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Part two of 2025's most memorable, featuring the TV and movies that gave me pause last year, featuring: TV: Task (2025, created by Brad Ingelsby); Black Rabbit (2025, created by Zach Baylin and Kate Susman); The Bear (2022, Christopher Storer); Ren Faire (2024, created by Lance Oppenheim); Du…

Revisiting the megasode that started it all: a massive reading roundup, featuring faves of 2025 in this belated bijou of big book energy, organized into three categories, plus an Honorable Mention section: Looking Back: The Lover by Marguerite Duras; Good Material by Dolly Alderton;  A Tree Grows …

Something's brewing: Find out how flânerie recharged my creative brain and taught me a little bit about grace.  Resources Other ways to reset your creativity:  S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, and Creative Elasticity S04:E04 | Reframe: On Commitment as Self-Care and How to …

What do Biggie Smalls, the Queens of Disco, and the poetry community have in common? Find out in this episode, wherein we talk about remixing ourselves as a way to recontextualize, reimagine, and regenerate our creative work. Resources Lovelorn, my line-lifting solo poetry RPG (Part IV of the West…

It's a booktastic megasode! Nearly 20 minutes of big book energy, opening with books that made me go "mmm" in 2024, and closing with what I'm excited to read in 2025. (Could this be the soft relaunch of the Asynchronous Book Club? Yeah, why not!) As ever, check content warnings …

Let's talk about mirror rot! And also how it inspired me to write this episode all about the agnosticism of inspiration, and how your idiosyncratic log of the year (whether it's in your phone's notes app, your watch history, your box of ticket stubs) can not only help you reflect on …

Let's burn your vision board! Not really! (But kind of?) In this episode, we're talking about taking space, practicing grace, and reminding ourselves of why we make what we make ... and for whom, and why it's not the best move to let your calendar control your creative work. Heavily …

Happy Booksgiving! We're inaugurating a new Jolabokaflod-inspired holiday, Little Oracles style ... because gifting a book is cool as hell. Featuring five books I won't flinch about giving to fabulous friends (and fellow weird-fiction freaks). If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor …

In this final installment of the season-opening three-parter, we look at personal obligation (in a good way) and how to say goodbye to creative stasis with a handful of stagnancy-busting strategies (and even some creative prompts!). Until next time, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay div…