Sep 25, 2018
Carlos Kotkin knows how to spin a good yarn. He's won countless open-mic storytelling competitions for The Moth -- a series of events (and a popular podcast) in which contestants tell stories without notes in cafes and clubs. He got so good at it, in fact, that eventually he was hired to host the shows. When...
Sep 18, 2018
What's it like to run the magazine of an American icon? On this episode of Write About Now, Lucy Kaylin talks about both working with the real-life Oprah and channeling her inner Oprah to produce the award-winning O: The Oprah Magazine. Kaylin also takes us through her editorial origin story, which began as a...
Sep 11, 2018
Sam Hollander can make your hands clap. Over the past few decades, he's written over 20 Top 40 hit songs for artists such as One Direction, Katy Perry, Fitz and the Tantrums, Train, Carol King, and Weezer. His most recent record with Panic! At the Disco, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Sam doesn't play an...
Sep 4, 2018
Stephanie Storey's debut novel, Oil and Marble, is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and was named one of Hudson Booksellers’ Best Books of 2016. It just came out in paperback, which is the literary world equivalent of making the playoffs. The book has also been optioned as a major motion picture, which I guess is the...