This Is How The Story Goes
Wednesdays between 12 and 1 p.m.
From a hilarious account of being kicked out of a Pilates class to an astonishing precognitive dream, “This is How the Story Goes” is warm and generous storytelling at its best. These intimate tales inspire universal wonder and thought-provoking possibility, as listeners reconsider what they think they know of reality, reconnect with their best memories, laugh, reflect, and come to like themselves a bit better.
With a voice reminiscent of David Sedaris, Anne Lamott and Garrison Keillor, Oliver charms, informs, heals, and entertains. Every story is a love story to listeners and to life itself, with joy the secret subject of every episode.
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Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. When a childhood illness has a lifelong impact, a girl discovers loss seldom comes to call empty-handed. "When Less is More," explores how that can be so, in this week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes."
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Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. In this week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes," she shares "Cowboys are My Weakness," a story about tolerating the intolerable in summer camp.
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In this week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes," writer Laura J. Oliver recounts being shamed by an angry, overworked adult as a child, and from the far side of memory, crafts forgiveness over space and time, through story.
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Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. In this week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes," she asks, does life transform energy states but not end? In “Call My Name,” we explore inquiry as a form of reverence, while acknowledging extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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In this week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes," writer Laura Oliver shares one woman's experience with dancing in public and a cautionary tale about cool moves.
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Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. In this week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes," she shares thoughts on the unique bond of the sibling relationship—the longest relationship of your life—and the only one in which you had no choice—-until you do.
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Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. In this week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes," she explores methods to facilitate falling asleep, the best of which is making a list of alternative realities to the life you have lived, otherwise known as ..."What if?"
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This week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes," contrasts pet peeves with the things we love proposing a new theory for the space between them in the essay "What if This is True?"
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In this week's episode of This is How the Story Goes, a young couple learns that life is a long game and that sometimes to get what you want, you have to let go.
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Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes” asks, "what do you know is true about yourself and who taught it to you?" The answer may surprise you in "The Inside Story."