Best Terrance Rivers Podcasts (2024)

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S4E12 | Concerning the Future of Souls, by Joy Williams 17:53

5M ago17:53

17:53

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams reads entries from “Concerning the Future of Souls” (issue no. 247, Spring 2024), a collection of stories following Azrael, the angel of death and transporter of souls. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed by John DeLore. Our t…

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S4E11 | Trial Run 37:51

5M ago37:51

37:51

In Zach Williams’s “Trial Run” (issue no. 239, Spring 2022), an employee is subjected to two coworkers’ conspiracy theories when their office is targeted by an anonymous white supremacist hacker. The story is read by Michael Chernus, Danny Mastrogiorgio, and Gabriel Marin. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed …

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S4E10 | Foley’s Pond 8:54

6M ago8:54

8:54

“We were thirteen and conspiratorial and what was said is now out of reach.” Jim Fletcher reads Peter Orner’s “Foley’s Pond” (issue no. 202, Fall 2012), a quietly devastating short story about the effects of a tragic accident on a boy and his community. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed b…

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S4E9 | “The Victim” by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 30:05

6M ago30:05

30:05

The legendary actor George Takei reads one of the oldest stories in the Review’s archive. Published by the magazine in 1957, “The Victim” is Ivan Morris’s English translation of the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s 1910 literary debut. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed by John DeLore…

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S4E8 | The Walk Book 17:40

7M ago17:40

17:40

Sean Thor Conroe shares entries from “The Walk Book”—his meticulous, funny travelogue about his 2014 attempt to walk across the United States—including some rain-soaked field recordings. This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was sound-designed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and perfo…

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S4E7 | Olga Tokarczuk’s Divine Cosmos 18:02

7M ago18:02

18:02

The Nobel Prize–winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk discusses the souls of animals, discovering feminism, and her home in the village of Krajanów where she was once neighbors with “three different translators of William Blake in an excerpt from her Art of Fiction interview with Marta Figlerowicz. This episode was produced and sound-designed by Joh…

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S4E6 | About Ed 46:41

7M ago46:41

46:41

“We needed erotic touch to tell us what we were.” Robert Glück reads from About Ed, a memoir about his relationship with his former partner Ed Aulerich-Sugai. The performance is paired with excerpts from his Art of Fiction interview with Lucy Ives. This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was mixed and sound-designed by Hel…

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S4E5 | Scenes from an Open Marriage 36:28

8M ago36:28

36:28

“Nothing reifies a romance like proximate disaster.” Seated at her kitchen table, Jean Garnett reads her essay “Scenes from an Open Marriage” and chats with the Review’s deputy editor, Lidija Haas, and senior producer of the podcast, Helena de Groot. This episode was produced, sound-designed, and mixed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season…

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S4E4 | Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait 10:58

8M ago10:58

10:58

“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem, “Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait.” An homage to the iconic host of the PBS show The Joy of Painting, and an exploration of Blackness: “deep-space black, black-hole black … lampblack and ink black, boot black and blackjack and blacker.” This e…

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S4E3 | The I is Made of Paper 21:23

9M ago21:23

21:23

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that "women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica Laser. Olds also reads three of her poems: “Sisters of Sexual Treasure” (issue no. 74, Fall–Winter 1978), “True Love,” and “The Easel.” This episode wa…

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S4E2 | The Same IKEA Bed 10:28

9M ago10:28

10:28

A stealth poetry reading inside a bustling IKEA. Poet Maggie Millner reads her own poem (Issue no. 239, Spring 2022), as well as two more from the archive: Toi Dericotte’s “Bird” (Issue No. 124, Fall 1992) and Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Death” (Issue No. 82, Winter 1981). This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was sound-design…

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S4E1 | “This is Everything There Will Ever Be” by Rivers Solomon 34:52

9M ago34:52

34:52

Actor, producer, and screenwriter Lena Waithe reads Rivers Solomon’s “This Is Everything There Will Ever Be,” which was published in issue no. 243 of the Review. The story, dark and uplifting by turns, is a portrait of “just another late-forties dyke entirely too into basketball, dogs, and memes.” This episode was produced and sound-designed by Hel…

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Season 4 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast 2:16

10M ago2:16

2:16

The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season on November 15, 2023. Selections of interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Catch up now on earlier seasons & then tune in November 15th for the fourth season.By The Paris Review

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Just got down sized! 16:58

1+ y ago16:58

16:58

Onether unemployment episode --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tyrell-rivers/support

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Hey guys!!!! Happy new year!!! 16:04

1+ y ago16:04

16:04

Just talking shit bout the new years, my new job and more!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tyrell-rivers/support

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Extra shots!!!! 20:27

2y ago20:27

20:27

Just Jabba jabbing, 😆 🤣 talking bout woman purses, being honest and having patience --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tyrell-rivers/support

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Yoooo back with you guys with another inconsistent ep! 24:01

2y ago24:01

24:01

Just talking retard language and hopefully a dr is listening --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tyrell-rivers/support

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Back wit ya! 10:47

2y ago10:47

10:47

Just checking in --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tyrell-rivers/support

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Yo back at it!!! 20:26

2y ago20:26

20:26

Just talking shit bout life--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tyrell-rivers/support

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Ny 2 Rochester pt3 16:45

2y ago16:45

16:45

Talking bout the difference between nyc hs and East hight I'm Rochester --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tyrell-rivers/support