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    Truer Words

    Melissa and Kathryn talk creativity, hustle, and real life with writers, artists, and other creators.

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    Latest Episodes:
    Black Lives Matter Jun 05, 2020
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    Jenny Torres Sanchez May 18, 2020
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    Jenny can be found on Instagram @jennytsanchez and Twitter @jetchez. Her website is JennyTorresSanchez.com.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    The Slow Novel Lab

    Nina LaCour

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu

    Angel on Hulu

    Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider

    Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery

    The Fall of Innocence by Jenny Torres Sanchez

    The Half of It on Netflix

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    Front Desk by Kelly Yang

    Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

    Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

    Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

    I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum

    Highlights Foundation

    Highlights Magazine

    Jody Casella

    Las Musas

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Jerry Spinelli

    Because of the Sun by Jenny Torres Sanchez

    The Stranger by Albert Camus

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Prophecy Girl

    Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia by Jenny

    All Summer in One Day by Ray Bradbury

    Alex Villasante

    Donna Higuera

    Those Winter Sundays poem by Robert Hayden

    John Green

    A.S. King

    Lauren Gibaldi

    The Downside of Being Charlie by Jenny Torres Sanchez

    Which Way Home

    Disappeared by Francisco Stork

    The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

    The Everything I Have Lost by Sylvia Zeleny

    Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

    Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar

    About Us:

    Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

    You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.


    Jules Thomson May 04, 2020
    Show notes

    Jules can be found on Instagram @conjure_shrubs. Her album can be streamed on Bandcamp: Independence Day - Jules Thomson Effect.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Angel

    Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

    Elaine Stritch singing "I'm Still Here" at Sondheim's 80th Birthday Gala

    Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

    A Parks and Recreation Social Distancing Special

    Never Have I Ever

    Mindy Kaling

    Buffering the Vampire Slayer

    Slayerfest '98

    The Stories We Tell by Kristen Lepionka

    Pride Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

    The Ripped Bodice

    Joule-Thomson Effect

    Florence and the Machine

    Maria Callas

    The Indigo Girls

    Steeleye Span

    Antje Duvekot

    Samson G USB mic

    Blue Yeti

    Noisy Girls

    Cakewalk

    Eleventh Hour Lecture Series: Iowa Writers Workshop

    Mary Allen: Writing and the Power of Now

    Writing Excuses

    Write-Minded

    Writers Aloud

    How Fiction Works by James Wood

    By Cunning and Craft by Peter Selgin

    Virginia Woolf

    Vladimir Nabakov

    The Bonnie Road by Suzanne d'Coursey

    King Princess

    Muna

    Janelle Monae

    Julien Baker

    Little Women by Greta Gerwig

    Portrait of A Lady on Fire

    Plants and People in Ancient Scotland

    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

    Jane Eyre miniseries

    You're Wrong About

    Queery by Cameron Esposito

    About Us:

    Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

    You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.


    Nicole Kronzer Apr 20, 2020
    Show notes

    Nicole can be found on Twitter @nicolekronzer and Instagram @nicolekronzer. Her website is nicolekronzer.com.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    Christina Bryza

    Our episode with Christina Bryza

    Brene Brown on "Comparative Suffering"

    Our episode with Erin Foley Chan

    Rumble Boxing on Instagram

    Down Dog Yoga

    Mary Horne Yoga / Mary's YouTube channel

    Gluten-Free Matzo recipe

    Cottage Cheese Dill Bread

    All-of-A-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

    Hart of Dixie

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Firefly

    The X-Files

    Angel

    Marti Noxon

    Gilda Radner

    Roseanne Rosannadanna

    Judy Miller

    Amy Poehler

    Nina LaCour

    Anna Nicole Smith

    The Sleepover sketch from the first season of SNL episode hosted by Madeline Kahn (transcript) / tribute video

    The Gap Girls on SNL

    Gene Luen Yang

    American-Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

    Hold Still by Nina LaCour

    David Levithan

    You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan

    Sara Crowe

    Our episode with Nora Shalaway Carpenter

    Monty Python

    The Three Stooges

    Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

    Some Like It Hot

    Alison McGhee

    Holly McGhee

    Books narrated by Julia Whelan

    Julia Whelan on Twitter

    Orphan Black

    Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West

    Bossypants by Tina Fey

    Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

    Someday, Someday Maybe by Lauren Graham

    Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

    Jane Levy

    Suburgatory

    Skylar Astin

    Pitch Perfect

    Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

    Pippin

    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams / movie

    My Fair Lady

    Kiss Me, Kate

    The Taming of the Shrew

    Nickolas Butler

    Historic Charleston app

    From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Jenae Marks

    A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen

    Our episode with Rocky Callen

    Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

    Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

    The Alex Award

    Frankly in Love by David Yoon

    Nicola Yoon

    The Last Best Story by Maggie Lehrman

    His Girl Friday

    What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee

    Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi

    Pride by Ibi Zoboi

    American Street by Ibi Zoboi

    Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith

    Maurene Goo

    A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Taherah Mafi

    Knives Out

    Monty Don's Big Dreams Small Spaces

    The Repair Shop

    Agnes Varda

    Ydessa, the Bears, etc. teddy bear documentary

    Little Women by Greta Gerwig

    Frances Gabe's (inventor of the self-cleaning house) obituary in the New York Times

    Lynn Spigel

    Bewitched

    I Dream of Jeannie

    Jeffrey Sconce

    All That Heaven Allows

    Douglas Sirk

    Jane Wyman

    Rock Hudson

    Constance Grady

    CatStronauts by Drew Brockington

    Maureen Johnson

    About Us:

    Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

    You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.


    Rocky Callen Apr 06, 2020
    Show notes

    Rocky can be found on Twitter @rocky_writes and Instagram @rockywrites. Her website is rockycallen.com.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    Jandy Nelson

    Melissa's friend Dr. Rachel Shively on CNN

    PJ Library seder plate activity

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Emma. directed by Autumn de Wilde

    Georgette Heyer

    Venetia by Georgette Heyer

    The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren

    Babylon Berlin

    The Great Pottery Throwdown

    Big Dreams, Small Spaces

    Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

    The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonsen

    Hope Nation

    Jenny Torres Sanchez

    The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

    The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

    The Handmaid's Tale tv show on Hulu

    Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day

    Masterclass

    RuPaul's Masterclass

    About Us:

    Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

    You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.


    Social Distancing with Kristy Everington and Marianne Murphy Mar 23, 2020
    Show notes

    Kristy is the author of Isobel Adds It Up, which will be released from Random House in fall 2021. She can be found on Twitter @kmeverington. Marianne is a teaching artist, poet, performer, animator and modern day da Vinci (per Melissa). Her classes are available at The Writing Center. Marianne can be found on Twitter @flamingoboots, Instagram @flamingoboots, and her website is flamingoboots.com. You can also buy her prints at Society6.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    Mary Horne yoga on YouTube

    Mary's instagram has more info on online classes

    Hart of Dixie

    Leslie Sansone

    Below Deck

    Survivor

    Siesta Key

    Westworld

    Remembrance by Meg Cabot

    Cate Berry

    Our episode with Cate Berry

    The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

    Marianne's first episode with us discussing The Artist's Way

    Quarantine Art Club by Carson Ellis

    Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Outbreak

    Contagion

    Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

    Gumroad

    Little Fires Everywhere based on the book by Celeste Ng

    Dare Me based on the book by Megan Abbott

    Cheer

    Pop Culture Happy Hour episode about Cheer and Dare Me

    The Plot Against America based on the book by Philip Roth

    David Simon

    The Wire

    Zoe Kazan

    Winona Ryder

    John Turturro

    How to pronounce Turturro

    Babylon Berlin

    New York Times Crossword

    Wordscapes

    Everything's Going to Be Okay

    Please Like Me

    Awkwafina is Nora From Queens

    Crashing

    Arthur

    Detective Barbie

    Love is Blind

    The Circle

    German Big Brother

    Rafting article

    Sex Education

    The Great Pottery Throwdown

    Terrace House

    The Bachelorette

    The Real World

    Emma. directed by Autumn de Wilde

    The Invisible Man directed by Leigh Whannell

    Headspace

    MNDFL Meditation on Instagram

    Shannon_Esti on Instagram

    Outlander based on the book series by Diana Gabaldon

    About Us:

    Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

    You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.


    Nora Shalaway Carpenter Mar 09, 2020
    Show notes

    Nora is the author of The Edge of Anything, which will be released on March 24th, 2020, the Rural Voices anthology (to be released October 13, 2020) and the picture book Yoga Frog. She can be found on Twitter @norawritesbooks and Instagram @noracarpenterwrites. Her website is noracarpenterwrites.com.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    Sleepless in Seattle

    Meg Cabot

    Stacy Abrams / Selena Montgomery

    Vermont College of Fine Arts

    Mary-Winn Heider

    Tirzah Price

    Victoria Wells-Arms

    Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

    Sanditon

    Emma directed by Autumn de Wilde

    Little Women directed by Greta Gerwig

    Murdoch Mysteries

    Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

    Miss Fisher's Mysteries

    About Us:

    Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

    You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.


    Emmy Potter Feb 19, 2020
    Show notes

    Emmy has written for publications like Bright Wall/Dark Room, the Belladonna, CultureSonar, and more! Emmy can be found on Twitter @emmylanepotter and Instagram @emmylanepotter.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    Mindy Kaling

    Matt and Ben

    Martin Scorsese

    The Departed

    The Light in the Piazza

    Chicago

    Cabaret

    A Little Night Music

    Oklahoma!

    I'm Not at All In Love

    Great American Songbook

    My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall

    The Souvenir

    Nick Nadal

    Ray Bradbury short stories

    Truman Capote short stories

    Walking as Creative Fuel - Brainpickings

    Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

    The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

    Reese Witherspoon

    Ava DuVernay

    Parasite

    Mad Men

    Matt Weiner on what he learned working on The Sopranos

    Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

    Girl, Interrupted directed by James Mangold

    See Jane Write by Sarah Mlynowski and Farrin Jacobs

    Ready Player One (movie) by Steven Spielberg

    Ready Player One (book) by Ernest Cline

    Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese

    End of the F***ing World on Netflix

    Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends by Ash Carter and Sam Kashner

    Fleabag on Amazon Prime

    Call My Agent! aka Dix Pour Cent on Netflix

    The Good Place

    Heartburn (movie) directed by Mike Nichols, written by Nora Ephron

    Heartburn (book) by Nora Ephron

    Postcards from the Edge (movie) directed by Mike Nichols, written by Carrie Fisher

    Postcards from the Edge (book) by Carrie Fisher

    Schitt's Creek

    Clueless

    Succession

    Open Book by Jessica Simpson

    Angels cover by Jessica Simpson

    Angels by Robbie Williams

    Miss Americana Taylor Swift documentary on Netflix

    Gaga: Five Foot Two Lady Gaga documentary on Netflix

    Coal Miner's Daughter

    Loretta Lynn

    On Becoming a God in Central Florida on Showtime

    Dolly Parton

    Bright Wall/Dark Room

    A League of Their Own

    About Us:

    Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

    You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.


    Juleah del Rosario Feb 03, 2020
    Show notes

    Juleah is the author of YA novels 500 Words or Less and the upcoming Turtle Under Ice. Juleah can be found on Twitter @juleahwrites, Instagram @juleah.delrosario, and her website is Juleahdelrosario.com.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    Nova Ren Suma

    Our episode with Nova Ren Suma

    Djerassi

    A.M. (Amanda) Jenkins

    Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

    Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lại

    Ghost pottery scene

    All-American Girl by Meg Cabot

    "The Unexpected Pleasure of Being Mediocre" by Laura Lippmann

    Seth Rogen's pottery

    Art gifts made by writer David Rakoff

    Jami Attenberg

    Adrienne Kisner

    Our episode with Adrienne

    Abigail Hing Wen

    Our episode with Abigail Hing Wen

    Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

    About Us:

    Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

    You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.


    Tracy Sayre Jan 20, 2020
    Show notes

    Tracy and the Women's Weekend Film Challenge can be found on Twitter @WWfilmchallenge, Instagram @womensweekendfilmchallenge, and at womensweekendfilmchallenge.com.

    Content warning: Melissa and Tracy briefly discuss rape and sexual assault around the 58 minute mark of this episode.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    Little Women by Greta Gerwig

    Atlantics by Mati Diop

    The Farewell by Lulu Wang

    Hustlers by Lorene Scafaria

    You Have to Fail A Little (Melissa's piece on Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola for Bright Wall/Dark Room)

    Wendy Wasserstein

    The Heidi Chronicles

    Uncommon Women and Others

    Women's Weekend Film Challenge

    Katrina Medoff (Tracy's co-founder of Women's Weekend Film Challenge)

    Lily + Mara - Tracy's short film co-directed by Caroline Roberts

    Oona Laurence

    Meghann Fahy

    Pete's Dragon

    The Bold Type

    Christina Bryza

    Our episode with Christina Bryza

    Agnès Varda

    Leslie Schultz BRIC Entertainment

    Kathryn O'Kane

    Salt Fat Acid Heat on Netflix

    Bandersnatch

    Reese Witherspoon

    Oprah

    Mindy Kaling

    Lena Waithe

    Deniz Gamze Ergüven

    Mustang

    Lightbulb Grip & Electric

    Transformers

    Avengers

    Gotham Sound

    Museum of the Moving Image

    Queens Council of the Arts

    Sesame Street

    Mike Sayre

    Queens Museum

    Music for Icebergs

    Olivia Wilde Talking About a Gender-Swapped Reading of American Pie

    It's A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman

    Harvey Weinstein article

    The HeSo project

    Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

    Succession on HBO

    Girls on HBO

    About Us:

    Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

    You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.


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