In today's episode, Nick Warnes & Karen Rohrer have a dialogue with R. Eric Thomas, a national bestselling author, playwright, and screenwriter. His books include Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, which was featured as a "Read with Jenna" pick on NBC's Today, and Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters, co-authored with Helena Andrews-Dyer. For four years, he wrote "Eric Reads the News” a wildly popular daily humor column covering pop culture and politics on ELLE.com. Eric has written on the Peabody Award-winning series Dickinson on AppleTV+ and Better Things on FX. Off the page, Eric is also the long-running host of The Moth StorySlams in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and has been heard multiple times on The Moth Radio Hour, NPR's All Things Considered and It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders.

To find out more about R. Eric Thomas you can visit https://rericthomas.com/. 

Here are some quotes from today's interview: 

• "I mean, no one is going to arrest me for saying I'm a writer"
• "I can start walking in a certain direction without fully know why I'm doing it."
• "It starts off listening to myself, but then it immediately moves to listening to the way I sound in the world... the minute you start involving other people it becomes an interrogation of yourself."
• "I think of story as an empathy engine."
• "There is a silence that is so active and electric... listening to that silence is really useful to me."

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