Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIsaac Fitzgerald on DIRTBAG, MASSACHUSETTS
"I wish I could tell you that I went to a cabin and wrote it perfectly and got it in on time, and it just flowed out of me. But really, the truth of …
4 years ago
Becky Chambers on A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY
"The primary intent of these books is to take a break... have something you can just curl up with for an afternoon. This is a book that is not going …
4 years ago
T. Kingfisher on WHAT MOVES THE DEAD
"When you're writing a children's book, it shares much relation with horror, because it has to be usually very immediate and very visceral and grippi…
4 years ago
Caleb Gayle on WE REFUSE TO FORGET: A TRUE STORY OF BLACK CREEKS, AMERICAN IDENTITY, AND POWER
"But there is joy in advocating for changing of the world for the better, for not allowing the world to tell you who you shall be, but rather reimagi…
4 years ago
Chris Bohjalian on Telling Stories
"I decided to give myself the license to fail, and to write across gender, to write in the voice of a midwife's daughter. And if the book isn't worki…
4 years ago
Ibram X. Kendi on HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST
"And so, too often, kids are raised to have empathy for people who look like them, or worship like them or act like them. And we're also taught to ha…
4 years ago
Gabrielle Zevin on TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW
"I never thought I would be writing something where there would be a lot of intricate feelings around the game engine. But then if you think about so…
4 years ago
Brian Broome on PUNCH ME UP TO THE GODS
"The most important thing is the reader. I tell my students, Look, if you're writing about yourself, it's great that you want to get your feelings ou…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin on MY NAME IS JASON, MINE TOO
"For me, and perhaps for both of us, I think that our greatest sort of skill set is audacity. It's so funny the way people sort of negatively connote…
4 years, 1 month ago
Patrick Radden Keefe on ROGUES: TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLERS, REBELS AND CROOKS
"It's so painful to me to feel as though the very notion of objective truth or that journalism could be a vehicle for expressing a kind of objective …
4 years, 1 month ago