O'SIRUS

Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

I'm Rhett Miller.

That's when it got wheels off.

He started up and he ain't going to stop.

Oh, she made me feel like a good God.

That's when it got wheels off. Geraldine de Reuter is an author.

She writes nonfiction.

Personal essay might be her genre specifically.

That's what she's known for.

She has a blog called The Everywhere's Blog that she's had for a number of years. One of her essays not too long ago went viral, won a James Beard Foundation Award. The essay was entitled, I made the pizza cinnamon rolls from Mario Batali's sexual misconduct apology letter. She has a voice.

I love that.

And when we get to the part of the interview pretty deep into it, where she describes

finding that voice and the importance of that voice, it really just spoke to me because

I feel like it's maybe the most important component of finding success with your work,

by which, as always, I don't mean commercial success, I mean artistic success,

but finding a voice that's authentic to you because it's always going to come through

and it's what people are going to connect with.

And Geraldine has very much found that. And you get the sense

listening to this conversation, I imagine, that she is, you know, she really loves what she does.

And she is excited about it. And she, you know, she's, she is authentic. I mean, that's such a weird thing to say to either accuse someone of inauthenticity or to congratulate them for their authenticity. But I'm not talking about whether or not she really is something. I'm talking about whether or not she's

communicating in a way that feels honest. That's what I mean when I say that. And to me,

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