Writers on Writing
Episodes
Jill Ciment, author of the memoir, CONSENT
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jill Ciment is the author of the collection of short stories and novellas, Small Claims; the novels The Law of Falling Bodies, Teeth of the Dog, T...
Teddy Wayne, author of THE WINNER
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels The Winner, The Great Man Theory, Apartment, Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the...
Kevin Barry, author of THE HEART IN WINTER
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Barry is the author of four novels — Night Boat to Tangier, Beatlebone, City of Bohane (which was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize) and, m...
Dawn Tripp, author of the novel JACKIE
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
(This podcast was recorded live on June 22, 2024 at Arvida Book Co in Tustin, California.) Dawn Tripp is the author of the novel Georgia, a nationa...
Joyce Maynard, author of HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joyce Maynard has been publishing since she was 13 years old. She first came to national attention with the publication of her New York Times cover st...
Literary agent Dani Segelbaum
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dani Segelbaum began her publishing career as an editorial assistant at HarperCollins Publishers, focusing primarily on highly designed non-fiction ...
Curtis Sittenfeld, author of ROMANTIC COMEDY
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of seven novels and one collection of short stories. Her books have been on many “Best Books of the Year...
Tracy Sierra, author of NIGHTWATCHING
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy Sierra was born and raised in the Colorado mountains. She is an attorney who currently lives in New England in an antique colonial-era home comp...
Ann Leary, author of I’VE TRIED BEING NICE
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Leary has led an extraordinary life. Married for over 30 years to actor and comedian Denis Leary, Ann has walked red carpets, partied with stars, ...
Roxana Robinson, author of LEAVING
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roxana Robinson is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of the...
Megan Miranda, author of DAUGHTER OF MINE
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls; The Perfect Stranger; The Last House Guest, a Reese Witherspoon ...
A.J. Jacobs, author of THE YEAR OF LIVING CONSTITUTIONALLY
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A.J. Jacobs is the author of nine books including the NYT bestsellers The Year of Living Biblically, The Know It All, Drop Dead Healthy, and The Puzzl...
Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of ONE WRONG WORD
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 15 novels of suspense. She has won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction, incl...
Ela Lee, author of “Jaded”
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Debut novelist Ela Lee is author of the breakout novel Jaded, published in the US by Simon and Schuster and in the UK by Vintage. Prior to becoming a ...
Alexander Sammartino, author of LAST ACTS
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Sammartino was born in Rhode Island, grew up in Arizona, and now lives in Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Syracuse University. His debut ...
Jill McCorkle, author of “Old Crimes”
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jill McCorkle is the author of seven novels, two which came out on the same day in 1984 and, her most recent, Hieroglyphics, to great acclaim. Five of...
Ivy Pochoda, author of SING HER DOWN
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, and These Women, a The New York Times best thriller of ...
Steve Almond, author of “Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow”
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Almond is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. You ca...
Hannah Sward, author of STRIP
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Sward, daughter of the late poet Robert Sward, is the award-winning author of Strip, her debut memoir. Hannah has appeared on NBC CA Live, C...
Katherine Heiny, author of “Games and Rituals”
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Heiny has traveled one of the more interesting and bonkers roads into publishing we’ve heard in a while. She was published by The New York...
Literary agent Madeline Ticknor
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Madeline is an agent and assistant at Janklow & Nesbit looking for fiction that bridges the gap between commercial and literary, upmarket thrillers a...
Téa Obreht, author of “The Morningside”
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Téa Obreht is the international bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife, which won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Nati...
Grant Faulkner, author of THE ART OF BREVITY
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Faulkner, the former Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), the co-founder of 100 Word Story, and the co-host of the po...
Mona Simpson, author of “Commitment”
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mona Simpson is the bestselling author of seven novels including Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood, Caseb...
Literary agent CeCe Lyra
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CeCe Lyra, a literary agent at P.S. Literary Agency, represents adult fiction and nonfiction. She is especially looking for clients with whom she can...
Louise Kennedy, author of “Trespasses” and “The End of the World is a Cul De Sac”
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Kennedy may not have been a name you’d heard five years ago. Since 2021, she’s had both a debut novel and a collection of short stories pub...
Andrew Ewell, author of SET FOR LIFE
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Ewell, the author of the new novel, Set for Life. He’s received fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and VCCA F...
Kristin Hannah, author of “The Women”
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale. She also a...
Literary agent Emma Dries
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Literary agent Emma Dries is a writer and editor, and an agent at Triangle House Literary, where she represents literary fiction, narrative nonfiction...
Hisham Matar, author of “My Friends”
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize winning author Hisham Matar’s debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and The Guardian First ...
Melissa Broder, author of DEATH VALLEY
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Broder is the author of the novels, Death Valley, Milk Fed, and The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today, and five poetry collections, in...