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A National Museum Celebrating American Writers
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Episode 60: Isaac Bashevis Singer
1w ago00:58:36Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we discuss the life and legacy of Isaac Bashevis Singer. An immigrant to the United States, Singer was an esteemed essayist, short story writer, novelist, translator, and children’s book author. As a young man in Poland, Singer initially pursued rabbinical studies, but the pull of literature was too strong. He worked as [...]
Transcribe →Episode 233: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong – “Parks and Rec”
3w ago00:48:16Tap to summarizeThis week, pop culture historian Jennifer Keishin Armstrong stops by to discuss her latest book Parks and Rec: The Underdog TV Show That Lit’rally Inspired a Vision for a Better America. Armstrong tells the definitive story of the creation and legacy of the beloved television show Parks and Recreation, with exclusive interview content from its [...]
Transcribe →Episode 59: Henry David Thoreau
3w ago00:55:57Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we discuss the life and legacy of Henry David Thoreau. An essayist and poet, Thoreau lived a provocative life in which he endeavored to escape the limitations of human society by exploring the wider, wilder natural world. He was a naturalist, land surveyor, pencil maker, abolitionist, and student of Indigenous American culture [...]
Transcribe →Episode 232: Naoko Fujimoto
4w ago00:44:54Tap to summarizeThis week, we chat with poet Naoko Fujimoto, a senior editor at RHINO Poetry. She stopped by the AWM the other week to discuss the work of translation, her poetry process, and her forthcoming book titled: of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka Poems, a collection of translated Japanese waka-poems, including text collage [...]
Transcribe →Episode 231: Marilyn Hacker & Deema K. Shehabi
May 400:48:25Tap to summarizeThis week, poets Marilyn Hacker and Deema K. Shehabi discuss their powerful new book Water to Water: Gaza Renga, a poetry collaboration in the call-and-response form of renga written during the conflict in Gaza. This conversation originally took place April 20, 2026 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum. AWM PODCAST NETWORK HUB [...]
Transcribe →Episode 58: Tupac Shakur
Apr 1600:57:41Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we discuss the life and legacy of poet, actor, and rapper Tupac Shakur. Quoting from his official website: “Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five, he [...]
Transcribe →Episode 230: Kati Curts
Mar 2300:50:52Tap to summarizeThis week, religious studies professor Dr. Kati Curts discusses her book Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America, which illustrates how Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospel. Though Ford’s efforts at the head of the Ford Motor Company have commonly been understood as secular, Ford himself was explicit that [...]
Transcribe →Episode 57: Sholem Asch
Mar 1900:53:34Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we discuss the life and legacy of Sholem Asch. Born in Poland to an Orthodox Jewish family, Asch was a novelist, playwright, and essayist acclaimed by both critics and readers alike. He was one of the first Yiddish writers to attract a wide readership in translation and was one of the best-known [...]
Transcribe →Episode 229: Oscar Brown, Jr.
Mar 1700:54:39Tap to summarizeThis week, Maggie and Africa Brown discuss the legacy of their father—Oscar Brown, Jr.—and perform some of his work. This conversation originally took place February 26, 2026 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum. Maggie and Africa Brown love doing what they do best together—singing with theatrics on stage. These “2 Brown Sisters” energetically [...]
Transcribe →Episode 56: Pauli Murray
Mar 501:02:27Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we discuss the life and legacy of Pauli Murray. A poet, activist, lawyer, professor, and priest, Murray was a prolific and passionate writer. She exchanged letters with Eleanor Roosevelt and inspired the likes of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Murray’s 1950 legal book States’ Laws on Race and Color became known as “the Bible [...]
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