Archive - Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe

Craft Advice with Nana-Ama Danquah

On contemplation, the impact of depression on writing, beautiful segues, writing honestly about ourselves, ghostwriting, raising a child as an author…

Nov 21 •

Grounded, Compassionate, And (Hopefully) Wise.

The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer, gardener, mother, and teacher Jennifer Case

Nov 18 •

A Giant List of Comfort Reads

These are the books I read when things are really bad. Like right now.

Nov 16 •

All The Love And Joy Our Lives Can Contain: A Conversation with Nana-Ama Danquah

On mental health, rest, "nice" v "kind", how our energy affects one another, spontaneous generosity, the potency of local friends, and the myth of the…

Nov 14 •

Digging in the dirt, planting things, pushing rocks around, edging garden beds, axing branches and trees.

The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer Sara Petersen

Nov 11 •

Music is a Shortcut to My Life Force

On having music, losing music, and finding it again (aka hope, despair, hope)

Nov 7 •

Some dollops of wonder and nourishment for these difficult days.

Nov 4 •

October 2024

Craft Advice with Stephanie Land

On getting the best ideas in the shower and in therapy, writing sex scenes, writing about people you love, writing about people who've been shitty to…

Oct 31 •

The Happiness Comes By Accepting The Change Without Regret

The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with veterinarian, reader, writer, human Don Hamilton

Oct 28 •

A Life in Books (and other Wonderful Things) with Joanna Rakoff

Why do we read? That's a real question. Seriously, why?

Oct 26 •

Deserving Of Joy: A Conversation with Stephanie Land

On the downside of resilience, the privilege to have feelings, freedom from anxiety, mothering oneself, mothering two children, empathy, why poor people…

Oct 24 •

A Place Of Love And Hope

The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer Noha Beshir

Oct 21 •

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