Truer Words

Tracy and the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge can be found on Twitter @WWfilmchallenge, Instagram @womensweekendfilmchallenge, and at womensweekendfilmchallenge.com.

Content warning: Melissa and Tracy briefly discuss rape and sexual assault around the 58 minute mark of this episode.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Little Women by Greta Gerwig

Atlantics by Mati Diop

The Farewell by Lulu Wang

Hustlers by Lorene Scafaria

You Have to Fail A Little (Melissa’s piece on Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola for Bright Wall/Dark Room)

Wendy Wasserstein

The Heidi Chronicles

Uncommon Women and Others

Women’s Weekend Film Challenge

Katrina Medoff (Tracy’s co-founder of Women’s Weekend Film Challenge)

Lily + Mara - Tracy’s short film co-directed by Caroline Roberts

Oona Laurence

Meghann Fahy

Pete’s Dragon

The Bold Type

Christina Bryza

Our episode with Christina Bryza

Agnès Varda

Leslie Schultz BRIC Entertainment

Kathryn O’Kane

Salt Fat Acid Heat on Netflix

Bandersnatch

Reese Witherspoon

Oprah

Mindy Kaling

Lena Waithe

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Mustang

Lightbulb Grip & Electric

Transformers

Avengers

Gotham Sound

Museum of the Moving Image

Queens Council of the Arts

Sesame Street

Mike Sayre

Queens Museum

Music for Icebergs

Olivia Wilde Talking About a Gender-Swapped Reading of American Pie

It’s A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman

Harvey Weinstein article

The HeSo project

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Succession on HBO

Girls on HBO

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].

Amy can be found on Twitter @theames, Instagram @thatames, and her website is theamyspalding.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Last Five Years (musical)

The Last Five Years (movie) streaming on Amazon Prime

Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen

Abigail Hing Wen

Our episode with Abigail Hing Wen

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Agnès Varda: A Retrospective

Jacques Demy

Jacquot de Nantes

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Schitt’s Creek

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried by Amy Hempel

Amanda (A.M.) Jenkins

Jason Robert Brown

Merrily We Roll Along

Hairspray (movie)

Hairspray (musical)

Hairspray (movie musical)

Christie Baugher

The Fitzgeralds of Saint Paul

Norbert Leo Butz

Sherie Rene Scott

Lauren Kennedy

“They Didn’t Speak for a Decade. Then They Made a Show About it.” - article about Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott in the NY Times

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy

Sweet Valley High

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy

UCB

Mad Men

Watchman on HBO

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Rebecca Traister

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

Oklahoma!

Our episode with Ally Hord

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].

Mentioned in this Episode:

Christina Bryza

Our episode with Christina

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Stuff You Missed in History Class

Insight Timer

Headspace

Calm

Jessie Janowitz

Our episode with Jessie

You’ve Got Mail walking tour

Adrienne Kisner

Our episode with Adrienne

Jennifer (J. Albert) Mann

Our episode with Jen

Marianne Murphy

Our episode with Marianne

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Nova Ren Suma

Our episode with Nova

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

She Said by Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

Casey McQuiston

Kerry Winfrey

Our episode with Kerry Winfrey

Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall

Booksmart

To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You

Varda by Agnès

New York Film Festival

Varda: A Retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center

Star Wars

Rogue One

Solo

Little Women

Hustlers

Books of Wonder

The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh

Succession

Fleabag

Derry Girls

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Superstore

Justin Spitzer

The Office

Parks and Recreation

Lizzo

Robyn dance party on the subway

You’re Wrong About

The Sauce Podcast

American Girls

Night Call

The Quibbler

The Indigo Girls

Pod Save America

Lovett or Leave It

What a Day

Says Who?

Hot and Bothered

The Worst Bestsellers

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Thirst Aid Kit

Fuckbois of Literature

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].

Abigail is the author of Loveboat, Taipei, which will be released on January 7th, 2020. She can be found on Twitter @abigailhingwen and Instagram @abigailhingwen. Her website is abigailhingwen.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Shelley Tanaka

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Sandra Nickel

Amanda Jenkins

Kristen Pettit

Phantom of the Opera

Les Misérables

Miss Saigon

Cleveland Playhouse

Judy Chu

Eddie Huang

Fresh Off The Boat

Loveboat, Taipei documentary

Valerie Soe

Andrew Yang

Sabaa Tahir

David Yoon

Nicola Yoon

Mulan (animated, 1998)

Mulan (live-action, 2020)

About Truer Words:

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].

Denise is a teaching artist, actor, and writer/editor who works with arts integration and arts program management. Denise is on Twitter at @dasantamouro and Instagram @denisesantomauro. Her editing services are available at Angellela Editorial and Story Studio Chicago. Denise’s website is https://www.denisesantomauro.com/.

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:

Hebru Brantley

Nevermore Park

Inside Nevermore Park

L’Atelier des Lumières

Carrières des Lumières

Georges Méliès

Hieronymous Bosch

Argosy Book Store

Mrs. Astor’s New York

Atlas Obscura

Martini Junction Train in the woods

Jim Henson

Leonardo da Vinci

Our episode with Christina Bryza

Oklahoma! revival on Broadway

Daniel Fish’s Dark Take on “Oklahoma!" in The New Yorker

Jud Fry the Incel? in Theatermania

Patrick Vaill

Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month)

Making Comics by Lynda Barry

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].

Kathryn is the author of the young adult novels Tash Hearts Tolstoy, The Great Unknowable End, and The Sullivan Sisters, as well as the books for young readers The Water and the Wild, The Doorway and the Deep, The Current and the Cure, The House in Poplar Wood, and Midnight on Strange Street. Kathryn can be found on Twitter @kathsby and Instagram @kathsby. Kathryn’s website is keormsbee.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Our episode with Ally Hord

Dave Holstein

Kidding on Showtime

Jena Friedman

Late Show with David Letterman

The Daily Show

Ted & Gracie

Our episode with Christina Bryza

Stephenie Meyer

Beth Phelan

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

The Crown on Netflix

Nanowrimo

A Christmas Duet

Christmas at Dollywood

Plus One movie on Hulu

Blake Edwards

The Pink Panther

Jessica Lange

Alfred Hitchcock presents

Good Evening: An Alfred Hitchcock Presents podcast

The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Innocents film co-written by Truman Capote

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

His Hideous Hearts edited by Dahlia Adler

The Mask of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

The Adventure Zone podcast

My Brother, My Brother, and Me podcast

Oh no, Ross and Carrie! podcast

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].

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Varda by Agnès

New York Film Festival

Tulsa Artist Fellowship

Molly Backes

Our episode with Molly Backes

Juliana Goodman

David Rakoff

Live Funny or Die

Larry King

The Brady Bunch

A Closer Look on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Sal Gentile

Pod Save America

Crooked Media

Impeachment sketch on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Funny or Die

Paley Center

Newseum

Lee Huebner

Nixon-Kennedy first televised debate

Women’s March sketch from Late Night with Seth Meyers

Woman Scouts (Ally’s pilot)

Christina Bryza

Our episode with Christina

Daria

Jane Espensen

Mee-Ow

Titanic Players

Adam Sachs

NSTV

Jake Szymanski (director of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and the greatest Robyn tribute ever)

Dave Holstein (creator of Showtime’s Kidding)

Broad City

Stick Figure Productions

Lisa Loeb

#1 Single on E!

Chris Bruss

Mike Farah

Adam McKay

Will Ferrell

Studio 22
Late Show with David Letterman

UTA job list

UCB Theatre

Harvey Weinstein sketch on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Tarana Burke

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

ICE Raids followed a massive sexual harassment settlement at Mississippi plants

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman on Hulu

The Break with Michelle Wolf on Netflix

RuPaul’s Drag Race on VH1

Pose on FX

Succession on HBO

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen

The Dream podcast

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].

Cate is the author of the picture books PENGUIN AND TINY SHRIMP DON’T DO BEDTIME and the upcoming CHICKEN BREAK. Cate can be found on Twitter & Instagram @cateberryatx. Her website is CateBerry.com

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Podraland

Podraland article about Truer Words!

Our episode with Jen Doll

The Secret

Laws of Attraction

Prosperity Gospel

The Prosperous Heart by Julia Cameron

Leonardo da Vinci’s Saint Jerome at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edith Wharton house

Fleabag

Ocean’s Eleven

Die Hard

CBGB

Arlene’s Grocery

Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen (with Matisse illustrations)

The Iridescence of Birds by Patricia MacLaughlan

Kwame Alexander

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything exhibit at the Jewish Museum

Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry

K.A. Holt

House Arrest by K.A. Holt

One by Sarah Crossan
AWP

Mary Quattlebaum

Marianne Murphy

Meg Cook

Jen Mann (aka J. Albert Mann)

Our episode with Jen (J. Albert Mann)

Guess Again! by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Adam Rex

Martha Brockenbrough

Tammi Sauer

Sudipta Barhan-Quallen

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Nova Ren Suma

Our episode with Nova

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

Tom Birdseye

Nina LaCour’s Keeping a Notebook podcast

Shadow Artist concept from The Artist’s Way

Ira Glass quote about beginners

Liz Garton Scanlon

Kelly Barnhill

Deep Creek by Pam Houston

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].

Bristol is a hand-knitting designer and teacher. Her website is bristolivy.com and she can be found on Twitter: @bristolivy and Instagram: @bristolivy. Her designs can be found and purchased on Ravelry.

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Our episode with Nova Ren Suma

Our episode with Robin Benway

Raise Your Hand by Alice Paul Tapper

Goethe

The Secret

Our episode with Kerry Winfrey

Law & Order: SVU

WWOOF

Brooklyn Tweed

Bristol’s designs on Ravelry

MyBluprint

Lovecrafts

Knitting Outside the Box by Bristol

Ravelry

New York Sheep and Wool Festival

The X-Files

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

Future Night of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price

Deep Work by Cal Newport

About Truer Words:

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].

Lauren is the author of two YA novels, YOUR DESTINATION IS ON THE LEFT and SHE’S THE WORST, and an associate literary agent at TriadaUS. Her website is LaurenSpieller.com and she can be found on Twitter: @laurenspieller and Instagram: @laurenspieller.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Forever 35 podcast episode with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin

Co-Star Astrology App

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything exhibit at the Jewish Museum in NYC

The Mount: Edith Wharton’s house

Kripalu

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Hamilton

“Hurricane” from Hamilton

Tiffany Schmidt, author of Bookish Boyfriends series

Follow your curiosity - Elizabeth Gilbert

Dessert First by Dean Gloster

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Marc Maron

Glow

Alison Brie

Jim McCarthy (Lauren’s agent)

City of Bones by Cassie Clare

Nova Ren Suma

Our episode with Nova Ren Suma

Fleabag

The Great British Baking Show

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Sawkill Girls by Claire LeGrand

Vita Nostra by Sergey and Marina Dyachenko

The Wolf of Cape Fen - Juliana Brandt

Lauren’s manuscript wish list #mswl

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].