https://www.ariananedelman.com/about daily 1.0 2025-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/1609622528628-H974FD8WO5TIIKAAMTBO/Ariana+at+mic.JPG About - About I’m Ariana Nedelman, an audio producer based in Pittsburgh, PA. I’m the co-founder of Not Sorry, where I co-created Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Let’s Ask Taylor Swift, The Real Question and Hot and Bothered. In my spare time, I work on the independent audio project When We All Get to Heaven. I have my BA from the University of Chicago, a graduate certificate from The Salt Institute of Documentary Studies, and I enjoyed a brief stint at Harvard Divinity School before dropping out in 2017 to pursue podcasting. I don’t believe in God, but if I did I think they’d forgive me. I’m interested in the edges of permissibility in our culture. Which identities and ideas do we embrace in a pluralistic ‘tolerant’ orientation to the world, and which do we reject? What kind of communities are created at the margins of deviance, and what counter-narratives do they construct? More specifically, I’m interested in mental illness and madness, expressions of gender and sexuality, and how the internet mediates the construction of new identities. https://www.ariananedelman.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/1611193975192-1LG3V635QMO85UKLOKD3/IMG_3716-preview.JPG Contact - Look at this photo of me casually laughing on a railroad track. Doesn’t it make me look nice and approachable? Feel free to approach via email at ariana.nedelman@gmail.com. I’d love to hear from you. https://www.ariananedelman.com/work daily 0.75 2025-09-11 https://www.ariananedelman.com/work/when-we-all-get-to-heaven monthly 0.5 2025-09-11 https://www.ariananedelman.com/work/hot-and-bothered monthly 0.5 2025-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/1609623149053-SNNHHS1EYLMTUD7TCCWD/Twilight+in+Quarantine+-+Final+Logo.jpg Work - Hot and Bothered - While we were developing Season 2 of Hot & Bothered, we found ourselves suddenly in the midst of a global pandemic. In response, we created Twilight in Quarantine, a weekly comedy show where Vanessa Zoltan and Julia Argy read the Twilight books and give advice to the characters. The show was meant to be a temporary bit of fun to get us (and our listeners) through the tedium of quarantine. We ended up reading the whole series and were recommended as a ‘podcast for the pandemic’ by The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/ef678a1e-3948-4e54-ae07-a2d51c8da123/HB_UpdatedLogo.jpg Work - Hot and Bothered - In our current season, we’ve turned our attention to romantic films. The season begins with ten episodes on How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, an iconic film of the early 2000s rom-com oeuvre. Vanessa Zoltan revisits the movie in conversation with media experts and scholars to better understand the language of romance on film. Following those first ten episodes, Vanessa is joined by beloved academic and podcaster Hannah McGregor to dig into the canon of romantic films, from Titanic to Twilight to When Harry Met Sally, (just to name a few). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/57278251-0b2e-4aba-b0fa-d2fc75b380e0/NSP_LfP_web+jpg_72dpi.jpeg Work - Hot and Bothered - In March 2022, we finished Jane Eyre and took up Pride and Prejudice with our season Live from Pemberley. Arguable the most famous romance novel of all time, we asked: Why is this the bible of the Romance genre? What does this book believe about love, marriage, and money? And are those things we still want to be passing on? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/1609623013158-YHCK7Y2X4A6KLNO88KSM/Hot+and+Bothered_Final+Icon.jpg Work - Hot and Bothered - In July 2019, Vanessa Zoltan and I launched Hot & Bothered. The show examines writing and reading Romance novels as a sacred practice. Across the first season, we explored romance novel tropes and followed the journeys of ten writers who tried their hand at writing their first romance novel. Julia Quinn, best-selling author of The Bridgerton series, gave weekly assignments so listeners could follow along in the process. We made season 1 in collaboration with Spoke Media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/61600aa5-d05b-49bd-96da-d0d47a59db44/On+Eyre+Round+3+%282%29.png Work - Hot and Bothered - In July 2020, we launched a new season of Hot & Bothered called On Eyre. In order to understand the language and currency of the Romance genre, we realized that we wanted to go back to its origins. With new co-host, journalist Lauren Sandler, we un-packed what is problematic and resonate about this classic novel. In a time where we are working to radically re-imagine the literary canon — should we still be reading Jane Eyre? https://www.ariananedelman.com/work/harry-potter-and-the-sacred-text monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/1609620412472-E2XDUGVXKR4ELF3BNBL9/CVA+-+studio+-+season+6.JPG Work - Harry Potter and the Sacred Text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/1609620406565-4LFR02WRRUC16A621CMX/st+paul.JPG Work - Harry Potter and the Sacred Text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/1609620423413-06AMOQCM4NPQ14N7R6GA/live+show.jpg Work - Harry Potter and the Sacred Text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff0cc9696a9ec7fa13da16a/1609620412554-C69N3EKZOYJHRYCP3N1L/Ariana+and+Nick+live+show.jpg Work - Harry Potter and the Sacred Text https://www.ariananedelman.com/work/the-real-question monthly 0.5 2025-09-11