Writers Who Don't Write

Jessica Pressler is a contributing writer for New York Magazine and has written for Elle, GQ, and a number of other outlets. She speaks to us this week about some of her profile pieces on the titans of the finance world, celebrity interviews, the tendencies of her subjects to treat her both as friend and foe, and why she struggles to write as a woman in a largely male-dominated world.    *** 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

Jason Diamond is an associate editor at Men's Journal and the author of the forthcoming book, Searching for John Hughes. Prior to this he was an editor at Jewcy.com and Flavorpill, and he founded the literary website Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Vice, Bookforum, Tablet, The Awl, Pitchfork, McSweeny's, NPR, The Rumpus, and many other fine outlets. In this episode, he discusses how he was never able to write the definitive biography of John Hughes. It's more complicated than you might think.    *** 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 Podglo

Kevin Nguyen is the editorial director for Google Play Books. Before this, he was a book reviewer at Grantland, worked at Amazon and Oyster Books, and has published online at The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Millions, and elsewhere. Kevin is also the snarkiest Twitter user I know. In this episode, he speaks to us about his career trajectory from two awful startups to Amazon, Oyster, and currently Google. Now that he's a few years removed from his tenure at Amazon, he opens up to us a bit about his experience while there.    *** 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, wri

Aaron Edwards is a mobile editor at Buzzfeed News. Before that, he was an editor at Breaking News, at Digital First Media's Project Thunderdome, and at the New York Times as a James Reston Reporting Fellow. He also held internships at The AP London Bureau, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the CBS News National Desk and the New York Times Institute. In this episode, he speaks to us about his writing career, his experience developing news apps, and what happened when he came out to 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 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

Lev Grossman is TIME Magazine's book critic, their lead technology writer and the author of The Magicians, The Magician King and The Magician's Land. You may have heard Lev's name recently, as he was (one of two reporters) responsible for writing the TIME Magazine cover story on the Apple/FBI fiasco, where he had an exclusive interview with Tim Cook. Also, speaking of the Magicians trilogy, they were made into a tv show on SyFy. He talks to us about interviewing JK Rowling in the midst of a divorce, and how the divorce became a character in the story.  Produced by The Podglomerate.   *** 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 Podglome

Ian Hunt came on the show this week to tell us a story about definitely almost maybe potentially meeting Daniel Radcliffe in a story that is a lot like what it’s like to live in New York: dirty, confusing, exhilarating, and soul crushing all at the same time. Ian produces and hosts comedy show out of Cantina Royal in Williamsburg, Brooklyn every other Saturday at 9:00PM. Their next show is April 2nd  Produced by The Podglomerate.   *** 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.

Bijan Stephen, an associate editor for The New Republic. Bijan has written for Wired, The New Republic, Fast Company (Today in Tabs), TIME, and more than a dozen other outlets, is our guest on the show this week. Prolific doesn't really do him justice. He’s accomplished enough at such a young age (24) to make me feel the beginnings of my own age-inspired cultural blindness, as becomes evident on the show. We talk to Bijan about his editing vs. his writing, the time he was fired from a media consulting firm, how he became everyone's favorite media intern, growing up in suburban Texas and what it means to be woke.  Produced by The Podglomerate.   *** 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

Clive Thompson, a journalist for Wired and The New York Times Magazine among many other outlets, is our guest on the show this week. He's the author of Smarter Than You Think and you can find him online at smarterthanyouthink.net and at his blog at collisiondetection.net. Clive came on the cast and discussed his writing methods, the history of his career, and an article he published 8 years ago that took him 9 years to write. Tune in and hear the rest.  Produced by The Podglomerate.   *** 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 His

Laurie Frankel joins us via Skype from Seattle to discuss her work, her life, and her untold stories. Laurie is a writer, teacher and a parent. She’s on the board of Seattle7 Writers, a literary nonprofit based in the Pacific Northwest and her third novel THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS will be released by Flatiron Books next Winter. You may recognize the name of her second book, Goodbye For Now, which was released in May of 2013 and tells the story of love, loss, and dealing with grief in the digital age.  Produced by The Podglomerate.   *** 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 lit

Victoria Taylor is our guest on the show this week. Victoria has worked at ID PR, Reddit and WeWork and is a rock star in the community building world of the Internet. We discussed Shake Shack, books, making people smile, her new role at WeWork, some of the more than 2500 AMAs she administered at Reddit, and the time where she showed up to an award ceremony for an award she didn't win.  Produced by The Podglomerate.   *** 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 megaphon

Matt Gallagher was an Army Captain in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 and kept a blog called Kaboom during his tour. In June of 2008, the Army asked him to shut down the website. In this episode, we explore why, we discuss Matt's new book Youngblood, and we talk about sex and the reasons why he's thus far chosen not to write about any of it.  Produced by The Podglomerate.   *** 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

Writers Who Don’t Write is an hour-long longform interview show about telling the stories our guests never could, hosted by Jeff Umbro and Kyle Craner. We publish new episodes on Wednesday nights. Produced by The Podglomerate.   *** 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