Episodios

  • How to Read in Public, featuring Jorah LaFleur

    How to Read in Public, featuring Jorah LaFleur
    Apr 21 2025
    Writers, authors, you do not want to miss these great insights about reading on stage, taking up space, and generally being yourself—only amplified—when you read your work in public. Guest Jorah LaFleur brings a wealth of encouragement and permission, along with some great tips to improve your presence when you perform or read aloud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 m
  • Write What You Know, featuring Betsy Lerner

    Write What You Know, featuring Betsy Lerner
    Apr 14 2025
    This week we’re featuring longtime agent and publishing pro Betsy Lerner on her debut novel, Shred Sisters. We talk about being an industry insider and whether that gives you a leg up, as well as the old adage to write what you know. Betsy shares with us how her lived experience shows up in this book, noting that Freud would have a field day—and before it’s all over, she offers generous and tactical marketing tips for authors. This episode has got it all! On this week’s Substackin, we’re giving a shoutout to Sub Club, which you can and should subscribe to at https://subclub.substack.com. Sub Club offers many great resources for writers—on where to submit, who's looking for submissions, and best practices for getting your work out into the world. Highly recommended resource for writers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 m
  • Brooke & Grant on Miranda July’s All Fours

    Brooke & Grant on Miranda July’s All Fours
    Apr 7 2025
    A few weeks back, Grant suggested Write-minded dedicate a whole episode to All Fours, by Miranda July—and we decided to do it. This week Brooke and Grant explore All Fours as a novel of a generation, and talk about who Miranda July is, why the book has hit such a zeitgeist moment, and whether publishers can anticipate or make these kinds of successes. Brooke has suggested that All Fours is the Fear of Flying of this generation, and we’re diving into why the book matters, some of its controversies and uncomfortable moments, and why we think you should read it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    33 m
  • You’re Going to Have Feelings About Publishing, featuring Kate McKean

    You’re Going to Have Feelings About Publishing, featuring Kate McKean
    Mar 31 2025
    Write-minded delves into publishing again in this week’s show, specifically focused on traditional publishing and the feelings that are part of the journey. Brooke and Grant connect with literary Kate McKean about her new book, Write Through It, which really is a roadmap to everything you want to know about how to stay the course on your publishing journey, and how to work through your feelings. There’s tons of good advice and cheerleading and straight-shooting in this book to help you understand and to demystify the whole publishing process. Kate is a generous guest, and whether you’ve published, want to publish, or feel daunted by publishing, you’ll benefit tons from her wisdom! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 m
  • Shapeshifting, featuring Lidia Yuknavitch

    Shapeshifting, featuring Lidia Yuknavitch
    Mar 24 2025
    This week we invite one of our favorite authors, Lidia Yuknavitch, back to Write-minded to discuss her new book, Reading the Waves, as well as how we can re-envision and reimagine our past experiences through the practice of asking questions and reconsidering what we think we know. “Shapeshifting” is Lidia’s word, and the book (as well as this conversation) considers ways we can re-enter our own memories and rearrange the pieces so that we might change and grow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 m
  • Writing to Save Your Life, featuring Samina Ali

    Writing to Save Your Life, featuring Samina Ali
    Mar 17 2025
    This week’s episode tells the story of a dramatic and traumatic story, and how writing played a central role in recovery and changing the outcome of one author’s life. This week’s episode is an epic tale as much as it is interview, and it will change the way you think of the power of writing to charge your neurons and heal your mind—not to mention the way you think about willpower, writers’ block, and why writing is both personally and universally life-changing and life-saving. This week’s harrowing and fascinating story-episode is not to be missed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 m
  • Hard-Won Wisdom, featuring Sari Botton

    Hard-Won Wisdom, featuring Sari Botton
    Mar 10 2025
    If part of why you write is because you have some things to share from a life well- or hard- or fully lived, then you’re in good company. Personal writing is about connection, and making sense of our experience, and this week’s guest, Sari Botton, knows a thing or two about what brings writers to the page. She is a champion of personal writing and memoir, and is going to share about contributing, about her own writing process and why it’s hard to put personal things into the world, and so much more—including how to stay the course during these insane times we’re living in and through. To read Sari’s piece that's part of Writing Co-Lab's 100 Days of Creative Resistance, visit here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 m
  • The Suburban Novel, featuring Tom Perrotta

    The Suburban Novel, featuring Tom Perrotta
    Mar 3 2025
    There’s a caveat out the gate here, which is that in this week’s interview, Tom Perrotta stipulates that he writes about people and communities and the dramas that unfold—in places that just happen to be the suburbs. That said, we’re bringing you a great and often funny conversation with Perrotta about his decades of work, how his character Tracy Flick got caught up in the backlash of #MeToo, how he thinks about recurring characters, and his reminiscences about early books on tape when they used to be ten or more cassettes in a giant plastic case. Lots to sink your teeth into in this week’s show. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 m
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