Writing Stories
By Brianna Avenia-Tapper
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Episodes: 82
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Each episode of Writing Stories features an interview with a contemporary author about how her book went from an idea in her head to an object on a shelf. Join us on Writing Stories for honesty, struggle, and triumph, for writing community, publishing insight, and inspiration to persist in whatever difficult but meaningful journey you've chosen for yourself.
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The Sexiest Form: A Conversation with the Series Editor of Best American Short Stories 2025 and a Featured Author
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Developing the Negatives of a Life: Painter Pat Lipsky on 50 Years of Making Art in New York City
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Make More Pots! Marguerite Sheffer on Perseverance and Experimentation.
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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To Have No Shame On Your Face -- T Clark's Journey to a Two-Book Deal.
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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With My Background in Publishing, I Knew Nothing Was Make-or-Break
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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"This is my start" — Lorraine Russell tells the story of Love and Shadows
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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"I'm not writing just for myself" — Danielle Teller tells the story of FORGED
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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“There’s Someone Out There...I just Have to Find Them." — Christine Kalafus tells the story of FLOOD
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Two Things That Are Anathema in Publishing — Deesha Philyaw tells the story of The Secret Lives of Church Ladie
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May 29, 2025 |
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"Your Life Can Be Set Up Like An Artist's Residency" — Sasha Hom tells the story of Sidework
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May 20, 2025 |
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A Safe Place to Explore — Jennie Case tells the story of We Are Animals
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May 15, 2025 |
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"Are You All In?" — Rebe Huntman tells the story of My Mother in Havana
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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The Dignity of Small Things — Libby Maxey tells the story of Indwelling
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Have The Audacity — Dori Lumpkin tells the story of Antenora
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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"I Learned the Hard Way" — Emma Pattee tells the story of TILT
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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"Charge into the Messiness" —Wayne Scott tells the story of The Maps They Gave Us
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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"It's really annoying to write a novel" — Mariam Rahmani tells the story of Liquid
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Do what you have to do to get the work done — Cally Fiedorek tells the story of Atta Boy
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Questioning Assumptions — Nicole Graev Lipson tells the story of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Once I found the voice and the mode of the narrative, I could just PLAY — Shubha Sunder tells the story of Optional Practical Training
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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"I DO belong over here on this side" — Nanda Reddy tells the story of A Girl Within A Girl Within A Girl
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Don't Revise, Explode — Elyse Durham tells the story of Maya and Natasha
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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"Oh, you want a plot? I'll GIVE you A PLOT" — Emily J. Smith tells the story of Nothing Serious
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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"Take Your Time" — Olufunke Grace Bankole Tells the Story of The Edge of Water
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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"You Don't Suck" — Lidia Yuknavitch tells the story of Reading the Waves
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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"It Took 8 Years To Write" — Susan Barker Tells the Story of Old Soul
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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"Please Stop Me if This Is Going Terribly" — Erika Swyler tells the story of We Lived on the Horizon
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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"Making art is a lot like making a kid—It is just this really intense expression of being alive"
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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RERELEASE! A Major Problem with Publication
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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RERELEASE! The most hardcore writing hack ever
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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RERELEASE! Shannon Sanders talks about her award-winning story collection Company
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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"The Blank Space Became the Book" — Amy Wilson Tells the Story of Happy To Help
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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RERELEASE! Letting Go of What You Can't Control
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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RERELEASE! "I Had to Do Whatever Was Necessary to Communicate"
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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"Traditional Publishing Industry Bullshit" — Amanda Fields tells the story of My Caesarean
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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"If You're Not Getting the Dopamine Boost, Then Why Bother?" — Terese Svoboda tells the story of Roxy and Coco and The Long Swim
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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This Very Sacrificial Thing — Jaclyn Gilbert Tells the Story of Late Air
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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"What If We Free Ourselves?" — Vera Blossom Tells the Story of How To Fuck Like A Girl
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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"Too Many Emotions and No Tranquility" — Jessica E. Johnson Tells the Story of Mettlework
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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"A Dream Come True" — Polly Rosenwaike tells the story of Look How Happy I'm Making You
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Writing From Post-Election Anxiety — Danny Goodman Tells the Story of Amerikaland
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Wonderful and Terrible — Jazmina Barrera Tells The Story of Linea Nigra
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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"No One Can Read It If It Doesn't Get Published" — Kate Brody tells the story of RABBIT HOLE (Paperback out Tuesday!)
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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"Nobody Can Write A Book Everyone Loves" — Brittany Means Tells the Story of Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Moving from Doubt to Self-Belief — Kate Weinberg tells the story of There's Nothing Wrong With Her
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Memoir as an Exercise in Perspective — Cheryl Klein Tells the Story of Crybaby
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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The Power of Lemon Cake — Marie Mutsuki Mockett tells the story of The Tree Doctor
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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"Writing is a place I love to come back to" — Rebecca J. Sanford tells the story of The Disappeared
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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I'm Choosing This — Elle Everhart tells the story of Hot Summer
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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People Think That When You're Not Published, You're Not Working
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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I Had to Do Whatever Was Necessary to Communicate — Elizabeth Hilborn tells the story of Restoring Eden
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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I was having so much fun, I wasn't concerned about what would happen — Ananda Lima tells the story of CRAFT
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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"When I was writing it, I was writing it TO her" — Barrie Miskin tells the story of Hellgate Bridge
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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"A Place I Had Never Thought Possible" — Shze-Hui Tjoa talks about The Story Game
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May 25, 2024 |
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Welcoming to Evolution or Change or Rupture — Lucas Mann tells the story of Attachments
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May 12, 2024 |
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The Fight to Retain the Weird and the Feral — Michelle Tea tells the story of SLUTS
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May 07, 2024 |
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What Will and Will Not Be Translated — Crystal Hana Kim tells the story of The Stone Home
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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"It's Never Gonna Happen For Me" — Hannah Sward tells the story of Strip
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Nothing is Whole Until It's In Words — Stephanie Clare Smith tells the story of Everywhere the Undrowned
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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There's Nothing I Regret — Estelle Erasmus tells the story of Writing That Gets Noticed
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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"Write or Die" — Annell López tells the story of I'll Give You A Reason
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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"What is the book that can only be yours?"— Clare Beams tells the story of The Garden
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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What If Nobody Likes it? Nicole Haroutunian Tells the Story of Choose This Now
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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"If You Don't Like An Edit, Just Don't Do It" — Sarah Rose Etter tells the story of RIPE
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Writing Stories 'Artist Statement'
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Season 2 Trailer!
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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A Bold Fearlessness — Deborah Jackson Taffa Tells the Story of Whiskey Tender
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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"Stay in the Game...Sooner or Later Something Will Crack" — Chin-Sun Lee Tells the Story of Upcountry
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Could My Story Be of Use? —Mary Beth O'Connor Tells the Story of Junkie to Judge
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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"I Thought It Was Very Mainstream, But..." — Cassie Premo Steele Tells the Story of Beaver Girl
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Four Agents, Three Books, Two Publishers — Jacinda Townsend talks about Saint Monkey and Mother Country
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Fun, Ridiculous, and Thrumming with Truth - Rachel Yoder Tells the Story of Nightbitch
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Plumbers Don't Get Plumbers Block — Talking with Sue Shapiro about American Shield and Barbie
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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There's Life in the Messiness - Yael Golstein-Love Tells the Story of The Possibilities
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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It's a linear narrative... but a trail is a line — Andrea Lani tells the story of Uphill Both Ways: Hiking Toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The whole idea of ‘SERIOUS’ writing is a lot of toxic trash — Alyssa Songsiridej tells the story of Little Rabbit
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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You Have to Do This - Shannon Sanders tells the story of Company
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Letting Go of What's Not Under Your Control - Christina Consolino Tells the Story of The Weight We Carry
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Margo Steines Talks About Brutalities - "I Feel Aligned With The Tastes of Men In a Way That I Hope To Grow Out Of"
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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It's Like a Circuit Break. You're Almost a New Person — Talking with Kelly McMasters about The Leaving Season — Episode 2
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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You Have to Work Really Hard - Kai Harris Tells the Story of What the Fireflies Knew - Episode 1
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Season 1 - Trailer
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Dec 11, 2023 |