Meredith Monday Schwartz
speaker
5,660 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Meredith Monday Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.
Appearances
And then the brothers have to leave the country, and before they go, they hand Lois a kind of strange parting gift.
podcast-host
Their family's sourdough starter, which is a living, bubbling culture that they ask her to keep alive and feed.
podcast-host
But the problem is that Lois has never baked anything in her entire life.
podcast-host
And this is no ordinary sourdough starter.
podcast-host
Because it's very alive.
podcast-host
It hums.
podcast-host
It sighs.
podcast-host
It has moods all of its own.
podcast-host
And the bread it produces is so good that it begins to pull Lois out of her screenlit apartment and straight into the strange, very competitive, slightly secretive world of Bay Area farmers markets, where getting a stall is a whole lot harder than writing.
podcast-host
code.
podcast-host
All right, Katie.
podcast-host
So let me start with where I started with this reread for me.
podcast-host
And it's the, as I said, the gap between my first read and the second read is kind of my whole story with this book.
podcast-host
I first read Sourdough back in 2019, so early in the podcast days, and I liked it.
podcast-host
I finished it thinking that it was a clever, charming little novel.
podcast-host
I kind of was satisfied with it and I moved on with my life.
podcast-host
But that was the extent of it.
podcast-host
It's a good book that had a lot of buzz at the time, and I was glad I'd read it.
podcast-host
But I decided to reread it, of course.
podcast-host
Listeners will realize what's coming when I started my own.
podcast-host
Showing 621–640 of 5,660 · page 32 of 283
← Previous
Next →