On this week’s podcast, the actress Betty Gilpin reads “A Lost Child, but Not Mine,” about a woman who imagines the course her life might have taken had she chosen to see her pregnancy to term.

Kassi Underwood, the writer, expanded her essay into the memoir “May Cause Love.” Follow her on Twitter.

Ms. Gilpin stars in the Netflix series “GLOW,” about the outsiders who get cast in a women’s wrestling show. You can find her on Twitter.