Novelists Jenny Offill, author of Weather, and Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers discuss the art, craft, and business of writing.

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(Broadcast date: Feb. 12, 2020)

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Literary agent, Danielle Svetcov, also author of Parked, and crime writer Matt Coyle, author of Lost Tomorrows, and I talk about agenting, writing, and the business of writing.

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(Broadcast date: Jan. 15, 2020)

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Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, one of my favorite poets of all time, talks about his latest volume, Pagan Virtues. (There are a few audio challenges, but keep listening. It’s worth it.)

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(Broadcast date: Dec. 4, 2019)

Christopher Ketcham, author of the new nonfiction book, This Land: How Cowboys, Corruption, and Corruption are ruining the American West, is with me for the entire hour talking about the book that Outside magazines says, “…brings the fighting spirit and conservation vision of great writers like Edward Abbey, Rachel Carson, and Bernard DeVoto into the 21st century.” 

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(KUCI-FM broadcast date: Nov. 27, 2019)

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