Her website bio opens like a Roald Dahl book--"I grew up in an underground house, next to a graveyard, in abandoned coal lands… with a pet raccoon." She could have written, 'I grew up in a giant peach that crushed my evil aunts who raised me after my parents were eaten by an unhappy rhinoceros. I now live in New York City with spunky, over-sized insects." The story of Dr. Brandy Schillace's career in all its paths of exploration certainly requires origins no less mysterious and fantastic.

Our next show spotlights The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story, the latest book from author, historian and podcast producer, Brandy Schillace. The Intermediaries is "the fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich." Along with the author herself, we have songwriters from NYC, Brooklyn, Atlanta and Kansas City, plus a mixologist from Lower East Side craft cocktail bar, Good Guys, coming together to share their new music (and

This is the third installment of our collaboration with historic literary journal, Evergreen Review . Each event has featured writing...