Kim Fay and Steven Pinker on Writers on Writing

Kim Fay, Edgar Award finalist and author of The Map of Lost Memoriestalks to Marrie Stone about her passion for Southeast Asia, sustaining momentum over fourteen years of work on a project, and the value of belonging to a writing group.

Then cognitive scientist and author of  The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century Steven Pinker talks to Nicole Nelson about the importance of using examples in nonfiction, the shortcomings and value of the green wiggly line in MS Word, and how he earned his rank as one of Science‘s Top 50 stars of Twitter.

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(Broadcast date: December 10, 2014)

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