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Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.
Five Things I've Learned About
America’s Past, and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
Join 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 past – and about James Baldwin’s America...
James Surowiecki
Five Things I've Learned About
The Wisdom and Madness of Social Media
Join journalist and author James Surowiecki and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how the Internet is reshaping the way we learn and think – and why, for all of its promise, social media seems to be...
Rick Wilson
Five Things I've Learned About
How We Win the Messaging Wars and Save Democracy
Join 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 do right away to ensure that America...
Jerry Saltz
Five Things I've Learned About
Where Art and the Art World are Right Now
Join Pulitzer Prize winning critic and author Jerry Saltz, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the remarkable advances that have refashioned art and the art world – and why today we’re living in one of...
Aaron Dworkin
Five Things I've Learned About
How Social Change Really Happens
Join entrepreneur, professor, MacArthur Fellow, and President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts, Aaron Dworkin, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the life-changing power...
LTC (Ret.) Alexander Vindman
Five Things I've Learned About
Responding to Russian Aggression and the War in Ukraine
Join 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 Russia’s military and political leadership.
Nicholas Buccola
Five Things I've Learned About
Love, from James Baldwin
Join 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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Nicole Tung
Five Things I've Learned About
Documenting Stories of Conflict
Join 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 people’s lives.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Five Things I've Learned About
Documenting the Lives I Admire Most
Join award-winning documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland — and her special guest Penelope Tree—, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about documenting and sharing the lives of some of the...
Lewis Watts
Five Things I've Learned About
Documenting Migration and Culture
Join 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 people and communities of the African...
David W. Blight
Five Things I've Learned About
The Challenges and Triumphs of Writing Biography
Join 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 thinking, writing, and living well.
Judy Collins
Five Things I've Learned About
Leonard Cohen: The Man and His Music
Join 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 her current-day view of his enduring...
Anne Midgette
Five Things I've Learned About
The Women Who Shaped Classical Music
Join 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 pleasures of classical music.
Sylvie Simmons
Five Things I've Learned About
The Life of Leonard Cohen
Join 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 him five years after he passed away.
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Peter Orner
Five Things I've Learned About
Prose Momentum – in Five Great Paragraphs
Join 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 and energy within a single paragraph –...
Rebecca Makkai
Five Things I've Learned About
Getting Unstuck
Join best-selling novelist and teacher Rebecca Makkai, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about breaking free of the ideas, fears, and ambitions that can block creativity – and about how artists of all...
Steve Almond
Five Things I've Learned About
Where Stories Come From
Join bestselling writer and teacher Steve Almond, and discover the Five Things he’s Learned about the powerful emotions that serve as the engines of our storytelling – and about the ways that these emotions show...
Isabel Allende
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing Fiction
Join 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 voice, and writing the work you were born to...
Cara Black
Five Things I've Learned About
Crafting a Sense of Place
Join New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cara Black, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that a strong sense of place anchors readers and draws them into the story.
Judith Curr
Five Things I've Learned About
How Publishing Works
Join celebrated President and Publisher of the HarperOne Group, Judith Curr, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the power of storytelling and the joys of publishing – plus the behind-the-scenes...
Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner
Five Things I've Learned About
What It Takes to Finish a Book
Join Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press, and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about the essential mindsets that...
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Rabih Alameddine
Five Things I've Learned About
Being Grumpy
Join internationally-acclaimed writer Rabih Alameddine, and discover the few things he’s learned about the elasticity of identity and imagination.
Timothy Hampton
Five Things I've Learned About
Cheerfulness
Join professor Timothy Hampton, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the historic roots of cheerfulness, and about how our control this essential tool of emotional life lies not in our deepest selves but...
Pico Iyer
Five Things I've Learned About
The Art of Stillness
Join internationally-acclaimed writer Pico Iyer and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about opening up space in our heads, and in our days.
Aaron Dworkin
Five Things I've Learned About
How Social Change Really Happens
Join entrepreneur, professor, MacArthur Fellow, and President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts, Aaron Dworkin, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the life-changing power...
Pauline Frommer
Five Things I've Learned About
The Power of a Life-Changing Vacation
Join 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 person we are at home isn’t the only being...
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Five Things I've Learned About
Making Love Work
Join 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 build, maintain, and celebrate her most...
Bob Thurman
Five Things I've Learned About
Wisdom, Bliss, and Openness
Join scholar, writer, translator, and teacher Bob Thurman, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about achieving reliable and lasting happiness during his lifetime learning and teaching the Buddha’s curriculum.
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Hayes Carll
Five Things I've Learned About
Songwriting – in Five Songs
Join 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 aspirations.
Mary Gauthier
Five Things I've Learned About
The Healing Power of Songwriting – in Five Songs
Join 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 – inspiring lessons from her own life...
Timothy Hampton
Five Things I've Learned About
Listening to Bob Dylan
Join 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 Bob Dylan’s most famous songs work,...
Sylvie Simmons
Five Things I've Learned About
The Life of Leonard Cohen
Join 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 him five years after he passed away.
Robbie Fulks
Five Things I've Learned About
The Nature of Songs
Join singer, recording artist, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter Robbie Fulks and discover Five Things He’s Learned about some of the essential elements that enable music to communicate, cohere, and endure.
Judy Collins
Five Things I've Learned About
Leonard Cohen: The Man and His Music
Join 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 her current-day view of his enduring...
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Roosevelt Montás
Five Things I've Learned About
Self-Transformation, by Reading Ancient Books
Join 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 within these ancient sources still...
David W. Blight
Five Things I've Learned About
The Challenges and Triumphs of Writing Biography
Join 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 thinking, writing, and living well.
Nicholas Buccola
Five Things I've Learned About
Love, from James Baldwin
Join 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.
Myisha Cherry
Five Things I've Learned About
The Social Uses of Anger
Join 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 principled responses to all forms of...
Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.
Five Things I've Learned About
America’s Past, and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
Join 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 past – and about James Baldwin’s America...
Women in Focus View All
Allison Moorer
Five Things I've Learned About
What Memoir Demands. And All it Makes Possible.
Join 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 about all that taking ownership of our most...
Elizabeth Lesser
Five Things I've Learned About
How the Hero’s Journey Changes When Women are the Storytellers
Join 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 instincts, dignify their values, and...
Nina Collins
Five Things I've Learned About
Women and Aging
Join 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.
Anne Midgette
Five Things I've Learned About
The Women Who Shaped Classical Music
Join 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 pleasures of classical music.
Brooke Warner
Five Things I've Learned About
How Women Writers Thrive
Join 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 ways that women writers work,...
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Five Things I've Learned About
Making Love Work
Join 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 build, maintain, and celebrate her most...
Living Better Longer View All
Dr. Eric Verdin
Five Things I've Learned About
Covid-19, Aging, and the Immune System
Join 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 – and all we can do to continue thriving in...
Louise Aronson
Five Things I've Learned About
Elderhood
Join doctor, educator, professor of medicine, and Pulitzer Prize Award finalist Louise Aronson and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about improving our shared healthcare system, aging, and the decades of old...
Elissa Epel
Five Things I've Learned About
Stress and Aging
Join 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 stress can improve you health and add...
Ashton Applewhite
Five Things I've Learned About
Ageism
Join 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 live.
Steven Austad
Five Things I've Learned About
What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives
Join 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 health and our own aging process.
Nir Barzilai
Five Things I've Learned About
The New Science of Longevity
Join 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 your life span, and make it possible for...
Marc Freedman
Five Things I've Learned About
The Power that Comes from Connecting Generations
Join social entrepreneur and author Marc Freedman and discover Five Things He’s Learned about the great things that happen when generations come together.
Gordon Lithgow
Five Things I've Learned About
How to Live Better Longer
Join distinguished scientist, researcher, and professor Gordon Lithgow and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about scientists’ remarkable recent efforts to slow aging and improve our chances of a healthy late...
Paul Irving
Five Things I've Learned About
The Upside of Aging
Join 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 potential and possibility that awaits our...
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Alexander Payne
Five Things I've Learned About
Film Making and Film Watching
Join 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, directing, and editing films — as well as the...
Molly Haskell
Five Things I've Learned About
Movie Love in the Sixties and Seventies
Join 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.
Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson
Five Things I've Learned About
The Two Hollywoods
Join 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 business – and all they uncovered while...
Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate
Five Things I've Learned About
Cinema’s Past, Present, and Future
Join 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 ways to love the movies.
James Gray
Five Things I've Learned About
Craft, and the Movies
Join award-winning writer and director James Gray, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the personal and professional craft of moviemaking.
Sam Wasson
Five Things I've Learned About
The Last Time I Saw Hollywood
Join celebrated author Sam Wasson, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about Hollywood’s second golden age, and the ways that those few gorgeous years in the late sixties and early seventies illuminate the...
Our Past View All
Russell Shorto
Five Things I've Learned About
How Manhattan Became “The Island at the Center of the World”
Join 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 dynamic metropolis – and continues to impact...
Catherine Grace Katz
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing the History We Think We Know
Join 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 history.
Nicholas Buccola
Five Things I've Learned About
Freedom, from Frederick Douglass
Join 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 Frederick Douglass.
James Fox
Five Things I've Learned About
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: What Our Government Still Doesn’t Know – and All It Does.
Join film-maker and producer James Fox, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about all that’s certain – and all that remains unknown – in light of the U.S. Defense Department’s continuing investigation...
Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.
Five Things I've Learned About
America’s Past, and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
Join 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 past – and about James Baldwin’s America...
Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate
Five Things I've Learned About
Cinema’s Past, Present, and Future
Join 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 ways to love the movies.
Lewis Watts
Five Things I've Learned About
Documenting Migration and Culture
Join 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 people and communities of the African...