Dec 1, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 99, my conversation with author and publisher Elizabeth Ellen. This episode first aired on August 26, 2012.

Elizabeth Ellen’s stories have been published in American Short Fiction, HARPER'S Magazine, Muumuu House, Joyland, and numerous other magzines and journals. She is...

Nov 29, 2023

A new 'Craftwork' episode, all about the art of book publicity. My guest is longtime literary publicist Lauren Cerand.

Lauren has more than twenty years of experience running her own thriving global communications consultancy, driven by an intensive personal focus on each client’s needs and desires, a vast network of...

Nov 26, 2023

A new 'Craftwork' episode, all about ghostwriting. My guest is Stuart Horwitz, founder and principal of Book Architecture.

Horwitz has spent over twenty years helping writers become authors. His clients have reached the New York Times best-seller list in both fiction and nonfiction, and have appeared on Oprah, The Today...

Nov 24, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 647, my conversation with author Susan Choi. She won the National Book Award in 2019 for her novel Trust Exercise. This episode first aired on June 10, 2020.

Susan's first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her...

Nov 22, 2023

Lindsay Hunter is the author of the novel Hot Springs Drive, available from Roxane Gay Books.  

Hunter received her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of two story collections and three novels. Her story collection Don't Kiss Me was named one of Amazon's 10 Best Books of...