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- Episode 162: Mystically Curious: an interview with author Sanjena Sathian
(Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
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- Episode 161: Leading with Images: Interview with Yang Huang
(Tue, May 18, 2021)
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- Episode 160: Rest and Revolution: a conversation with author Hari Ziyad
(Tue, May 11, 2021)
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- Episode 159: Is Tomorrow Yesterday? Chronology in Structure
(Tue, Apr 27, 2021)
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- Episode 158: Loving Flawed Characters
(Tue, Apr 13, 2021)
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- Episode 157: A Toast to the Friction Between Non- and Fiction
(Wed, Apr 07, 2021)
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- Episode 156: What Shall I Work on Next? Deciding and Getting Started
(Wed, Mar 31, 2021)
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- Episode 155: And That is When the Murders Began
(Wed, Mar 03, 2021)
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- Episode 154: The Character of Intuitive Planning
(Tue, Feb 23, 2021)
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- Episode 153: Time Management for Narrators
(Tue, Feb 16, 2021)
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- Episode 152: A Generous Frugality: Uses of Poetic Language in Prose
(Tue, Feb 09, 2021)
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- Episode 151: Systems to Submit Your Work
(Wed, Feb 03, 2021)
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- Episode 150: Angie Liked a Book
(Fri, Dec 11, 2020)
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- Episode 149: Omniscient First Person: A Thanksgiving Episode
(Thu, Nov 26, 2020)
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- Episode 147: Only Connect
(Tue, Oct 06, 2020)
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- Episode 146:Stop the Presses! An Interview with Debut Novelist Carole Stivers
(Tue, Sep 01, 2020)
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- Episode 145:Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Plot?
(Tue, Aug 25, 2020)
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- Episode 144:Having Your Cake: Character’s Driving Desire Story
(Tue, Aug 04, 2020)
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- Episode 143:The Intersection of Premise and Limiting Belief
(Tue, Jul 28, 2020)
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- Episode 142:A Non-Fiction Scene from Danzy Senna
(Tue, Jul 21, 2020)
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- Episode 141:Establishing Scenes: Setting Up Desires, Character, Theme in Action in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys
(Tue, Jul 14, 2020)
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- Episode 140:The Final Scene: Elizabeth Strout
(Tue, Jun 30, 2020)
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- 139:Scene It All? What Makes Scene Work
(Tue, Jun 23, 2020)
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- Episode 138: Change in Story and in the World!
(Tue, Jun 16, 2020)
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- Episode 137: Necessary Skills: Empathy and Reading #BlackLivesMatter
(Tue, Jun 09, 2020)
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- Episode 136: Suspects, Motives, and Red Herrings: A Conversation with Author Angie Kim
(Tue, May 19, 2020)
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- Episode 135: A Jumping Off Point: Getting and Processing Notes on Your Manuscript
(Tue, May 12, 2020)
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- Episode 134: Salting the Soup: Getting Metaphor Right
(Tue, May 05, 2020)
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- Episode 133: Back to the Basics: Survival, Sleep, Gardening, and Yes, Writing in a Time of Trauma.
(Tue, Apr 28, 2020)
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- Episode 132: Happy Earth Day: A Conversation about Conflict, Crisis, History, and Story
(Tue, Apr 21, 2020)
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- Episode 131:The Baby and the Bath Water: What to Throw Out
(Tue, Apr 14, 2020)
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- Episode 132: Rule Britannia: the Queen’s Speech
(Thu, Apr 09, 2020)
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- Episode 131:She’s Got Help: Sheltering in Place
(Tue, Mar 31, 2020)
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- Episode 130:Robotic Dogs, Epistolary Novels, Compassion: What Gets Us Through
(Tue, Mar 24, 2020)
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- Episode 129: Giving Notes: What You Need to Know
(Tue, Mar 17, 2020)
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- Episode 128: Arresting and Amusing to the Drunk: a discussion of politics, persuasion, and story
(Tue, Mar 03, 2020)
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- Episode 127: Leveling Up: Lessons in Story and the Gamification of Learning
(Tue, Feb 25, 2020)
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- Episode 126: An Adventure That Will Change Her Forever: a Conversation with Aya de Leon
(Tue, Feb 11, 2020)
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- Episode 125: The Rubric of Risk: characters and writers learning and growing
(Tue, Jan 28, 2020)
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- Episode 124: Chapters: A Dinner Party
(Tue, Jan 21, 2020)
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- Episode 123: As Simple as Possible: a guide to story
(Wed, Jan 15, 2020)
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- Episode 122: Curiouser and Curiouser: A New Year’s Podcast!
(Tue, Jan 07, 2020)
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- Episode 121: Unforgettable: Examples and Theories on What Makes a Story Stick
(Tue, Dec 31, 2019)
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- Episode 120: What’s the Point? Why We Write
(Mon, Dec 16, 2019)
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- Episode 119: Shoe in a Cage: The Thanksgiving Episode
(Thu, Nov 28, 2019)
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- Episode 118: Audience, Stories and Syllogisms
(Thu, Nov 21, 2019)
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- Episode 117: Horseshoes and Grenades: A Conversation with Author and Journalist Vanessa Hua
(Tue, Nov 12, 2019)
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- Episode 116: The Fire (2019 Edition): Emotional Logic
(Mon, Nov 04, 2019)
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- Episode 115: Brain Training for Writers
(Tue, Oct 15, 2019)
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- Episode 114: Breaking Down Burnout
(Thu, Oct 10, 2019)
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- Episode 113: What Did You Expect? Set Ups and Reversals in Story ?
(Wed, Oct 02, 2019)
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- Episode 112: Like a Novel, Like a Movie?
(Tue, Sep 24, 2019)
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- Episode 111: The Same Tool: Planning and Intuition
(Tue, Sep 10, 2019)
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- Episode 110:The Showdown: Summary v. Scene
(Tue, Aug 27, 2019)
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- Episode 109: Free Class!
(Fri, Aug 23, 2019)
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- Episode 108: Experiments in Storytelling
(Thu, Aug 22, 2019)
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- Episode 107: Grocery Shopping and Making Art
(Tue, Jul 23, 2019)
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- Episode 106: Authenticity
(Tue, Jul 09, 2019)
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- Episode 105: Exit Your Comfort Zone
(Tue, Jun 25, 2019)
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- Episode 104: Can Fiction Save Your Life?
(Tue, Jun 18, 2019)
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- Episode 103: 3-7 Tips and Tricks for Summer Writing
(Tue, Jun 11, 2019)
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- Episode 102: Improv and First Drafts
(Tue, Jun 04, 2019)
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- Episode 101: Reaction Shots
(Tue, May 28, 2019)
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- Episode 100: Story is a Side Effect
(Tue, May 21, 2019)
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- Episode 99: Waiting for the Steaks
(Tue, May 14, 2019)
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- Episode 98: Writing It and Reading It
(Tue, May 07, 2019)
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- Episode 97: Rachel Howard – Working on Why Now
(Tue, Apr 23, 2019)
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- Episode 97: 16 Tweets from Mira Jacob
(Tue, Apr 09, 2019)
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- Episode 96: The Soul of Wit
(Tue, Apr 02, 2019)
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- Episode 95: ‘Tis a Gift? Simplicity in Story
(Tue, Mar 26, 2019)
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- Episode 94: Of Mice and Marie Kondo
(Tue, Mar 12, 2019)
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- Episode 93: The Love and the Hate (of Writing)
(Wed, Feb 27, 2019)
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- Episode 92: The Rush and the Risk: Talking Novelistic Nonfiction with Christine O’Brien
(Tue, Feb 19, 2019)
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- Episode 91: The Revelations of Revision
(Thu, Feb 14, 2019)
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- Episode 90: Daniel Jokelson – Finding the Medicine
(Tue, Feb 05, 2019)
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- Episode 89: Devi Laskar – Taking it Day by Day
(Tue, Jan 29, 2019)
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- Episode 88: Reversing the Expectation
(Tue, Jan 22, 20)(19 +0000 14:15:39, )
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- Episode 87: The Good, The Bad, and Just Writing
(Tue, Jan 15, 2019)
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- Episode 86: Let’s Talk About Goals
(Tue, Jan 08, 2019)
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- Episode 85: Ours Is to Reason Why
(Tue, Jan 01, 2019)
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- Episode 84: The Outer Limits of Limiting Belief
(Fri, Dec 28, 2018)
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- Episode 83: Keep ’em Laughing: Irving Ruan
(Tue, Dec 11, 2018)
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- Episode 82:The Blind Date or Why Your Rejection is Your Fault
(Tue, Nov 27, 2018)
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- Episode 81: Nothing You Can’t Change? A Talk with Peter Coyote
(Tue, Nov 20, 2018)
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- Episode 80: Solving a Moving Puzzle: Micah Perks
(Tue, Nov 13, 2018)
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- Episode 79: Getting Lost to Find Your Theme: Laurie Ann Doyle
(Wed, Nov 07, 2018)
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- Episode 78: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Your Darlings
(Tue, Oct 02, 2018)
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- Episode 77: Taking the Scene-ic Route
(Fri, Sep 28, 2018)
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- Episode 76: Earn Your Subtlety
(Tue, Sep 18, 2018)
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- Episode 75: Here’s to Deadlines
(Wed, Sep 05, 2018)
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- Episode 74: Stealing from Theme Parks: Story in the Happiest Place on Earth
(Tue, Jul 31, 2018)
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- Episode 73: The Riot Grrl Library Tapes: a conversation with Celeste Chan
(Tue, Jul 03, 2018)
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- Episode 72:The Girl on the Bookstore Train: What Authors Need to Know to Market Their Books
(Wed, Jun 20, 2018)
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- Episode 71: Little Knots of Why and What
(Tue, Jun 12, 2018)
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- Episode 70: Breaking the Rules
(Tue, Jun 05, 2018)
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- Episode 69: The Drama of Ordinary Moments
(Tue, May 22, 2018)
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- Episode 68: Waltzing: One, Two, Three Steps to Story
(Wed, May 16, 2018)
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- Episode 67: Squeezing It In
(Tue, May 08, 2018)
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- Episode 66: A Pleasurable Masochism: the secrets of story with Matt Bird
(Tue, May 01, 2018)
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- Episode 65: Don’t Fear the Process
(Tue, Apr 24, 2018)
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- Episode 64: Rejection and Resurrection
(Tue, Apr 17, 2018)
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- Episode 63: Macro Despair/ Micro Success: Editing, Agents, Writing Retreats and the Shared Love of Story with Editor Molly Schulman
(Fri, Jun 02, 2017)
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- Episode 62: Story Problem: Concrete Goals for Writers, Filmmakers, and Characters
(Thu, May 18, 2017)
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- Episode 61: Burying the Lead: a journalist turns to poetry
(Thu, Apr 27, 2017)
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- Episode 60: Language of a Common Dream: Books and Podcasts that Inspire Us and Our Writing
(Thu, Mar 30, 2017)
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- Episode 59: Dialog in Craft and Collaboration: Individual Vision v. Group Dynamics
(Thu, Mar 23, 2017)
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- Episode 58:Exquisite Empathy: Mystery, Revelation, and Serendipity with Edgar nominee Heather Young
(Thu, Mar 16, 2017)
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- Episode 57: The Care and Feeding of a Writing Group + Autobiography in Books, part one: childhood
(Thu, Mar 09, 2017)
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- Episode 56:Go Big or Go Home: Lessons in Conflict and Writing Retreats
(Thu, Mar 02, 2017)
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- Episode 55: The Unflagging Middle: The Midpoint, The Muddle and More About The Short Story
(Thu, Feb 23, 2017)
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- Episode 54: The Math of It, Plus the Definition of a Short Story and the Role of Feedback…
(Tue, Feb 14, 2017)
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- Episode 53: Hard choices: prioritizing your writing and when to use scene
(Thu, Feb 09, 2017)
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- Episode 52:Creative Arrogance and the Cult of Done
(Thu, Jan 26, 2017)
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- Episode 51: Creative and Political Action: an inspirational guide to momentum for the writer
(Thu, Jan 19, 2017)
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- Episode 50: Does Art Require an Audience?
(Thu, Jan 12, 2017)
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- Episode 49: Letting Go of Perfectionism, Trusting Your Obsessions, Playing the Long Game: Caille Millner
(Thu, Nov 17, 2016)
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- Episode 48:Quick Fix Q&A: Simplicity
(Thu, Nov 10, 201)(6 +0000 14:34:27, )
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- Episode 47: Micah Perks and Fetal Narrators
(Thu, Nov 03, 2016)
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- Episode 46: Lucy Jane Bledsoe and the Fiction Non-Fiction Divide
(Thu, Oct 20, 2016)
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- Episode 45: Kirsty Starkey
(Thu, Oct 06, 2016)
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- Episode 44: Quick Fix Q&A – Dialogue
(Thu, Sep 22, 2016)
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- Episode 43: Creative Muscle Memory: Author Gretchen Atwood on Research, Proposals and Scenes for Non-fiction Books
(Thu, Sep 15, 2016)
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- Episode 41: Quick Fix Q&A
(Thu, Sep 08, 2016)
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- Episode 41: Getting Unstuck: a conversation with journalist, author and teacher Jennifer Mattson
(Thu, Sep 01, 2016)
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- Episode 40: Shaping Real Life into Story: a Documentary Editor’s View Jean Kawahara
(Wed, Aug 10, 2016)
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- Episode 39: The Artist’s Ability: Shaping a Memoir, Shaping a Creative Life, a conversation with author Joyce Scott
(Thu, Aug 04, 2016)
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- Episode 38: Books from All Angles: A Publisher, Editor and Book Reviewer Brian Hurley
(Thu, Jul 28, 2016)
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- Episode 37: Shaping Memoir, Inventing Scene: A Discussion with Ground-breaking Feminist Economist Myra Strober
(Thu, Jul 21, 2016)
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- Episode 36: Breaking Down Traditional and Non-Traditional Publishing with Nina Amir
(Thu, Jun 30, 2016)
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- Episode 35: Jabari Asim
(Thu, Jun 23, 2016)
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- Episode 34:The Permissive Writer: Ann Packer on Writing, Revision and Intuition
(Thu, Jun 09, 2016)
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- Episode 33: Setting, Creative Process, and Freedom in Art and Writing: a talk with Adam Wolpert
(Sat, Jun 04, 2016)
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- Episode 32: Vision, Values and Collaboration: a talk with Heather Haggerty and Nanou Matteson
(Thu, May 26, 2016)
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- Episode 31: Your work in the world: a talk with Peg Alford Pursell
(Thu, May 19, 2016)
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- Episode 30: Structure and Resistance: a talk with Angie Powers
(Thu, May 12, 2016)
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- Episode 29: Craft and Plot in Novel and Memoir. A talk with Janis Cooke Newman.
(Thu, May 05, 2016)
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- Episode 28: What the Wolf and the Editor Know That You Must Learn. A talk with Dorothy Hearst.
(Thu, Apr 28, 2016)
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- Episode 27: Creative Problem Solving: a talk with filmmaker Juan Davis
(Thu, Apr 21, 2016)
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- Episode 26: The Agent’s Perspective: What Aspiring Writers Need to Know Plus Lots of Great Information for Children’s, Middle Grade and YA Authors!
(Thu, Apr 14, 2016)
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- Episode 25: Revolutionary Llamas and Sentient Squirrels: Plotting a Mystery and More. A talk with Nicholas P. Taylor
(Fri, Apr 08, 2016)
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- Episode 24: What the Art of Storytelling Teaches All Story Makers. A talk with Hari Meyers
(Thu, Mar 31, 2016)
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- Episode 23. Writing: Ambition, Habit or Addiction? A talk with Elizabeth Stark
(Tue, Mar 15, 2016)
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- Episode 22: Would Your Story Make a Good Memoir? A Talk with Meredith Maran
(Thu, Mar 10, 2016)
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- Episode 21: Paul Lisicky
(Thu, Mar 03, 2016)
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- Episode 20: Jacqueline Luckett
(Thu, Feb 25, 2016)
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- Episode 19: Sylvia Linsteadt
(Thu, Feb 18, 2016)
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- Episode 18: Susan Ito
(Thu, Feb 11, 2016)
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- Episode 17: Janet Harvey
(Thu, Feb 04, 2016)
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- Episode 16: Diane Fraser
(Thu, Jan 28, 2016)
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- Episode 15: Florencia Manovil
(Thu, Jan 21, 2016)
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- Episode 14: Nina LaCour
(Thu, Jan 14, 2016)
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- Episode 13: Heather Boerner
(Thu, Jan 07, 2016)
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- Episode 12: Steve Goldbloom
(Wed, Dec 30, 2015)
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- Episode 11: Anthony Lucero
(Wed, Dec 23, 2015)
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- Episode 10: Nina Schulyer
(Thu, Dec 17, 2015)
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- Episode 9: Lea Page
(Wed, Dec 09, 2015)
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- Episode 8: Carolina De Robertis
(Wed, Dec 02, 2015)
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- Episode 7: Mary Mackey
(Wed, Nov 25, 2015)
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- Episode 6: Meliza Benales
(Wed, Nov 25, 2015)
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- Episode 5: Rhona Berens
(Wed, Nov 18, 2015)
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- Episode 4: Indigo Moor
(Wed, Nov 18, 2015)
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- Episode 3: Jillian Lauren
(Tue, Nov 10, 2015)
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- Episode 2: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
(Tue, Nov 10, 2015)
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- Episode 1: Boris Fishman
(Thu, Nov 05, 2015)
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