Caitlin O'Keefe

Boston

Audio Producer at The New York Times

I cut pieces of tape into smaller pieces of tape and reorder them. Currently: @nytimes audio. Previously: @gimletmedia, @WBUR.

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Redux: The Empty Chair, Part 2

4 days ago | wbur.org | Caitlin O'Keefe

This episode was originally published on November 11th, 2017. When a parent loses a child, the decision to have another can be fraught with mixed emotions. One letter writer, who calls herself “Mama with Complicated Joy,” had a baby following the death of her older son. “I feel like I’m nursing twins,” she writes.
Black Internationalism and Shakespeare and Company

May 29, 2024 | culturalanalytics.org | Caitlin O'Keefe

The library cards and logbooks preserved in Sylvia Beach’s papers confirm the conventional image of Shakespeare and Company: the bookshop and lending library sat at the very heart of interwar modernism. The shop conjures images of Ernest Hemingway perusing the bookshelves and Gertrude Stein stopping by from her home a few streets away. James Joyce, George Antheil, and André Gide are among the many names we associate with the bookshop’s dazzling community.
Redux: The Other Half of Sexless Relationships

Jul 29, 2023 | wbur.org | Caitlin O'Keefe

This episode was originally released on October 28th, 2017. Sex-starved, meet sex-hounded. Recently, the Dear Sugars inbox was flooded with responses to the two-part episode “Sexless Relationships” with Esther Perel. In those episodes, the Sugars answered letters from people who were longing for sexual intimacy with their partners. But many readers asked why we didn’t address the other side of sexless relationships: the people who want less sex than their partners.