I'll Find Myself When I'm Dead
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I'll Find Myself When I'm Dead
A podcast about the literary essay: what it is, why we like it, and which ones are our favorites. Co-hosted by Elena Passarello and Justin St. Germain, who are both creative nonfiction professors and acclaimed writers in the genre.
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S4E12 - Get In the Cage
For our Season 4 finale, we watched the new Nicholas Cage movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Elena’s idea) and talked about it for more th...
S4E11 - Revision
This week, we’re talking about revision. We discuss a chapter of Stephen Koch’s The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop that’s one of the better nuts-and...
S4E10 - March Faxness: the Final Four
This week we’re checking in with March Faxness again, now that the field has narrowed to four songs/essays (including David’s!). We discuss the recent...
S4E9 - March Faxness Round 1 Recap
This week we’re talking about possibly the best essay-related week of the year: March Faxness round 1, in which 64 essays about cover songs faced off...
S4E8 - March Faxness Preview
This week we’re talking about the real reason this podcast exists: the annual March Xness essay/song tournament, which is about cover songs this year....
S4E7 - There's No I in Essay
This week we’re talking about essays that aren’t in the first person. Elena picked one example, Eliot Weinberger’s “The Rhinoceros,” and Justin picked...
S4E6 - The Pushcart Prize 2022
This week we’re talking about this year’s edition of the Pushcart Prize anthology. We compare it to Best American, discuss the important differences,...
S4E5 - Best American Essays 2021
This week we’re talking about this year’s edition of Best American Essays. We compare it to previous years (spoiler: this one is a bummer), discuss th...
S4E4 - The Address Book
This week we discuss our first listener pick, Sophie Calle’s “The Address Book,” which was suggested by Will Howard. Also: lots of “Succession” talk (...
S4E3 - Essays About Feelings
This week we discuss our feelings, how to write about feelings, our feelings some more, and two essays about feelings: Jerald Walker’s “Breathe,” and...
S4E2 - Jeoparello!
This week we discuss the biggest news in the entire world since our last episode—Elena's appearance last week on Jeopardy!
Elena’s episode (unti...
S4E1 - Vanthony Bourdilmer
In our Season 4 premiere, we discuss what we've been up to since last season, a reader email, Big People Fashion, AI voice prints, and the recent Anth...
S3E10 - Nonfiction Theater
In our season 3 finale, we discuss documentary/nonfiction theater. Elena explains the subgenre, and David joins us to discuss “The Laramie Project,” a...
S3E9 - Having and Being Hot
This week, we’re re-recording the lost episode from two weeks ago, about Eula Biss’ 2020 book Having and Being Had. We discuss its main topics—capital...
S3E8 - Essays About Sex (w/Dave Madden)
This week, our special guest, longtime friend, and fellow nonfiction professor Dave Madden joins us to discuss two essays about fucking: Samuel Delane...
S3E7 - IFMWID Rewind: I'm Your Huckleberry
Our episode for this week failed to record (thanks, Zoom!), so we're going back to the archives. More than a year ago, back when the pandemic was stil...
S3E6 - One Long Episode About Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
This week, we discuss the 1993 Canadian/French Canadian film “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould,” which we think is essayistic in many ways. Al...
S3E5 - Interviews with Essayists
In this week's episode, we discuss two "The Art of ..." interviews from the Paris Review: one on the essay with Hilton Als, and another with Geoff Dye...
S3E4 - Old Person Essays
In this week's episode, we're talking about our generations. After Justin's mini-generation was dubbed Geriatric Millennials, we decided to read two e...
S3E3 - Texas Review All-Essay Issue
This week, we discuss the Texas Review's All-Essay Issue from late 2020, including two specific essays by Wendy C. Ortiz and Vincent James. Also: a vi...
S3E2 - Didion on Writing
In this week’s episode, we discuss a new(ish) collection of Joan Didion’s previously uncollected essays, including a few about writing, two of which w...
S3E1 - Two Essays on Performance
In our first episode of Season 3, we discuss Zoom dance parties, Arlo's new theme song, our forays into magazine writing, the essays and essayistic th...
March Plaidness Final
In our episode previewing the March Plaidness final, we discuss the two remaining essays/songs, the outcomes of recent games, some favorite fallen ess...
March Plaidness #4: Buttholes or Bust!
in our penultimate March Plaidness episode, we start with a confession before moving onto a discussion of G.K. Chesterton's problematicness; our plans...
March Plaidness Round 2 Roboepisode
We ran into our first recording snafu and lost the entire episode, so we enlisted the help of robot actors to help us reconstruct it from memory. In t...
March Plaidness Round One Recap
In Episode 2 of our special March Plaidness mini-season, we recap most of the first-round games (including David’s win with “Pepper”). Also: lots of B...
March Plaidness Preview
To kick off Season 3, we discuss March Plaidness, this year’s grunge-focused version of the annual March Xness essay competition: past years, this yea...
S2E15 - I'll Find Myself When It's Christmas
In our season finale (really this time), we debrief about season 2, discuss our essayistic Christmas plans--including what books we’re going to buy as...
S2E14 - Tracy Daugherty
In our Season 2 finale (probably--we haven't figured it out for sure), we welcome our friend Tracy Daugherty, the author of many books of nonfiction a...
S2E12 - Best American Essays 2020
In what is probably our penultimate episode of Season 2, we Zoom about the brand-new edition of Best American Essays, edited by our old friend from Se...
S2E11 - The DIAGRAM Tarot Deck
In Grab Bag Part 2: Grab Harder, we discuss DIAGRAM’s new tarot deck anthology to commemorate its 20th Anniversary, and Elena uses it to give us all a...
S2E10 - Memoirs & MFAs
In Part 1 of our first grab-bag episode, we answer a reader question about memoirs and, in honor of MFA application season, offer unsolicited advice a...
S2E9 - Shapes of Native Nonfiction
In this episode, we discuss selections from the 2019 anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction, co-edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton. Also: E...
S2E8 - Old Ass Essays (with Megan Ward)
In this episode, we welcome our friend, colleague, and local Victorian expert Megan Ward to discuss Old Ass Essays: what that means, how old we’re tal...
S2E7 - Flash! (Part 2)
In this episode, we continue the flash conversation from last week, along with our resident barkeep (not “mixologist”) David. He makes us an essayisti...
S2E6 - Flash! (Part 1)
In Episode 6, we discuss very short essays, AKA “Flash,” a term and genre we have mixed feelings about. First we try to figure out what flash means, a...
S2E5 - The Krause Essay Prize (with Jess Kibler)
In Episode 5, we welcome Jess Kibler to the show to discuss the Krause Essay Prize, a $10K award given to the best essay of the year, chosen by studen...
S2E4 - Essays on Film
In Episode 4, we welcome our spouses, David and Bonnie, back to the podcast to talk about movies that might be essays. Also: a very delayed mailbag, a...
S2E3 - Pet the Whatever: How Essays Become Books (w/George Estreich)
In Episode 3, we talk with our friend and colleague, George Estreich--an essayist, memoirist, poet, and Renaissance man--about how essays turn into bo...
S2E2 - Don't Write Checks Your Facts Can't Cash
In Episode 2, we talk about a thorny issue in nonfiction: the fact check. We discuss a recent essay on the subject by Emma Copley Eisenberg in Esquire...