Rae Nudson is a journalist and author and she's on the show to talk about her piece for The Atavist Magazine.

We also hear from Atavist editor-in-chief Seyward Darby as we close out 2023.

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This originally aired as Episode 244 on February 26, 2021.

Jackie MacMullan is a long time sports writer for The Boston Globe, ESPN.com, and author of several best-selling books covering the NBA. She was the final guest editor of The Best American Sports Writing series.

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Loren Grush is a space journalist for Bloomberg and the author of The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts. 

In this episode, Loren talks about:

• Centering women in space
• Mini-deadlines
• And what is the "twang"?

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Athena Dixon is the author of The Loneliness Files (Tin House) and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Her work has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Lit Hub, and The Rumpus.

In this episode, Athena talks about:

• Writing quietly
• Being OK with the plateau
• Throat clearing
• And how to find a damn residency

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Katya Cengel (@kcengel) is a journalist and author who wrote "The Truth is Out There" for The Atavist Magazine.

• In this episode we also here from editor Jonah Ogles on:
• What sets pitches over the top
• Pitching multiple times

And trust

Katya takes over and talks about:

• Untidy endings
• Earning trust with sources
• And finding enough 'there' there

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This episode originally aired as Episode 61 on August 11, 2017.

Susan Orlean is the best selling author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and Rin Tin Tin. She's a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and you can find her on Threads @susanorlean.

In this episode, Susan talks about:

• always having an audience in mind
• having supreme focus
• and needing to see yourself as a business person if you plan on doing this type of work 

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Damon Brown is an author, entrepreneur, and coach and his latest book is The Complete Bring Your Worth Collection.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How he grew is YouTube channel from 0 to 18K
• The BYW Collection as capstone
• And how obscurity is your friend ... to a point

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This episode originally aired on December 6, 2015.

Glenn Stout is a brilliant editor and writer. He's the author of Young Woman and the Sea, The Selling of the Babe, and Tiger Girl and Candy Kid.

Here, we revisit the first of his many times on the pod to talk about:

• Effort
• How none of this makes sense
• Why we continue to tell stories
• And a whole lot more!

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In "Two Thousand Miles from Home," journalist Lily Hyde chronicles the unbelievable true story of three pregnant women torn apart by war.

Lily talks about how she hates every thing she writes, struggling with the invasiveness of journalism, and how she earned the truest of her central figures.

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Will Harrison is an instructor at the School for Visual Arts in New York City as well the author of several essays including "My Unlikely Writing Teacher: Pedro Martinez" for the New York Times Magazine.

Will talks about:

• How slow of a writer he is
• How voice just emerges over time
• And how "pitch selection" is akin to how you vary your sentences

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