Matt Storrs explains how all writing is ultimately to serve dinner party conversation.

Author and musician, Mishka Shubaly (@mishkashubaly), gets comfortable before giving Matt a brief but thorough overview of the writing process.

Keeping notes of your ideas can be helpful, especially if you only check them after forgetting the context of when you wrote time.

A Cam Cameo!

How many modern crime dramas are updates to the Beowulf and Grendel story.

What a pair of shoes can tell you about your characters.

Matt comes up with a billion-dollar idea for a puffin salt-bank robber novel.

Matt reveals his sordid history with toe shoes and Crocs

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After receiving an expensive MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, Mishka Shubaly promptly realized he was more interested in playing music in dive bars than writing. He lived out of a Toyota minivan for a year, touring non-stop, and shared the stage with artists like The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and The Decemberists among others. He’s become a cult favorite, opening nationally for comedy iconoclast Doug Stanhope, penning the soundtrack for The Unbookables documentary, and headlining the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour. Adrian Grenier played drums for a new single and Shubaly’s most recent record “Coward’s Path” has won praise from Johnny Depp and Joe Perry.