Bonus: Podcaster Kathryn Nicolai in Conversation with Meg Wolitzer

Description

On this episode, podcaster and author Kathryn Nicolai of Nothing Much Happens joins host Meg Wolitzer. The title of her podcast tells you a lot of what you need to know. Her show is entirely fiction written and performed for occasional insomniacs who need something calming in their ear at night to help them fall asleep. In their conversation, they get into the power of sleep, and the power of stories, and they unpack a curious condition in which people literally cannot picture things in their minds.

If you know Selected Shorts, you know that we're obsessed with stories. This bonus show and upcoming episodes will give us the chance to talk about many different kinds of stories—not just fiction! In the future, we'll talk to actors and journalists and, who knows, scientists, visual artists, and even chefs. Creative people all tell stories of some kind, and this is our chance to look behind the scenes and find out how those stories get made.