Writing F(r)iction

Tod Goldberg is an American author and journalist best known for his novels Gangster Nation, Gangsterland and Living Dead Girl, the popular "Burn Notice" series and the short story collection The Low Desert: Gangster Stories.

Michelle Gallen is an Irish author. Her book Big Girl Small Town is out now.

Jon Raymond is an American writer. He is best known for writing the novels The Half-Life and Rain Dragon, and for writing the short stories and screenplays for the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy.

Walter Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. His newest book Blood Grove is available now.

Te-Ping Chen is a fiction writer & journalist. Her debut collection of short stories, Land of Big Numbers, was published in February 2021. She is also a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Philadelphia who was previously based in Beijing and Hong Kong.

Joan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Improvement.

Doug Stanhope is an American stand-up comedian, author, political activist, and podcast host.

Mark Leyner is an American postmodernist author. He has worked as a columnist for Esquire and George magazines, and was co-author of the screenplay of "War, Inc.". His newest title, "Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit" is out now.

Jill McCorkle is an American short story writer and novelist. She has published six novels and four collections of short stories. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books, and her novel, Life After Life, was a New York Times bestseller.

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Crissy Van Meter is the author of the debut novel Creatures. She teaches creative writing at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.

Bob Lefsetz is the author of The Lefsetz Letter and host of The Bob Lefsetz Podcast. We talked Alice Cooper, college in Vermont, his honest thoughts on pursuing an artistic career, his honest thoughts on the publishing industry, and pretty much his honest thoughts on everything! What a legend, what a wile ride, and what an absolute pleasure this conversation was. Enjoy!