The Lives of Writers

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Sara Rauch interviews Christine Sneed.

Christine Sneed is the author of the new story collection Direct Sunlightin addition to three novels and two previous…

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Holly Pelesky interviews Allegra Goodman.

Allegra Goodman is the author of two stories collections and many novels, including Intuition, The Cookbook Collec…

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Jeff Alessandrelli interviews Brandon Shimoda.

Brandon Shimoda is a yonsei poet/writer, and the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including Portugu…

Michael talks with Aaron Burch about longhand, episode 10 of this podcast, Aaron’s help getting Autofocus and The Lives of Writers noticed, HAD/WAS, Short Story Long, slowing down, A Kind of In-Betwe…

Guest host Emily Costa talks with Shannon McLeod about writing (or not) over summer break, watching kids learn to read, pushing against and accepting your tendencies, NATURE TRAIL STORIES (Thirty Wes…

Guest host Sara Lippmann talks with Seth Rogoff about collaboration, a triangle of place (Berlin, Prague, Maine), a relationship with seminal texts, the old testament, THE KIRSCHBAUM LECTURES (Saggin…

Guest host Erin Slaughter talks with Emma Bolden about leaving academia, editing for Screen Door Review, asexuality, southern influence, writing across genres and modes, her memoir THE TIGER AND THE …

Guest host Lena Crown talks with Jessica E. Johnson about miner parents, trees, biology and literature, meaning making, mechanism, metaphor, her new book METABOLICS, the book-length poem form, accumu…

Guest host Sara Rauch talks with Katherine Indermaur about life changing with a ten-month-old, poetry and sound, editing for Sugar House Review, poetry on the page, her book I|I, the page as mirror, …

Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Nazli Koca about growing up in Turkey, finding a writing community in Berlin, developing a life through writing, coming to the US for an MFA, writing her debu…

Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Eileen Myles about living between New York and Marfa, poetry as daily (and not daily) practice, sobriety, vernacular writing, putting together a new and selec…

Michael talks with Tyler Gillespie about finishing a dissertation, living again and building community in Florida, growing up queer in a Southern Baptist community and becoming a reader and writer, h…

Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Arda Collins about feeling freer about writing after having kids, becoming a poet, hiding her prose, Charles Simic, working on documentaries, the Iowa worksho…

Guest host Mike Nagel talks with D.T. Robbins about boredom, imagination, death, the new story collection BIRDS AREN'T REAL (Maudlin House), endings, beginnings, process, knowing and not knowing what…

Michael talks with John Cotter about a pending move, the influence of monologues and Spalding Gray, theater and recitation, early adventures in poetry, life and writing through his first novel, the g…

Michael talks with Jeff Alessandrelli about the nonprofit book press/record label Fonograf Editions, feeling like more of a reader than a writer, supporting the work of other writers, his poetry coll…

Michael talks with Hilary Plum about small presses, the recent news around Catapult and Elizabeth Koch, her first three books, her essay collection HOLE STUDIES, editing, writing about illness, pop c…

Michael talks with Chelsea Hodson about moving to Sedona, the Morning Writing Club, her new imprint Rose Books, the influence of Giancarlo DiTrapano and Tyrant Books, creative risk, life and writing …

Michael talks with Matthew E. Henry about teaching high school, becoming drawn to the immediacy of poetry, advanced degrees in poetry and theology and education, a chapbook leading to his first full-…

Michael talks with Danny Caine about living in two places at once, the story of the Raven Book Store, making a life as a bookseller, his book HOW TO RESIST AMAZON AND WHY, becoming a poet by accident…