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10 Minute Writer's Workshop

A peek into how great writers conjure and craft their work. From creative rituals to guilty distractions, writers reveal what it really takes to get pen to paper.

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Workshop 60: Manoush Zomorodi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Some of you may know Manoush Zomorodi as host of the podcast Note to Self from WNYC. She is also, now, an author. Her book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and C...

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Workshop 59: Jennifer Egan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Conventional, linear narratives are not really Jennifer Egan’s thing. She's a shape-shifter of fiction – jumping through time, space, voices and forms. She's written a graphic novel, a short story ...

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Workshop 58: Welcome to Nightvale's Jeffrey Cranor & Joseph Fink from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, co-creators of the phenomenally popular Welcome to Nightvale podcast, the “Nightvale Presents” series of podcasts, and New York Times bestselling co-authors of the n...

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Workshop 57: Dan Brown from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The blockbuster 2003 thriller The Da Vinci Code launched Dan Brown into the best-selling stratosphere. More than 200 million copies of his books have sold worldwide since. Three of his novels have ...

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Workshop 56: Speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

For many writers, hitting their stride means finding their voice. Success for Sarah Hurwitz is in creating a voice for others. Sarah was candidate Hillary Clinton’s chief speechwriter during the 20...

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Workshop 55: Virginia Macgregor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Virginia Macgregor, author most recently of Wishbones, has a knack for capturing the voices of children and young adults and projecting her novels through their lenses, giving us young narrators wi...

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Workshop 54: Atul Gawande from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Atul Gawande is a surgeon, professor at Harvard Medical School, and writes about medicine and ethics for the New Yorker. He’s author of several best-selling books, most recently, Being Mortal: Medi...

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Workshop 53: Celeste Ng from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Celeste Ng came out of the gate strong. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You, was a New York Times bestseller and Amazon's #1 Best Book of 2014. Her latest, Little Fires Everywhere, continu...

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Workshop 52: Louise Penny from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Louise Penny was well into her forties when she published Still Life, the first in what has become the wildly popular Armand Gamache mystery series. The novels are set in Québec, where Gamache is C...

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Workshop 51: Howard Axelrod from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Howard Axelrod was a junior at Harvard when an accident left him blind in one eye. The loss left him feeling shattered and isolated, eventually leading to a two-year stint living in the solitude of...

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Workshop 50: Alice Fogel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Alice Fogel is Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, and the author of six collections of poetry, including Interval: Poems Based on Bach's Goldberg Variations. Her most recent work is A Doubtful House. ...

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Workshop 49: Michael Cunningham from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Michael Cunningham is best known as the author of The Hours, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which imagines a fateful day in the life of Virginia Woolf and its modern parallels. Nicole Kid...

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Workshop 48: Roxane Gay from 2017-07-12T20:14

This episode, we speak to Roxane Gay, author, essayist, teacher, and all around-superwoman. The author of New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and Difficult Women, her latest, Hunger: A Memoir o...

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Workshop 48: Roxane Gay from 2017-07-12T20:14

This episode, we speak to Roxane Gay, author, essayist, teacher, and all around-superwoman. The author of New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and Difficult Women, her latest, Hunger: A Memoir o...

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Workshop 47: Jonathan Safran Foer from 2017-06-28T15:05:55

Author, outspoken vegetarian, social media abstainer and writing teacher Jonathan Safran Foer is author of three novels: Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and, most rec...

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Workshop 46: Ian Rankin from 2017-06-14T16:22:06

Ian Rankin is best known for two characters: Inspector John Rebus, the protagonist of now 21 mystery novels, and the city of Edinburgh, whose dark corners come alive in Rankin’s hands. Rebus made h...

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Workshop 45: Krista Tippett from 2017-05-31T21:16:44

Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host&creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pull from her decades of interviews with a broad varie...

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Workshop 44: Anita Shreve from 2017-05-17T18:47:19

Anita Shreve had a small, but devoted following as a literary author when her second novel, The Pilot's Wife was named an Oprah Book Club pick. The recognition propelled her into a New York Times b...

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Workshop 43: John Scalzi from 2017-05-03T20:48:18

John Scalzi, the Hugo Award-winning author of science fiction both serious and less-so and an internet star from way, way back. He is former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of ...

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Workshop 42: Tana French from 2017-04-19T14:24:23

Tana French is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Dublin Murder Squad series. The newest, called The Trespasser, is the sixth in the best-selling, habit-forming series. "It’s taken for granted t...

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Workshop 41: Ben H. Winters from 2017-04-05T16:59:55

Ben Winters is a little incomprehensible. Not his output, which is consistently great, but his wild imagination and range. He's a teacher, a playwright, an Edgar and Phillip K. Dick Award-winning n...

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Workshop 39: Lindy West from 2017-03-08T15:12:17

Lindy West, columnist for The Guardian, and author of How to be a Person and Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman. Lindy writes about feminism, social justice, body image, pop culture and, lately, polit...

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Workshop 38: Victoria (V.E.) Schwab from 2017-02-22T16:55:02

Victoria Schwab... VE Schwab... V... the author's name depends on her audience, which, like the dark worlds she builds, is a well-thought out design. Ms. Schwab, we'll say, burst onto the scene in...

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Workshop 37: Ottessa Moshfegh from 2017-02-08T18:30:31

Ottessa Moshfegh says she writes to explore why people do weird things. The daughter of a Croatian mother and Iranian father, she was a serious piano student who knew she didn't want to be a pianis...

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Workshop 36: Caitlin Moran from 2017-01-25T17:16:26

Caitlin Moran is the best-selling author of How to Be a Woman, Moranthology, and columnist for the Times of London. She and her sister developed and write 'raised by wolves" --a British television ...

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Workshop 35: Jonathan Lethem from 2017-01-11T22:22:35

Jonathan Lethem is the best-selling author of Gun, with Occasional Music, Fortress of Solitude, and other novels, including the Naitonal Book Critics' Circle award-winning Motherless Brooklyn. He's...

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Workshop 34: Catalog Writer Jeff Ryan from 2016-12-28T14:47:48

'In Maine, when we say something is "wicked good" – we really mean it.' That's how LL Bean describes their Wicked Good Slippers, and how we describe Jeff Ryan, who for decades wrote Bean's catalog...

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Workshop 33: Emma Donoghue from 2016-12-14T15:41:39

Irish author Emma Donoghue may be best known for Room, her novel written in the voice of a young boy confined with his mother in a single room. It was nominated for a Man Booker prize and made in...

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Workshop 32: Tom Gauld from 2016-11-30T19:38:39

Tom Gauld -- a cartoonist, illustrator of comics and covers for the New Yorker and The Believer. His weekly cartoon about the arts for The Guardian newspaper is a wry, often deadpan favorite among ...

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Workshop 31: Colson Whitehead from 2016-11-16T17:00

A National Book Award winner, Pulitzer-Prize nominee, Guggenheim fellow, and winner of a MacArthur "genius" grant, Colson Whitehead's new book, The Underground Railroad, was one of the most anticip...

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Workshop 30: Jodi Picoult from 2016-11-02T10:00

It’s our 30th episode, this time with the phenomenally successful Jodi Picoult. Small Great Things is her 24th novel - and the ninth straight to debut at number one on the New York Times bestseller...

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Workshop 29: Josh Ritter from 2016-10-19T16:05:06

In this episode of the 10-Minute Writer’s Workshop, singer-songwriter, musician and novelist Josh Ritter – who might say writer first, musician second. It was a song that spun into his 2011 novel B...

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Workshop 28: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer from 2016-10-05T10:00

Legal decisions are rarely read for pleasure. And though read and re-read and excerpted and quoted, they are not always quotable. Clocking in at an average of just under 5000 words, they can sound ...

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Workshop 27: Cynthia Ozick from 2016-09-21T10:00

The novelist, short story writer and essayist Cynthia Ozick's best known piece of writing is called The Shawl, a brutal, phantasmal story of a woman and two children marching to a Nazi concentratio...

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Workshop 26: Andre Dubus III from 2016-09-07T10:00

Andre Dubus III's memoir Townie told the story of his violent childhood on the wrong side of the tracks. Writing was his way out, and he's made more than good, with multiple NYT bestsellers, an Opr...

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Workshop 25: Kelly Link from 2016-08-24T10:00:01

Kelly Link is one of a handful of writers to manage to be wondrous, fantastical and ominous at the same time. As Kirkus says, her work is “like Kafka hosting Saturday Night Live, mixing humor with ...

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Workshop 24: Chuck Klosterman from 2016-08-10T10:00:01

Essayist, novelist, columnist, sportswriter and former ethicist for the New York Times Magazine, Chuck Klosterman has got a wildly original voice. That makes sense for a guy who's written about gla...

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Workshop 23: Judy Blume from 2016-07-27T10:00:01

Anyone who's ever been an awkward adolescent knows that for decades now, dog-eared copies of Judy Blume's books have been passed around school playgrounds like secrets, or read under the covers aft...

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Workshop 22: Donald Hall from 2016-07-13T09:45

Donald Hall is now 87 and no longer writing poetry, a pursuit he calls "a young man's game" which takes "too much testosterone." But Hall, former Poet Laureate of both New Hampshire and the United ...

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Workshop 21: Helen Simonson from 2016-06-29T04:05

The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - and bonafide Charming British Lady - Helen Simonson lets us in on her writing process, her thoughts on sunshine, and the perils of HGTV. Her...

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Workshop 20: Aaron Mahnke of Lore from 2016-06-15T04:10

A bona fide podcasting star, Aaron Mahnke has turned his love of the darker side of history into the spooky smash hit, Lore, which he researches and authors. He's also the author of four thrillers,...

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Workshop 19: Richard Russo from 2016-06-02T02:12:33

Richard Russo is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody’s Fool - both were adapted into films starring Paul Newman. He returns to the fictional working class town of North Bat...

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Workshop 18: Joe Hill from 2016-05-18T19:54:03

As a writer, Joe Hill's family name gave him a leg up. Instead, he chose to create his own. We sat down with the best-selling author just before his appearance at Writers on a New England Stage at ...

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Workshop 17: James McBride from 2016-05-04T04:00

"Kill 'em and leave" was James Brown's commandment to his band before every show...it's also the title of a biography of the soul legend, the latest by James McBride. The National Book Award winner...

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Workshop 16: Partners in True Crime, Kevin Flynn&Rebecca Lavoie from 2016-04-20T04:00:01

In this episode, married co-authors Kevin Flynn&Rebecca Lavoie. Together, they have written four true crime books, most recently Dark Heart: A True Story of Sex, Manipulation, and Murder. They are ...

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Workshop 15: Olivia Laing from 2016-04-13T04:00:01

We are thrilled to say the 10-Minute Writer's Workshop has picked up a ton of new listeners, so, we're bringing you this bonus episode to say thank you! and welcome...we are ecstatic to have you! ...

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Workshop 14: Anatomical Historian Alice Dreger from 2016-04-06T04:01

Alice Dreger is a historian of science, anatomy, and medicine, known for her work studying and advocating for people born with atypical sex disorders. She famously resigned from Northwestern Univer...

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Workshop 13: Alexander Chee from 2016-03-23T04:00:01

Alexander Chee is a careful craftsman of language. As we came to find out, when we talked to him from Argot Studios in NYC, he is as measured, unassuming and thoughtful in his speech. A retiring ma...

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Workshop 12: Tom Gjelten from 2016-03-09T05:00:01

Long-time NPR reporter and five-time author Tom Gjelten recently visited the studios here at NHPR. We, of course, couldn't resist talking to him about his latest book, A Nation of Nations, and aski...

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Workshop 11: Uber YouTuber, Grace Helbig from 2016-02-23T17:24:51

We spoke to YouTube superstar and writer of books Grace Helbig after the publication of her second tongue-in-cheek guide, Grace&Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It. She gave us a glimpse at he...

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Workshop 10: Chris Bohjalian from 2016-02-17T22:34:24

Chris Bohjalian has written some thrilling novels tackling some tough subjects - Armenian genocide, the ethics of midwifery, and, most recently, sex trafficking - but he speaks about the process of...

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Workshop 9: Spiritual Author, Marianne Williamson from 2016-02-03T19:25:56

Marianne Williamson has written six New York Times best sellers, including The Age Of Miracles and A Return To Love. Known in some circles as Hollywood's favorite self-help guru, we just had to fin...

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Workshop 8: Tom Perrotta from 2016-01-29T16:16:39

Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes. Recently, he provided the foreword to a new Peng...

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Workshop 7: Megan Abbott from 2016-01-15T21:11:15

Described as "David Lynch for teenagers," award-winning crime writer Megan Abbott. Her latest, The Fever, seemed to make every Best of 2014 list, from the Village Voice, to Amazon, to NPR. Her fort...

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Workshop 6: Christopher Buckley from 2015-12-17T14:40:43

Author, columnist and political satirist Christopher Buckley entertains and enlightens us as we talk about his writing process. #writing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

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Workshop 5: The Beach Read Queen, Elin Hilderbrand from 2015-12-08T20:35:43

We caught up with the NYT-best selling "Summer Beach Read Queen" Nantucket writer Elin Hilderbrand. The workshop was recorded backstage at the Music Hall Loft in Portsmouth, NH, before the Writers ...

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Workshop 4: Alexander McCall Smith from 2015-11-25T15:34:39

The Scottish author, Alexander McCall Smith, lets us in on his writing process before an event recorded for radio in Portsmouth. The workshop was recorded backstage. #writing Learn more about your ...

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Workshop 3: Patti Smith from 2015-11-13T21:51:47

Virginia sits down with her idol, rocker and writer Patti Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Workshop 2: Stacy Schiff from 2015-11-13T20:17:34

Author Stacy Schiff gives a 10-minute writer's workshop before an event recorded for radio in Portsmouth. The workshop was recorded backstage. #writing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...

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Workshop 1: Salman Rushdie from 2015-11-13T20:17:32

Author Salman Rushdie gives a 10-minute writer's workshop before an event recorded for radio in Portsmouth. The workshop was recorded backstage. #writing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po...

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