Truer Words

Robyn is the author of several young adult novels, including YOU DON’T LIVE HERE, which comes out June 2nd. Robyn can be found on Instagram @robynschneider and Twitter @robynschneider. Her website is robynschneider.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Our Black Lives Matter post with lists and links

Our Modern Minstrelsy by Kekla Magoon

Black Book, TV Show, and Movie Recommendations #BlackOutTuesday by Akilah Brown

Kristina Forest Believes Black Girls Deserve Happy Endings Too

The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider

Invisible Ghosts by Robyn Schneider

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Grey’s Anatomy

The West Wing

See Jane Write: A Girl’s Guide to Writing Chick Lit by Sarah Mlynowski and Farrin Jacobs

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Infinity Son by Adam Silvera

The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

The Great on Hulu

The Witcher on Netflix

The Favourite

Hayao Miyazaki scores on Spotify

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel) on Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel) original by Billy Joel

Veronica Mars

The OC

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Jenny can be found on Instagram @jennytsanchez and Twitter @jetchez. Her website is JennyTorresSanchez.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Slow Novel Lab

Nina LaCour

Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu

Angel on Hulu

Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery

The Fall of Innocence by Jenny Torres Sanchez

The Half of It on Netflix

Cyrano de Bergerac

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum

Highlights Foundation

Highlights Magazine

Jody Casella

Las Musas

Laurie Halse Anderson

Jerry Spinelli

Because of the Sun by Jenny Torres Sanchez

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Prophecy Girl

Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia by Jenny

All Summer in One Day by Ray Bradbury

Alex Villasante

Donna Higuera

Those Winter Sundays poem by Robert Hayden

John Green

A.S. King

Lauren Gibaldi

The Downside of Being Charlie by Jenny Torres Sanchez

Which Way Home

Disappeared by Francisco Stork

The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

The Everything I Have Lost by Sylvia Zeleny

Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Jules can be found on Instagram @conjure_shrubs. Her album can be streamed on Bandcamp: Independence Day - Jules Thomson Effect.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Angel

Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

Elaine Stritch singing “I’m Still Here” at Sondheim’s 80th Birthday Gala

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

A Parks and Recreation Social Distancing Special

Never Have I Ever

Mindy Kaling

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

Slayerfest ‘98

The Stories We Tell by Kristen Lepionka

Pride Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

The Ripped Bodice

Joule-Thomson Effect

Florence and the Machine

Maria Callas

The Indigo Girls

Steeleye Span

Antje Duvekot

Samson G USB mic

Blue Yeti

Noisy Girls

Cakewalk

Eleventh Hour Lecture Series: Iowa Writers Workshop

Mary Allen: Writing and the Power of Now

Writing Excuses

Write-Minded

Writers Aloud

How Fiction Works by James Wood

By Cunning and Craft by Peter Selgin

Virginia Woolf

Vladimir Nabakov

The Bonnie Road by Suzanne d’Coursey

King Princess

Muna

Janelle Monae

Julien Baker

Little Women by Greta Gerwig

Portrait of A Lady on Fire

Plants and People in Ancient Scotland

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre miniseries

You’re Wrong About

Queery by Cameron Esposito

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Nicole can be found on Twitter @nicolekronzer and Instagram @nicolekronzer. Her website is nicolekronzer.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Christina Bryza

Our episode with Christina Bryza

Brene Brown on “Comparative Suffering”

Our episode with Erin Foley Chan

Rumble Boxing on Instagram

Down Dog Yoga

Mary Horne Yoga / Mary’s YouTube channel

Gluten-Free Matzo recipe

Cottage Cheese Dill Bread

All-of-A-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Hart of Dixie

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Firefly

The X-Files

Angel

Marti Noxon

Gilda Radner

Roseanne Rosannadanna

Judy Miller

Amy Poehler

Nina LaCour

Anna Nicole Smith

The Sleepover sketch from the first season of SNL episode hosted by Madeline Kahn (transcript) / tribute video

The Gap Girls on SNL

Gene Luen Yang

American-Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Hold Still by Nina LaCour

David Levithan

You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan

Sara Crowe

Our episode with Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Monty Python

The Three Stooges

Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

Some Like It Hot

Alison McGhee

Holly McGhee

Books narrated by Julia Whelan

Julia Whelan on Twitter

Orphan Black

Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

Someday, Someday Maybe by Lauren Graham

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

Jane Levy

Suburgatory

Skylar Astin

Pitch Perfect

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Pippin

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams / movie

My Fair Lady

Kiss Me, Kate

The Taming of the Shrew

Nickolas Butler

Historic Charleston app

From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Jenae Marks

A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen

Our episode with Rocky Callen

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

The Alex Award

Frankly in Love by David Yoon

Nicola Yoon

The Last Best Story by Maggie Lehrman

His Girl Friday

What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee

Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

American Street by Ibi Zoboi

Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith

Maurene Goo

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Taherah Mafi

Knives Out

Monty Don’s Big Dreams Small Spaces

The Repair Shop

Agnes Varda

Ydessa, the Bears, etc.

Rocky can be found on Twitter @rocky_writes and Instagram @rockywrites. Her website is rockycallen.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Jandy Nelson

Melissa’s friend Dr. Rachel Shively on CNN

PJ Library seder plate activity

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Emma. directed by Autumn de Wilde

Georgette Heyer

Venetia by Georgette Heyer

The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren

Babylon Berlin

The Great Pottery Throwdown

Big Dreams, Small Spaces

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonsen

Hope Nation

Jenny Torres Sanchez

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale tv show on Hulu

Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day

Masterclass

RuPaul’s Masterclass

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Kristy is the author of Isobel Adds It Up, which will be released from Random House in fall 2021. She can be found on Twitter @kmeverington. Marianne is a teaching artist, poet, performer, animator and modern day da Vinci (per Melissa). Her classes are available at The Writing Center. Marianne can be found on Twitter @flamingoboots, Instagram @flamingoboots, and her website is flamingoboots.com. You can also buy her prints at Society6.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Mary Horne yoga on YouTube

Mary’s instagram has more info on online classes

Hart of Dixie

Leslie Sansone

Below Deck

Survivor

Siesta Key

Westworld

Remembrance by Meg Cabot

Cate Berry

Our episode with Cate Berry

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

Marianne’s first episode with us discussing The Artist’s Way

Quarantine Art Club by Carson Ellis

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Outbreak

Contagion

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Gumroad

Little Fires Everywhere based on the book by Celeste Ng

Dare Me based on the book by Megan Abbott

Cheer

Pop Culture Happy Hour episode about Cheer and Dare Me

The Plot Against America based on the book by Philip Roth

David Simon

The Wire

Zoe Kazan

Winona Ryder

John Turturro

How to pronounce Turturro

Babylon Berlin

New York Times Crossword

Wordscapes

Everything’s Going to Be Okay

Please Like Me

Awkwafina is Nora From Queens

Crashing

Arthur

Detective Barbie

Love is Blind

The Circle

German Big Brother

Rafting article

Sex Education

The Great Pottery Throwdown

Terrace House

The Bachelorette

The Real World

Emma. directed by Autumn de Wilde

The Invisible Man directed by Leigh Whannell

Headspace

MNDFL Meditation on Instagram

Shannon_Esti on Instagram

Outlander based on the book series by Diana Gabaldon

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Nora is the author of The Edge of Anything, which will be released on March 24th, 2020, the Rural Voices anthology (to be released October 13, 2020) and the picture book Yoga Frog. She can be found on Twitter @norawritesbooks and Instagram @noracarpenterwrites. Her website is noracarpenterwrites.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Sleepless in Seattle

Meg Cabot

Stacy Abrams / Selena Montgomery

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Mary-Winn Heider

Tirzah Price

Victoria Wells-Arms

Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Sanditon

Emma directed by Autumn de Wilde

Little Women directed by Greta Gerwig

Murdoch Mysteries

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

Miss Fisher’s Mysteries

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Emmy has written for publications like Bright Wall/Dark Room, the Belladonna, CultureSonar, and more! Emmy can be found on Twitter @emmylanepotter and Instagram @emmylanepotter.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Mindy Kaling

Matt and Ben

Martin Scorsese

The Departed

The Light in the Piazza

Chicago

Cabaret

A Little Night Music

Oklahoma!

I’m Not at All In Love

Great American Songbook

My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall

The Souvenir

Nick Nadal

Ray Bradbury short stories

Truman Capote short stories

Walking as Creative Fuel - Brainpickings

Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Reese Witherspoon

Ava DuVernay

Parasite

Mad Men

Matt Weiner on what he learned working on The Sopranos

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Girl, Interrupted directed by James Mangold

See Jane Write by Sarah Mlynowski and Farrin Jacobs

Ready Player One (movie) by Steven Spielberg

Ready Player One (book) by Ernest Cline

Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese

End of the F***ing World on Netflix

Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends by Ash Carter and Sam Kashner

Fleabag on Amazon Prime

Call My Agent! aka Dix Pour Cent on Netflix

The Good Place

Heartburn (movie) directed by Mike Nichols, written by Nora Ephron

Heartburn (book) by Nora Ephron

Postcards from the Edge (movie) directed by Mike Nichols, written by Carrie Fisher

Postcards from the Edge (book) by Carrie Fisher

Schitt’s Creek

Clueless

Succession

Open Book by Jessica Simpson

Angels cover by Jessica Simpson

Angels by Robbie Williams

Miss Americana Taylor Swift documentary on Netflix

Gaga: Five Foot Two Lady Gaga documentary on Netflix

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Loretta Lynn

On Becoming a God in Central Florida on Showtime

Dolly Parton

Bright Wall/Dark Room

A League of Their Own

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].

Juleah is the author of YA novels 500 Words or Less and the upcoming Turtle Under Ice. Juleah can be found on Twitter @juleahwrites, Instagram @juleah.delrosario, and her website is Juleahdelrosario.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Nova Ren Suma

Our episode with Nova Ren Suma

Djerassi

A.M. (Amanda) Jenkins

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lại

Ghost pottery scene

All-American Girl by Meg Cabot

“The Unexpected Pleasure of Being Mediocre” by Laura Lippmann

Seth Rogen’s pottery

Art gifts made by writer David Rakoff

Jami Attenberg

Adrienne Kisner

Our episode with Adrienne

Abigail Hing Wen

Our episode with Abigail Hing Wen

Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at [email protected].