A writing podcast for writers and curious readers, featuring interviews with authors, poets, agents and editors. Twice chosen as one of Writer’s Digest Magazine’s 101 Best Website for Writers. Vermont-grown.
Episodes
Sunday Aug 31, 2014
Sunday Aug 31, 2014
Vermont author Eric Zencey, in a conversation about his novel, Panama (Farrar Straus Giroux), and his nonfiction books, The Other Road to Serfdom and the Path to Sustainable Democracy (UPNE), and Greening Vermont - The Search for a Sustainable State (Vermont Natural Resources Council/Thistle Hill Publications), co-authored by Elizabeth
Courtney.
This week’s Write The Book Prompt was suggested by my guest, Eric Zencey. It concerns noise and noise pollution. Based on a theater exercise that he’s been interested in turning into a writing prompt, this week’s exercise is to lie down, shut your eyes, maybe dim the lights, and then listen to and remember every sound you hear for a set amount of time. Maybe five minutes. Maybe ten. You decide. After that time is up, take notes about what you recall, and use the noises you were able to identify in your work.
Good luck with this prompt and please listen next week for another.
Music credits:
1) “Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) “Filter” - Dorset Greens (a Vermont
band featuring several former South Burlington High School students, now
alums).
Monday Aug 18, 2014
Monday Aug 18, 2014
2010 Interview with Canadian author Douglas Glover, founder of the fantastic website, Numero Cinq.
Today's Write the Book Prompt is to write a paragraph about a character who finds a photograph on the street and comes to some sort of realization or new understanding.
Good luck with this exercise and please tune in next week for another!
Monday Aug 18, 2014
Monday Aug 18, 2014
2010 interview with Unitarian minister and author Gary Kowalski. We spoke about his book Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers. In 2013, I interviewed the reverend Kowalski a second time, about his book, Goodbye Friend.
Today's Write the Book Prompt is to consider the following quote, and then free write:
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."
- Anne Frank
Monday Aug 18, 2014
Monday Aug 18, 2014
Interview from the archives with the poet Robin Behn. Three years after this interview, in 2011, Robin's collection The Yellow House was published by Spuyten Duyvil.