 22, 2023 |
ERICA BERRY - Author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
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Oct 22, 2023 |
Highlights - ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON - Writer & Documentary Filmmaker - On Time and Water, The Casket of Time, LoveStar, Not Ok
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Oct 21, 2023 |
ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON - Icelandic Writer & Documentary Filmmaker - On Time and Water, The Casket of Time, LoveStar, Not Ok
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Oct 21, 2023 |
THE ART OF WRITING: NEIL GAIMAN, JERICHO BROWN, ADA LIMÓN, MARGE PIERCY, E.J. KOH & MAX STOSSEL
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Oct 20, 2023 |
Highlights - TREVA B. LINDSEY, PhD - Author of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle for Justice
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Oct 20, 2023 |
TREVA B. LINDSEY, PhD - Author of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle for Justice
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Oct 20, 2023 |
Highlights - DEBORA CAHN - Showrunner of The Diplomat starring Keri Russell - Exec. Producer Homeland, Grey’s Anatomy
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Oct 19, 2023 |
DEBORA CAHN - Showrunner & Executive Producer of Netflix’s The Diplomat starring Keri Russell & Rufus Sewell
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Oct 19, 2023 |
Highlights - NEIL GAIMAN - Writer, Producer, Showrunner - The Sandman, American Gods, Good Omens, Coraline
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Oct 18, 2023 |
NEIL GAIMAN - Writer, Producer, Showrunner - The Sandman, American Gods, Good Omens, Coraline
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Highlights - Britt Wray - Author, Researcher Working on Climate Change and Mental Health
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Britt Wray - Author of “Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis”
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Special Earth Day Stories - Environmentalists, Artists, Students & Teachers share their Love for the Planet - Part 1
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Highlights - JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY - Writer/Director - Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis - Moonstruck
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Oct 18, 2023 |
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY - Academy Award-winning Writer/Director - Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams - Moonstruck
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Highlights - Anthony Joseph - Award-winning Writer & Musician - “Sonnets for Albert”
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Oct 18, 2023 |
ANTHONY JOSEPH - T.S. Eliot Award-winning Poet, Novelist & Musician, Lead vocalist of The Spasm Band
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Highlights - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
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Oct 18, 2023 |
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Highlights - ADA LIMÓN, U.S. Poet Laureate - The Hurting Kind, The Carrying
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Oct 18, 2023 |
ADA LIMÓN, U.S. Poet Laureate - The Hurting Kind, The Carrying
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Highlights - JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
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Oct 18, 2023 |
JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill”
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Highlights - ROXANE GAY - NYTimes Best-selling Author, Editor & Social Commentator: Bad Feminist, Hunger, Difficult Women
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Oct 18, 2023 |
ROXANE GAY - NYTimes Best-selling Author, Editor & Social Commentator: Bad Feminist, Hunger, Difficult Women
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Highlights - DEAN SPADE - Professor at SeattleU’s School of Law - Author of Mutual Aid, Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
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Oct 14, 2023 |