Jincy Willett, author of Amy Falls Down and The Writing Class, talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about voice, story, writing humor, and alter egos.
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(Broadcast date: March 25, 2015)
a weekly radio program hosted by author Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and co-host Marrie Stone, on the art and business of writing. More on the show, writers, and writing at penonfire.com. Follow us on Twitter @WOWkuciFM and Facebook at Writers on Writing KUCI-FM.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Matt Sumell and Elisa Albert on Writers on Writing
Matt Sumell, author of Making Nice talks to co-cost Nicole Nelson about leveraging humor as a coping mechanism, trusting his gut, and using what hurts. Then novelist Elisa Albert, author of After Birth, about the usefulness of keeping a notebook, what her revision process looks like, and having faith that the ending will emerge.
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(Broadcast date: March 11, 2015)
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(Broadcast date: March 11, 2015)
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Christopher Noxon and Tara Ison
Christopher Noxon, author, journalist, and illustrator, is the author of Plus One. He speaks with Marrie Stone about mining details of personal life for fiction, writing routines, and more. In the second half, Tara Ison talks about her essay collection Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies.
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(Broadcast date: January 28, 2015)
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(Broadcast date: January 28, 2015)
Monday, March 02, 2015
Maureen Corrigan and Stewart O'Nan on Writers on Writing
Maureen Corrigan, author and NPR book critic, talks to co-host Nicole Nelson about her latest book, So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be And Why It Endures, as well as what some of Fitzgerald's revisions left behind in earlier drafts of the novel, the importance of water imagery in the book, and her experience retracing some of the author's steps. In the second half, Stewart O'Nan discusses his latest novel West of Sunset, which fictionalizes the last chapter of Fitzgerald's life, the Hollywood years. He talks about coming late to appreciate Fitzgerald himself, what kind of research was required to immerse himself in the world of Hollywood in the late 1930s, and how his experience writing narrative nonfiction helped create a world that served both history and his character.
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(Broadcast date: February 25, 2015)
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