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The Easy Chair with Laura Hurwitz

The Easy Chair with Laura Hurwitz

By Laura Hurwitz

Author Laura Hurwitz reads you a story, continued week to week.
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Episode 189: Heart to Heart

The Easy Chair with Laura HurwitzMar 18, 2019

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Episode:  230 Mad Libs
Dec 31, 201911:59
Episode 229:  Gift of the Magi
Dec 24, 201913:08
Episode 228:  Mightier Than the Sword, Holiday Survival Edition!
Dec 17, 201920:58
Episode 227:  Midnight Morning Update (with Rachael Hurwitz)
Dec 10, 201917:44
Episode 226:  The Point (by Laura Hurwitz)

Episode 226: The Point (by Laura Hurwitz)

Today on The Easy Chair, it's chapter one of my novel that’s been in progress (or arrested development) for quite a spell. I’ve been feeling very connected to Nantucket, the island I love, and prone to the tug of family, past and present. The Point centers on the Folger-Yurofsky family, who’ve been coming to Nantucket all their lives, to a cottage that’s been in their family for decades. Jane and her sister Lucy love the yearly pilgrimage from their lives in Berkeley, California to summers at the comfortably ramshackle cottage on a bluff overlooking Nantucket Sound. This summer, though, is different; they are without their loving grandmother, who passed away suddenly a few months before. Join me for a sweet tale of the power of memory, family, and enduring love.

This week, I have a trifecta of sponsors. First is Ritual, the multivitamin for women. Better health doesn’t happen overnight, and Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off their first three months at
www.ritual.com/easychair. Then, Brooklinen, the sheets, comforters, towels, and loungewear you’d love to gift yourself or someone you love this holiday season. If you’re seeing this post-BlackFriday/Cyber Monday, you can still use the promo code chair at www.Brooklinen.com for 10% off AND free shipping. Finally, the CBS series Tell Me a Story starts its second season of classic fairy tales with a complex, dark, intriguing twist. Sign up TODAY for CBS All Access at www.CBS.com/EasyChair . Get your first week of CBS All Access FREE and stream the new season of Tell Me a Story Thursday.

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Dec 03, 201920:09
Episode 225:  In The Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried (by Amy Hempel)
Nov 26, 201918:44
Episode 224:  “How to Become a Writer” (by Lorrie Moore)
Nov 19, 201916:26
Episode 223:  Mightier Than the Sword
Nov 12, 201917:12
Episode 222:  The Patron Saint of Words
Nov 05, 201923:47
Episode 221:  Popsy (by Stephen King)
Oct 29, 201927:01
Episode 220:  Rape Fantasies (by Margaret Atwood)
Oct 21, 201921:05
Episode 219:  The Great Automatic Grammatizator (by Roald Dahl)
Oct 14, 201920:59
Episode 218:  The Fat Girl (by Andre Dubus) Part Two
Oct 07, 201915:57
Episode 217:  The Fat Girl (by Andre Dubus) Part One
Sep 30, 201923:35
Episode 216:  Mightier Than the Sword
Sep 23, 201922:32
Episode 215:  Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been Part Two (by Joyce Carol Oates)
Sep 16, 201915:51
Episode 214:  Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (by Joyce Carol Oates)
Sep 09, 201923:51
Episode 213:  Excerpts, Bird by Bird (by Anne Lamott)
Sep 02, 201919:49
Episode 212:  Mary (with Saul Fussiner)
Aug 26, 201919:33
Episode 211:  Shane (with Saul Fussiner)
Aug 19, 201919:57
Episode 210:  Mightier Than the Sword
Aug 12, 201917:32
Episode 209:  The Knowers (by Helen Phillips)
Aug 05, 201922:41
Episdoe 208:  Mightier Than the Sword
Jul 29, 201917:59
Episode 207:  The Last Rung on the Ladder (by Stephen King)
Jul 22, 201926:19
Episode 206:  The Open Window (by Saki, c. 1914)
Jul 15, 201910:02
Episode 205:  New Beginnings (with Michele Tenney)
Jul 08, 201916:31
Episode 204:  Mightier Than the Sword (Work/Life Balance)
Jul 01, 201920:19
Episode 203:  When Creative Calling Meets Everyday Life (with Rachael Hurwitz)
Jun 24, 201917:43
Episode 202:  The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Episode 202: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Jun 17, 201920:57
Episode 201:  Awe, Joy, and Peace

Episode 201: Awe, Joy, and Peace

This week on the podcast: "Awe, Joy, and Peace" with guest author Michele Tenney. Michele is an inspiration by virtue of the way she lives as well as in the way she writes, and I’m beyond thrilled to welcome her back to the podcast. She reads two wonderful original essays that highlight the ways that our attitudes and perspectives impact our overall health. Michele is not only an expert in the fitness and nutrition field (see her website, elevateptw.com ), she pays close and loving attention to the lessons her own life offers up, and shares her knowledge and insights with humor, grace, and clarity. This is an episode you will benefit from, promise. Tune in!



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Jun 10, 201915:57
Episode 200:  Conversant
Jun 03, 201919:43
Episode 199:  Hall of Small Mammals (by Thomas Pierce)
May 27, 201925:20
Episode198:  Mightier Than the Sword

Episode198: Mightier Than the Sword

This week’s episode is another Mightier Than the Sword, with my savvy co-host Steph Spaulding. We are still on the topic of book group etiquette and strategies. How to choose a book? How do books that are not on bestseller lists make it onto our reading lists? Are book group members obliged to finish a group pick that they struggle with? Many questions (mostly mine) and some valuable insights (mostly Steph’s). Tune in! And please, we’d love to hear from you on all things book group and writing related. Email us at easychairpodcast@gmail.com. It would make our week to hear from you!

This week’s sponsors are Ritual, the obsessively researched vitamin for women and girls, and Brooklinen, with sheets, comforters, and towels that bring you luxury goods direct to your home, without the middleman markup! I love my Ritual vitamins (never have I felt so healthy) and my Brooklinen sheets and comforter (never have I felt so relaxed). Go to brooklinen.com and use promo code Chair for 10% of your first order, and free shipping, and Ritual.com/EASYCHAIR for 10% off your first three months!

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May 20, 201926:12
Episode 197:  Crazy They Call Me, by Zadie Smith
May 13, 201916:46
Episode 196:  Mightier Than the Sword

Episode 196: Mightier Than the Sword

This week on The Easy Chair, it’s Mightier Than the Sword! This week I blindside co-host Steph Spaulding with two things: first, a question about the impetus for our writing, and what we love as readers, and second, the way we choose to procrastinate. (For me, it’s the news of the day and Zillow.) It’s a fun and absolutely spontaneous discussion- I hope you’ll listen! On the next MTTS, we are going back to the subject of book groups. Write to us with your book group challenges, insights, and most memorable moments at easychairpodcast@gmail.com and Steph and I will answer you. Promise!

This week’s episode is brought to you by Quip, makers of the best, sleekest, most effective and portable electric toothbrush, which now comes in kids’ size, so your young’un can start on the path to the healthiest smile ever. Just go to GETQUIP.com/easychair and get you first refill pack for free. I love my Quip, and I know you and your whole family will, too!

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May 06, 201919:41
Episode 195:  Lamb to the Slaughter (by Roald Dahl)
Apr 29, 201921:19
Episode 194:  Signs and Symbols (by Vladimir Nabokov)
Apr 22, 201919:11
Episode 193:  Mightier Than the Sword
Apr 15, 201923:51
Episode 192:  I Stand Here Ironing (by Tillie Olsen)
Apr 08, 201921:06
Episode 191:  Honey Magpie (Part 2)
Apr 01, 201918:48
Episode 190:  Honey Magpie (Part 1)

Episode 190: Honey Magpie (Part 1)

Mar 25, 201923:59
Episode 189:  Heart to Heart
Mar 18, 201917:00
Episode 188:  Mightier Than the Sword
Mar 11, 201917:05
Episode 187:  Ghosts and Empties by Lauren Groff
Mar 05, 201924:38
Episode186:  Orientation
Feb 26, 201920:18
Episode 185:  Schoolgirl
Feb 19, 201922:08
Episode 184:  Strawberry Spring (by Stephen King)
Feb 12, 201924:42
Episode 183:  School and Five Short Stories
Feb 05, 201913:31
Epsode 182:  Roy Spivey
Jan 29, 201917:19
Episode 181:  Aquaponcs 101 (with Hannah Hurwitz)
Jan 22, 201916:49