The Essays
By Avery Lane Maxwell. What the podcast reads aloud, on the page: the Tuesday essays and the Sunday Room, one a week, from an innkeeper and novelist at nine thousand feet. The newest is first.
- Resemblance.what autumn remembersNo. 11 · 6 October 2026 · 10 minutes
- Where Elias Goes to Write.the first Sunday RoomNo. 10 · 4 October 2026 · 8 minutes
- The Part That Stays Green.## Episode Nine # THE PART THAT STAYS GREEN.No. 9 · 29 September 2026 · 12 minutes
- The People Who Notice.The People Who Notice. Episode Eight of Galena House Audio, from Avery Lane Maxwell.No. 8 · 27 September 2026 · 17 minutes
- The Conversation Was Still There.## Episode Seven # THE CONVERSATION WAS STILL THERE.No. 7 · 22 September 2026 · 15 minutes
- The Versions We Keep.There is pumpkin bread cooling about twenty feet from where I am sitting.No. 6 · 20 September 2026 · 16 minutes
- The Amber Thread.I am browning butter. If you have never done it, you put a stick in a heavy pot over medium low, and then the important part, which is that you do not leave.No. 5 · 15 September 2026 · 14 minutes
- Let Them Have Their Version.There are Sundays when a house feels used up. Not sad. Not empty.No. 4 · 13 September 2026 · 14 minutes
- The Water Between Places.what survives the leavingNo. 3 · 8 September 2026 · 16 minutes
- The House That Didn't Save Me.So. Last week I asked you something. What's a place you thought would fix you, and what happened when it didn't? And then I just… ended the episode.No. 2 · 1 September 2026 · 15 minutes
- Becoming Avery.Before this room, there were twenty-three others.No. 1 · 25 August 2026 · 5 minutes
Every essay is read aloud, in the author's voice, on Galena House Audio. The letters that carry them are at averylanemaxwell.com/letters.