Podcast Episodes featuring Ayelet Waldman

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The Morning Show- 06/13/19 Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman (Archives)

WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg - June 13, 2019 20:35 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
This interview is with two remarkably gifted and successful writers,  Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, who also happen to be husband and wife. The occasion of this interview in 2009 was the publication of Chabon's memoir  "Manhood for Amateurs: the Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father an...

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Binah: Julie Orringer with Ayelet Waldman

Binah - June 06, 2019 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
Writer Julie Orringer shares the true story of American journalist Varian Fry’s extraordinary rescue of Jewish artists and writers threatened by the Nazis.

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Ayelet Waldman: Microdose, Maybe?

Simplify - February 07, 2019 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 258 ratings
The turning point came for Ayelet Waldman when she found herself frozen before her medicine cabinet, wondering "what's going to kill me fastest?" She knew it was time to try a new tactic to improve her mental health. In this episode, hear this bestselling nonfiction author (who also happens to ...

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"Breaking Through" with Sasheer Zamata, Ayelet Waldman, Alonzo Bodden, and Craig Finn

Live Wire with Luke Burbank - March 26, 2017 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 295 ratings
Saturday Night Live cast member Sasheer Zamata recalls her journey to the comedy stage, author Ayelet Waldman details her experience as an LSD microdosing case study of one, Last Comic Standing winner Alonzo Bodden tears into the American zeitgeist, and Craig Finn (of The Hold Steady) d...

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Ayelet Waldman on Microdosing with LSD

Mind Body Health & Politics - March 23, 2017 21:33 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Host Dr. Richard Louis Miller interviews Ayelet Waldman on her recent book: A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life. Ayelet Waldman, former Federal Public Defender, is a bestselling author, married to bestselling author, Michael Chabon, and m...

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Weekly Infusion 20 - Ayelet Waldman

Weekly Infusion - March 22, 2017 18:18 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 251 ratings
Dr. Drew and Dr. Bruce discuss the topic of LSD microdosing with author Ayelet Waldman, who practiced the controversial technique for a period of one month as a treatment for her unbearable mood storms.  She describes the profound benefits she experienced from taking sub-clinical doses of the dr...

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Ayelet Waldman’s Really Good Day [on psychedelics]

Good Life Project - March 20, 2017 07:01 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
Suicide or psychedelics? Those were the options this week's guest, Ayelet Waldman, found herself facing. A married mother of four and novelist living in Berkeley, Waldman struggled with bipolar, anxiety and depression her entire life. According to her, mental illness ran wide and deep in her f...

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86. Ayelet Waldman (Author) – Yourself, Only Better

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - February 18, 2017 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. Ayelet Waldman is a novelist and ...

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Ayelet Waldman - Microdosing for A Really Good Day

The Psychedelic Podcast - January 29, 2017 17:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 245 ratings
Our guest is Ayelet Waldman: author and legal expert who recently published “A Really Good Day”, an account of her experience with microdosing. In her book she reports that a month of LSD microdoses improved her life in many ways, and she argues for the decriminalisation of drugs and for the the...

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1555: A 2014 Interview with Ayelet Waldman

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - May 01, 2014 16:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"...I was a kid in a candy store coming up with these characters..."

Books written by Ayelet Waldman

McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
Michael Chabon, Mike Mignola, Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Ayelet Waldman, Steve Erickson, Stephen King, Jason Roberts, Heidi Julavits, Roddy Doyle, Daniel Handler, Charles D'Ambrosio, Poppy Z. Brite, China Miéville, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, McSweeney's Publishing

328 pages - ★★★★ - 939 ratings