Episodes

Mining Humor in Serious Fiction, featuring Lysley Tenorio

Nov 23 2020 • 1881 MIN

How humor shows up in literature is the worthy topic of this week’s show—and Brooke and Grant interview Lysley Tenorio, someone who’s known for having an eye for the weird and absurd and rendering ...

It’s All About the Story, featuring Donald Maass

Nov 16 2020 • 2028 MIN

Donald Maass founded the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York in 1980. He is the author of Writing 21st Century Fiction and The Emotional Craft of Fiction, as well as many other books about the...

The Enduring Power of the Books That Change Our Lives, featuring Laurie Halse Anderson

Nov 9 2020 • 2058 MIN

This week’s powerful episode features Laurie Halse Anderson, who was one of the early voices of the #MeToo movement about two decades before survivors started to share their stories en masse. We ta...

Publicity Isn’t Rocket Science, but It’s Dang Hard, featuring Fauzia Burke

Nov 2 2020 • 1830 MIN

Authors and aspiring authors alike won’t want to miss this week’s episode about all the things authors are expected to do that have nothing to do with writing the book. Fauzia Burke is one of the m...

Personal Writing as a Method for Change, featuring Michelle Tea

Oct 26 2020 • 2258 MIN

Indie darling Michelle Tea has been writing for memoir for more than twenty years, and in this conversation, originally recorded with the San Francisco Writers Foundation, she and Brooke talk about...

Creative Risk-taking, featuring Rebecca Roanhorse

Oct 19 2020 • 1800 MIN

This week’s guest, Rebecca Roanhorse, says that she couldn’t write safe if she tried. In this far-reaching interview, we touch upon purpose-driven writing, writing outside the mainstream, and the c...