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69. Complicated Family Legacies and Heaps of Material featuring Gretchen Cherington

Gretchen Cherington joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about complicated family legacies and processing sexual abuse, confronting the public view of a loved one we’re writing about, protecting manuscripts before we have book contracts, corralling information and organizing heaps of material…

We Are All Prodigal Sons and Daughters

How do we know God loves us? Is there any evidence in the Scriptures telling us that He does? Is there an image perhaps to which we can easily point to prove that we are loved by God in the most intimate and unmistakable way? There are actually a whole busload of examples, of which the following ma…

Expecting Too Much

Coffee with Alain sharing a little Monday Motivation from Susan Cheever.

26. Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

After months of planning and hosting their immersive Celebrating Little Women event, Jayme and Steve return with a deeply personal look at the life and legacy of Louisa May Alcott. From her childhood in a famously dysfunctional household to her reluctant creation of Little Women, this episode uncov…

John Cheever’s Secrets

In a new memoir, Susan Cheever searches for the wellspring of her father’s genius. By Adam Begley From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠October 2025 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and i…

Deface The Nation – Is Trump starting to lose? – with Molly Jong-Fast

Is Trump finally falling apart? His approval ratings are catastrophic, the Republicans took a hammering in the November elections, his gross-out distraction tactics no longer work… and as more Epstein emails are released, the scandal is lapping ever-higher around his cankles. Molly Jong-Fast of The…

In "When All the Men Wore Hats," Susan Cheever takes her father, John Cheever's, work

"The Stories of John Cheever," published in 1978, brought together some of the finest short fiction ever written. The collection was honored with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and it would go on to sell millions of copies and to define the American short story and shape generation…

Susan Cheever — When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever — with Molly Jong-Fast

A sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever, as told by his eldest daughter.The Stories of John Cheever, published in 1978, brought together some of the finest short fiction ever written. The collecti…

Maria Semple on GO GENTLE

Go Gentle by Maria Semple is a transformative novel of new beginnings and second chances. Maria joined us live at the Upper West Side to talk about stoicism, satire, dialogue, coming-of-age, theater and more with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed…

"Books Saved Me": Susan Cheever on a Life of Reading and Writing

Today I’m bringing you a conversation with the writer Susan Cheever. Let’s kick things off with a passage from her new book: I know that my writing talent is mostly just hard work—decades of writing, first as a journalist…and then as a novelist and then as everything else. Millions of pages and th…