Dear Seekers
Created by writer and former broadcast journalist Sasha Xiao, Dear Seekers is an attempt for her to document and celebrate the perpetual journey, we are all on, of becoming and returning to ourselves. Each week, Sasha seeks out an aspiring artist and author, and pours her existential pondering and melancholic feeling all over her guest in a hope to get something in return- for her and for the listeners. But the truth is Sasha already knows that she will never get the answers because not only does she believe “there are only two tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it,” but also she knows the only answer is from within. On this perpetual journey of searching for answers that can never be found externally, we need company, we need reminder, we need strength. We need each other. Substack subscribers have early access to each episode and exclusive personal essays. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Write Way to Mother: Good Mom on Paper
I’m joined by two incredibly talented and funny writers, editors, novelists, mothers (in no particular order) - Jen sookfong Lee (also a celebrated poet) and Stacey May Fowles (also an award-winning sports journalist).After their first collaboration on Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life After Sexual As
Today's episode is a Mother's Day special featuring an audio montage from Dear Seekers' past conversations with five writers who mother- Victoria Chang, Claudia Dey, Harriet Alida Lye, Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr and Heidi Sopinka. Subscribe on Substack to gain early access to all of our podcast conversations, plus exclusiv
My second conversation from The Write Way to Mother series is with Ashley Audrain, author of one of the most celebrated debuts in 2021, The Push - a novel about motherhood (in a nutshell). It raises some very dark questions like: what if we don’t form a connection with our children? What happens if our children turn ou
Today, I’m joined by Germany-born, Toronto-based Jeanine Brito, who I first connected with through Instagram many years ago when she was still working on Sophomore, a magazine that she created in her early twenties with a group of good friends. Even though Jeanine had been working as a designer in a various of companie
Marlowe Granados definitely knows how to tease, flirt and seduce, not people, but life. Growing up with a single mother and being close with her grandparents, Marlowe’s desire to play hide-and-seek with life and grab life by its tail was never lessoned, but rather, encouraged. She takes her pursuit of pleasure very ser
I recently met Dear Memory, a memoir that has essentially changed my life- not only because it forced some of my own uninvited, buried childhood memories to painfully resurface, but also has opened my imagination to what a memoir could look like. My conversation today is with its author Victoria Chang, and Claire Foste
