New Essay Podcasts

Taralets Talk: The Filipino Expat Chronicles

89 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Taralets Talk is a Filipino podcast that chronicles the joys, heartaches, and rewards of being an immigrant. Hosted by three Pinoy expats. Join Bel, Lennette, and Mark in this seasonal podcast pac...

History Re-Read

23 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
You are very welcome to this podcast: History Re-Read. On the first Monday of every month, I present a commentary on a famous text from history. Something familiar that many of you will already hav...

Making Things is Frightening

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
A collection of essays, fiction, interviews, and rambling pointless anecdotes about the process of making things and how frightening that can be. You can find Rant Vague on twitter @rant_vague

Mike Contextualizes the Universe

27 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Mike Mercadal provides context for one Universe at a time. In the first season, he takes his buddy R. Alex Murray through the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU does MCU). Join them as they talk about ...

Gods, Masters, and Clout

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
An anti-ideological guide to modern life created and hosted by Casey Franco. Each episode focuses on a phenomenon of modern life and attempts to explain it using philosophy, psychology, sociology, ...

Black Enso

3 episodes - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
An Enso is part of the Zen practice of drawing a circle in a single stroke and the resulting imperfections of the sphere represent a person’s inner emotional and creative life imprinted on the canv...

Nuance

1 episode - Latest episode: about 4 years ago
Audio essays on culture, introspection, philosophy, rationality, and other stuff.

KCRW Berlin: Wednesday, 3 p.m.

3 episodes - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago
What are you typically doing on a Wednesday at 3 p.m.? Having coffee, hard at work, having a life changing experience? Wednesday 3 p.m. is the title of our series of short stories on KCRW Berlin.Th...

Dr Sajid Shah

14 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 year ago
Welcome to my Podcast, your reliable source for all things holistic fitness and flourishing. Our mission: to educate and entertain, blending creative storytelling with science-backed insights. We...

C. Jane Reads

27 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
C. Jane Taylor reads her essays and love letters on life, beauty, fun, motorcycles, and animals for your amusement and edification.

These Small Hours

37 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago
These Small Hours podcast is the direct outlet for essays written and read by Russell Cordell Staker. Here are short-form pieces of thought about life and letters, art and humanity in the small ho...

Speak Your Piece

19 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago
Shoresides accepts opinion essays on a range of topics for our “Speak Your Piece” series which is published as text online or aired as audio as part of our podcast. We’re particularly interested i...

Our Plague Year

45 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
Joseph Fink (Welcome to Night Vale, Alice Isn't Dead) introduces a new kind of current events podcast. It's a scary year, but it doesn't have to be scary alone.

College Planning Simplified

50 episodes - Latest episode: 28 days ago
College planning is stressful! We bring you the latest news on choosing a good fit college, presenting yourself effectively in college applications, writing effective college essays, building a su...

Beyond the Tassel

47 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
Beyond the Tassel is a weekly podcast hosted by education equity advocate and community engagement champion, Craig Williams, featuring insider tips to help families and students prepare for the tra...

Let's Write Your Novel!

77 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago
Let’s Write Your Novel! is a place where writers with a story on their hearts will find the clarity they need to finally write their novels. If you want to write a novel, or you’ve started writing...

Terrible Omens

16 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Alane Gray presents her award-winning creative non-fiction memoir Terrible Omens: Happiness is the Other Way. This darkly witty, fast-paced ride through a fifteen-year relationship is an unflinchin...

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other

44 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago
With most of the entirety of the published journal's contents read aloud by the authors, the FENCE audiobook/podcast continues to push boundaries in literary publishing. In continuous publication s...

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry

1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution deliverin...

CREATINUUM

102 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago
Welcome to Creatinuum! This is a community where creativity and innovation are celebrated and encouraged. We aim to provide a venue where writers, editors, artists, programmers, bloggers, public sp...

Cuckoo Clock

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
An audio project about the emotional realities of living in a political surreality. Essays will be released monthly from Nov 3, 2019 through Nov 3, 2020 (Election Day).

Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses by Andrew Murray

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
This is a series of short messages written by the South African minister, Andrew Murray. They deal with the necessity and joy of surrendering our lives completely to God.

Short Nonfiction Collection by Various

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain.

Short Story Collection by Various

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratings
Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain.

African-American Collection, July 2007 by Unknown

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
This collection recognizes Black History Month, February 2007. Two excellent resources for public domain African American writing are African American Writers (Bookshelf) and The Book of American N...

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 1 rating
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mill’s economic theo...

Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass beads or frost-work but the solidest thing we know....” is how Ralph Waldo Emerson saw...

All Things Considered by G. K. Chesterton

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natur...

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Chicago, May 4, 1886. In the Haymarket region of the city, a peaceful Labor Day demonstration suddenly turns into a riot. The police intervene to maintain peace, but they soon use violence to quell...

What's Wrong With the World by G. K. Chesterton

15 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, prover...