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Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 13 - Melba WilsonWe are so happy to welcome New York Restaurant World Legend, Melba Wilson, to Maître d’ Diaries. Restaurants are all about creating community. The community that is fostered in dining rooms, across tables, in bars and lounges, AND the community we build INSIDE the restaurants where we work. One of the best things about the hospitality business is how it gives us the chance to work with and get to know people of diverse ages and backgrounds we might not meet otherwise. And when f&b folk are lucky enough to be out and...2025-04-2357 min

Shakespeare, Race and Pedagogy Podcast11: Teaching Hamlet. Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Erica Cantley.When teaching Shakespeare through personal and societal crises, how can Shakespeare help us to access and share feelings in meaningful ways? How does Shakespeare read us? How does the familiar shape and structure of a five act Shakespeare play provide us with a template to form our own stories? www.shakeracepedagogy.com https://www.shakeracepedagogy.com/shakeracepedagogypodcast 2025-04-2032 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 12 - Tatiana MejiaYou meet the best people working in restaurants! Case in point, this episode’s guest, Tatiana Mejia, maître d’ at Michelin-starred Francie in Brooklyn, and a dear friend. Folks come to restaurant work via all different paths, many of us finding the right balance of physical activity, mental engagement, social interaction, and reliable income in a place we didn’t originally imagine ourselves belonging. One of the mission’s of Maître d’ Diaries is to share our love for the vocation of taking care of people through hospitality. To...2025-04-1845 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 11 - Roger RainesEver wonder what it was like booking out a restaurant ON PAPER, before the dawn of online reservation platforms? At Maître d’ Diaries one of our raisons d’être is building a bridge between restaurant industry old guard and the vibrant, essential Next Generation populating the new post-pandemic workforce. One way we do this is by gathering and sharing stories from the trenches (or the floor, if you will).This episode’s guest, Roger Raines, has a LOT of stories. Roger started his illustrious hospitality career with one of the mo...2025-04-0648 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 10 - Olivia SalomonYou meet some of the best people in the restaurant business. Folks like our guest Olivia Salomon, a server at Le Veau d’Or in New York City, who find joy and satisfaction taking care of other people and helping create memorable experiences for them. Whether it’s a warm welcome at the door or a server with a wonderful tableside manner, someone who is called to the work and does it with care can really make a difference in how we feel at the end of the day. The wo...2025-04-0247 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 9 - Tom PiscitelloTom Piscitello is a New York maître d’ legend! He ran the door at some of the city’s best Italian restaurants, including Coco Pazzo, Babbo, Beppe, A Voce, and Ci Siamo. Tom joined us from his terrazzo in Sicily, where he and his husband now live the semi-retired life of private hospitality, making beautiful memories for their guests at a 3-bedroom luxury lighthouse with a view of Mt. Etna, hosting and taking care of visiting friends and locals. Che bella vita! Tom saw it all working in the hot...2025-03-2155 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 8 - "We're Booked" with Andrew FriedmanWelcome to our 3rd “We’re Booked” episode. Our guest is author, cookbook collaborator, and podcast host, Andrew Friedman.Andrew has made a career chronicling the life and work of some of our best chefs, and is currently collaborating on a memoir with Daniel Boulud, to be published by Grand Central Publishing in 2027.Andrew is the author of Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits, and Wanderers Created a New American Profession. Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll (Ecco 2018) tells the story of the evolution of the Am...2025-03-1759 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 7 - "We're Booked" with Andrew FriedmanWelcome to our 3rd “We’re Booked” episode. Our guest is author, cookbook collaborator, and podcast host, Andrew Friedman.Andrew has made a career chronicling the life and work of some of our best chefs, and is currently collaborating on a memoir with Daniel Boulud, to be published by Grand Central Publishing in 2027.Andrew is the author of Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits, and Wanderers Created a New American Profession. Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll (Ecco 2018) tells the story of the evolution of the Am...2025-03-1759 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 7 - Sarah MorrisseyFasten your seat belts for a spirit-driven ride through NYC modern cocktail culture with the beloved, legendary, Sarah Morrissey who worked on the front lines of the cocktail revolution in New York from almost the beginning. Recorded one Saturday over bagels pre-service at Le Veau d’Or, where Sarah’s the AGM and Bar Manager, if you don’t already have the pleasure of knowing Sarah, you’ll feel like you do after joining us for our chat. One of our main purposes at Maître d’ Diaries is sharing stori...2025-03-1241 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 6 - Bradley KnebelA “We Can Transfer That” episode happens at least once a season on Maître d’ Diaries. These episodes are designed to highlight the many transferable skills one can hone working the door and floor of a restaurant. It's sort of a "how did you get from there to here" interview that showcases the incredibly satisfying and multi-faceted careers that sometimes get their start when someone becomes a server, a host, or a busser. One of the best things about the hospitality business–and this podcast–is the people we get to meet. This year at Will...2025-02-1958 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 5 - Sabrina MarteMaître d’ Diaries is a front of the house industry podcast designed to build community with other dining room professionals, foster pride in the art of hospitality, share stories from the front lines, facilitate conversation among OG restaurant folks and the Next Gen, and address the very real challenges that are facing the industry we love. We are delighted to introduce you to Sabrina Marte, an up-and-coming FOH star who has recently taken on the position of maître d’ at NoHo Hospitality’s Bar Primi in Penn Center. Sabrina is one of those pe...2025-02-1744 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 4 - Raj VaidyaJoin us this episode as we step away from the welcome and into the wine cellar for our chat with Raj Vaidya, whose career trajectory has taken him from a bagel shop in New Jersey all the way to being Chef Daniel Boulud’s International Wine Director, and now collaborating with Daniel Johnnes, as the Director of Operations for Pressoir, the organization behind wine festivals La Paulée, La Fête du Champagne, La Tablée, and much more. Born in New Jersey and raised in his family’s native Bombay and in Singapore, Raj att...2025-02-1647 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 3 - Paris PryorParis Pryor has been hearing about Maître d’ Diaries since long before we launched. In fact, her passion for the business and for hearing stories about restaurants past and present helped inspire our inception. Erica and Paris met while opening the Michelin-starred Francie in Williamsburg, Brooklyn during the pandemic and became fast friends. (Although some have asked if they are really mother and daughter!)Paris has experienced, accomplished, and learned quite a bit in the decade since she arrived in New York City in 2015, when she started moonlighting in the hospitality industry while pur...2025-02-0849 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Episode 2 - Tizzy BeckWelcome to our chat with Tizzy Beck, maître d’/manager at the Waverly Inn in the West Village. Tizzy is one of those people you meet and say, where have you been all my life? She’s a personality powerhouse, a native New Yorker and a born host. She's been featured in the New York Times for helping to kick off a New York style burger trend in Milan. Clearly she’s quite a badass. Listen in as we talk about how moving to Milan to work in fashion led her to becoming a resta...2025-02-0451 min

Maître d’ DiariesS3 - Dante & Erica - Season 3 Opener Dante and Erica look back at 2024 and the holiday season in NYC. We talk about our aspirations for 2025, the physical challenges of doing a job that has us on our feet most of the day, what it’s like to do a restaurant brand refresh in a popular 15 year old restaurant, and what it means to have a purge party. Listen in for Dante’s reaction to the news that Maître d’ Diaries has a YouTube channel, what’s new for Season 3, and Erica’s current obsession with what the runway to 60 looks...2025-02-0319 min

Maître d’ DiariesWhen POTUS Comes to Dinner - ELECTION WEEK Bonus EpisodeMaître d’s have a lot of great stories, and sometimes we get to meet really interesting people while just doing our jobs. In honor of ELECTION WEEK we’re offering up a wholly positive, but still dishy behind-the-scenes story of what happened when President and Mrs. Obama came to dinner at Maialino in New York City. Listen in to hear how Roger Raines graced telling a private party that they couldn’t be seated until everyone in their party had arrived, and what happened when he inadvertently tried to...2024-10-2815 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 12 - Leslie BrennerWelcome to the 2nd “We’re Booked” episode of Maître d’ Diaries, a front of the house restaurant industry podcast. On our “We’re Booked” episodes we chat with authors who write about restaurants and restaurant life, and the specialty book sellers who collect and curate the books we long to own and read. This episode we welcome food writer, author, and entrepreneur Leslie Brenner. Leslie has won two James Beard Awards, published five food & beverage oriented books, and an award-winning novel. She has been the food...2024-09-3052 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 11 - Preston LeeThanks for joining us at Maître d’ Diaries, and welcome to our first “That’s an Issue!” episode. At Maître d’ Diaries we spend a lot of time thinking about the management of dining room operations and how we could do it better. While we are well past Covid–knock on wood–our industry is still very much in a culture correcting moment. It seems like every six months there is a new Major Issue. To that end, our guest this episode is Preston Lee, who we discovered on Inst...2024-09-3044 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 10 - Shari Bayer“We Can Transfer That.” If you’ve spent much time in restaurants, you’ve no doubt heard or used the phrase “We can transfer that,” which refers to transferring a drink tab from the bar to a table. Do you ever look at people with really cool restaurant-adjacent jobs they seem to have crafted to perfectly suit them and wonder how they got there? Many of us feel that the world would be a kinder, more civilized place if everyone worked in customer service for at least...2024-09-2550 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 9 - Barry WineGet ready for a serious OG Alert. You’re about to spend some time with restaurant legend Barry Wine of the famed Quilted Giraffe. American cuisine and fine dining–along with the concept of signature dishes going viral–can be traced to the Quilted Giraffe, which opened almost 50 years ago in 1975. The Quilted Giraffe epitomized the excess and extravagance of the 80’s in New York City. It’s been called “the Studio 54 of New York’s restaurant scene” because of the rock stars, models, socialites, movie s...2024-09-241h 00

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 8 - Tina VaughnGet ready for a guest and a restaurant that are unapologetically analog. Building community among our FOH colleagues is the primary reason we started Maitre d’ Diaries, so it’s fitting that wine & spirit OG and self-proclaimed connection artist, Ryan Looper, launched us on the trail to meet the bewitchingly romantic restaurateur, Tina Vaughn, co-owner of Eulalie, in Tribeca. Tina and her husband Chef Chip Smith have a decidedly nostalgic, if not utopian, approach to restaurant ownership, which you will quickly discover when you try to make a reservation. ...2024-09-2250 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 7 - Cherif MbodjiCherif Mbodji’s passion for hospitality is deeply rooted in his upbringing in Senegal. When he came to America in 2000 to attend the University of Michigan, he had no way of knowing that homesickness for the liveliness and generosity of his big family in Senegal would lead him to a career in hospitality. When Cherif stumbled into Rain, a Thai restaurant on the Upper East Side, he got a summer job as a busser that kicked off a journey that took him to the dining rooms of the China Grill Group, Bouley, and Daniel Bou...2024-09-1750 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 6 - Andrea NeedellMeeting a kindred spirit like Andrea Needell is exactly why we started this podcast. Andrea is the bar director and general manager of Clay, an American farm to table restaurant located in the space once occupied by the historic Perks Jazz Club in Harlem. Clay is a neighborhood restaurant that people travel for, known for its wine and beverage program as well as its tasty local ingredient driven menu with French and Italian influences. Like many restaurateurs, Andrea, who runs Clay with Chef Gustavo Lo...2024-09-1258 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 5 - Luis TerrerosThis summer we were lucky to catch up with Luis Terreros while he was on a break between his position as opening AGM of Cafe Carmellini and taking on the new role of General Manager at Chef Michael White’s soon to open, much anticipated restaurant, Santi. Luis hails from Cuenca, Ecuador, and has been working in New York City fine dining for the past 24 years. During that time he’s worked with some of the best chefs in the business, including Eric Ripert, David Bouley, Daniel Boulud and Andrew Carmellini. Luis got into the b...2024-09-1147 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 4 - Traceena LynchTomorrow, September 5, 2024, New York City public school students head back to the classroom, so what better date to drop our episode with the multi-talented Traceena Lynch? Traceena is a senior at Food & Finance High School in NYC, and thanks to the professional training programs run by the non-profit Food Education Fund, she already has a ton of experience in the hospitality and culinary fields. In addition to being an avid baker, Traceena has worked as a host, waiter, busser, and dining room manager. Already! We met Traceena this summer a...2024-09-0431 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 3 - Jorge EscuderoThese days restaurant gatekeepers come in all shapes, sizes, and sartorial styles, but our guest Jorge Escudero is cut from the fine cloth of what many of us might consider a classic maître d. Jorge has welcomed guests at iconic establishments over the years, including The Beatrice Inn, The 21 Club, and Sérêvène in Miami Beach. Now he’s at the door of chef Angie Mar’s deeply personal, glamorous, plush velvet, white tablecloth, silver service escape-to-another-much-finer-world restaurant Le B, in Greenwich Village. Join us to get to kno...2024-09-0457 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 2 - Caprice BenedettiWelcome to our energized interview with Caprice Benedetti, a woman of a certain age who’s in the middle of her first foray into hospitality. At an incredibly high level. We started Maître d’ Diaries because we wanted to build community, connect with more FOH folks, and bridge the OG / Next Gen gap in the industry. It’s no secret that being part of the Dinex Diaspora ourselves, many of the folks we’ve interviewed so far are ex-Daniel (Boulud employees). Last fall, in one of the most significan...2024-09-0150 min

Maître d’ DiariesS2 - Episode 1 - John WintermanIt’s the Grand Opening of Maître d’ Diaries, Season Two, and we are kicking off the season with the man, the legend, the Brad Pitt of Cheese, John Winterman. Long before the restaurant Ever in The Bear there was Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago, where a pre-Silver Fox John Winterman cut his fine dining teeth. John’s illustrious career path took him to San Francisco to work with great Gary Danko, New York to work with Daniel Boulud, and then to open Batard in Tribeca with Drew Nieporent and chef Markus Glocker, which was...2024-09-0158 min

Maître d’ DiariesSeason Two - TrailerWelcome to Season Two of Maître d’ Diaries! We are a Front of the House Industry podcast that takes you behind the podium, between the tables, and inside the heads of the people who run your favorite restaurants. Take a listen to our trailer for a taste of what’s to come in Season Two, including interviews with: ~ Barry Wine of the legendary Quilted Giraffe ~ Andrea Needell of Clay in Harlem ~ John Winterman of Francie in Brooklyn ~ Caprice Benedetti, Portrait Bar at The...2024-09-0104 min

Maître d’ DiariesBONUS EPISODE - Cherif Mbodji on Hurricane Beryl Four years ago in the great unknown landscape of 2020 Aaron and Victoria Bludorn, Cherif Mbodji, and their team–many imported colleagues from New York City and the Dinex (Daniel Boulud) Diaspora–opened the much celebrated Bludorn restaurant in Houston, Texas. A little less than four years and two more restaurants later, on July 8th, 2024, Hurricane Beryl hit the Houston area and many homes and businesses were without power for a week or more. Cherif Mbodji is the COO of Bludorn Hospitality Group, and a week after the storm, we were...2024-08-2122 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 12 - Dante & Erica Interview Each OtherWelcome to the final episode of Season One of Maître d’ Diaries. Like most restaurants, the podcast has taken much longer to get up and running than we could have imagined, with lots of starts and stops, largely out of our control. To wrap up Season One we figured it would be a good time for you to get to know us better. Dante and Erica are old friends who met at the Four Seasons Hotel Boston in the 90’s. We followed our hospitality dreams to NYC, worked in som...2024-07-1051 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 11 - Pop Up with Robynne Maii in HonoluluAloha and welcome to our first Pop-Up episode of Maitre d’ Diaries the Podcast, where we record interviews from our visits to colleagues in restaurants around the country and the world. On Dante’s most recent visit home he had lunch at Fete in Honolulu with his dear friend and sustainability proponent, Natalie Aczon, after which we had the pleasure to interview the co-owner of Fete, James Beard Award-Winning Chef Robynne Maii. Dante has been boasting about Robynne and her husband Chuck Bussler’s restaurant Fete since it opened, and he...2024-07-0452 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 10 - Aspen Maye Aspen Maye, Food & Beverage Manager at the Arlo Hotel in Williamsburg, is relatively new to the hospitality business, but she’s a quick study and has already put a lot of thought into how to run a door, make people feel welcome, and add some silliness into training her front of the house team. Listen in as we learn about the 10 to 5 rule, what a Sasha Bar is, and why Aspen thinks everyone should work in hospitality for at least a year. (We wholeheartedly concur!) 2024-05-2340 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 9 - Drew NieporentWe are so honored to welcome Drew Nieporent to MaÎtre d’ Diaries! Drew is one of America's great restaurateurs. He has been an integral player in the NYC food world landscape for decades, supporting the community, making connections, and always bringing the good time and warm welcome. Drew has played a significant role in shaping the dining scene in this country into one of our premier cultural, artistic, and recreational pursuits, with iconic venues including Montrachet, Nobu, Batard, Rubicon, and Tribeca Grill. A stell...2024-04-1247 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 8 - Maddy MaldonadoMaître d's may be the gatekeepers, but here at Maître d' Diaries we will frequently step away from the door and talk to front of the house hospitality professionals who play all different roles in executing the service in restaurant operations. Join us this episode for our chat with Maddy Maldonado, the beverage director of Jose Andres' Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards on the West Side of Manhattan. Maldonado grew up in New Jersey, the daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, surrounded by the wonder of food, love, and warmth while sh...2024-02-1331 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 7 - We're Booked! with Matt Sartwell of Kitchen Arts & LettersWelcome to the first episode of We're Booked! where each season we will chat with people who write books about restaurants! Where better to kick off this deliciously decadent series than at the venerable Kitchen Arts & Letters, the world renowned bookstore opened in 1983 by the legendary Nach Waxman? For almost four decades Waxman was a veritable biblio-maître d' whose by-hand sales and curation made Kitchen Arts & Letters a beloved and important gastronomic library and research center. Join us in the stockroom at KAL--goosebumps!--as we chat with managing partner, Matt Sartwell, about th...2024-02-1340 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 6 - David Viana & Neilly Robinson of Lita & Heirloom KitchenIt's been quite a year for Chef David Viana and Managing Director Neilly Robinson, partners in New Jersey's Heirloom Kitchen, Heirloom at the St. Laurent Social Club, and the systemically innovative, vibrantly delicious, Lita. Last summer we visited David and Neilly six weeks after Lita, their Modern Iberian Restaurant in Aberdeen Township, NJ, opened. Since then, Esquire Magazine and the James Beard Foundation have recognized Lita as one of the country's Best New Restaurants. We agree, and we think Lita also boasts an important new approach to restaurant staffing. You're going to want to hear...2024-02-1356 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 5 - Bonus Episode with Sal LambogliaOne fine August afternoon Dante & Erica met up at Cafe Spaghetti and had the fortuitous pleasure of running into chef/owner Sal Lamboglia, who gave us a preview of their new venture, Swoony's. Of course we pulled out the microphone to record the impromptu visit! Listen in to hear about Sal and Dante's meeting at Andrew Carmellini's A Voce and the inspiration behind the newly opened and already warmly embraced Swoony's on Columbia Street, a block away from Cafe Spaghetti.2024-01-0119 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 4 - Giovanna CucoloGiovanna Cucolo is the managing partner and wine buyer of Brooklyn’s Cafe Spaghetti and the recently opened Swoony’s, two of Carroll Garden’s most comfortable, fun, popular restaurants. She's worked in many of the city's top dining establishments with some of the country's great restaurateurs, and brings all that experience home to Brooklyn and the Columbia Waterfront district. Giovanna is a true renaissance woman and a consummate host. She loves the hospitality business and brings a dose of stoicism and “don’t take yourself too seriously” to her management style, which translates directly int...2023-12-3051 min

Maître d’ Diaries9 Dinex Maître d's Celebrate 30 Years of DanielIt was a maître d' reunion! One of the many things chef Daniel Boulud taught those of us lucky enough to have worked with him is the importance of recognizing and celebrating milestone moments. In that spirit, to partake in the @30atdaniel celebration in the spring of 2023, Dante and Erica invited seven former Daniel maître d's to talk about what their time working the door for Daniel meant to them and to their careers. You'll hear stories and tributes to Daniel from: Markus Draxler Elvir Dzananovic Karim Gue...2023-12-0257 min

Maître d’ DiariesDaniel Boulud at Restaurant DanielJoin Erica and Dante as they chat with mentor, inspiration and former boss, chef Daniel Boulud, during an epic dinner at Restaurant Daniel in April 2023. Daniel shares his thoughts about the fine dining scene in NYC when he arrived in 1983, who were the maitre d's who held the power, how the role has changed, and the gastronomic history behind his award-winning restaurant Le Pavillon. 2023-11-2224 min

Maître d’ DiariesEpisode 1 - Michael Cecchi-AzzolinaWho better to have as our first guest on Maître d’ Diaries than maître d’ extraordinaire, Michael Cecchi-Azzolina? Michael has had two huge hits in a row this past year. His memoir, Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître d’, is a best seller that's being touted as a front of the house Kitchen Confidential; and his Greenwich Village boite, Cecchi's, opened this summer to great acclaim and has fast become one of the hottest tables in town. We interviewed Michael this spring before his restaurant opened, and checked back in with h...2023-11-1051 min

Maître d’ DiariesMaître d’ Diaries - Welcome EpisodeJoin Erica and Dante as they talk about their new Front of the House industry podcast and what you can expect to hear in Season One. Set in part at Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Fulton at the South Street Seaport in New York City, you'll experience dining out with two OG maître d’s, and hear what it was like when the New York Times food critics showed up at the door circa 2000's. 2023-11-0725 min

Maître d’ DiariesTeaserWelcome to Maître d’ Diaries! Thank you for joining us! Please come in and have a taste of what you can expect in Season One of our much anticipated front of the house restaurant podcast. 2023-11-0704 min

To Be Or Not To Be: Shakespeare UnlockedWhose Common ThemeIn this episode of the podcast, we talk to people who have found meaning and a sense of shared experience in Hamlet’s famous soliloquy at the most difficult times of their lives; including dealing with bereavement, traumatic loss and mental health problems. We also talk to Maggie O Farrell, whose recent award-winning novel speculates that the uncanny power of the play may be rooted in the grief of Shakespeare himself, who wrote the play a few years after the death of his own son. With Lucy Clarke, Laura Clarke, Erica Cantley, Maggie O’Farrell, Christie Carson, Dominic Dromgoole and...2021-04-1426 min

Reframe Your Life122 | Teaching Hamlet as My Father Died with Erica CantleyArt crashes into life for author Erica Cantley when she finds herself behind a podium in front of a class of high school seniors, teaching HAMLET as her father died, thousands of miles to the south in Costa Rica. Interspersing interactions with her teenage students and memories of her father, desperately sick and difficult to reach in his adopted jungle home, Cantley guides her students through HAMLET -- written four centuries ago -- while reflecting upon the impending loss of a parent in the never-ending now. The result is a powerful memoir of a love...2020-11-271h 00

Farewelling: The PodcastLegacy and Life After Life: Writer and Educator Erica CantleyFarewelling founder Karen Bussen and Erica Cantley, educator, writer, and New York food industry insider, talk about celebrating the life of each individual in a personal and beautiful way, and why a potluck farewelling just isn’t right for either of them (hint: it’s a control thing). Erica tells us how she came to write her upcoming book, Teaching Hamlet as My Father Died, and explains what she’d do if she only had three weeks left to live. They touch on themes of legacy and remembrance, and what it means to be immortal.To find out mo...2020-02-1822 min