Life Out Loud Podcast: Recent Episodes
Life Out Loud Podcast
Life Out Loud is a literary nonfiction podcast series that features real students' stories. Born in a John Jay College Creative Nonfiction writing classroom in the Fall, 2015 semester, Life Out Loud seeks to diversify the perspectives typically shared in the CNF genre. Our project aims to amplify voices seldom heard though artful truth-telling simply because we believe that all stories matter; we make them, and they make us.
Two authors fight a destructive third-party in what's perhaps the most important relationship they have.
Supporting a close-family member through a life-threatening illness is no easy task --for anyone.
The past can sound pretty loud during the deafening loneliness of a COVID-19 quarantine...
When these two authors drop everything for a physical chase, who knows what they’ll find in the end?
Two female authors find themselves surrounded by strict cultural expectations, but is that entirely a "bad" thing? Maybe. Maybe not...
While preparing for fictional roles on stage, these two actors learn something quite real
Two female authors, two carefully painted portraits of specific men--their nows, their thens, their left-behinds.
Through first-hand accounts, two authors explore the stigmas surrounding parts of their identities
In true literary journalism style, two young authors search for the truth(s) of some rather complex incidents...
Two authors examine how things have unfolded in ways they didn't quite expect in the "new world."
Displaced, temporary, not-so-temporary? How do we decide who gets to call someplace "home"?
Will these anonymous authors succeed in their pushback against the deep generational ties that bind them?
Three young women authors: All deeply in love and all with an important choice to make...
Featuring four authors who bravely take part in complicated, personal, and sometimes maddening investigations.
Through three disparate translation experiences, these three authors find themselves lost, found, or…somewhere in between.
Three surprising nail-biters (set on three different continents!) in which our authors explore why freedom is worth the fight.
Three surprising narratives about some fairly unconventional first "job" experiences...
Three courageous stories about experiences that have, until recently, remained largely...beneath the surface.
Three gut-wrenching tales about our mothers; their origins; and the lands that stretch between us.
In these disparate coming-of-age narratives, three younger siblings each recount some difficult choice-making...