PRESS
“Poignant, touching and at times laugh-out-loud funny examinations of the human condition...prepare to think deeply about yourself, to laugh and at times, cry.”
--BBC
“It's made with care and understated wit, and it has a surprising frisson of seriousness, quietly provoking thoughts about the objects in our lives, unwittingly laden with our emotions."
--The New Yorker
“Laugh-out-loud funny, surprisingly informative and often moving...a profound pleasure.”
--Time Magazine
"What starts out as a clever send-up, with its ticklishly absurdist dialogue...is also more than that, with surprising moments of poignancy."
--The New York Times
“Everything is Alive has its own realness, the enveloping authenticity of good films and theater and novels: Frankenstein’s monster has feelings, so why wouldn’t a can of cola have them too?”
--The Guardian
“The reality-construction is exquisite…Everything Is Alive is a unique, quirky, and smart little package with an unexpectedly moving edge.”
--New York Magazine
“Touching and powerful...unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.”
--CBC
“Everything is Alive will change the way you view the world...it’s as bizarre as it sounds and just as wonderful, too.”
--LA Review of Books
ACCOLADES
Apple Best Podcasts of 2018
Time Magazine Top 10 Podcasts of 2018
New York Magazine Best Podcast Episodes of 2018
Indiewire Best Podcast Episodes of 2018
Indiewire's Best Podcast Episodes of 2019 (So Far)
LA Review of Books Best Podcasts of 2018
BBC Culture's 10 Best Culture Podcasts of 2018
CBC's 25 Best Podcasts of 2018
Fast Company's 15 Best New Podcasts of 2018
The Globe and Mail Best Podcasts of 2018
Webby Best Interview/Talk Show Podcast 2019
Webby People's Voice Award 2019
HOST BIO
Ian Chillag is the host and creator of Everything is Alive. Previously he was a producer for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and he co-created and hosted the NPR podcast How To Do Everything. He’s also worked on videos for The New York Times, contributed regularly to the literary magazine A Public Space, and has recorded four episodes of a podcast about a post-apocalyptic public radio pledge drive besieged by pestilence and death that he can’t quite figure out what to do with.