Writing to Save Your Life, featuring Samina Ali

Writing to Save Your Life, featuring Samina Ali

Writing to Save Your Life, featuring Samina Ali This week’s episode tells the story of a dramatic and traumatic story, and how writing played a central role in recovery and changing the outcome of one author’s life. This week’s episode is epic tale as much as it is...
Hard-Won Wisdom, featuring Sari Botton

Hard-Won Wisdom, featuring Sari Botton

Hard-Won Wisdom, featuring Sari Botton If part of why you write is because you have some things to share from a life well- or hard- or fully lived, then you’re in good company. Personal writing is about connection, and making sense of our experience, and this week’s...
The Suburban Novel, featuring Tom Perrotta

The Suburban Novel, featuring Tom Perrotta

The Suburban Novel, featuring Tom Perrotta There’s a caveat out the gate here, which is that in this week’s interview, Tom Perrotta stipulates that he writes about people and communities and the dramas that unfold—in places that just happen to be the suburbs. That...
How to Submit, featuring Dennis James Sweeney

How to Submit, featuring Dennis James Sweeney

How to Submit, featuring Dennis James Sweeney This week, Grant and Brooke talk with Dennis James Sweeney about his new book, How to Submit. If you’ve ever felt intimidated by the submissions process; wondered what some of the common pitfalls are when it comes to...