Josh sits down with Naomi Cohn to talk about her new book The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight. Told in the form of imagined alphabetical encyclopedia entries, this meditation on progressive vision loss examines and illuminates Cohn’s at first halting then avid embrace of braille as part of relearning to read and write as an adult.
This week, Sam and Charlene are joined by Armando Contreras and Valerie Pieraccini from United Cerebral Palsy (UCP). We’ll be speaking about Cerebral Palsy and the 75th anniversary of UCP! To get on our email list, weekly show updates, or to provide feedback or guest suggestions, email us at [email protected]!
This episode, Josh sits down with author Scott Dominic Carpenter about his new book, Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love. They discuss travel, loss, and the romanticization and reality of the city of Paris.
Liz Olds sits down with spiritual author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew to talk about her new book, The Release: Creativity and Freedom After the Writing is Done. They discuss how the idea of the ‘gift economy’ (as opposed to the market economy) can allow for greater creativity and health after the creation of art.
This week, Sam and Charlene talk to Jill Moore, Inclusive Play Specialist, about accessible playgrounds! To get on our email list, weekly show updates, or to provide feedback or guest suggestions, email us at [email protected]!
Erik sits down with Blue Delliquanti, creator of the webcomic O Human Star, to discuss comics, androids, and being a professional cartoonist.
Josh sits down with Peter Godfrey-Smith to talk about his new book, Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World. In this book, Godfrey-Smith discusses how other living beings have shaped the world that we as humans have come to think of as natural.
