{"podcast":{"title":"Tricycle Talks","slug":"tricycle-talks-828620","podcast_index_feed_id":828620,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TPG2116740081","website_url":"http://tricycle.org/podcast","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cc403d78-473d-11ee-ad52-cf8b5d7696e3/image/avatars-zxFGwPk1KOmyzzuw-TyjFTQ-original.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Tricycle Talks","episode_count":203,"summary":"Tricycle Talks: Listen to Buddhist teachers, writers, and thinkers on life's big questions. Hosted by James Shaheen, editor in chief of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the leading Buddhist magazine in the West. Life As It Is: Join James Shaheen with co-host Sharon Salzberg and learn how to bring Buddhist practice into your everyday life. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review creates award-winning editorial, podcasts, events, and video courses. Unlock access to all this Buddhist knowledge by subscribing to the magazine at tricycle.org/join","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620"},"episode":{"title":"Writing into the Void with Ruth Ozeki","slug":"writing-into-the-void-with-ruth-ozeki","published_at":"2026-05-27T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620/writing-into-the-void-with-ruth-ozeki","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620","url":"https://tricycle.org/podcast/ruth-ozeki-typing-lady","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/tcQd6Q6C0RUUlOHq1Ytj/mgln.ai/e/51/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG4482678586.mp3","summary":"Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen priest. She recently published her first short story collection, The Typing Lady and Other Fictions. With characteristic wit and grace, Ozeki astutely explores themes of identity, longing, loss, and the clarity that comes with old age. In one story, a couple watches their ambitions roam the woods as ghosts; in another, an aging writer enlists her granddaughter to fake her death as a way of getting out of an upcoming book tour. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Ozeki to discuss what drew her to the form of the short story, how the Buddhist teaching of not-self informs her writing, how writing short stories can be an act of surrender, and the lessons she learned from caring for her mother in the final years of her life. Plus, Ozeki reads a short excerpt from one of the stories in the collection.","meta_description":"Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen priest. She recently published her first short story collection, The Typing Lady and Other Fictions. With cha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3355,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tricycle-talks-828620/episodes/writing-into-the-void-with-ruth-ozeki/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620/writing-into-the-void-with-ruth-ozeki.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}