Episode · November 4, 2026
The Brightness Stays
I have made a pumpkin muffin with chocolate chips and a sweet cream-cheese middle. I have named it October's Last Kiss. November will have to manage.
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The Films.
Every episode has a film: the words read aloud over the house's own pictures and weather. Played here, in the house.
The newest film
Come In. The Trailer.
Come In. It's Already Warm. · the trailerThe film's own page
Episode · November 3, 2026
Someone Had Already Set the Table
Pull up a chair. Take the one by the window. The first snow in Frisco can't decide whether it's staying, and three things are waiting for you in this room: a table somebody else set, a little blue bowl that is going to s…
Episode · November 3, 2026
Still Here, No. 3: Keeping September Company
STILL HERE No. 3 of 5 KEEPING SEPTEMBER COMPANY The aspens are louder than they look.
Episode · November 2, 2026
Still Here, No. 2: The Fire Didn't Need Him
STILL HERE No. 2 of 5 THE FIRE DIDN'T NEED HIM A fire caught on the second match, scones folded twice and not four times, a forgotten order of eggs, and the old voice that says leave.
Episode · October 31, 2026
I'm Taking You With Me
Several doors are opening, and I want company. While the apples bake, I talk about the light that stayed through a dimmer season, the pleasure of having good news to share, and the kind of loyalty I want to carry into wh…
Episode · October 27, 2026
The East Window
A Monday morning at the desk: a rather unpopular opinion about Mondays, a new book beside the lamp, and a first long look east. On the pouring, the love that happens before anyone arrives.
Episode 15 · October 21, 2026
Little Lights Everywhere
This episode is also a film, with the words on the screen as they are spoken. Watch it with the sound on: averylanemaxwell.com/podcast A lamp in a kitchen window. A porch light over a step.
Episode · October 19, 2026
Still Here, No. 1: A Used Sunday
STILL HERE No. 1 of 5 A USED SUNDAY Sunday night, and the house has given everything it had.
Episode 14 · October 14, 2026
Who Does That for You?
This episode is also a film. Watch it with the sound on: averylanemaxwell.com/podcast Get comfortable first.
Episode 13 · October 11, 2026
Actual Size
The Sunday Room is a film. Watch it with the sound on: averylanemaxwell.com/podcast THE SUNDAY ROOM No. 2 LET THE BEAUTIFUL THING STAY ITS ACTUAL SIZE A baby pumpkin on the desk.
A story · October 8, 2026
The Keeper, No. 1: Where Elias Goes to Write
The first episode of The Keeper, the television expression of this house: a half hour, cut for broadcast from the prelude and The Sunday Room, with titles.
Episode 11 · October 7, 2026
Resemblance
Fall has never felt new to Avery. It arrives every year dressed differently, and he recognizes it before he understands why: a certain yellow, the brown underneath it, light going flatter in the afternoon.
Episode 10 · October 4, 2026
Where Elias Goes to Write
The first Sunday Room. Tuesday carries the finished essay; Sunday carries the life around it.
A story · October 3, 2026
The Gold Lives Here
A prelude. Not the leaving; the thing before it. Avery started on the footbridge, turned left toward the post office, and for six minutes rode through a town that has held a very large version of his life.
Episode 9 · September 29, 2026
The Part That Stays Green
Avery went down to the water for a few minutes with his phone, not because he had something to say.
Episode 8 · September 27, 2026
The People Who Notice
Thursday began with the Pegasus bus leaving Frisco without Avery, twice. It ended beside water in the Denver Botanic Gardens, not reaching for a notebook.
A story · September 24, 2026
The Pumpkin Who Kept the Light. A story
A Galena House Audio story, written with intention. There was once a pumpkin that grew beside a little house at the bottom of a hill.
Episode 7 · September 23, 2026
The Conversation Was Still There
A dear friend called today after almost two years, and within thirty seconds it was yesterday. The same morning, a man Avery barely knew came looking for him with a piece of flounder.
Episode 6 · September 20, 2026
The Versions We Keep
There is pumpkin bread cooling when this one starts, and a letter on the desk. My first from a listener. I do not read it aloud; it belongs first to the person who sent it.
Episode 5 · September 15, 2026
The Amber Thread
I am browning butter when this one starts, which turns out to be the whole point. The same smell has been in a kitchen in Georgia, a rental in Montana, a town in Colorado where the road stops, and now here, at nine thous…
The trailer · September 14, 2026
Come in. It's already warm
A podcast made at nine thousand feet in Frisco, Colorado, in the hour before anyone is awake. I am Avery Lane Maxwell. I write books, and I have spent nine years keeping houses for strangers.
Episode 4 · September 13, 2026
Let Them Have Their Version
A Sunday Special, because some essays do not wait for Tuesday. This year has been hard. It has also been extraordinary. I have stopped asking those two things to cancel each other out.
Episode 3 · September 8, 2026
The Water Between Places
Episode Three. The one that goes back for my grandmother. I meant to tell you about my grandmother and her scones.
Episode 2 · September 1, 2026
The House That Didn’t Save Me
A place you thought would fix you, and what happened when it didn’t. This week: the answer I dodged last week.
Episode 1 · August 25, 2026
Becoming Avery
Before this room, there were twenty-three others. Episode one: a decade in motion, the places we mistake for salvation, and the truth about the name on the books, a name still being become.
The trailer · August 24, 2026
The Trailer
Hello. I am Avery Lane Maxwell. I write books at nine thousand feet, in a small town in Colorado, mostly before the sun is up.