Writers Who Don't Write

Lillian Cunningham is the editor of the Washington Post's On Leadership section and host of the popular Presidential podcast. She sat down with us to chat about writing, producing and hosting a poiltical podcast during the 2016 election, what comes next, and the presidency of Chester Arthur, America's most forgotten president.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing, and literature like Storybound, Book Dreams and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Louise O'Neill is the Irish young adult author of Asking For It and Only Ever Yours. The Guardian called her the "best YA fiction writer alive today" and the New York Times called Asking For It "riveting and essential." She has won all the awards, and Asking For It was a top-ten bestselling book in Ireland in 2016. This week on the show she chats with us about Irish writers, writing for an American audience, maintaining focus while writing about serious issues for younger readers, and her own struggles with eating disorders growing up.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing,

Mike Brown is a standup comic and writer based in Harlem, New York. He was named one of Rooftop Comedy’s Comics to Watch, Caroline’s Best of New Talent, has performed at Comedy Central’s New York Comedy Festival, The San Francisco Sketchfest, The Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, and has appeared on Adult Swim, MTV, TruTV, and Funny or Die. Along with stand-up, Mike Brown produces COMEDY OUTLIERS (a podcast and comedy showcase) and writes the comedy web series Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop (featured on Splitsider & ComedyHype.com). This week on the show he chats with us about the New York comedy scene, making people laugh on any platform and a story about making jokes out of a terrible experience. Mike will be on tour with his group #DECEPTICOMICS in April. He's doing over 20 shows in 30 days. More info at decepticomics.com/tour.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for mo

Alana is a writer covering identity, culture, virtue and vice for basically every outlet there is, save The New Yorker which she gets into in this interview. This week on the show she discusses what it’s like to write with an audience in mind, One Direction, and her experience in AA. Alana has a new book out called All The Lives I Want, a collection of essays reimagining the lives and legacies of famous women. You can pick it up wherever books are sold. This episode brought to you by My Lit Box (www.mylitbox.com), a subscription book service that will deliver a book written by an author of color to your inbox once a month. Get 10% off your first box using code 'WWDW' upon checkout.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Polic

Writers Who Don't Write is brought to you this week by My Lit Box. Each month you’ll receive a newly released novel by a writer of color as well as some book related goodies. A book lover’s dream, delivered straight to your mailbox. Listeners of the show will receive 10% off by using code WWDW.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing, and literature like Storybound, Book Dreams and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Margaret Eby is a journalist and critic who writes about books, movies, music, television, and various cultural ephemera. She currently works as culture editor at ExtraCrispy, a new Time Inc. food site. Previously, she was the features and essays editor at HelloGiggles, associate editor at Brooklyn Magazine and The L Magazine, and an online books editor and entertainment reporter for The New York Daily News. In this episode she discusses breakfast, her understanding of the concept of home, and a crazy story about how her grandparents fell in love.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytellin

Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Officer. After being discharged he went to Hunter College and received an MFA. His story “Redeployment” was originally published in Granta and is included in Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Granta, Tin House, and elsewhere. Oh, and in 2014 Klay’s short story collection Redeployment won the National Book Award for Fiction. He's won so many awards that I literally had to delete a paragraph from his bio, so if you're interested in learning more, head to his website, www.philklay.com. This week on Writers Who Don’t Write Phil speaks to us about writing as a veteran in America, the lens he uses to approach identity politics, and the good accomplished by troops overseas that is so often ignored.    *** This show is a part of the Po

Blair Braverman is a nonfiction writer and dogsledder whose work has appeared in This American Life, The Atavist, Buzzfeed, Orion, The Best Women's Travel Writing and elsewhere. She is training for the Iditarod, a 1100-mile dogsled race across Alaska. Her first book, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, was released from Ecco/HarperCollins in July. This week on Writers Who Don't Write Blair speaks to us about writing while traveling the world as a dogsledder and the isolating factors of both, adapting a piece of longform writing for radio, how and why she structured her book the way she did, her process for some of her longform nonfiction journalism, and what it was like to write the story of her transgender partner.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats da

Mychal Denzel Smith is a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing writer for The Nation magazine. He has also written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, Feministing.com, The Guardian, The Root, theGrio, ThinkProgress, and The Huffington Post, and he has been a featured commentator on NPR, BBC radio, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera America, HuffPost Live, and a number of other radio and television programs. He is the author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching. In this episode of Writers Who Don't Write, Mychal discusses his experience growing up black in America, and what that meant for him, his friends and his family.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writer

Hollie Overton is an author and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. She writes for or has written for the show's Shadowhunters and The Client List, and her new book Baby Doll was out this summer. She sat down with us this week to discuss her history in acting, writing about twins while being a twin herself, and her father, an infamous member of the Texas-based Overton Gang.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing, and literature like Storybound, Book Dreams and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Manson is an author, blogger and entrepreneur. He writes personal development advice that doesn't suck. His new book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, was released last week. He's written essays about self improvement, life choices, dating and relationships, and culture. He sat down to speak with us about his work and how he got here, what happens when he gives advice he no longer stands by, how he writes self-help for people who don't read self-help, and how he dealt with a fan who liked him a little too much.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows

Stephanie Danler is a writer based in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School and is the author of the newly released novel Sweetbitter. She's written essays for Travel + Leisure, Lit Hub, Vogue and The Paris Review. She sat down to speak with us about the mechanics of writing, working in New York restaurants, taking big risks, the art of the publishing business, and how things really feel.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing, and literature like Storybound, Book Dreams and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph

Evan Ratliff is the CEO, co-founder and editor of Atavist Magazine. This past July he collected 10 pieces of journalism from the magazine's five year history in a new book from Norton called Love and Ruin. Evan is also a co-host of the Longform podcast and an accomplished journalist, publishing in outlets such as Wired and the New Yorker. He sat down to speak with us about all of the above and to discuss his family and the possible dark connections to his past.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing, and literature like Storybound, Book Dreams and The History of Literature. L

Tanwi Nandini Islam, author of Bright Lines, a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, speaks to Writers Who Don't Write about running a retail business while maintaining a writing career, putting herself out there on the Internet as a Bangladeshi woman, body image struggles, and the time she wrote about a very intimate and awful event only to have it read by her mother.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing, and literature like Storybound, Book Dreams and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reza Farazmand draws comics and writes things at Poorly Drawn Lines (PDL). PDL's Wikipedia page is ridiculous, mostly because it's accurate, so I'm going to post the whole thing here. "Poorly Drawn Lines features mostly standalone comic strips that range from just one frame to many, most of which are satirical or absurdist in tone. The topic of each strip varies, with recurring themes including space travel, supernatural occurrences, science fiction, friendship, and existentialism. Most strips are conclusive and able to be read without any previous knowledge of storyline; however, the comic also contains some ongoing story arcs, along with recurring characters such as Ernesto, a green bear who lives in outer space." Reza sat down to chat with us about growing his comic from a hobby to full time work, the marketing that goes into each strip, Plagiarism in the online world, political cartoons, and the graphic novel that's been intimidating him for years.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a

Ester Steinberg is a comedian in Los Angeles. She is the star of Oxygen’s hit show Funny Girls. Her dark comedy smoking whitefish is currently in development at ABC. She was recently featured in Time Out LA for her hugely popular Kibitz Room Comedy Show and at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival. In this episode she discusses her love life, her creative process, crowd work during her standup set, and the time she met the love of her life.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing, and literature like Storybound, Book Dreams and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad

Matt Lubchansky is a cartoonist and an editorial assistant at The Nib, which is a cartoon website relaunching this summer at First Look Media. He's the author/co-author of three books; co-author of the recently published Dad Magazine (Quirk Books 2016), a contributing editor of the Eisner-nominated anthology Eat More Comics, a collection of the best comics from the first year of The Nib, and author of the forthcoming SKELETON PARTY. In this episode he discusses the history and future of cartoons and web comics, the technical aspects of a cartoonist's life, and the importance of hands in his career. He also talks to us about what happens when he writes a comic about the police killing people of color.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please se

Dana Schwartz is an arts and entertainment writer for the New York Observer. She was formerly a New Yorker cartoon assistant and a staff writer and video producer at Mental Floss. She runs the parody Twitter accounts for @guyinyourMFA and @dystopianya. In this episode she discusses female vs male authors in relation to the mainstream media, college writing classes, developing an audience for parody Twitter accounts, creating her own online dating mechanism, giving a police report for assault as she's standing next to Salman Rushdie, and failing to write a book based on her parody twitter account @guyinyourmfa.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to sugge

Tim Urban is the head writer for Wait But Why, a very unique blog with a cult following that Kyle and I love. We love it so much, in fact, that we convinced Tim to sit in our sweltering studio for almost 3 hours and then cut that recording into two parts. You can listen to part 1 on our Soundcloud page or website, www.wwdwpodcast.com, and in this episode, part 2, we discuss Tim's articles on North Korea, Facebook, Odd Things in Odd Places, what it was like when Elon Musk called him to work together, Procrastination, Ted Talks, & Religion.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writin

Tim Urban is a writer for Wait But Why, a very unique blog with a cult following that Kyle and I love. We love it so much, in fact, that we convinced Tim to sit in our sweltering studio for almost 3 hours and then cut that recording into two parts. In this episode, we discuss what Wait But Why aims to accomplish, how Tim got to the point he's at now, and the first piece that really exploded on the website. And bourbon.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing, and literature like Storybound, Book Dreams and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega