The Writer's Allman Brother
A weekly discursion into 1000% true author biographies with a poem schtuck on the end.
Episodes
30 episodes
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, June 26, 2026
JFK's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speechPearl S. Buck The first Harry Potter book comes outDerek Jeter Barry Gibb is knightedDavid Greenberger"Everything Spoken Between Songs in the Order that They...
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, June 19, 2026
JuneteenthMalika al-FassiJoe Louis KO's Billy ConnReparations debate in Congress"The Ghost Survivor" by Will Alexander
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, June 12, 2026
George H.W. BushJordan Peterson"My Brother, My Wound" by Natalie Diaz
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, June 5, 2026
The Full ShermanSpalding GrayChristy BrownSuze Orman"Message" by Allen Ginsberg
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, May 29, 2026
15 Women Fired for Doing the Turkey TrotBob HopeFirst Mastectomy JFK"Exclusively on Venus" by Trace Peterson
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, May 22nd, 2026
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleBernie TaupinTed KaczynskiSun Ra"the rockets wind, the blast of space" by Sun Ra
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, May 15, 2026
The Papal Bull Ad ExtirpandaThe National Women's Suffrage Association - New York CharterL. Frank Baum"Visions of Rotterdam" by Gregory Corso
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, May 8, 2026
Pejk MalinovskiPhillis WheatleyRoddy Doyle"Hello, I'm Erica Jong" by Kathy Acker
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, May 1, 2026
May DayDick SwettJudy Collins"Emergency Warning" by Yrsa Daley-Ward
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, April 24, 2026
Trojan HorseShirley MacLaineSue Grafton"Talk of People in Warning" by Joan Murray
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, April 17, 2026
Columbus signs contract to go on boat tripThornton WilderNick Hornby"All Right By Me" by Steve Carey
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, April 10, 2026
Joseph PulitzerThe Safety PinLincoln ReburialPaul TherouxAnne Lamott"I'd like to make five or six points about" by Hayley Stahl
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, April 3, 2026
Jane GoodallHarvard gives George Washington honorary law degreePony Express beginsBirth of TV GuideACLU defends Ginsberg's "Howl"Panama Papers leaked"Your server has been identified as a spam source. Go...
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, March 27, 2026
Quentin TarantinoThe SlapMariah CareyFrank O'Hara"To Hell With It" by Frank O'Hara
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, March 20, 2026
AJ JacobsMary RoachHenrik IbsenMr. RogersOvidGerard MalangaBF SkinnerSting Lee "Scratch" PerryA 1980 letter to the Japanese government by Lee "Scratch" Perry, requesting that P...
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, March 16, 2026
L. Ron HubbardNeil SedakaDorothy Davenport"80's Child's Play" by Airea D. Matthews
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, March 6 2026
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGabriel García MárquezBrendan Lorber"The Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence" by Brendan Lorber
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, February 27, 2026
John SteinbeckCharlayne Hunter-GaultRalph NaderKenneth Koch"To 'Yes'" by Kenneth Koch
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, February 20, 2026
RihannaTrevor NoahSally Rooney"Lunar Shift" by Edwin Torres
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, February 13, 2026
Henry RollinsFaiz Ahmad FaizMichael Franco"Ever Read a Book Called AWE?" by Dorothea Lasky
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, February 6, 2026
Bob Marley Tom BrokawMichael Pollan"I-35W North // Downtown Exits" by Danez Smith
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, January 30, 2026
Richard BrautiganShirley HazzardJack Spicer"A Poem to the Reader of the Poem" by Jack Spicer
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, January 23, 2026
Louis ZukofskyDerek Walcott"Names for the Sun" by Caroline Knox