Writing F(r)iction
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
#60 - Christopher Bollen
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Bollen is the author of five novels, numerous short stories, articles, essays, and interviews. His newest novel, The Lost Americans is out...
#59 - David Sipress
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Sipress is a New Yorker Cartoonist and Author.
#58 - Mark Greaney
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Greaney is the #1 NYT Bestselling author of The Gray Man series. He is also known as Tom Clancy's collaborator on his final books during his life...
#57 - Danielle Friedman
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Friedman is an award-winning multimedia journalist who specializes in telling stories at the intersection of health, sexuality, and culture. ...
#56 - Don Bentley
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don Bentley is a former FBI Special Agent, SWAT Team member, and Army Apache helicopter pilot. He is the NYT bestselling author of Tom Clancy TARGET A...
#55 - Emily St. John Mandel
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian novelist and essayist.
#54 - Ward Sutton
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ward Sutton is an American illustrator, cartoonist and writer.
#53 - DJ Afterthought
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
DJ Afterthought is an EDM/HipHop Producer.
#52 - Christopher Moore
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Moore is the author of fifteen novels, including the international bestsellers, Lamb, A Dirty Job and You Suck.
#51 - Adam Douglas Thompson
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Douglas Thompson is an artist, animator, and cartoonist for The New Yorker.
#50 - Vlad Holiday
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vlad Holiday is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
#49 - Crystal Hana Kim
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Crystal Hana Kim is an American author.
#48 - Jeff VanderMeer
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic.
#47 - Brian Broome
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Broome is a poet and screenwriter. His memoir Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir is out now.
#46 - Tim Baltes
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Baltes is a session and live drummer.
#45 - Hala Alyan
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian-American writer and clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, addiction, and cross-cultural behavior.
#44 - Tom DeSavia
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tom DeSavia is a music publisher, author, and podcaster.
#43 - John Seabrook
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Seabrook is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His books include "Flash of Genius, and Other True Stories of Invention" and "The Song Machine: In...
#42 - Margarita Montimore
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Margarita Montimore is the author of Asleep from Day and Oona Out of Order, a USA Today bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick.
#41 - Simon Han
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Han is the author of the novel Nights When Nothing Happened.
#40 - Jonathan Parks-Ramage
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Parks-Ramage is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. His debut novel, YES, DADDY, is out now.
#39 - Zak Salih & Daniel Gumbiner
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zak Salih is the author of Let's Get Back to the Party - - Daniel Gumbiner is the author of The Boatbuilder
#38 - Mark Greaney
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Greaney is an American novelist. He is best known as Tom Clancy's collaborator on his final books during his lifetime, and for continuing the Jac...
#37 - Nafissa Thompson-Spires
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nafissa Thompson-Spires is an American writer. Her book Heads of the Colored People is out now.
#36 - Jakob Guanzon
24 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jakob Guanzon is the author of the novel Abundance.
#35 - Sam Tallent
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Tallent is a stand-up comedian and author. His book Running the Light is out now.
#34 - Gabriela Garcia
04 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriela Garcia is the author of the novel Of Women and Salt.
#33 - Layla AlAmmar
27 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Layla AlAmmar is a writer and academic from Kuwait. Her new book Silence Is a Sense is available now.
#32 - Brian Evenson
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Evenson is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction, some of the latter being published under B.K. Evenson.
#31 - Tod Goldberg
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tod Goldberg is an American author and journalist best known for his novels Gangster Nation, Gangsterland and Living Dead Girl, the popular "Burn Noti...
#30 - Michelle Gallen
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Gallen is an Irish author. Her book Big Girl Small Town is out now.
#29 - Jon Raymond
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Raymond is an American writer. He is best known for writing the novels The Half-Life and Rain Dragon, and for writing the short stories and screen...
#28 - Walter Mosley
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Walter Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. His newest book Blood Grove is available now.
#27 - Te-Ping Chen
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Te-Ping Chen is a fiction writer & journalist. Her debut collection of short stories, Land of Big Numbers, was published in February 2021. She is also...
#26 - Joan Silber
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2018 PEN/Faulkner A...
#25 - Doug Stanhope
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Stanhope is an American stand-up comedian, author, political activist, and podcast host.
#24 - Mark Leyner
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Leyner is an American postmodernist author. He has worked as a columnist for Esquire and George magazines, and was co-author of the screenplay of...
#23 Jill McCorkle / Crissy Van Meter
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jill McCorkle is an American short story writer and novelist. She has published six novels and four collections of short stories. Five of her books ha...
#22 - Bob Lefsetz
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Lefsetz is the author of The Lefsetz Letter and host of The Bob Lefsetz Podcast. We talked Alice Cooper, college in Vermont, his honest thoughts o...
#21 - Mateo Askaripour
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mateo Askaripour was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rump...
#20 - Helen Phillips
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Phillips is a 2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. She is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel The Need, which was long-l...
#19 - Phil Klay
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His short story collection Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National...
#18 - Idra Novey
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Idra Novey is an American novelist, poet, and translator. She is the author of the novels Those Who Knew and Ways to Disappear. Her fiction and poetry...
#17 - Elliot Ackerman
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue. His books h...
#16 - Scott O'Connor
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott O’Connor is the author of A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories, the novels Zero Zone, Untouchable, and Half World and the novella Among Wolves.
#15 - Christine Schutt
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Schutt is an American novelist and short story writer. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Priz...
#14 - Julia Phillips
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Phillips is an American author. Her book Disappearing Earth was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. A Fulbright fellow, Jul...
#13 - Kimberly King Parsons
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the debut collection Black Light, which was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award and the Story Prize, an...
#12 - Janet Fitch
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Fitch is the author of the #1 national bestseller White Oleander, a novel translated into 24 languages, an Oprah Book Club book and the basis of...
#11 - Eowyn Ivey
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eowyn Ivey is the author of The Snow Child (a New York Times bestseller published in more than 25 languages, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a UK Nat...
#10 - Nathan Englander
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an international best seller, and What We Talk About When ...
#9
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael continues to ramble about the publishing of "Fight, Kid!", how easy it is to impress people, the hopelessness of individuality, the beginnings...
#8 - Michael Farris Smith
11 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Farris Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, Southern Living, Book Riot, and num...
#7
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael rambles about his admiration for Stand-up comedians, the world of Literary Agents, writing a Query letter, Transsexual Martian Detective Novel...
#6 - Rebecca Makkai
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Makkai is the author of the novels "The Great Believers", "The Hundred-Year House", and "The Borrower", as well as the short story collection ...
#5 - Kevin Ryan
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Ryan is the co-owner of Green Apple Books in San Francisco.
#4
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael rambles about the loneliness of writing, time spent pursuing your dreams, making your hobbies your passion, the weather in California vs. New ...
#3 - Danny Bland
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Bland is the author of "In Case We Die", "We Shouldn't Be Doing This" and "I Apologize in Advance for the Awful Things I'm Gonna Do".
#2
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael rambles about his thoughts on the “Economy of Language”, mixing audio like editing words, AJ Finn’s “Woman in the Window”, why some ...
#1
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Writing F(r)iction, Michael talks about his thoughts on creativity and the idea of being "stuck", Danielle Steel and her proce...