The Literature of Longing, featuring Madelaine Lucas

The Literature of Longing, featuring Madelaine Lucas

The Literature of Longing, featuring Madelaine Lucas Longing is a subject, topic, theme, and obsession of countless stories that have shaped our literary landscape. Grant and Brooke take a good hard look at longing this week and hold it up against its companion...
The Self-improvement Memoir, featuring Peggy Orenstein

The Self-improvement Memoir, featuring Peggy Orenstein

The Self-improvement Memoir, featuring Peggy Orenstein Peggy Orenstein joins Brooke and Grant this week to talk about a number of ideas at the center of her newest memoir, Unraveling. We cover sheep shearing, the fast fashion industry, the crafts(wo)manship that came...
Mining Tension in Fiction, featuring Gish Jen

Mining Tension in Fiction, featuring Gish Jen

Mining Tension in Fiction, featuring Gish Jen Building tension in stories is part of writing good fiction writing, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to do—and it also requires writers to be conscious of the tensions they’re trying to mine. In this week’s show, tension...