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Writingness is a podcast where I talk to writers you read but don’t know enough about, including novelists, journalists, bloggers and comedians. We’ll explore how you become a writer, how you find your audience and how to find inspiration in new places.
Subscribe on the iTunes Store and on Sound Cloud.
Index of Episodes:
- Jay Gabler of The Tangential, The Current and MPR on self-publishing his mini-memoir, Summer of 40
- Jay Boller, Music Editor at City Pages talks about getting his start in music journalism
- Safy-Hallan Farah talks about writing cultural criticism and music reviews everywhere from Tumblr to Pitchfork
- Raghav Mehta talks getting started in standup comedy
- Saymoukda Vongsay and May Lee-Yang talk about their play “Hmong-Lao Friendship Play” and the way refugee identity intersects with creative life
- Chrissy Stockton talks being an editor at Thought Catalog, and her Tumblr famous blog Philolzophy
- Katie Sisneros of The Tangential and Totino’s fame talks about academia and Pizza Rolls
- Kara Nesvig of xoVain and Aveda talks beauty blogging and personal essays
- Amina Harper talks race and representation in storytelling
- Jon Hunt of l’etoile talks music journalism and being represented in his ex-wife, Diablo Cody’s films
- Josh Gondelman on comedy and writing for Last Week Tonight
- Megan Atwood on Y.A. fiction and getting an agent
- Jason Zabel on writing plays and working for the A.V. Club
- Chris Vondracek on poetry, teaching and finishing a book
- Maggie LaMaack on Twitter, Taylor Swift and City Pages
- Marina Maric on LOL-OMG and writing when English is a second language
- Steph Georgopulos and Sarah Lansky on writing for the internet
- Brenda Bell Brown on living as an artist and the importance of poetry
- On 5 Years of The Tangential
- John Jodzio on the art of the short story
- Nora McInerny Purmort on her book, “It’s Okay to Laugh”
- Emily Weiss on food writing, The Hairpin and American Girl Dolls
- Cecely Meller on advertising copywriting
- Gigi Berry on being Minneapolis’ Twitter Queen
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