Monthly Archives: March 2025

21Mar/25

Wayne Scott

March 21, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 10: Wayne Scott!

Wayne Scott joins us to share his memoir: The Maps They Gave Us. We scrutinize society’s expected marriage script, and unveil how accepting one’s self and working with your spouse to craft the new story of your marriage can lead to having an unconventional family based on love.

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Wayne Scott’s writing has appeared in The Sun, Poets and Writers, The Psychotherapy Networker, Huffington Post, and The Oregonian, among others. His New York Times essay, “Two Open Marriages in One Small Room” (January 2020) was adapted for the Modern Love podcast and read by Edoardo Ballerini (summer 2021), then “dutchified” for Modern Love (Amsterdam), the television series, in 2022. Some of his more notable tweets are included in Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace (A Public Space Books, 2021). He was a Tin House Fellow in 2019. He is a writer, psychotherapist, and teacher in Portland, Oregon.

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14Mar/25

Donna Minkowitz

March 14, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 9: Donna Minkowitz!

Donna Minkowitz joins us to share her first fiction novel: Donnaville. We discuss backdrops of the mind, growth of the self through the parts of self, character struggles, and yes… there are authoritarians who are trying to bring about a stricter society.

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Donna Minkowitz is a writer of fantasy, memoir, and journalism lauded by Lilith Magazine for her “fierce imagination and compelling prose.” Science fiction great Terry Bisson called her writing “rich and wild, dark and funny, as fearless as her legendary journalism and as scary as a fairy tale.” And she’s proud that Kirkus has praised the “defiant and playful energy” of her work.

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