Play Story Podcast
Play Story Podcast shares the latest from Play Story Press, an innovative open-access community publishing consortium. To start, we’ll primarily have two types of episodes:
- Playful Stories — interviews with people sharing stories about the importance of play in their lives, and
- Book Talk — interviews with our authors and editors about their Play Story Press publications.
It’s a collaborative forum for the sharing and spreading of ideas related to stories and play as they are applied across various fields, and their overall significance in society.

Play Story Podcast shares the latest from Play Story Press, an innovative open-access community publishing consortium. To start, we’ll primarily have two types of episodes:
- Playful Stories — interviews with people sharing stories about the importance of play in their lives, and
- Book Talk — interviews with our authors and editors about their Play Story Press publications.
It’s a collaborative forum for the sharing and spreading of ideas related to stories and play as they are applied across various fields, and their overall significance in society.
For this episode we have a Book Talk with Rachel Kowert. In our Book Talk episodes, we have interviews with our authors and editors about their Play Story Press publications.
https://playstorypress.org/all-publications/
In our first Book Talk, we chat with Dr. Rachel Kowert about the Psychgeist of Pop Culture Book Series.
https://playstorypress.org/all-psychgeist/
Over the last few decades, interest in pop psychology has grown faster than most of our Netflix backlogs. This series from Dr. Rachel Kowert highlights iconic pop culture content from television, film, literature, and video games through an examination of the psychological mechanisms that endear us to these stories for a lifetime.
