Writer and podcaster Carvell Wallace joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss finding his way to the understanding that life is lived on a continuum and is not made up of neat endings and beginnings. He talks about how his childhood experiences with poverty, housing insecurity, and a frustrated creative genius of a single mother prepared him to understand the world. Wallace also discusses his expansive, generous approach to writing about both people he knows and loves and those he’s profiling as a journalist. He reads from his new memoir Another Word for Love.

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This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Another Word for Love

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Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
Marilynne Robinson
Easy Rider
“Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On” | All Things Considered, NPR | August 8, 2008
James Alan McPherson

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