Center for the literary arts in New York State
THE ART OF PODCASTING
The Writers Institute Podcast
7:30 p.m. Monday, April 27, 2026
University at Albany
Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany NY 12222 - See map.
Join us for a rich conversation about the art of podcasting, and “The Writers Institute” podcast and radio hour, a program that follows writers on adventures into the ultimate literary treasure vault: the audio archives of the New York State Writers Institute.
On this show, Jonathan Franzen listens to archival tape of Don DeLillo's 2009 Writers Institute event, and Susan Choi hears Grace Paley's voice for the first time– and that's just some of what you'll find in the first season. For season two in 2026, the show joins writers listening to the archival sound of Toni Morrison, Lorrie Moore, Francis Ford Coppola, and much more.
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Adam Colman, writer and radio producer, hosts and produces “The Writers Institute” show. He grew up in Albany, where NYS Writers Institute events were crucial for his own literary education. He also hosts and produces Lit Hub's “Cosmic Library” podcast, and has produced shows for public radio and McSweeney's “Organist.”
His writing has appeared in The Believer magazine and The Boston Globe, and he is the author of two books that, like “The Writers Institute” show, zoom across different eras of literary history.
Andrew Leland, writer and podcaster, hosted and produced McSweeney's “Organist,” an unconventional arts-and-culture podcast, for KCRW from 2013-2019. Leland, who is visually impaired, is also the author of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (2023), a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of the “Top 10 Books of 2023” in Publishers Weekly and The Atlantic.
