Fresh Air

Betty Gilpin is seeking anti-algorithm, weird roles – and it's working

I feel like I spent the first decade of my career trying to seem normal and trying to seem palatable and trying to seem like I wasn't too much or too weird or too specific. And I think that the things about myself that I tried to hide are the things that now I'm trying to put at the center of the work.

TED Radio Hour

The state of fashion

Queer space is about sharing. Yes, we're making space for ourselves, but we're also sharing ourselves and we're inviting people into our circle. We're being generous. Maximalism is generous. It's everything. It's the cake. It's the flour, the eggs, the sugar. It's the oven. It's the heat. It's the love that was put into all of it.

Fresh Air

Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart on the isolation of secret-keeping

It's hard to tell people about grief. It's hard to talk to people about poverty... and so I'd got very used to the silence in my own life, and my writing is the only thing that allows me to connect with myself.

Book of the Day

In new memoirs, David Archuleta and Lindy West break with their pasts

It is so hard to try and live this way without being able to really share who I really am.

NPR Podcasts

'The Irish Goodbye' and 'Frog' are micro-memoirs and essays about everyday life

I'm not interested in holding anything back anymore. I'm not interested in protecting myself or being koi or photoshopping my emotions or my life.