Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon
Francesca Rheannon talks to writers of all genres about matters that move us and make us think.
Episodes
February 13, 2026 • 57 mins
In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca speaks with D. Graham Burnett, Alyssa Loh, and Peter Schmidt about Attensity!, a manifesto for what they call the Attention Liberation Movement.
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February 7, 2026 • 63 mins
Historian Andrew Burstein joins us to talk about his biography, Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History.
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February 1, 2026 • 55 mins
In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rheannon speaks with biographer Robert M. Dowling about his biography, Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard.
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January 24, 2026 • 60 mins
Nell Bernstein tells us about her book In Our Future We Are Free. It traces the grassroots movement that helped dismantle youth prisons across the United States. Then, Tamar Adler talks about her book Feast On Your Life, a month-by-month meditation on cooking, gratitude, and finding meaning in the everyday.
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January 15, 2026 • 58 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Today we explore what it really means to share the planet with other forms of life. We’ll talk with writer Bridget Lyons about her acclaimed book, Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species, a collection of essays that invites us to see animals, plants, … Continue reading Entwined Lives: Bridge...
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January 9, 2026 • 56 mins
Eric Lichtblau talks about "American Reich", an investigation into white nationalism in America today.
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January 2, 2026 • 58 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. What does a 2,000-year-old epic have to say to us today about exile, duty, love, power, war, misinformation, and the fragile hopes of human community? A great deal, say translators Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, whose new English translation of Virgil’s Aeneid captures both the grandeur of the epic … Continue ...
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December 25, 2025 • 57 mins
Francesca Rheannon interviews Joe Dolce about Modern Psychedelics: The Handbook for Mindful Exploration—covering mental health breakthroughs, brain science, spiritual experience, policy debates, and how to safely and thoughtfully approach psychedelics.
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December 18, 2025 • 33 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Francesca speaks with Jonathan Slaght about his remarkable book Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China. Slaght tells the story of the 35-year Siberian (Amur) Tiger Project, one of the longest-running wildlife studies in the … Continue reading The Ret...
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December 13, 2025 • 74 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. This week on Writer’s Voice, we look at two stories from history that illuminate the choices people face as they confront evil: collaborate or resist? First, independent scholar Charles Dick joins us to discuss Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third … Continue reading Builders of Terror...
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December 7, 2025 • 58 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rheannon speaks with Susana M. Morris, acclaimed scholar of Black feminist thought, about her new biography Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler. Drawing on interviews, archival materials, and Butler’s own journals, Morris shows … Continue reading
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November 30, 2025 • 58 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. In this, our 1,000th episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rheannon interviews Julian Brave Noisecat about We Survived the Night, his memoir weaving Indigenous oral traditions, personal narrative, political history, and environmental insight. Noisecat explores Coyote stories, the legacy of residential schools, intergenerational trauma, mixed-r...
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November 20, 2025 • 59 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. This week on Writer’s Voice, Bruce Holsinger tells us about his new novel Culpability, a story about a family shattered by a self-driving car accident — and about the ethical and emotional consequences of artificial intelligence. Holsinger, whose earlier novel The Displacements explored climate catastrophe, turns his sharp eye … Co...
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November 14, 2025 • 57 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. This week on Writer’s Voice, we turn our attention to the living world—and our place within it. First, writer Adam Nicolson joins us to talk about his luminous new book, Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood. It’s the story of how he built … Continue reading The Wisdom of the Wild: Adam Nicolson on BIRD SCH...
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November 8, 2025 • 59 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. In our first segment, comic artist Ben Passmore takes us on a time-bending, darkly funny journey through more than a century of Black resistance in his graphic history Black Arms to Hold You Up. It’s a story of struggle, rebellion, and what liberation really … Continue reading Ben Passmore on Black Resist...
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November 2, 2025 • 65 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. This episode of Writer’s Voice features two leading voices confronting the defining challenges of the 21st century — corporate monopolization and climate breakdown. Together, these conversations show that both the digital and planetary crises share a root cause — the concentration of power — and that … Continue reading
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October 24, 2025 • 57 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. In this episode of Writer’s Voice, we talk with Edward Wong, diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times and former Beijing bureau chief, about his new book At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China. Part memoir, part history, and part frontline … Continue reading Edward Wong on China’s I...
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October 19, 2025 • 57 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. In this episode of Writer’s Voice, we hear from two authors illuminating the human cost of broken systems — one through fiction, the other through investigative memoir. In the first half of the show, we speak with Evanthia Bromiley about her haunting and lyrical … Continue reading Lives on the Margin: Eva...
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October 9, 2025 • 58 mins
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Today, a gripping story of courage, faith, and friendship in one of the most dangerous countries on Earth. Ross Halperin joins us to talk about his extraordinary book Bear Witness: The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land. It’s the true story of two … Continue reading Ross Halperin on BEAR WITNESS: Fighti...
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