WMFA

WMFA

By Courtney BalestierSociety & CultureArtsBooks
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WMFA episodes

  • Knowing What You Need as a Writer w. CASEY CEP
    Journalist Casey Cep—author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee—is on the show discussing the mysteries of Harper Lee, knowing what you need as a writer, and the lines that can be drawn and erased between invention and reality.
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    1 hr 1 min
  • Writing More Diverse Narratives w. TOMMY ORANGE
    Tommy Orange—author of last year's fantastic There There—visits WMFA to talk about being a messy writer, creating diverse narratives, and how parenthood made him take writing more seriously.
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    48 min
  • Minisode: Agent Anxiety
    Welcome to the first listener-request minisode! We’re talking about finding the right agent for you.
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    7 min
  • Crafting Narratives from History w. DAVID K. RANDALL
    Journalist David K. Randall's new book, Black Death at the Golden Gate, is a gripping work of literary nonfiction about the race to stop the bubonic plague from spreading through San Francisco and beyond in the early 20th century. He and Courtney discuss bring real (dead) people to life, organizing all that research, and why creative constraint can be a good thing.
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    49 min
  • Minisode: Writing Without Writing
    A mini mini from my artist residency (👋) on expanding our ideas of process. Tell me how you write without writing by tagging @cfbalestier and using the hashtag #wmfawrites.
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    4 min
  • Writing Into the Darkness w. SUSAN CHOI
    Susan Choi's explosive and riveting new novel, Trust Exercise, is out now from Henry Holt. She and Courtney discuss the manipulative qualities of storytelling, the slipperiness of memory, and the advice Susan would give to her younger self as a debut novelist.
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    53 min

About WMFA

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A podcast about why and how we write.