8 Podcasts to Inspire Your Writing Practice

If you’re going to procrastinate, consider doing so by listening to one of these eight podcasts for writers to inspire your work.

Relisha Goes Missing

Through the Cracks

When 8-year-old Relisha Rudd disappeared from a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C. in 2014, nobody noticed. By the time police appeared at the shelter where Relisha lived with her family, 18 days had passed since she’d last been seen.

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How to Think Like Zeynep Tufecki

The Ezra Klein Show

The sociologist Zeynep Tufekci was prescient about the coronavirus, and she was also prescient about disinformation online. Tufekci attributes this track record to “systems thinking,” which she believes holds the key to forming a more accurate understanding of just about everything.

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Sorry

The Allusionist

Apologies are such important verbal transactions. So why are so many of them so bad? Susan McCarthy and Marjorie Ingall from SorryWatch and Laura Beaudin of fauxpolo.gy break down how to sort the apologies from the fauxpologies.

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland's Gifts from the Universe

Death, Sex & Money

The 76-year-old musician reflects on his complex relationship with his parents growing up, finding new audiences late in life, and why he loves "being cared for" by his younger bandmates.

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The Easiest Person to Fool

Hidden Brain

Physicist Richard Feynman once said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” One way we fool ourselves is by imagining we know more than we do; we think we are experts.

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