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Replay: Peter Ames Carlin shares Five Things He's Learned about Artistry, Identity, and Authenticity, from Bruce Springsteen

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Jan 3

Replay: Andre Dubus III shares Five Things He's Learned about the Absolute Necessity of Revision

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Jan 3

Replay: Rebecca Makkai shares Five Things She's Learned about Writing While Parenting

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Dec 13, 2025

Replay: Donald J. Robertson shares Five Things He's Learned about Ancient Wisdom for Modern Anxiety

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Dec 13, 2025

Replay: Adrian Matejka shares Five Things He's Learned about Building a Book

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Dec 13, 2025

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May 3, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Jane Hirschfield shares Five Things She's Learned about Poems as Fields of Discovery

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May 2, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Michael Ruhlman shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing, By Writing about Food

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Apr 25, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Matthew Specktor shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing the Self in Memoir and Fiction

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Apr 25, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Amber Tamblyn shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – and Harnessing Emotion in the Service of Powerful Art

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Mar 30, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Five Things I've Learned about America

Jackson's Ellen Daniels shares Five Things She's Learned about America

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Sep 14, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Nomad PJ Laughlin shares Five Things He's Learned about America

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Aug 24, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Marfa's Liz Rogers shares Five Things She's Learned about America

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Aug 17, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Jackson's Kimberly Jones Merchant shares Five Things She's Learned about America

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Aug 10, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Six Conversations about America

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Jul 6, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Writing and Reading

Replay: Writing and Reading

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Jan 3 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Andre Dubus III shares Five Things He's Learned about the Absolute Necessity of Revision

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Jan 3

Replay: Rebecca Makkai shares Five Things She's Learned about Writing While Parenting

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Dec 13, 2025

Replay: Adrian Matejka shares Five Things He's Learned about Building a Book

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Dec 13, 2025

Replay: Will Hermes shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing a Life Story

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Dec 13, 2025

Replay: Benjamin Dreyer shares Five Things He's Learned about Being Your Own Best Editor

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Dec 13, 2025

Replay: Mason Currey shares Five Things He's Learned about Subtly Maneuvering the Creative Process

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Oct 27, 2025

Replay: Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner share Five Things They've Learned about What It Takes to Be an Authorprenuer

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Oct 27, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Alissa Wilkinson shares Five Things She's Learned about the Power and Peril of Mythmaking, from Joan Didion

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Jun 6, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Kaveh Akbar shares Five Things He's Learned about Sacred Poetics

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Jun 3, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares Five Things He's Learned Too Late about Publishing His First Book

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May 20, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Maggie Smith shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – During Times of Upheaval

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May 11, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Music and Song

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Jan 3 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Peter Ames Carlin shares Five Things He's Learned about Artistry, Identity, and Authenticity, from Bruce Springsteen

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Jan 3

Replay: Will Hermes shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing about Music and Musicians

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May 11, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Alan Light shares Five Things He's Learned about America - from Five American Musicians

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Jun 24, 2024 • Five Things I've Learned

Our Current Moment

Our Current Moment

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Dec 13, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Steven Conn shares Five Things He's Learned about America’s Urban-Rural Divide – It’s the Geography Stupid

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Dec 13, 2025

Replay: Jennifer Mercieca shares Five Things She's Learned about America – from 30 Years Studying Communication and Democracy

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Jun 30, 2024 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Trygve Olson shares Five Things He's Learned about America – and the Enduring Example of Our Democracy

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Jun 2, 2024 • Five Things I've Learned

Living Better Longer

Living Better Longer

Discover inspiring classes that share the insights we need to make the most of the possibilities that await us as we age.– available on demand, anytime.

May 2, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: MT Connolly shares Five Things She's Learned about How To Better Navigate Aging

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May 2, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Dr. Ken Robbins shares the Five Things He's Learned about Aging and Dementia

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Dec 31, 2024 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Eric Verdin shares Five Things He's Learned about Covid-19, Aging, and the Immune System

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May 10, 2023 • Five Things I've Learned

Growth and Change

Replay: Growth and Change

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Dec 13, 2025 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Donald J. Robertson shares Five Things He's Learned about Ancient Wisdom for Modern Anxiety

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Dec 13, 2025

Replay: Claire Bidwell Smith shares Five Things She's Learned about Living and Writing After Loss

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Apr 25, 2024 • Five Things I've Learned

Replay: Liza Donnelly shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity

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Nov 30, 2023 • Five Things I've Learned

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