Jun 30, 2017
"What writer at my age gets to have parents be dead? I don't have to worry about what they think!" says Nikki Schulak. I suggest visiting Nikki's website and then perusing her extensive archive of essays. In this episode we talk about how stories come to her, how she stays attuned to the world, naked bike rides, and...
Jun 23, 2017
Andre Dubus III, author the memoir Townie and the novels House of Sand and Fog and Dirty Love, stopped by the podcast to talk about memoir, the essay, and writing in general. "The truth is, if you want to write or create anything worth a damn, you better embrace failure or you're not going to get to the good stuff....
Jun 16, 2017
Jessica Abel is a cartoonist, a teacher, a writer, and a podcaster
and her latest book, Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When
You're Drowning in Your Daily Life, is her latest project. I came
across her kick-ass, 200-page, black-and-white graphic book Out on
the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New...
Jun 9, 2017
I'm not sure where to begin if I'm being perfectly honest. Joe Drape (@joedrape on Twitter) is a New York Times sports writer and the New York Times bestselling author of Our Boys and American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise. He wrote the 80,000-word manuscript in six weeks without...
Episode 51—Jessica Lahey on Hidden Monsters, the Gift of Failure, and Keeping Your Butt in the Chair
Jun 2, 2017
Jessica Lahey, author of the essay "I've Taught Monsters" and the
NYT best seller "The Gift of Failure," came by the show to talk
about teaching and getting the work done. "The work of being a
writer means you get words on the page. It's as simple as that. I
means you read, you write, and get words on the page." We...