Janus Adams - Writers Retreat in the Catskills
For five days, August 6th through the 10th, Janus Adams will host a Writer’s Retreat in the Catskills. The hands-on workshop intensive is for new and seasoned writers with a work-in-progress. With...
View ArticleSlang: The People's Poetry
Michael Adams teaches English language and literature at Indiana University. He is the author of Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon and editor of From Elvish to Klingon.
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The Book Show #1260 - Verlyn Klinkenborg
In the new book Several Short Sentences About Writing, author and New York Times editorial board member Verlyn Klinkenborg does away with much of the traditional wisdom on writing and dissects the senten
View ArticleVex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing by Constance Hale
Writers know it instinctively: Verbs make a sentence zing. Grammar gurus agree: Drama in writing emerges from the interplay of a subject (noun) and a predicate (verb).
View ArticleRabbi Dan Ornstein - To Speak the Truth, or not?
At a recent writing workshop I attended, I read a short, painful piece about the illness and death of a high school friend to my fellow writers. For some time since writing the piece, I have been...
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The Book Show #1284 - Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
In 1973 in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor that encouraged him.After much...
View Article"The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language" by Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg, teacher and author of Writing Down the Bones, joins us to talk about her new book: The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language.She offers writing guidance learned...
View ArticleA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Woodstock - Panel at The Woodstock...
For this Woodstock Writer's Festival panel, four of the best writers for late night television come to Woodstock to share the mirth. Panelists include the legendary Bill Scheft (The Late Show with...
View ArticleThe Book Show #1294 - Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed is the author of #1 New York Times bestseller Wild, her essay collection, Tiny Beautiful Things, and the novel Torch.Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for...
View ArticleListener Essay - The Retreat
Dan New is a combat Vietnam Veteran and an artist who loves to write and photograph as expression of his life.
View ArticleMarion Roach Smith: The Memoir Project
If you are interested in telling your own story and writing anything from a blog to a memoir – listen up. Writer Marion Roach Smith is here to help. Her bestselling book, The Memoir Project, is a...
View ArticleBest Of 2013 - Non-Fiction - Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd's "Good Prose"
Our interview with Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd originally aired on The Book Show. It is online here.
View Article"Tenth Of December" By George Saunders
George Saunders’Tenth of December was named one of the best books of last year by The New York Times Magazine, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, New York, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, and...
View Article"How To Write Anything: A Complete Guide" By Laura Brown
How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide is a practical resource for everything you’ll ever have to write–at work, at school, and in your personal life. The book contains over 200 entries covering...
View ArticleFran Lebowitz at The Mahaiwe 8/9
The very witty Fran Lebowitz joins this morning to talk about her stop at The Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, MA on August 9th, her love of public speaking, and dread of writing.Lebowitz is the author...
View ArticleDrivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors
Editor Julia Scott produces radio documentaries and news features for the BBC World Service and nationally syndicated programs, and writes for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times....
View ArticleSteven Pinker's Writing Guide
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us...
View ArticleColleen Murtaugh Paratore At The Albany Children’s Book Festival
With sage bits of advice, inviting questions, and colorful blank pages for writing, Colleen Murtaugh Paratore’s new book, Fireflies: A Writer’s Notebook, offers writers of all ages a place to capture...
View ArticleNo Plot? No Problem! NaNoWriMo Tips From Chris Baty
Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful literary marathon known as National Novel Writing Month, has completely revised and expanded his definitive handbook for extreme noveling.Chris pulls from...
View Article'Essays After Eighty' By Former US Poet Laureate Donald Hall
Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated galaxy” of very old age, he is...
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