Hi Academy friends!
The Read to Me podcast episodes here were curated just for you.
In each one, I read from a piece of exceptional published work. Then I do Gateless feedback on what I read.
Sometimes an intro precedes the reading. If you’re in a time crunch, skip ahead 4 to 10 minutes to get right to the reading.
These episodes cover several genres. They cross cultures. And they look at the work through many different craft lenses
All these episodes, and the 70 or so other eps, are on Spotify or Apple. Let me know if you can’t access them.
I’m honored to be in Academy with you!
Much love,
Becky
P.S. That’s what I look like. :)
Fiction
Nina Hart, Somewhere in a Town You Never Knew Existed Somewhere (A Gateless writer!)
Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
Suzanne Kingsbury, The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (this is the sexiest episode)
Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets
Sari Rosenblatt, Father Guards the Sheep
Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form & Emptiness
Meredith Hall, Beneficence
Non-Fiction
Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack & Honey
Colin Thubron, To A Mountain in Tibet
An email by Laura Belgray (a Gateless writer!)
Dvora Rabino, Notes from a Yarmulke Wearer’s Wife (a Gateless writer!)
Terri Trespcio, Unfollow Your Passion (Gateless writer)
Rene Denfeld, Food Can Hurt
Damon Young, Toni Morrison Was the Greatest American Writer
Leah Pennimen, Farming While Black
Katherine May, Wintering
Jo Ann Beard, Festival Days
Poetry
Diana Whitney, “Demeter in Winter” (A Gateless writer!)
Ross Gay, “Burial”
Evie Schockley, “a dark scrawl”
Sarah Freligh, “Wondrous”
Songs
Rachel Ries, Holiest Day
Mary Gauthier, Drag Queens & Limousines + Tennessee Williams (Mary is a Gateless writer!)
Kris Delmhorst, Horses in the Sky
The Mammals, If You Could Hear Me Now
Jocelyn Mackenzie, Mango Leather
TV
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (plus Taffy Brodesser-Akner)
YA
Judy Blume, Fudge-A-Mania
Juana Martinez-Neal, Alma
Ann Braden, Flight of the Puffin