Best Brooke Warner And Grant Faulkner Podcasts (2024)

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How Big Questions Inform Fiction, featuring Rachel Khong 43:42

3d ago43:42

43:42

This week’s Write-minded centers questions, and how questions guide writers, drive fiction, and unearth important stories. Guest Rachel Khong shares how the big and provocative question of who’s a “real American” informed her new novel and why she writes without an outline. We also talk about ambition and drive, why novelists have to grapple with p…

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Breaking New Ground in Memoir, featuring Shze-Hui Tjoa 44:24

10d ago44:24

44:24

Write-minded is celebrating memoir as an evolving form this week, tackling the difference between imaginative writing in memoir and writing in memoir that might not be true. Memoir is increasingly embodying its rightful spot in the realm of creative nonfiction, in that there’s allowance for writers to explore ideas and truths within the realms of c…

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The Big Novel, featuring Garth Risk Hallberg 48:53

17d ago48:53

48:53

This week we take on The Big Novel and unpack our thoughts on novel length, the very concept of The Great American Novel, advances, and more. Guest Garth Risk Hallberg joins us to talk about his own long works of fiction, as well as his writing process that involves seeing where his characters want to take him. We touch upon characterization vs. pl…

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Remembering and Forgetting: The Refugee Journey, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen 47:11

24d ago47:11

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It’s Write-minded’s 300th episode! And we’re celebrating by bringing listeners the esteemed Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose novel, The Sympathizer, was adapted for HBO Max and started streaming in April. In this interview, Nguyen addresses didacticism as a craft choice, the mindset of writers who, like him, find themselves between two languages, and how h…

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Behind the Scenes of Selling Books, featuring Josh Cook 48:08

1M ago48:08

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This week’s episode is one for book lovers, book collectors, aspiring authors, and every kind of writer. It’s always helpful to know what booksellers know—because bookstores do so much more than just provide a place for browsing and buying books. Join us to talk with Josh Cook of Porter Square Books about his new book, The Art of Libromancy, and wh…

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Be the Change You Want To See, featuring Dhonielle Clayton 47:53

1M ago47:53

47:53

In this week’s extra-inspiring show, guest Dhonielle Clayton treats us to a generous conversation about effecting change in the industry and how that inevitable comes with backlash. We talk about representation in publishing, Penguin Random House’s recent firing of two high-profile publishers, and book bans—among other important topics, like packag…

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The Raw Truth About Exposure, featuring Susan Kiyo Ito 42:04

2M ago42:04

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What will other people think? What will be the consequences of sharing my truth? These are among some of the questions that hold memoirists back, and their realities post-publication can cause “vulnerability hangovers.” Exposure, fear of fallout, concern for people we love—memoir doesn’t make it easy. With very recent experience informing her, this…

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Deep Memoir, featuring Jennifer Leigh Selig 37:40

2M ago37:40

37:40

We’re living through a golden age of memoir, and guest Jennifer Leigh Selig’s Deep Memoir is a new contribution to the “how-to” space for memoirists who want to explore the how and the why of memoir writing. This episode will help listeners consider their own “why” when it comes to that age-old question of why to keep at it, and also to celebrate a…

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Grief: The Hardest Emotion to Write, featuring Claire Jiménez 39:35

2M ago39:35

39:35

This week’s Write-minded takes on grief, and why, as our guest Claire Jiménez says, “it’s where language collapses.” Jiménez’s new book deals with loss and grief and what happens in a family in the aftermath of a disappearance of a child, and yet, she weaves in humor and the history of American colonization of Puerto Rico and so much more. Grant an…

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Creating New Forms—and Rearranging the Alphabet, featuring Elwin Cotman 36:38

2M ago36:38

36:38

This week Write-minded is interviewing an established writer whose star is on the rise. Elwin Cotman’s new story collection blew us away for how he played with form and takes readers on an expected journeys. His stories don’t fit into any box—including length, and we loved it! On this week’s show Grant also announces his departure from NaNoWriMo an…

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The Art of Intimacy, featuring Stacey D’Erasmo 49:41

2M ago49:41

49:41

This week Write-minded reaches broadly into the topic of intimacy to explore its many permutations—not just romantic, but innocuous, violent, collective, and more. Guest Stacey D’Erasmo invites us to consider intimacy in writing, how we do it, how we feel it as readers, and also to consider acts of intimacy, like an older actress showing her authen…

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The State of the Book Review, featuring John McMurtrie 42:00

3M ago42:00

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This week’s guest is John McMurtrie, the esteemed former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s book review section. Join us as we explore the transition of book reviews from traditional media like TV and radio to online outlets like Amazon and Goodreads. His is an interesting take about how things were and how things are, along with insight about…

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Social Responsibility in Fiction, featuring Naomi Kanakia 46:41

3M ago46:41

46:41

What does it really mean to consider your own social responsibility as a fiction writer? Guest Naomi Kanakia confronted that very question as she considered her modeling as a trans author writing YA books for teens. What if hers was the first book a genderqueer or trans kid ever read? What did she owe her reader? These are some of the questions at …

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Getting Real About Book Publishing, featuring Kathleen Schmidt 46:49

3M ago46:49

46:49

Strap on your seatbelts ’cause we’re going for a ride—into the wild world of book publishing. Guest Kathleen Schmidt is a leading voice in publishing. Her popular Substack, Publishing Confidential, is a go-to source for tell-it-like-it-is realities about the industry and what authors can and should expect. We talk shop this week, touching upon auth…

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The Big Familia of Writing Inspiration, featuring Tomas Moniz 39:52

3M ago39:52

39:52

An episode about friendship, writing about friendship, and how friendship influences our writing lives. As a community-minded podcast, Write-minded has often touched upon the importance of a broader net of friendship on our writing. This week we get a bit more specific with guest Tomas Moniz, who’s written a new book about male friendship and whose…

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Other People’s Words, featuring Lissa Soep 46:23

4M ago46:23

46:23

This week’s Write-minded show examines the nuanced and deep exploration at the heart of guest Lissa Soep’s new book, Other People’s Words. A consideration of the ways others’ voices echo in our own, her book and this episode shows us a kaleidoscope of how we conjure and recycle and tap into the words of others. There’s much to unpack here, too, fro…

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Light-hearted Writing During Heavy-hearted Times, featuring Neely Tubati-Alexander 35:14

4M ago35:14

35:14

Ready for a reprieve? Join Brooke and Grant and this week’s guest, Neely Tubati-Alexander, for a conversation about whether romance and rom-com writers are having more fun. We dive into questions of the success of the genre, what publishers are looking for, and how a writer gets into romance writing in the first place. A light-hearted episode in ce…

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Strategies for Writing About Childhood Trauma, featuring Javier Zamora 40:23

4M ago40:23

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This week Write-minded wades into the important topic of writing about childhood trauma. Trauma is at the heart of many of our stories, whether you’re writing coming-of-age or only touching upon childhood stories in the context of specific memoir scenes (or raw material for fiction). Javier’s memoir, Solito, is a stunning book about his nine-week j…

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Recovering from the Stigma of a "Failed" First Novel, featuring Ethel Rohan 49:06

4M ago49:06

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It's important to learn from the challenges of a failed book rather than allowing it to define your career. The publishing industry can be harsh and unforgiving to writers in this situation. Unforgiving as in agents abandoning the writer or publishers turning away future work, not because of its quality, but because of the one book that didn’t sell…

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Journeying into Writerly Aesthetic, featuring K-Ming Chang 45:24

5M ago45:24

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A fun episode about aesthetic, language, and paying attention to style and taste in writing. This week’s guest K-Ming Chang talks about disorientation as a style, language as something that lives in the body, and hating plot. This is a playful interview that focuses on the experiential and reminds us that we all have an existential position on our …

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Breaking Into Ghostwriting and Work-for-Hire Writing, featuring Aubre Andrus 35:35

5M ago35:35

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Ghostwriting and work-for-hire are great ways to break into the publishing industry and to make a living as a writer. Guest Aubre Andrus shows us a side of the writing and publishing business that can seem a bit elusive. And more and more writers are taking on work for hire projects due to mass media layoffs and greater transparency by celebrities …

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How Stories Get Carried Through the Generations and in Our Bones, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras 55:30

5M ago55:30

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This week’s Write-minded floats into the magical and surreal world of Ingrid Rojas Contreras, who talks about her new memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, about her curandera-storytelling mother and their shared history of amnesia, and about why to her magical realism is just realism. Grant and Brooke consider what gets passed down to us from our…

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Get Into Your Writing Using All the Senses, featuring Janet Fitch 57:21

5M ago57:21

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In this gorgeous, sensualistic, tactile, provocative episode of Write-minded, we explore the senses with Janet Fitch of White Oleander fame. In this interview, Janet takes us on a tour through the senses, making the point that our language is impoverished and we can—and must—do more to become more sophisticated observers on the page. This is an epi…

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How to Be Self-Revealing in Memoir When You're Not In Real Life, featuring Dr. Brian H. Williams 43:25

5M ago43:25

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This week's episode moves beyond inspiring and into the territory of important, essential, and recommended listening—and reading. Guest Dr. Brian H. Williams, author of the debut memoir, The Bodies Keep Coming, joins us to talk about his experience as a trauma surgeon, and what being on the hospital frontlines can teach us about racial inequities i…

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Hidden Stories, featuring Vanessa Chan 37:32

6M ago37:32

37:32

Hidden stories are at the heart of many a novel and memoir, driving writers, often from very young ages, toward exploration, uncovering, and the desire to seek for and know truths. Vanessa Chan’s new novel, The Storm We Made, is one such story, spawned by the unlikeliest of spies—a discontent mother and wife in 1930s British Malaya who, in becoming…

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How Big Questions Inform Fiction, featuring Rachel Khong 43:42

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Breaking New Ground in Memoir, featuring Shze-Hui Tjoa 44:24

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The Big Novel, featuring Garth Risk Hallberg 48:53

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Remembering and Forgetting: The Refugee Journey, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen 47:11

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Behind the Scenes of Selling Books, featuring Josh Cook 48:08

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Be the Change You Want To See, featuring Dhonielle Clayton 47:53

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The Raw Truth About Exposure, featuring Susan Kiyo Ito 42:04

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Deep Memoir, featuring Jennifer Leigh Selig 37:40

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Grief: The Hardest Emotion to Write, featuring Claire Jiménez 39:35

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Creating New Forms—and Rearranging the Alphabet, featuring Elwin Cotman 36:38

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The Art of Intimacy, featuring Stacey D’Erasmo 49:41

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The State of the Book Review, featuring John McMurtrie 42:00

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Social Responsibility in Fiction, featuring Naomi Kanakia 46:41

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Getting Real About Book Publishing, featuring Kathleen Schmidt 46:49

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The Big Familia of Writing Inspiration, featuring Tomas Moniz 39:52

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Other People’s Words, featuring Lissa Soep 46:23

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Light-hearted Writing During Heavy-hearted Times, featuring Neely Tubati-Alexander 35:14

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Strategies for Writing About Childhood Trauma, featuring Javier Zamora 40:23

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Recovering from the Stigma of a "Failed" First Novel, featuring Ethel Rohan 49:06

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Journeying into Writerly Aesthetic, featuring K-Ming Chang 45:24

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Breaking Into Ghostwriting and Work-for-Hire Writing, featuring Aubre Andrus 35:35

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How Stories Get Carried Through the Generations and in Our Bones, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras 55:30

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Get Into Your Writing Using All the Senses, featuring Janet Fitch 57:21

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How to Be Self-Revealing in Memoir When You're Not In Real Life, featuring Dr. Brian H. Williams 43:25

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Hidden Stories, featuring Vanessa Chan 37:32

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