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Jun 24, 2019

First Lady Rose Cleveland and socialite Evangeline Simpson Whipple had a love affair that lasted almost 30 years. The mostly unknown story is told beautifully in “Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918. On this episode, the book's authors, Lizzie Ehrenhart and...


Jun 15, 2019

On the first-ever LIVE edition of Write About Now, I speak to Dean Kuipers, author of "The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them." Kuipers speaks candidly about what it was like growing up with an emotionally distant and philandering dad, and how a scrappy, 100-acre piece of land in...


Jun 10, 2019

Writers are good at finding reasons not to write. My guest Grant Faulkner has heard them all. Faulkner is executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and author of "Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo." On the podcast, he addresses some of the most common...


Jun 4, 2019

Tucker Max is a four-time New York Times bestseller and co-founder of Scribe Media, which helps people write and publish non-fiction books. He typically charges up to $40k for his services, but he's offering our listeners a free master class. In this fascinating, and somewhat controversial, interview Tucker argues that...