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Episode 24: Stephen Fried on "Dead Fathers Society"
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Stephen Fried (@stephen_fried), a journalist, author of many books, and adjunct faculty member at Columbia and Penn joins Jamie-Lee to read and discuss his essay, "Dead Fathers Society," from his 2007 collection Husbandry. Stephen and Jamie-Lee discuss the nature of these respective societies and how not everyone who has lost a parent wants to tell…
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Episode 23: Michelle Chikaonda on "Song for my Father"
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Michelle Chikaonda (@machikaonda), a nonfiction writer from Malawi currently living and working in Philadelphia, joins Jamie-Lee and brilliant pal Izzy Lopez to read and discuss her essay, "Song for My Father" from The Pennsylvania Gazette. Michelle elaborates on the role that faith and music played in her life with her father and following his dea…
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Episode 22: Hope Edelman on The AfterGrief
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This episode is the audio recording from a virtual event held at the Kelly Writers House on November 18, 2020, featuring Hope Edelman, author of the new book The AfterGrief, as well as the widely successful and impactful book Motherless Daughters, and seven other nonfiction books. Hope and Jamie-Lee discuss Hope's process in writing and structuring…
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Taylor Hosking (@Taylor__Hosking), a culture journalist and podcast producer, joins Jamie-Lee to discuss her recent piece from The Guardian about how she turned to fellow women of color after her mother's death from Covid-19. They discuss the recent, ongoing nature of this loss in combination with the collective grief that so many are feeling in th…
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Isabella Simonetti, a current student at the University of Pennsylvania and the President of The Daily Pennsylvanian, joins Jamie-Lee for DPS's first Zoom episode. They discuss the writing Isabella has produced in an independent study at Penn about her mother's death from breast cancer, and how the scope of this work changed when the semester sudde…
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Episode 19: Gianna DeMedio on "Sixty-Three" and So Sorry For Your Loss
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This special episode of Dead Parents Society was recorded before a live audience at the Kelly Writers House and aired on WXPN, the public radio station at the University of Pennsylvania, in November 2019. Hosted as always by Jamie-Lee Josselyn, this episode features work by Emily Harnett, Zoe Osbourne, Gianna DeMedio, and Rachel Levy Lesser. Specia…
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Rachel Levy Lesser, author of Life's Accessories: A Memoir and Fashion Guide, joins Jamie-Lee and Darcy Walker Krause, Executive Director of the Uplift Center for Grieving Children. The three of them discuss an essay from Rachel's new collection called "Hair Pulled Back in a Twilly," which is about not just Rachel's loss of her mother and the immed…
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Molly O'Neill, a Los Angeles-based yoga instructor, writer, and longtime friend of the Kelly Writers House community reads from her essay "Parts of a Life" from YogaPoetica.com and discusses the piece with Jamie-Lee and DPS brilliant pal Anna Strong Safford. In their conversation, they discuss how teaching and practicing yoga integrated into Molly'…
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Episode 15: Solomon Mussing on "Letter to My Father"
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Solomon Mussing, who also goes by the name L'Hussen Toure, an alum of the Summer Workshop for Young Writers at the Kelly Writers House, talks with Jamie-Lee about his piece "Letter to My Father," a memoir in the style of direct-address that he wrote to his father, who died by suicide. They discuss the obvious, unflinching directness of the mode, th…
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In our Season 2 premiere, Anna Strong Safford, instructor and curriculum specialist at Penn, joins Jamie-Lee and DPS brilliant pal Molly O'Neill to read and discuss her poem "because my memories" from her manuscript bled. Anna's poem inspires a conversation about the use of earthly (and, indeed, worldly) imagery in writing about one's memories of g…
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Episode 13: Rebecca Soffer of Modern Loss
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Rebecca Soffer, co-author of the book Modern Loss and co-founder of ModernLoss.com, joins Jamie-Lee and others in the Kelly Writers House garden for a live reading and conversation about writing about grief, the community that comes from it, and the various emotions and moods that this writing can evoke (spoiler alert: it doesn't always have to be …
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Episode 12: John Culhane on "Little Mirrors of Mortality"
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Slate.com contributor and Widener Law professor John Culhane joins Jamie-Lee and Maya to read and discuss his piece "Little Mirrors of Mortality," which is from the perspective of a parent realizing his mortality in his children's eyes. Our usual perspective is flipped, in a sense, to great effect thanks to John's piece. We also discuss John's pers…
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Episode 11: Arielle Brousse on "Grief Beach"
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Arielle Brousse, author of the TinyLetter "Grief Beach" joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss how she came to write a weekly letter to friends and others about her difficult year of loss and how the form of a TinyLetter has impacted her writing, her grieving, and her relationships. They also discuss writing about not just grieving the death…
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Bassini Apprentices Maya Arthur and Sabrina Qiao interview Jamie-Lee Josselyn on her essay, "When News of a Suicide Comes During Memoir Class" from LitHub in September 2016. They discuss how personal history and the writing that comes from it converges with and remains separate from the work of a creative writing teacher.…
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Episode 9: Jess Bergman on "The Difficult Business of Dying"
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Jess Bergman (@jesslbergman), Features Editor at Literary Hub, joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss her essay "The Difficult Business of Dying" from The New Republic in December 2017. In the essay, Jess weaves together her own experience of mourning her father with Caitlin Doughty's book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find t…
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Episode 8: Catherine Ricketts on "Eloquent Limbs" and "Books to be Buried In"
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Essayist and songwriter Catherine Ricketts (http://catherinedanaricketts.com/) joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss her essay "Eloquent Limbs" and her song "Books to be Buried In," which she also performs. Cat, who joined us for our live event in April, discusses how she decides to approach particular experiences through songwriting versus…
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Episode 7: Victoria Ford on "Elegy for Clitoris"
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The poet and essayist Victoria Newton Ford joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss her poem "Elegy for Clitoris" from Connotation Press. Victoria has said that she writes "to tell the truth, and the truth is often hideous. And though it feels good to write, I don't write to make the reader feel good, particularly. I write to make you feel. To…
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Episode 6: Scott Gould and Jamie-Lee Josselyn on the pedagogy of writing about difficult experience
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Jamie-Lee talks with the writer Scott Gould, who is the director of creative writing at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, about how he approaches working with high school students who are facing difficult personal material, including, but not limited to loss and grief. They discuss general classroom pedagogy, specifi…
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Jamie-Lee Josselyn (@jljosselyn) and Kristen Martin (@kwistent) discuss Hope Edelman's 1994 book Motherless Daughters, which has remained successful in the more than 2 decades since its release. Jamie-Lee and Kristen, whose mothers died from suicide and cancer respectively, discuss the book's form, its longevity, how it enables readers to both conn…
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Sabrina Qiao, Maya Arthur, and Jamie-Lee Josselyn gather with Kristen Martin (@kwistent) to discuss her essay "Don't Cover Your Eyes," from Catapult in 2016. Kristen's essay inspires conversation about how a television show -- in this case, HBO's Six Feet Under -- can help access grief, rather than numb it. The group also discusses how writing abou…
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Jamie-Lee Josselyn gathers with Emily Harnett (@therealeharnett) and Maya Arthur (@maya_s_arthur) to discuss Where Everything Is In Halves by Gabriel Ojeda-Sague (@hadeejasouffle) published by Be About It Press. Gabe reads a selection from the chapbook and then joins the conversation about choosing a particular form/approach/constraint to writing a…
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Episode 2: Recorded live from Kelly Writers House
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This episode was recorded live at the Kelly Writers House on April 16, 2018 at Dead Parents Society's Beltran Family Teaching Award Program. Jamie-Lee hosts the writers Catherine Ricketts, Seth Laracy, Mingo Reynolds, Isabella Simonetti, and Anna Strong who each read a piece of writing about the loss of a parent. Conversation and questions from the…
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Jamie-Lee Josselyn (@jljosselyn) gathers with Gabriel Ojeda-Sague (@hadeejasouffle) and Sabrina Qiao to discuss "When Art Cannot Console Us in Death" by Emily Harnett (@therealeharnett) from Literary Hub. Emily reads the piece and then joins in on the conversation too, which covers everything from grieving secularly to the reasons we write about de…
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The Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing and Dennis discusses a few of the films he's seen. Plus Disney announces that the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film is set to hit theaters in 2011. The A-Team movie has their new Mr. T and M*A*S*H writer Larry Gelbart passes away at 81. Theme music at freeplaymusic.com and Thornley.…
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We get our geek on as we discuss extremely early advanced tickets for Avatar, the possibility of renting movies on YouTube, and the biggest news of the week; Disney buys Marvel Entertainment and what it could mean for both movies and television. All this plus more. Theme music from freeplaymusic.com and Thornley.…
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Dennis returns as we discuss what movie franchise we feel will best define the decade. Plus, turmoil in the Big Brother house as producers eject a contestant, District 9 earns more opening weekend than it cost to make the movie. A night at the movies is the cheaper form of entertainment as Cineplex posts Q2 earnings. What's next for Bryan Singer? a…
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Aaron talks Fifty Dead Men Walking and discusses The Hangover and the comedy genre in general with Jamie. Plus fan backlash erupts as a major Twilight character is re-casted. NBC looks to bring Rockford back for a new generation, a new Walmart policy that has studios worrying about their business. Paramount introduces a new staggered release policy…
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Remembering Walter Cronkite, plus the latest movie and TV news.
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This turns out to be an 80's themed episode as Jamie and Aaron take a look at many 1980's shows that have all been announced to have movies in production, from TJ Hooker to The Smurfs. Also millions tuned in to watch the memorial service of the "King of Pop" (and 80's icon), Michael Jackson. Ryan Reynolds lands a big DC role and who is the front ru…
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A discussion about the viral marketing campaign for the upcoming District 9 movie. A museum opening that will remind the world of Walt Disney the man, not the brand. An end to the year long stalemate between SAG and the AMPTP. Plus Grey's Anatomy casting, Fox's fall premiere schedule, and what is the most watched show in the world?…
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The death of David Carradine, Transformers tickets on sale, Bryan Singer may direct Magneto, and the Tony Awards bring out the A-list from Hollywood.
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"Star Trek" has a big opening weekend, NBC announces its fall schedule, "Cleveland" is already renewed for a second season, and "Wolverine" gets a sequel AND a spin-off.
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As Wolverine kicks off the 2009 Summer Box Office Season with $87 million we take an early look at Iron Man 2 which will kick off next summer's silly season. The H1N1 (swine flu) virus halts movie releases in Mexico, a sequel to Wall Street gets the greenlight. Plus Disney boards the Hulu wagon and as the networks prep for their upfronts in a few w…
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