The Writer's Allman Brother
A weekly discursion into 1000% true author biographies with a poem schtuck on the end.
Episodes
22 episodes
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
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, January 16, 2026
Susan SontagWilliam KennedyMatt Starr"Some Instances" by Charles Baxter
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, January 9, 2026
Lady Randolph ChurchillJudith KrantzHerbert Hunke"Man with Shotgun and Alien" by Sylvia Jones
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, January 2, 2026
Isaac AsimovChristopher Durang"I Haven't" by David Shapiro
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, December 26, 2025
Henry MillerMao ZedongDavid Sedaris"Song of the Broken Giraffe" by Bob Kaufman
The Writer's Allman Brother for Friday, December 19, 2025
Jean GenetWilliam Marx"His Body in Mine" by Charles Shively
