Waywords Studio

14/09/2025

Today's birthdays - Happy birthday to Geraldine Brooks and Bernard MacLaverty!

13/09/2025

Today's Birthdays - Happy birthday to Ibram X, Kendi, Roald Dahl, Sherwood Anderson, K. J. Parker, and Daniel Defoe!

12/09/2025

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗮𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗶" 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 -

We think of Bernstein only as a fine composer but sometimes forget him as a writer and librettist. Here is one of his which caught my attention, the dangers inside suburbia.

12/09/2025

#𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑳𝒆 𝑮𝒖𝒊𝒏 5: 𝑸 & 𝑨 -

Listeners offer their questions from narrator trust to activism to teaching controversy. I rant--or respond--back.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/le-guin-part-5-qa/

12/09/2025

Today's birthdays - Happy birthday to James Frey, Stanislaw Lem, Michael Ondaatje, Charles Dudley Warner, and H. L. Mencken!

11/09/2025

Today's Birthdays - Happy birthday to James McBride, Jessica Mitford, O. Henry, and D. H. Lawrence!

11/09/2025

10/09/2025

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 -

This libretto I chose partly for Classical Music Month and partly for an upcoming 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘴 podcast that links it to Le Guin's Omelas story!

10/09/2025

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬: "𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰" -

In the breath are hints of dormancy, a marking. Here is a kind of epistle poem, an address or letter of direction or desire.

https://waywordsstudio.com/verse/letter-to-those-who-follow-me/

10/09/2025

Today's Birthdays - Happy birthday to Alison Bechdel, Mary Oliver, and Georgia Douglas Johnson!

10/09/2025

09/09/2025

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: "𝑳𝒆 𝑮𝒖𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒕. 4 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒚: 𝑵. 𝑲. 𝑱𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏" -

Can we pull this utopia dilemma together? Or will we add even more levels of complication? When we wrestle with Le Guin, take solace knowing that others have, too, and so we enter into the dialogue of building utopia, together with its responsibilities!

As we explore today, we add Mikhail Bakhtin and George Bataille into the mix together with writers Sadoeuphemist and N. K. Jemisin!

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/le-guin-part-4-the-ones-who-stay-n-k-jemisin/