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18/06/2025

📣 New Episode!
Okay, a bit of a technical glitch delayed this episode, but it's worth it.

🎙️ Short Stories, Big Hearts: Author John Sheirer Talks Writing, Teaching, and This American Moment

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I talk with John Sheirer—writer, teacher, and all-around good guy. We discuss:

✍️ The art of the 100-word story (he reads a few!)
📚 Why teaching is an act of belief
🌍 How to stay kind and clear-headed in a divided world

10/06/2025

Hello y’all, we’re having some tech issues with our latest episode but we’re working on them. We’ll get the episode out to you as soon as we can.

03/06/2025

📚 New Episode: Award-Winning Novelist Cynthia Reeves on Grief, Whalebones, and Writing at the Ends of the Earth 🎙️

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Novelist Cynthia Reeves joins us for a conversation that spans Italian-American family stories, the Arctic wilds of Svalbard, and the emotional terrain of grief, faith, and memory.

This is an episode about storytelling across generations — and what it means to write into silence, grief, and beauty at the ends of the earth

💬 What resonated most for you in this one? We’d love to hear.

27/05/2025

🎙 New Episode!
From West Philly to Mars: David Ebenbach on Writing, Identity, and Envy
Jujitsu

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This week on Plague Remedy Podcast, I’m joined by the brilliant David Ebenbach—novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher of the creative life.

🪐 In this episode, we cover:

🏙️ Growing up in 1980s West Philadelphia
🥋 “Envy Jujitsu” and finding joy in others’ success
🕊️ The creative–spiritual connection in The Artist’s Torah
📱 Whether you can be authentic on social media
🌍 Teaching Jewish literature from the Global South
✍️ Writing across genres (and why he loves them all)

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
📚 Full list of David's recommendations and more in the show notes
👉 Let us know your thoughts, your favourite quote, or what resonated most!

13/05/2025

🎙️ New Episode Out Now: "Writing Big and Writing Small" with Brooke Berman ✍️
🎬 Brooke Berman's Ramona at Midlife is out now!

In this episode of Plague Remedy, award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director Brooke Berman joins me to talk about how her new film came to life — and why writing “big” and “small” stories both matter. We get into:

📝 Writing across genres — from downtown theatre to memoir and indie film
💥 Characters who feel more real than people you actually know

LINK IS IN THE COMMENTS. DON'T MISS IT!

08/05/2025

🎙 BEST OF: Andrea J. Buchanan on What's it like to have a headache 24/7

We're revisiting one of our most resonant and inspiring conversations—our episode with Andrea J. Buchanan, author memoir 'The Beginning of Everything.' Andrea opens up about how a neurological event—a coughing fit that led to a brain injury—upended her life, reshaped her sense of self, and forced her to rebuild from the inside out. We explore what it means to lose language as a writer, and how she stitched herself—and her story—back together.💡 If you missed this one the first time around, now’s the moment.

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06/05/2025

🎙️ New Episode — Creativity as Spiritual Practice with George Drance

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This week on the Plague Remedy Podcast, I’m joined by George Drance — actor, director, translator, and Jesuit priest — for a rich conversation on art, faith, and the creative life.

🎭 How spiritual training shapes an actor’s inner life
🙏 The intersection of faith, art, and personal identity
🧘 The art of discernment and following your deepest desires
🎟️ Building community through theatre in the US & abroad
🤝 Reflections on Pope Francis

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

22/04/2025

Sarah Tolmie — poet, novelist, academic, and author of All the Horses of Iceland. Sarah’s imagination is vast, poetic, and delightfully strange — and this episode is a treasure trove for writers and readers alike.

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We discuss -
🌀 Why she describes her work as “weird fiction”
📝 Writing across genres — from saga-like novellas to poetry to medieval satire
🪶 The 'Funky' Middle Ages
🐎 The origin story of Icelandic horses (with ghosts, of course!)
📚 Her take on Milton as a proto–sci-fi writer (!) and Ursula K. Le Guin

19/04/2025

Hey West Coast folks, don't forget this event today with not one, not two but THREE Plague Remedy Podcast authors!

17/04/2025

✨ BEST OF EPISODE — Hannah Sward ✨

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We're continuing our Best Of series with our fifth-ever episode with Hannah Sward—author of 'Strip: A Memoir.'

This episode dives deep into writing, addiction, s*x work, survival, shame, and healing.

🎧 This version is newly remastered—I’ve learned a thing or two about audio since Episode 5 😅

And if you’re in the LA area this Saturday, April 19, you can meet Hannah in person at Los Libros Bookstore (Lincoln Heights, 6–8:30 PM). Also there: Tuesday's guest Gem and future guest Christine Sneed. A real-life Plague Remedy meetup!

🌀 Give it a listen. This conversation doesn’t tie things up in a bow, and that’s why it still matters.

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