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This week, I talk to my friend and colleague Nathan Holic about his new novel that is a true epic of our hometown (Orlando), Bright Lights, Medium-Si…
6 years, 7 months ago
406: Amy Watkins!
This week, I talk to my friend and colleague Amy Watkins about becoming more systematic about submitting work, and about conceiving of book-length pr…
6 years, 8 months ago
405: Corwin Moore on Richard Pryor!
This week, I talk to my friend Corwin Moore, who is a comic and comedy writer.
Our proposed topic of discussion was the greatness of Richard Pryor, …
6 years, 8 months ago
404: Susan Lilley!
Episode 404
This week, I talk to my friend, and Orlando's poet laureate, Susan Lilley!
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6 years, 8 months ago
403: Jericho Brown & Richard Blanco!
This week, I talk to two poets.
First, I speak with the joyous Jericho Brown about his complex relationship to poetic tradition, identity, and music.…
6 years, 8 months ago
402: A Craft Discussion of T.S. Elliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and "Hamlet and Its Problems"!
This week, Vanessa Blakeslee and I assail more essays on the craft of literature, this time two by T.S. Eliot.
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"Hamlet and Its Probl…
6 years, 9 months ago
401: Steve Almond and Carolyn Forché!
This week, I offer another round of conversations from Miami Book Fair International, in which I talk to Steve Almond about his favorite novel, Stone…
6 years, 9 months ago
400: Nathan Englander!
This week, I talk to fiction writer Nathan Englander about the pressurized form of fictional worlds, giving the reader something worth their time and…
6 years, 9 months ago
399: Rion Amilcar Scott!
Episode 399
This week, I talk to fiction writer Rion Amilcar Scott about his extraordinary fiction collection, The World Does Not Require You. We discuss the aca…
6 years, 9 months ago
398: E. Jean Carroll and Jonathan Safran Foer!
This week's show features another pair of episodes from Miami Book Fair International.
6 years, 9 months ago