Liz Gilbert once said that if she didn’t write, she’d become a farm dog and chew up the couch. Why do we partake in creative pursuits if we’re not going to profit financially from it? Lots of reasons, actually. Tsh and Seth chat with their friends Maile and Shawn Smucker about what they’ve been learning about why they have an insatiable need to create — and why every one of us needs to as well.

• Seth: Newsletter | Website


• Tsh: Newsletter | Website


• Pick up a round of drinks & help keep the show going


• Come to Italy with us!


• Seth’s latest thoughts on why he writes


• The Gap


• The Nine-Month Novel, led by Maile & Shawn Smucker


• Video of a Novel, Shawn’s new Substack


• Journal of a Novel, by John Steinbeck


• The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Margaret Ellsberg


• The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy


• Nobody Reads Poetry

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