Countdown to 2025: 2024 Books
Last year, I read 15 books! This year I read 13. Still over my usual goal of 10 books per year. I also listened to a lot of podcasts, which I have included at the end of this list.
Stats:
4 fiction books (last year: 6)
Broken down into: 2 contemporary, 1 classic, and 1 historical fiction
1 of these was the second book in a trilogy; 1 was a re-read
8 non-fiction books (last year: 7)
Broken down into: 4 memoirs/autobiography, 4 academic/history (one being entertainment history)
1 was a re-read; 1 was by someone I know
1 book of poetry (last year: 2)
I read 2 non-American authors this year from Canada and Israel (last year it was 3). This year I read 8 female authors with 2 being a woman of color (I am counting the Thornton Wilder Journal as 1 female author); last year I read 9 female authors, with 2 being women of color. 5 books were for book clubs (last year it was 6): 2 of those were for the fiction book club at work (last year 2), and 2 were for the ERG discussion groups at work (last year 3). Then one was a re-read for both the Thornton Wilder Society group (also 1 last year). Usually I try to read at least one book by someone I know, and this year I read 2, one by Teymour Shahabi and then the Thornton Wilder Journal. Last year I read 2 books related to something I was writing/working on, and this year I read 1.
These stats are fairly similar to last year's with slightly more non-fiction books and fewer fiction books. I kept my good mix of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, however I did not read a theater book, and I always try to read at least one a year.
I also read 7 New Yorkers and 7 New York magazines.
Goals:
Last year my goals were: "Keep up 1 poetry book, 1 Wilder book, and 1 theater book. Read the next books in the series that I started. Read a feminism book and a biography. I'll try to only read 4 book club books. Continue to have at least half of the books be by women, and half of the books by women be authors of color. Try to read at least 7 New Yorkers and New York Magazines."
I did okay with these goals. I read the 1 poetry book and 1 Wilder book, however I did not read the theater book. I also only read one of the next books in the series I had started (The Tree of Life series), but the other (the Book of Dust series) still doesn't have a publication date for the third book, so I was okay with skipping the second this year for time. I did not read a feminism book yet again, and while I did not read a biography per se, I did read autobiographies. I count those, but I'd like to get back to biographies again. 8/13 of the books were by women, which is definitely more than half, though only 2/8 were women of color, which is less than half. But, for the first time in a while, I did read 7 New Yorkers and 7 New York magazines!
My goals for 2025 will just be to make sure to read a theater book (I'm sure I'll have no problem with that), continue to read memoir/autobiography but try to read an actual biography, read the next book in both series, read one book of poetry, re-read one Wilder fiction or play and one Wilder non-fiction. Continue to read more than half by women authors and have half of those be women of color, and half of your overall selections be authors of color. Read 7 New Yorkers and 7 New York Magazines again.
This year, I am still marking that I did the online poetry course ModPo in the fall, however I am planning to go through it this spring. I also did the Abolitionist Futures study group and read three pilots this year.
My favorite book(s) of the year:
Moonlighting: An Oral History by Scott Ryan
My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand (audiobook)
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The List:
1. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
I read this book for my company book club, and I am glad I did because I am not sure I would have read it otherwise, despite the fact that it's a popular book. I really didn't know much about it, so mid-way through I was caught off guard by its intensity. I think I went into it with the idea that it was lightheartedly about "food and family," which is not entirely wrong, but I was not aware of the main event of the mom's death. Still, I made it through. It's been a long time since I cried at a book, and while I didn't sob, there were moments that I felt my eyes tearing up on the subway. I really enjoyed Zauner's thoughts and perspective on this loss, and I loved how she linked it to her culture as well. I'm not a food person--I love eating food and food that's already made for me, but I don't like cooking--so the many passages in which she's cooking a Korean dish were not as interesting to me. Still, I appreciated her description of cooking as a connection to her mom and her culture. I did feel she held back certain details of relationships and parts of her life, but she made up for it by not holding back about her mom, which was the central relationship. I think good writing really carried me through this, and I enjoyed it despite the intensity.
Finished: February 27, 2024
2. The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder
I re-read this book to prep for a discussion on it, and I'm glad I did because it turns out I had forgotten a lot of it, even though it's less than 100 pages. Wilder's beautiful writing and style is all there, of course, and I appreciate his interest in the short novel, however on this read I found myself wishing certain areas of the book had been expanded. Maybe that can happen in future adaptations, and maybe Wilder just really wants to leave us wanting more. I also found myself relating the plot to Fiddler on the Roof with the father, Simo, as Tevye, and his son, Pamphilus, as one of the three daughters. Pamphilus doesn't want to marry the local girl and Simo is indulging this despite his wife and the girl's father pressuring him to force the match. But the titular woman of Andros, Chrysis, is the key character in all this, as she opens up Pamphilus and other young men on the island to a more philosophical and literary way of life. Having read all of Wilder's novels now, I think at this point in time I'm partial to the lighter contemporary ones, such as Heaven's my Destination and Theophilus North, though that will most likely change again, and so to know that The Woman of Andros' source material is a more comedic play, part of me wishes Wilder had used a lighter touch here as well instead of turning the adaptation into a tragedy. Still, there's a lot in here for a book so short, a lot of philosophical rumination and thoughtfulness.
Finished: March 16, 2024
3. The Israeli Black Panther Haggadah by Reuven Abergel
I decided to read The Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah in its entirety over Passover this year. I bought it last year when it was published and read from it at our Seder, but I didn't really read it all the way through. I started it the afternoon before Passover this year, thinking I'd read from it again at the Seder, but this time I started from the beginning and kept going. In addition to the Haggadah section, there are articles and essays giving this Haggadah historical context. I learned about the history of Mizrahi Jews in Israel and how they were treated. As someone who has read and learned a lot about the history of Black Panthers in the U.S., I was very interested to see this title and learn how the Mizrahi Jews formed their own chapter of the Black Panther Party in Israel in the early 70s. The articles also touch on how gendered the Party was in Israel as well and speak of the women who are leading the charge today. The Haggadah portion itself is very interesting in that they adapt the Haggadah to tell their own story of oppression. Thank you to Jewish Currents for publishing this book and helping to unearth this history.
Finished: April 28, 2024
4. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, & So Much More by Janet Mock
I read this book for a book club and probably wouldn't have picked it up otherwise (I had never heard of it), but I'm glad I did and was introduced to Janet Mock and her story. While Mock is doing well now, she grew up in a very poor and unstable family, a perspective I hadn't read about before (at least in the one other trans memoir I read but not in most memoirs I read overall). The parts on her early years were the most interesting to me--her relationship with her father and brother at that age--and also the most harrowing. I at first felt that her relationship with her mother was underwritten but it paid off for me toward the end when she returned from getting surgery. She writes in a way that brought me along on this journey with her, allowing me insight into what she was thinking and feeling and every step, even if some of it was hindsight. This is just one trans experience, but it was one I was glad I read, especially with others.
Finished: May 27, 2024
5. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida by N.D.B. Connolly
I read this book for a book discussion group at work, and it continued my love of real estate books. I'm fascinated by real estate and how it's the story of this country. A World More Concrete is specifically about the city of Miami, starting from the turn of the 20th century until late 1960s. The book was strongest when it was showing how cultural factors impacted real estate at the time, from the differences between how Black Americans and Black folks from the Caribbean were treated, to the immigrations of Cubans to the city, to the city's tourist identity. The author also showed well how Miami was specifically not interested in tenant organizing, as a culture of landlord paternalism built up over time, and also introduced readers to fascinating figures in the history of real estate in the city, such as Luther Brooks and Dr. William B. Sawyer. I actually could have used more in the last chapter on the move to the suburbs and all the policy enacted at that time. One chapter was not enough to cover all the details of this, and I thought much was glossed over when it should have been expanded upon. I have only been to Miami twice and very briefly, but I'd love to return and explore more now that I'm familiar with the history of these neighborhoods (spoiler alert: most of the Black neighborhoods and structures are no longer there). I'm particularly interested in the history of Virginia Key Beach, the first "colored only" beach in the area, and the Mary Elizabeth hotel, where many people would have stayed while visiting Virginia Key and Miami, including W.E.B. DuBois, A Phillip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, and Adam Clayton Powell. I'm looking forward to reading even more books like this (this was my second) and incorporating real estate history into more of my writing.
Finished: June 14, 2024
6. Moonlighting: An Oral History by Scott Ryan
Even though I've had this book for about three years, I'm glad I waited until this week to read it. I have been rewatching this series along with the Moonlighting Podcast, and we are now up to the end of season three, the big turning point of the show and, I guess, also for me, as this part of the show has tipped me into being just as obsessed with Moonlighting as when I first watched it over 20 years ago, and I've pretty much gone ahead and rewatched a good part of the last two seasons as well.
I am so grateful for this book's vast collection of interviews with the cast, writers, directors, crew members, assistants. They really illuminate what happened behind the scenes on Moonlighting, from all angles, and each person has such fascinating insights into the characters, the actors, and their relationships, as well as stories about how scripts were written, directed, edited, lit, and put on the air. A lot I knew, but some of it was completely new.
This book is an oral history, so it's written as one long interview pieced together from separate interviews, similar to James Lapine's Putting it Together book about Sunday in the Park with George. And because I was thinking about that book as I was reading this, I saw a lot of similarities between the two, not just because they premiered around the same time. Putting it Together showed how Sunday in the Park with George came together through chaos, and almost didn't happen, and through Lapine it had a director and writer who was a genius but also inexperienced and flying by the seat of his pants in many ways. Sondheim was experienced but also a last-minute writer. With Moonlighting, there was also a head writer who was a "genius" yet inexperienced, extremely last minute, and taking huge swings.
The book paints a picture of how Moonlighting would never have been what it became without that combination of genius, inexperience, and hubris in its creator and without its chaotic process. The swings they took would not have been swung, and without those swings, the people would not all have watched, and without the people watching, the network would have shut them down earlier because the show always came in over budget and was so expensive to make. The whole thing, like most art, was a delicate ecosystem, a living organism that somehow began a life, and any shift in the wind could break it. And of course, it broke.
This book examines how and why it broke, mostly to dismiss the long-held belief that it was because the two characters finally got together. I guess as a Moonlighting fan for many years, I knew that that was not the reason. I knew it to be combination of factors, and, wow, it was so many more factors than even I realized. Like most things in life, it's never one reason but a confluence of people's emotions, their needs in their lives outside of work, their relationships, the way television works, the way outside factors and rushed timelines force you to make decisions that are not entirely thought out. And, as usual, what makes something so great is also what contributes to its downfall later.
I felt a lot of things while reading this book, just as I feel a lot of things while watching the show. The later seasons can be frustrating, and they were frustrating for the writers as well. When the creator Glenn Gordon Caron says that "there was a fascinating story to be told about two people who clearly, on some level, yearned for each other but who, in the business of living day to day, weren't meant to be together in that way. But I never quite got to tell that story.... It was heartbreaking," I felt heartbreak too.
Television is full of heartbreak. Shows get canceled all the time and/or they go downhill and/or the writers do frustrating things. This is just the nature of watching a living medium. At the end of the day, after all the chaos, through some miracle, Sunday in the Park with George hit its final original Broadway production form. But TV has to sustain itself over years, and Moonlighting, like most shows, couldn't do it. I long to see the story Caron wanted to tell, but what I do have is still great, and there are some wonderful moments that came during the story he didn't plan.
Back to this book, the one element I think that's missing in it is Cybill. She's interviewed for the book, unlike Bruce who apparently could not make it work with his schedule, but for everything that's said about her, I never really heard her perspective on it. I think, from my own observations, that she either does not fully remember what she was thinking and feeling at that time or she has just put all of that in the past. That's fine, of course, but I just craved her thoughts in certain moments, especially when others had stories about her behavior on set.
Otherwise, I loved reading everyone's memories and insights into the process, which gave me much to ponder about my own writing and artistic process as well. Any art that gets made is a miracle, and Moonlighting, despite everything, was a colossal miracle. And now, by another miracle, the series is available to stream on Hulu after years of the DVDs being out of print. I have the DVDs of course, but now if I want to rewatch a scene here and there (which I did occasionally when reading) I can do so way more easily. And thank you to the author Scott Ryan for preserving this history. He also offers some wonderful insights on the show as he takes readers along on the journey. And it is a journey.
Finished: June 21, 2024
7. The Tree of Life, Book Two: From the Depths I Call You, 1940-1942 by Chava Rosenfarb
I fell into reading this book series because it was discussed in another book I'd read, People Love Dead Jews, and as a group of us from work discussed that book, someone suggested reading The Tree of Life for discussion as well. From the Depths I Call You, 1940-1942 is the second book in the trilogy, and the two years cover the characters' time in the Lodz ghetto (the author was also a survivor of it). It took some time to re-familiarize myself with all the characters, but once I did I fell right back into their stories. I still had the same problem that I had with the first book in that there are so many characters that sometimes I would forget about those that disappeared for a while and then reappeared again. But I love so many of these characters, and Rosenfarb writes them with such interior detail. I also got a sense of life in the ghetto from many angles. There were some harrowing moments from mentally ill patients being deported as their family members looked on helplessly to a decree to get rid of all pets and one man's attempt to try to save his dog (it doesn't end well). I wanted to read this book this summer not just to continue with the trilogy but to look fascism in the face right now. It's still so difficult to believe that this actually happened and that there are people living in these conditions, or at least similar conditions, today. It was fascinating to see how life in the ghetto affected every character, how some played the politics, how some became better people and thrived, how some withered away. I was particularly intrigued by the Jewish police and also the school system. The teacher character, who in the first book began as a seemingly horrible person and then got more complex, in this book continued her journey of growth. A few romances that were sparked in the first book grew, only to fizzle. I wanted to say to these characters, "get together, you don't have that much time!" But then, not only do they not know that but also how can love grow when spirits are so completely depleted? The book was full of details about the wooden shoes they had to wear, how they had to cook and eat, the rations they received--how much and when. The book ends on New Year's Eve of 1942 right before there will be mass deportations to the camps. You can feel the sense of dread building in the later months. People know something is coming, but they don't know what's next and there's nothing they can do. As I said after I read the first book, while I know there won't be much hope of survival for any of these characters, I still feel I owe it to them to know them while they are alive.
Finished: August 31, 2024
8. Stranger in Love: A Novel by Teymour Shahabi
I read this book for my company book club because the author is a coworker. The author then did a Q&A with us as part of the discussion. That greatly enhanced my enjoyment of the book, though I did enjoy it overall. I liked the constraints of only getting to see a relationship through text messages, emails, and journal entries, as if they were evidence in a trial asking, "What happened here?" The author leave the genders ambiguous, and it was interesting to hear how others in the book club read them, though I maintain that my way of reading them was correct. Given those constraints, I was surprised at how well I felt I knew the characters and how their characterizations may have pushed the relationship one way or another (without giving too much away here). Even though I didn't really online date too much in NYC, the story felt familiar and relatable in some ways, and I was glad to read a book I wouldn't otherwise have known about and support a coworker.
Finished: September 10, 2024
9. My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand (audiobook)
I listened to the audio book of Barbra Streisand's book because I wanted to hear her read it. Plus, there were music clips inserted as well, which I found helpful. I of course know Barbra Streisand from Funny Girl and pop culture, but I really have not seen most of her movies or listened to her recordings. Her book gave a comprehensive and very detailed overview of her life and career, and I wish I had seen more of her films beforehand so that I connected more with the descriptions of her work on each one. Regardless, I now have a greater appreciation for her as an artist and as a person. My favorite parts of the book were her describing how she worked on and made decisions for each one of her projects, whether it was a movie she was acting in or directing, a TV special, an album, or a concert. It provides a great blueprint for how to operate in any business but especially in the arts because she always had such confidence and a vision but understood when some of her vision just couldn't happen for whatever reason, and I loved hearing about every time she spoke up for something. There was one moment when she was watching one of her movies that she directed on TV, I think it was The Prince of Tides, and she felt that the commercials during the commercial breaks were too loud. So she called up the network and asked if they could lower the volume on the commercials. I think the network said they would see what they could do but that's how it works. I would never be able to call up a network to ask something like that, but for whatever reason that really spoke to me as a funny example of how I also feel when something isn't right. I also realized how lucky I was to have seen her perform live in a small venue and to have sung in the same program as she did when my chorus sang at the Marvin Hamlisch Memorial at Juilliard in 2012. She did mention that in the book briefly. I remember we were first on the program and she was last, so we were already in the audience for her two songs. To be that close to her performance in an intimate space is something I still see in my mind even though it's already 12 years ago now. This is a long book--48 hours on audio--so I wanted to break it up so that I could also keep up with my podcast listening. I would take one or two weeks a month and listen to 5 hours at a time, and so this book has been with me for 8 months. As much as I like to plow through books, it's nice when some books are with you a little longer, especially when a book covers the course of a lifetime (and counting).
Finished: September 26, 2024
10. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
I ultimately enjoyed this book, not just because it uses Our Town as the undercurrent and it's been a big deal in Thornton Wilder circles (I read it when I did because I wanted to have read it before seeing Patchett receive the Thornton Wilder Prize on October 14th). It was difficult, though, because I enjoy stories about how artists became artists, and this was a story about how an artist did not become an artist, if she ever was one to begin with. At least the character of Nell was there to provide some artistic ambition. I guess Peter Duke did as well, but he was more of a cautionary tale (and I appreciated how dark his character and that storyline got). Pallace, the main character Lara's understudy and friend at Tom Lake, also has some artistic ambition but it was always kind of tampered by the fact that she's black and never given much opportunity in the American theater in the late 1980s. I would LOVE to see a spinoff book that follows Pallace after Tom Lake and her career or possibly lack of career in late 80s/early 90s NYC. To me, she was the most interesting character, her and Nell. As for the parallels to Our Town, I loved where the author was going with the oldest daughter Emily's decision not to have children, somewhat based on how the play's Emily dies in childbirth, and her decision to get married but have it not be a huge deal. I would have liked to delve even more deeply into both of those decisions with Emily, but they kind of just pass by. There were a few slow sections that described farm life (maybe I am just not interested in farm life), but overall this was an interesting, fast read for me, and I very much appreciated the setting of spring and summer of 2020 and acknowledging the experience of living through that year without it being specifically about the pandemic (though I'm also happy to read books specifically about the pandemic! But the pandemic can also be just part of life). The only aspect I actively disliked was a "reveal" that comes midway through the book that seemed gimmicky. This book does not need "reveals." Thornton Wilder, who is in the book's DNA, basically told the reader and audience everything up front, and I would have been fine with this book doing so as well. So, while I appreciate this book as a story about not having artistic ambition, it was disappointing to me when it was not about artistic ambition, even though I did enjoy reading it.
Finished: October 8, 2024
11. Cybill Disobedience : How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think by Cybill Shepherd
I first read Cybill's autobiography a little over 20 years ago when I was in college and first got into her TV series Moonlighting. I didn't remember much though, so I decided to re-read it in preparation for seeing her perform live in Los Angeles in October. My overall thought was that I wish this book had been written today, though I'm glad it was written when it was because I don't think Cybill could have written this today. Not only would we have chapters from the last 20 years of her life, which would not be as exciting from a career perspective but I would have loved to read about from a personal perspective, but we'd also probably get a more comprehensive book as we're now in the age of celebrity memoirs that are given more attention and care. We'd also probably get an audiobook. But, just as I felt when I saw her perform last month in a reduced capacity, I'll take and appreciate what I can get and what she's able to give us.
Her story really took off for me when she left Memphis for New York to start her modeling career. I'm not into modeling, but I was intrigued by this young woman in late 1960s New York thrust into a high profile modeling career simultaneously taking literature classes at various NYC colleges, all the while navigating very adult relationships in her late teens. Many people know how her story takes off from there--she met with director Peter Bogdanovich for her breakout part in The Last Picture Show (she went to the meeting at the Essex house reading War and Peace), and he was convinced to cast her later after seeing her Glamour cover. She then moves through the ups and downs of being an actress in Hollywood (with a brief break in Memphis where she married her first husband and had her first child).
It was interesting to read this again after reading Tom Lake, a fictional story of a young woman who also falls into an acting career in Hollywood and the theater, but while that character quits to run a cherry farm in Michigan (and is quite happy about it), Cybill kept going, even when it seemed like she should quit. She took time to do theater across the country to practice her craft, she took time to focus on something she truly loved--singing--and recorded albums and did shows in New York, and she took the jobs she could get. I said in my review of the Moonlighting Oral History book that Moonlighting was a miracle. I meant that it was a miracle that it existed at all, but it was a miracle for Cybill too, as not only did it rejuvenate her career but it gave her the opportunity to really showcase what she could do both comedically and dramatically, which led to her own sitcom, which showcased that even more.
I also said in my review of the Moonlighting Oral History book that it seemed like we were missing Cybill's perspective on what went down, even though she was featured in the book. We get some of that perspective here, and I'm glad she spoke up about some of the ways she was mistreated while also acknowledging that they all could have done better, herself included. It was also fascinating to read about her experience working on the Cybill show. I haven't read as much about what happened behind the scenes of that show (I suppose there's less out there about it), and I'm glad we have her perspective on it.
She's also very frank about her relationships, including both her marriages and a serious relationship she had toward the book's end where she felt her most vulnerable. Yeah, Elvis is in there as well. She never apologizes for being a very sexual person. These relationships drive much of her life and also much of her mistakes and growth.
I'm also glad I read this after listening to Barbra Streisand's book as well because I see a lot of parallels in terms of the creation of an artist and the setbacks. Barbra succeeded far more than Cybill, and maybe how people perceived them based on their looks played a role in that, but Cybill also adapted a book into a screenplay, she worked hard at her craft, she took risks, she knew her Hollywood history, she knew what would be funny and work in a scene and she spoke up about it. Her comedy was both witty and physical, much like Lucille Ball and other classic Hollywood actresses. And she loved and continues to love music and singing--I was inspired when I saw her in October by the fact that she was doing a 90-minute set when most people would have retired. She does not care about expectations, has never cared, and is just going to do what she's going to do and live her life.
Finished: November 8, 2024
12. The Thornton Wilder Journal: Volume 1, Number 2 edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Mary C. English, Lincoln Konkle, Edyta Oczkowicz, and Terryl W. Hallquist
I finished this Thornton Wilder Journal, the second one from 2020, so I'm really doing well with keeping up. But I really enjoyed many of the articles here, including "Friedrich Nietzche Explains the Popularity of Our Town," "Thornton Wilder: At Home in the Southwest," and "That's What It Was to Be Alive: A Social Gospel Reading of Our Town." The last two especially gave me a lot of ideas/inspiration. The journal also has performance reviews, each of which made me think more about the plays, particularly Our Town, as I saw it recently.
Finished: December 12, 2024
13. Elegies by Muriel Rukeyser
I'm glad these poems were collected as one book. First published by in 1949, these poems were written over a seven-year period from the end of the Spanish Civil War, through World War II, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, to the start of the Cold War. Many of Rukeyser's poems are either about war or incorporate war, and these are no exception. There are only 10 poems, but they are long and somewhat difficult. I felt like I needed two days with each poem. I did ultimately enjoy them all, but the final one, "Tenth Elegy. Elegy in Joy", fit perfectly with the last day of the year, when I read it, in anticipation of new beginnings in the new year:
"Now there are no maps and no magicians.
No prophets but the young prophet, the sense of the world.
The gift of our time, the world to be discovered.
All the continents giving off their several lights,
the one sea, and the air. And all things glow....
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings.
Not all things are blest, but the
seeds of all things are blest.
The blessing is in the seed.
This moment, this seed, this wave of the sea, this look, this instant of love.
Years over wars and an imagining of peace. Or the expiation journey
toward peace which is many wishes flaming together,
fierce pure life, the many-living home.
Love that gives us ourselves, in the world known to all
new techniques for the healing of a wound,
and the unknown world. One life, or the faring stars."
Finished: December 31, 2024
Screenplays/Pilots:
Mad Men pilot (2 versions)
Breaking Bad pilot
Abbott Elementary pilot
Online Classes:
ModPo, 11th Year (University of Pennsylvania)
Abolitionist Futures Study Gruop
Podcasts (listened to all episodes)
Scene to Song
Moonlighting the Podcast
On the Nose: A Jewish Currents Podcast
Awaken
Disney Inside Out
The Hitchcock Gays
Once More With Feeling
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway
And Episodes of:
You Are Good, Putting it Together, Thesis on Joan, The Original Cast, Scriptnotes, Maintenance Phase, You're Wrong About, Broadway Breakdown, Know the Show, A Musical Theatre Podcast, Spielberg Pod, Chronologically: Spielberg, Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel, Superhero Ethics, 5-4, Broadway Nation, Little Known Facts, Millennials are Killing Capitalism, Muppeturgy, So Much Stuff to Sing, Decoder Ring, Act Two Podcast, This Ends at Prom, The Wrong Cat Died, If Books Could Kill, The Writers Panel, Broadway Vocal Coach, Who Were the Comedian Harmonists?, The Quiet Part Out Loud with Bobby Steggert, WTF with Marc Maron, The Theatre Podcast
One Episode of:
The Plot Thickens, The Cryonic Woman, Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson, A Very Good Year, Bad Hasbara, Not From Here, The Movies That Made Me, History That Doesn't Suck, Fail Better with David Duchovny, Front Porch Book Club, Across the Bifrost, Roundtable with Robert Bannon