Isaac Butler

Isaac Butler hosted Slate's Lend Me Your Ears podcast. He is the co-author, with Dan Kois, of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America and is currently working on The Method, a narrative history of method acting, for Bloomsbury.

Recently by Isaac Butler

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Before She Wrote Her Graphic Memoir, Mira Jacob Had to Learn to Draw

Isaac Butler

June 22, 2020 10:00 AM
The Vulnerability of Memoir Writing, With Mira Jacob
Podcast Episode Working June 21, 2020 6:00 AM
How a Mine Disaster Became a Work of Documentary Theater

Isaac Butler

June 01, 2020 10:00 AM
How Documentary Theater Goes From Interviews to Final Production
Podcast Episode Working May 31, 2020 6:00 AM
The Normal Heart Was Addressed to a Specific Crisis. But Its Insights About Anger and Love Are Timeless.

Isaac Butler

May 27, 2020 7:54 PM
Megan Abbott’s Top Tip for Learning to Write for the Screen: Michael Clayton

Isaac Butler

May 11, 2020 10:00 AM
Megan Abbott’s Go-To Story Structure
Podcast Episode Working May 10, 2020 6:00 AM
How Jazz Composer Miho Hazama Turned the Words Three Cats Playing Together Into a Piece of Music

Isaac Butler

April 20, 2020 10:00 AM
How Miho Hazama Combines Classical Training With Contemporary Jazz
Podcast Episode Working April 19, 2020 6:00 AM
My Son Heard Me Say I Hate Him in a Moment of Frustration. What Now?
Podcast Episode Mom and Dad Are Fighting Feb 13, 2020 2:00 PM
A Conversation With Kim Stanley Robinson About Three Californias and Infinite Futures

Isaac Butler

Feb 06, 2020 3:43 PM
Why The Inheritance, Broadway’s New Intergenerational Gay Epic, Is Failing to Connect

Isaac Butler

Dec 12, 2019 2:45 PM
How Tony Kushner Added a Brand-New Character to His Oldest Play to Address Our Terrible Times

Isaac Butler

Dec 04, 2019 7:30 AM
The Resurrection of the Greatest Sci-Fi Writer You’ve Never Read

Isaac Butler

Nov 15, 2019 5:45 AM
What It’s Like to Play Tevye at a Time of Increasing Anti-Semitism

Isaac Butler

Oct 21, 2019 5:51 PM
The King Turns Shakespeare’s Henriad Into the Tragedy of the Obama Years

Isaac Butler

Oct 01, 2019 5:58 PM
The Empty, Miserable Comics of Chris Ware

Isaac Butler

Sept 19, 2019 5:45 AM
Tennis Phenoms Come and Go. Bianca Andreescu Is Here to Stay.

Isaac Butler

Sept 06, 2019 2:45 PM
Why Friends Is Still a Hit
Podcast Episode Culture Gabfest Aug 28, 2019 10:48 AM
Who’s Your Favorite Grandma?
Podcast Episode Mom and Dad Are Fighting Aug 22, 2019 2:00 PM