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Storybound
''Storybound'' is a podcast created, produced, and hosted by Jude Brewer, with original music composed for each episode. The show is a collaboration between ''Lit Hub'' and The Podglomerate podcast network, featuring household names and Pulitzer Prize winning authors alongside relatively unknown bands, singer-songwriters, and composers. Season 1 debuted on December 3, 2019. Inspired from Brewer's ''Storytellers Telling Stories'', ''Storybound'' surpassed a million downloads in its first year, following up with seasons 2 and 3, the latter of which has been recognized for experimental cross-genre music compositions with sampling created and arranged by Brewer. Series overview Regarding the crafting of each episode, Brewer likened the relationship between literature and music as the conceptual evolution of a live reading, also adding how "beats or time signatures or chord progressions" allow listeners to feel a story's forward progression: "There's something subtle in your mind t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jude Brewer
Jude Brewer is an American writer, producer, actor, and podcast host, best known for creating and hosting '' Storybound'' and ''Storytellers Telling Stories''. Brewer's writing has appeared internationally through literary magazines, and most recently in podcasts and short films. Career Writing & Film Tania Hershman, author, and judge of the 2017 UK Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize, has described Brewer's writing as " akingrisks in its structure, going off on tangents, not following a linear narrative, and the risks pay off. It is dark and funny and moving and strange. There is not a word too many or too few, and every word is precisely chosen, the character’s voice never strays… I could read this again and again and again." Two of Brewer's short literary fiction pieces were adapted for his podcast ''Storytellers Telling Stories'' with Brewer narrating. Season 4 of ''Storybound'' brought Brewer's voice acting to the forefront for multiple character voices across several ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Klosterman
Charles John Klosterman (; born 1972) is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for '' Esquire'' and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for ''The New York Times Magazine''. Klosterman is the author of twelve books, including two novels and the essay collection '' Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto''. He was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for music criticism in 2002. Early life Klosterman was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, the youngest of seven children of Florence and William Klosterman. He is of German and Polish descent. He grew up on a farm in nearby Wyndmere, North Dakota, and was raised Roman Catholic. He graduated from Wyndmere High School in 1990 and from the University of North Dakota in 1994. Career After college, Klosterman was a journalist in Fargo, North Dakota, and later a reporter and arts critic for the '' Akron Beacon Journal'' in Akron, Ohio, before moving to New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caitlin Doughty
Caitlin Marie Doughty (born August 19, 1984) is an American mortician, author, blogger, YouTube personality, and advocate for death acceptance and the reform of Western funeral industry practices. She is the owner of Clarity Funerals and Cremation of Los Angeles, creator of the Web series "Ask a Mortician", founder of The Order of the Good Death, and author of three bestselling books, ''Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory'' (2014), ''From Here to Eternity; Traveling the World to Find the Good Death'' (2017), and ''Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death'' (2019). Early life Doughty grew up in Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, where she had no exposure to death until, at age 8, she witnessed another child fall to her death from a balcony at a shopping mall. She was quickly taken from the scene of the accident and it was never spoken of again. For several years, she became obsessed with fears of her own or her family's deaths. Doughty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad (born 1982) is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist, whose novel ''What Strange Paradise'' was the winner of the 2021 Giller Prize. Early life and education Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in Doha, Qatar. When he was 16 years old, he moved to Canada, completing high school in Montreal and university at Queen's University at Kingston, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has a computer science degree. Career For ten years he was a staff reporter for ''The Globe and Mail,'' where he covered the War in Afghanistan (2001–present), war in Afghanistan, military trials at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantanamo Bay and the Arab Spring in Egypt. He was most recently a correspondent for the western United States, where he covered Black Lives Matter. His first novel, ''American War (novel), American War,'' was published in 2017. It received positive reviews from critics; ''The New York Times'' book critic Michiko Kakutani compared i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins (born 1992) is an American writer and editor. Her debut book, ''This Will Be My Undoing'' (2018), a collection of nonfiction essays, was a ''New York Times'' bestseller. Her second book, ''Wandering in Strange Lands'', was released in August 2020. She is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University. Early life and education Jerkins was raised by her mother and grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood in New Jersey. She has an older sister, and is the niece of music producers Fred Jerkins III and Rodney Jerkins. She has Creole ancestry. She began writing at the age of 14 as an outlet for her experiences with bullying in school. Jerkins received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University. She planned to move to New York after graduation, but had difficulty finding a job in the publishing industry despite her degree in comparative literature, for which she said she learned five languages. She attended the Bennington Writing Seminars for her MFA. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darknet Diaries
''Darknet Diaries'' is an investigative podcast created by Jack Rhysider (), chronicling true stories about crackers, malware, botnets, cryptography, cryptocurrency, cybercrime, and Internet privacy, all subjects falling under the umbrella of "tales from the dark side of the Internet". Launched in October 2017, episodes average around 30 minutes to an hour, each meticulously dissecting a singular topic through original interviews, audio footage, and Rhysider's narration. The show's journalistic style has received widespread acclaim for its ability to "speak to your inner detective" and "productively substitute the thriller novel you intend to carry". Production Each episode begins with an introduction from Rhysider, followed by the theme music consisting of stringed instruments and a crunchy synthesizer, and then a structured narrative layered with interviews and suspenseful scoring. For the first 40 episodes, Rhysider was responsible for all of the research, writing, narratin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Haig
Matt Haig (born 3 July 1975) is an English author and journalist. He has written both fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, often in the speculative fiction genre. Early life Haig was born on 3 July 1975 in Sheffield. He went on to study English and History at the University of Hull. Career Haig is the author of both fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. His work of non-fiction, ''Reasons to Stay Alive'', was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and was in the UK top 10 for 46 weeks. His bestselling children's novel, ''Father Christmas and Me'', is currently being adapted for film, produced by StudioCanal and Blueprint Pictures. His novels are often dark and quirky takes on family life. ''The Last Family in England'' retells Shakespeare's ''Henry IV, Part 1'' with the protagonists as dogs. His second novel ''Dead Fathers Club'' is based on ''Hamlet'', telling the story of an introspective 11-year-old dealing with the recent death of his father and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lit Hub
Literary Hub is a daily literary website that launched in 2015 by Grove Atlantic president and publisher Morgan Entrekin, American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame editor Terry McDonell, and Electric Literature founder Andy Hunter. Content Focused on literary fiction and nonfiction, ''Literary Hub'' publishes personal and critical essays, interviews, and book excerpts from over 100 partners, including independent presses (New Directions Publishing, Graywolf Press), large publishers (Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf), bookstores (Book People, Politics and Prose), non-profits (PEN America), and literary magazines (''The Paris Review'', n+1). The mission of ''Literary Hub'' is to be the "site readers can rely on for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books." The website has been featured in ''The Washington Post'', ''The Guardian'', and ''Poets & Writers''. In 2019, Literary Hub launched their new blog, ''The Hub'', alongside LitHub Radio, a "network of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storytellers Telling Stories
''Storytellers Telling Stories'' is an episodic podcast created and hosted by writer and showrunner Jude Brewer, harkening back to the Golden Age of Radio as a "theatre of the mind" experience with writers, actors, and musicians. Consolidated into seasons and released weekly, the episodes range from just a few minutes to about an hour, with most hovering around the 30-minute mark, beginning with Brewer introducing the title of the story and that episode's featured author. The stories are either fiction or nonfiction, exploring a wide array of storytelling genres, from literary fiction to science fiction to magical realism, and noir fiction. The first season consists entirely of authors reading short stories or excerpts from their published books. The second season introduces a featured songwriter for each episode, where the songwriter will play a live version of their song that loosely ties in with the story and the Season Two theme of "Endings". Brewer hosted a live performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Albom
Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958) is an American author, journalist, and musician. His books have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for sports writing in his early career, he turned to writing the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays, and films. Albom lives with his wife Janine Sabino in Detroit. Early life Albom was born on May 23, 1958, to a Jewish family in Passaic, New Jersey. He lived in Buffalo, New York for a little while until his family settled in Oaklyn, New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a small, middle-class neighborhood which most people never left. Albom was once quoted as saying that his parents were very supportive, and always used to say, "Don't expect your life to finish here. There's a big world out there. Go out and see it." His older sister, younger brother and he himself all took that message to heart and traveled extensively. His siblings are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch ( ; born June 18, 1963) is an American writer, teacher and editor based in Oregon. She is the author of the memoir ''The Chronology of Water'', and the novels ''The Small Backs of Children,'' '' Dora: A Headcase,'' and ''The Book of Joan''. She is also known for her TED talk "The Beauty of Being a Misfit", which has been viewed over 3.2 million times, and her follow-up book ''The Misfit's Manifesto''. Early life Yuknavitch was born Lidia Yukman in San Francisco, California. She grew up in a home where her father verbally, physically, and sexually abused her and her sister, and her alcoholic mother did not intervene. As a teen, she was noticed by a "caring and methodical coach," who helped her move towards her dream of becoming a competitive swimmer. The family moved to Florida for additional training, and Yuknavitch began abusing alcohol. Yuknavitch relocated to Texas after high school, where she attended Austin Community College on a swimming scholarship. Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Gallagher (author)
Matt Gallagher (born February 24, 1983) is an American author, former U.S. Army captain and veteran of the Iraq War. Gallagher has written on a variety of subjects, mainly contemporary war fiction and non-fiction. He first became known for his war memoir Kaboom (2010), which tells of his and his scout platoon's experiences during the Iraq War. He works as a writing instructor at Words After War, a literary nonprofit devoted to bringing veterans and civilians together to study conflict literature. In 2015, Gallagher was featured in '' Vanity Fair'' alongside Elliot Ackerman, Maurice Decaul, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers and Brandon Willitts, as the voices of a new generation of American war literature. Among other media, he's appeared on ''CBS News Sunday Morning, PBS NewsHour'', ''BBC News'' and NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show." Gallagher was interviewed in September 2016 at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan by General (Retired) David H. Petraeus. In January 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
