David Gessner and Joshua Mohr on Writers on Writing
Narrative nonfiction writer David Gessner, author of All the Wild that Remains and novelist Joshua Mohr, author of All This Life, discuss their books with Barbara.
(Broadcast date: Sept. 5, 2015)
Writers on Writing
Novelists Lisa Glatt and Victoria Patterson on Writers on Writing
Novelists Lisa Glatt, author of The Nakeds and Victoria Patterson, author of The Little Brother, talk about creating literary page turners, writing autobiographical fiction, and dealing with saggy middles. Victoria Patterson will be at the Pen on Fire Speaker Series on Tues., Aug. 18, and Lisa Glatt will be at the Series on Sept. 8. Visit www.penonfire.com/speakerseries for more information and to register.
(Broadcast date: August 12, 2015)
Lidia Yuknavitch and Louisa Hall on Writers on Writing
Co-host Nicole Nelson talks to Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Small Backs of Children, about exploring the fluidity of identity, the challenge and necessity of awareness of scripts in art and in life, and how she is influenced by photography and film. Then Louisa Hall, author of Speak, talks about creating a novel with the innovative structure combining court transcripts, a diary, letters, and a memoir, about finding the voice of Mary, the 17th-century young woman at the heart of the novel, and about postponing her poet’s habit of cutting and perfecting when writing fiction.
(Broadcast date: August 5, 2015)
Bay Area literary agent Felicia Eth on Writers on Writing with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Bay Area literary agent Felicia Eth joins author and host Barbara DeMarco-Barrett for an hour of conversation about the publishing industry and how to get an agent.
(Broadcast date: July 29, 2015)
Lisa Lutz and Emily Gould on Writers on Writing
Lisa Lutz, author of How to Start a Fire, joins co-host Nicole Nelson to talk about writing in multiple points of view, moving from screenplay writing to novel-writing, and also about being labeled with the category of “Women’s Fiction.” Her book was used as an example of how the label unacceptably labels fiction by and about women as a subcategory of the real thing in a column by the Chicago Tribune’s John Warner. Then Emily Gould, author of Friendship, enters the conversation to discuss how exploring her own interiority as a blogger and essayist helped her develop compassion for her characters, how time is a luxury when revising, and also how finding a title (as well as naming a baby) is hard.
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(Broadcast date: July 22, 2015)
Novelists Emily St. John Mandel and Diana Wagman on Writers on Writing
Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven and Diana Wagman, author of Life #6 join Barbara to talk about their current novels, revision, social media, agents, and more.
Listen to learn what Emily was talking about when she said “…you carve away everything that isn’t the duck.”
(Broadcast date: July 8, 2015
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