Oct 31, 2025
My guest is Dr. Sunita Puri, a palliative-care physician and author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour. We talk about what it really means to care for patients when cure is no longer the goal, why our medical system resists honest conversations about death, and how clarity and compassion...
Oct 22, 2025
Oct 21, 2025
This week I interview journalist and author Olga Khazan about
her new book on personality change, Me, But Better.
We talk about the Big Five traits—openness, conscientiousness,
extraversion/introversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—and how
they play out in ordinary life rather than in personality quizzes.
Olga...
Oct 14, 2025
Novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner returns to discuss his exceptionally timely new novel Amputation—a strange, exuberant, and ultra meta work set against a topic I’ve talked about a lot this year, the January LA wildfires. Bruce, an L.A. native and prominent literary figure in the city, explains how the book...
Oct 8, 2025
Katie Herzog, co-host of the Blocked and Reported podcast (BarPod), is best known as an anthropologist of, as she puts it, “internet bullshit.” But she’s swerved far out of her lane for her latest project. In her brand new book, Drink Your Way Sober, Katie combines personal history with deep reporting to chronicle...