My Five Things
@My_Five_Things
Essential lessons from people we admire.
Coming to Five Things Sunday, February 23rd: Celebrated writer and teacher @rebeccamakkai shares Five Things She's Learned about Grasping Point of View – on the Page and in the World. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/rebecca-…

Coming to Five Things on Thursday, June 5th: Film critic, author, and teacher Alissa Wilkinson shares Five Things She's Learned about the Power and Peril of Mythmaking, from Joan Didion. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/alissa-w…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, June 1st: Award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, and scholar Kaveh Akbar shares Five Things He's Learned about Sacred Poetics. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/kaveh-ak…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, May 18th: Writer and teacher Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares Five Things He's Learned Too Late about Publishing His First Book. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/maurice-…

Coming to Five Things Wednesday, May 7th: Culture journalist, author and teacher Will Hermes shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing about Music and Musicians. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/will-her…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, May 6th: Best-selling writer and poet Maggie Smith shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – During Times of Upheaval. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/maggie-s…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, May 4th: Award-winning author and teacher Ann Hood shares Five Things She's Learned about Writing Memoir. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/ann-hood…

Coming to Five Things on Wednesday, April 30th: Author, researcher, nonprofit leader, and MacArthur “Genius” award recipient MT Connolly shares Five Things She's Learned about How To Better Navigate Aging. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/mt-conno…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, April 27th: Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield shares the Five Things She's Learned about Poems as Fields of Discovery. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/jane-hir…

Coming to Five Things Monday, April 28th: Writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – by Writing Through Crisis. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/ingrid-r…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, April 22nd: Best-selling writer Daniel Handler shares Five Things He's Learned about Creativity – That Turn Out To Be Wrong. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/daniel-h…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, April 13th: Michael Ruhlman – best-selling writer of more than 30 books of non-fiction, fiction, memoir and cookbooks – shares the Five Things He's Learned about Writing, By Writing about Food. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/michael-…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, March 30th: Novelist, memoirist, cultural critic, and screenwriter Matthew Specktor shares the Five Things He's Learned about Writing the Self in Memoir and Fiction Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/matthew-…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, March 25th: Poet and writer Victoria Chang shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – by Being an Outsider. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/victoria…

Coming to Five Things Sunday, March 23rd: Best-selling author, essayist, public speaker, lyricist and libretto writer @adamgopnik shares Five Things He’s Learned about the mystery of mastery – and about the ways that our humanity is immeasurably enriched in even the simplest…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, March 18th: poet, author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – and Harnessing Emotion in the Service of Powerful Art. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/amber-ta…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, March 11th: Celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder shares Five Things He's Learned about Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/metthew-…

Coming to Five Things Thursday, March 6th: Multi-award-winning writer, editor and performer Joe Randazzo shares Five Things He's Learned about Getting to the Best Ideas, from My Time Leading The Onion. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/joe-rand…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, February 16th: Writer, poet, and minister Danté Stewart shares the Five Things He's Learned about The Power of Narrative. Learn more and get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/dante-st…

TOMORROW, February 2nd: Editor, writer, and publisher @brooke_warner shares the Five Things She's Learned about How Threshold Moments Shape Our Stories. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/the-ways…
