Five Things I've Learned About
Live: Sunday, April 27, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern
Join award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield in this live, two-hour class and discover the ways that poems’ original seeing can be invited, recognized, and worked with to open new depth, openness, and possibility – in words and in lives.
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Five Things I've Learned About
Live: Monday, April 28, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern
Join writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras in this live, two-hour conversation with Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about writing and creativity – and about the artistic necessity to write from the emotional landscape of crisis.
Five Things I've Learned About
Live: Wednesday, April 30, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern
Join author, researcher, nonprofit leader, and MacArthur “Genius” award recipient MT Connolly in her 90-minute class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how we underestimate longevity’s challenges and its gifts – and how learning about both can improve our odds of securing a better, happier old age.
Five Things I've Learned About
Live: Sunday, May 4, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern
Join award-winning author and teacher Ann Hood, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to bring focus to a singular slice of your life in ways that produce the story that you want to read – and write.
Five Things I've Learned About
Live: Tuesday, May 6, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern
Join best-selling writer and poet Maggie Smith in a live, two-hour conversation with Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about what it means to prioritize your creative practice in ways that allow you to stay productive and feel most like yourself – no matter what the rest of your life looks like.
Five Things I've Learned About
Live: Wednesday, May 7, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern
Join culture journalist, author and teacher Will Hermes for this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how to articulate and share the emotional impact of songs you love — how to illuminate their meaning, amplify their power, and deepen the listening experience for yourself and your readers.
Five Things I've Learned About
Live: Thursday, May 8, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern
Join writer, editor, educator, and entrepreneur Sarah Fay in this live two-hour class and discover the Five Things I’ve Learned about the steps you can take today to become a powerful literary entrepreneur able to sustain your craft on your own terms.
Five Things I've Learned
Live: Sunday, May 18, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern
Join writer and teacher Maurice Carlos Ruffin in his live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how to make the most of your one opportunity to announce yourself to the world – and to set the tone for the writing life you wish to have.
Five Things I've Learned About
Join celebrated writer and teacher Rebecca Makkai in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the issue she’s found most connected to almost early every problem on the page – and why improving the ability to see through someone else’s eyes is essential to being a good writer and a decent human being.
Five Things I've Learned About
Join editor, writer, and publisher Brooke Warner in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways in which our intimate responses to change can positively drive our most powerful urges to write and create.
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Join writer, poet, and minister Danté Stewart in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about storytelling’s power and magic, and all that happens when readers encounter stories that help them get safely through to the other side.
Five Things I've Learned About
Join writer, editor and performer Joe Randazzo in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about cultivating creativity and collaboration – and about all it takes to consistently turn good ideas into great ones.
Five Things I've Learned About
Join celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder in this live, two-hour class, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the practical and spiritual techniques that have helped him to keep the faith and to keep going as a creative artist – and how you can better how to adapt your creative practice to a busy life full of relationships and obligations.
Five Things I've Learned About
Join poet, author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn in this live, two-hour conversation with Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to harness our emotions into the full force of our creative work — and how to put all that we’re feeling about the state of the world to good use.
Five Things I've Learned About
Join best-selling author, essayist, public speaker, lyricist and libretto writer Adam Gopnik in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the mystery of mastery – and about the ways that our humanity is immeasurably enriched in even the simplest things we set out to master.
Five Things I've Learned About
Join poet and writer Victoria Chang in this live, two-hour conversation with Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that following an unconventional path can be a surprising source of creative inspiration and innovation.
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Join novelist, memoirist, cultural critic, and screenwriter Matthew Specktor this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the powerful ways that the imagination can operate in nonfiction writing – and how reality can add truth and ballast to fiction.
Five Things I've Learned About
Join Michael Ruhlman – best-selling writer of more than 30 books of non-fiction, fiction, memoir and cookbooks – in this live two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about writing and living well – while writing about food, cooking, and life in a kitchen.
Five Things I've Learned About
Join best-selling writer Daniel Handler in this live, two-hour conversation with Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about Creativity – or the five things he had thought he’d learned, until life and experience suggested otherwise.
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Five Things I've Learned About
Get your free ticket now and join writer, editor, and broadcaster Alan Light for this free, 90-minute class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about our country’s complexities, possibilities, and limitations...
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Get your free ticket now and join best-selling author and former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about his old party and its role in the coordinated forces working to...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated poet, writer, editor, and scholar Camille Dungy, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that creativity arises from the soil of our most...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from New York Times best-selling author Cheryl Strayed, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to honor your desire to create and see your projects through –...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from celebrated novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and professor Peter Orner, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how great writers create remarkable movement...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning author Susan Orlean, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that writers and readers can look at the world – and at stories – in new...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning writer and teacher Andre Dubus III, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the fluid, subjective nature of memory – and about the ways writers...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from Isabel Allende, one of the most widely read and acclaimed authors in the world, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about writing fiction, discovering your...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from editor and publisher Brooke Warner, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that women can move past the self-limiting assumptions, conditioning, and...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from ex-Republican political strategist, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, and best-selling author Rick Wilson, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about what we can...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, author, and professor Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about keeping connected to the voices and visions of our country’s...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from Pulitzer Prize winning critic and author Jerry Saltz, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about all that happens each time we encounter a work of art – and why...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning of love from the life and thought of James Baldwin.
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Get your free ticket now and join best-selling author and former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about his old party and its role in the coordinated forces working to...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from entrepreneur, professor, MacArthur Fellow, and President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts, Aaron Dworkin, and discover the Five Things...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about this critical time in history from his years engaging with...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from Adobe Research Lab veteran Matt Strain, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways artificial intelligence is helping writers find new ways to develop...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from award-winning documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland — and her special guest Penelope Tree—, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about documenting and...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – from her unique position at start of his music career to...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from photographer, archivist, curator, and teacher Lewis Watts, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about photography’s power to trace, preserve, and celebrate the...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, scholar, and teacher Timothy Hampton, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned from a lifetime of listening to the greatest songwriter of our time: How some of...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from multi-award-winning photojournalist Nicole Tung, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about photos’ unique power to inform, to connect, and to document...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed music critic Anne Midgette, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the women whose important work provides new ways to understand and enjoy the...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed teacher, scholar and public historian David W. Blight and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that biography can help us better learn about...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from author, journalist, biographer, and singer-songwriter Sylvie Simmons, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – and all she still learns from...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from internationally-acclaimed writer Rabih Alameddine, and discover the few things he’s learned about the elasticity of identity and imagination.
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View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning cartoonist Liza Donnelly and discover the Five Things She’s Learned from a lifetime of drawing and writing, and from the fulfillment that comes with looking...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from internationally-acclaimed writer Pico Iyer and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about opening up space in our heads, and in our days.
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View the archive of this two-hour class from bestselling author, editor, and teacher Sari Botton, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about getting older by inviting people to share their own personal...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from speaker, researcher, and UCSF Clinical Professor Andrew Penn, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that psychedelic-assisted therapy is...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about deepening her ability to love others, and the practical steps that help her...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed writer and historian Thomas Dyja and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how we can use our city’s structures and energies to improve our well-being...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, editor, speaker, and broadcaster Pauline Frommer, and discover Five Things She’s Learned about the ways in which new places and experiences teach us that the...
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View the archive of this two-hour class and discover the Five Things singer-songwriter Hayes Carll has learned about songwriting – through five great songs that helped give voice to his heartaches, joys, and...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – from her unique position at start of his music career to...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed music critic Anne Midgette, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the women whose important work provides new ways to understand and enjoy the...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from singer, recording artist, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter Robbie Fulks and discover Five Things He’s Learned about some of the essential elements that enable...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from singer-songwriter, troubadour, and author Mary Gauthier, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about song’s unique power to bring hope in the face of deep trauma...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, scholar, and teacher Timothy Hampton, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned from a lifetime of listening to the greatest songwriter of our time: How some of...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from author, journalist, biographer, and singer-songwriter Sylvie Simmons, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – and all she still learns from...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning of love from the life and thought of James Baldwin.
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, author, and professor Roosevelt Montás and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the transforming power of the Great Books—and why the ideas and passions...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, author, and professor Myisha Cherry and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the essential roles that rage and anger play in public life – and in our...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed teacher, scholar and public historian David W. Blight and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that biography can help us better learn about...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, author, and professor Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about keeping connected to the voices and visions of our country’s...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from singer/songwriter, producer, and author Allison Moorer, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about sharing her family’s stories in prose and in song – and...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, speaker, and founder Nina Collins, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the richness and promise that shape the second half of women’s lives.
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed music critic Anne Midgette, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the women whose important work provides new ways to understand and enjoy the...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated poet, writer, editor, and scholar Camille Dungy, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that creativity arises from the soil of our most...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from New York Times bestselling author and Omega Institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about what happens when women trust their...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from editor and publisher Brooke Warner, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned during her nearly two decades of leading and championing women-only publishing about the...
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View the archive of this two-hour class from bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about deepening her ability to love others, and the practical steps that help her...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed journalist and historian Carol Kino, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the rewards and challenges that shaped life for American women after World...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from President and Chief Executive Officer of the Buck Institute Dr. Eric Verdin, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about aging and immunity by studying Covid-19 –...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from author and senior fellow at the Milken Institute Paul Irving and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how each of us can make the most of the unprecedented...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from author, professor, and Director of the Aging Metabolism Emotions Center at UCSF, Elissa Epel, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that transforming...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from distinguished biologist, professor, and author, Steven Austad, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned from researching the lives of animals in the wild about human...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed scientist, professor, and author Dr. Nir Barzilai and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the scientific hacks that can improve your health, increase...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from doctor, educator, professor of medicine, and Pulitzer Prize Award finalist Louise Aronson and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about improving our shared...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from distinguished scientist, researcher, and professor Gordon Lithgow and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about scientists’ remarkable recent efforts to slow aging...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from author and activist Ashton Applewhite and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about ageism – and about cheering up, pushing back, and living the life you want to...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from global-film community tastemakers Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate, and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about cinema’s rich history — and about the many...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from Academy-Award-winning writer and director Alexander Payne in conversation with Richard Peña, and discover the Five Things He Thinks He’s Learned about writing,...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed author and film critic Molly Haskell, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about loving film and film criticism during the golden age of film appreciation.
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from award-winning writer and director James Gray, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the personal and professional craft of moviemaking.
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from photographer, archivist, curator, and teacher Lewis Watts, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about photography’s power to trace, preserve, and celebrate the...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed teacher, scholar and public historian David W. Blight and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that biography can help us better learn about...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning and value of freedom by studying the life and writing...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed historian and writer Catherine Grace Katz, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to uncover and share the stories that challenge our ideas of...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated film historians and writers Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about the people and values that shaped the movie...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from New York Times bestselling writer Russell Shorto, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how the Dutch founding of New York City shaped the world’s most...
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View the archive of this 90-minute class from global-film community tastemakers Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate, and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about cinema’s rich history — and about the many...
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