Long time television writer and writing workshop instructor Wendy Goldman shares her story "The Actual Brentwood", about the little nudges we sometimes need to make big decisions in life.

In her story "I Could Tell You", professional writer and editor Darcey Gohring tells us something important about her past, with all the perspective of her present.

Hunter Klein is a Brooklyn-based writer, producer, teacher, former little league umpire, and New York Jets fan. The existential question Hunter explores in his story, Tennis Shoes, is not so much what to wear and when, but what … not to.

As a teenager, Jack O'Connell apprenticed at A&P in 1960s suburban Long Island, where he received an education in both meat-cutting and moral compromise from a crew of seasoned butchers and petty thieves.

An aspiring journalist recounts the night her father, a Black reporter in 1960s Georgia, returned drunk and devastated from covering the execution of an innocent Black man, then sobered up to make a difference.

It’s been said that genealogy is where you confuse the dead and irritate the living. Recorded live at City Winery NYC, this episode features three true stories about ancestory from writers Rhonda Zangwill, Jai Chakrabarti, and Isaiah Hunt — Plus, a meditation on the writing life from Lynn Lauber. Listen now or anytime. • To receive the series directly to your phone or smart speaker, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: