The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

How Bestselling Author & Podcast Host Elizabeth Day Writes


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Award-winning author and broadcaster, Elizabeth Day, talked to me candidly about How to Fail, hanging out with Gloria Steinem, genre equality, and how she wrote her compeller, "Magpie."

Elizabeth is a novelist, lauded journalist, and host of the chart-topping podcast, How To Fail, which has featured guests including Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gloria Steinem, and Brene Brown.

Her latest novel, Magpie, was published in the UK in September 2021 and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Described as "... a taut, psychological suspense novel about a perfect couple and their seemingly perfect roommate...," bestselling author Matt Haig called it "...a clever, suspenseful read with a brilliant central pivot."

Elizabeth was a staff feature writer for the Observer for eight years and her writing has appeared in The Telegraph, The Times, the Guardian, New York Magazine, Vogue, Grazia, Elle, and Vanity Fair. She is also a contributing editor for Harper's Bazaar.

Stay calm and write on ...

In this file Elizabeth Day and I discussed:
  • How failure makes us human
  • Cooking pasta for Stanley Tucci
  • Why we don't call Jonathan Franzen a "Domestic Thriller" writer
  • Writing about the struggles women go through to become mothers
  • Booking an Airbnb to finish her book
  • And a lot more!
  • Show Notes:

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    Magpie by Elizabeth Day (Amazon Affiliate)

    Elizabeth Day Amazon Author Page (Amazon Affiliate)

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    Elizabeth Day on Twitter

    Kelton Reid on Twitter

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