The Writer's Allman Brother
A weekly discursion into 1000% true author biographies with a poem schtuck on the end.
Episodes
38 episodes
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, August 21, 2026
Aubrey BeardsleyThe Mona Lisa is stolen! Melvin Van PeeblesKim CattrallKelis"Sonnet" by Bernadette Mayer
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, August 14, 2026
V-J DayDanielle SteeleSteve MartinDavid CrosbyHalle Berry"Servetta Muta" by Brenda Coultas
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, August 7, 2026
The Amazing RandiDavid DuchovnyGarrison Keillor"I Was Trotting Along and Suddenly" by Morgan Parker
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 31st, 2026
J.K. RowlingMark CubanDickey Betts arrested"Some Questions and Answers" by Ruth Lepson
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 24, 2026
Window tax repealedBill the Butcher Fredrick Law OlmstedOperation GomorrahZelda Fitzgerald"Keep the Beat" by Diane di Prima
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 17, 2026
David HasselhoffPhyllis DillerSpencer DavisPhyllis DavisCamilla Parker "Geezer" Bowles"Another Elegy" by Jericho Brown
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 10, 2026
John CalvinNikola TeslaMavis StaplesJessica SimpsonSolomon NorthrupChiwetel EjioforMoo Deng"Mother's Day" by Bianca Stone
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, July 3, 2026
Tom CruiseFranz KafkaMontel Williams "The Unsafe Exit Corridor of Your Voice" by John Coletti
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...