Think Piece Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Bryan Miller is one of the funniest people in the world. He's also one of the scariest writers. Not only does he kill audiences when he performs as a stand-up comedian, he kills characters when he writes horror fiction. And he's great at both. To his eyes they're similar crafts, which he explains in this episode. You got to love a comedian who loves Stephen King as much as Steve Martin.
Janet Burroway is a literary legend, not only for her glorious books, which include her memoir Losing Tim and her novels Raw Silk, and The Buzzards, but her iconic writing textbook Writing Fiction. which is considered the bible to college writing students. In her retirement from teaching she has been feeding another passion of hers: theater. She consumes it ravenously and writes for it and has desperately missed it during the pandemic. She shares her thoughts on making costumes for Brian Cox and Ian McKellen back in her London days, adoring the Chicago theater community, and what it's like to write something and sit in the audience and see the magic that comes forth.
Author Brad Zellar explains how he isn't naturally a sports guy but baseball got in his bloodstream early as a way to bond with his father and he's loved it ever since.
Many people know Adam Levy of the Honeydogs as a first-class songwriter and performer. Fewer know him as a gourmand of the first order. But he is and he shares some of his culinary loves with us, from his four-cheese macaroni & cheese, Spanish-style tomato breakfast, and devotion to Turkish spices.
Julie Barton, best-selling author of the memoir "Dog Medicine," discusses her classical music playlist, her quarantine playlist, her grandfather's near-miss as an opera singer, her daughter's budding career as a singer-songwriter, and her abiding love for Metallica, Ani DiFranco, and Greta Van Fleet.
Minneapolis music legend Mark Mallman discusses his love of film, including such favorites as "Alphaville," "The Fly," "The Wiz," and more.