James and Urban discuss desperate writing, genre snobbery, risking freezing to death for booze, and how a brush with the law turned him into a writer. Plus Becky Tuch discusses literary magazines and her website The Review Review.

Urban and James Discuss

Redivider

Vermont Studio Center

Poachers by Tom Franklin

Hell at the Breech by Tom Franklin

Graham Greene

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Paris Review

The New Yorker

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Deliverance by James Dickey

Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Becky and James Discuss:

Noon

Tin House

Ploughshares

One Story

Lydia Yuknavitch

Roxanne Gay

Juked