This originally aired as Episode 49 on May 19, 2017.

“The people I know who fail as writers … lack patience, stubbornness.”

Dinty W. Moore is the founder of Brevity Magazine and the author of several books including The Story Cure: A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir.

In this episode we talk about:

• Patience
• Voice
• Getting inspired instead of dejected by feedback
• And the power of dozens of drafts

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"I try to minimize harm and maximize truth," says Kim H. Cross, author of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child (Grand Central Publishing).

In this episode we touch on:

• Giving people agency
• The ethics of writing true crime
• Being a human first and a journalist second,
• And the importance of setting up writing retreats for yourself

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This originally aired as Episode 54 on June 23, 2017.

Andre Dubus III is the author of the memoir Townie and the novels The House of Sand and Fog and Such Kindness.

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Tom Donaghy explored the murder of the "Fudge King" of Ocean City for The Atavist Magazine.

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“A poet is a special kind of nerd.” —Jericho Brown

This episode originally ran as Ep. 148

Jericho Brown is the Pulitzer Prize—winning poet behind The Tradition.

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Lana Hall is a journalist and essayist based out of Toronto, Canada. Her essay "We Are All Animals at Night" ran in Hazlitt.

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This is a rerun and originally published as Ep. 100.

Mary Karr is the author of the poetry collection Tropic of Squalor and the memoirs Lit, Cherry, and The Liar's Club.

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Robert Kolker is the best selling author of Hidden Valley Road and Lost Girls. He's on the show to talk about his Atavist piece "Dead Reckoning."

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Nicholas Dighiera is a writer whose work has appeared in Short Reads, River Teeth, Catamaran, and Under the Gum Tree, among many others.

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Author readings ... they mostly suck.

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