Nightwalking with Bianca Giaever

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We learn about an age-old practice of nightwalking, with the help of two women who took it on as an experiment in the early chaotic days of the pandemic. Joining the conversation is Bianca Giaever, creator of one of our favorite podcasts of the year, Constellation Prize.

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0:00.0	We know nothing about power. The doctor barking. The coyotes will be next. The hells will come and I will join them. Oh, I see! Oh!
0:24.0	Oh!
0:25.0	Oh!
0:27.0	Oh! Oh!
0:28.0	Oh! Oh!
0:30.0	Oh!
0:31.0	Oh! Oh! Love Terry. That was author Terry Temps Williams. She's an award-winning poet. In the clip you just heard, the one of Terry howling with coyotes.
0:50.0	It is almost unnerving.
0:55.0	I wasn't sure what to make of it when I first heard it or whether to take her seriously.
1:02.0	I was listening to something clearly very intimate.
1:06.7	Terry's note was essentially an audio journal and the woman she was journaling with or
1:11.6	sending this to was a writer named Bianca Gave her.
1:15.0	And I'm a big fan, so I was like both thrilled and extremely intimidated and
1:20.0	scared of messing this up.
1:22.0	And so I wholeheartedly agreed.
1:26.2	For two weeks in 2020, these women traded audio letters
1:30.0	back and forth to each other.
1:32.1	Bianca chronicled their conversations for her podcast,
1:35.4	Constellation Prize.
1:37.1	Bianca chose Terry as a kind of spiritual guide
1:40.7	for the second season of her show. And what came of their time together was
1:45.3	this new perspective and kind of spiritual revival of this age-old practice of
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