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I'm a Writer But
A podcast about writers with, you know, LIVES. Hosted by Lindsay Hunter.
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Nayantara Roy
Nayantara Roy discusses her debut novel, The Magnificent Ruins, new genres, divorce novels, the essay that inspired the novel, the problematic choices...
IAWB Presents 90s Book Club: Jane Shapiro with Sara Levine
Author Sara Levine (The Hitch, forthcoming from Roxane Gay Books) has chosen as her 90s Book Club topic the elusive writer Jane Shapiro, author of Aft...
Nora Lange
Nora Lange discusses her debut novel, Us Fools (Two Dollar Radio), finding absurd moments to celebrate if by “celebrate” we mean “awaken,” passing anx...
Richard Mirabella
Richard Mirabella discusses his debut novel, Brother and Sister Enter the Forest, as well as sibling dynamics, the deft forward motion of the novel, t...
IAWB Presents 90s Book Club: Sleeping with the Enemy with Chelsea Bieker
Welcome to IAWB Presents 90s Book Club, a special podcast from I’m a Writer But (where writers discuss their work, their lives, their other work, the...
Acamea Deadwiler
Acamea Deadwiler discusses her debut memoir, Daddy’s Little Stranger, along with writing about her childhood self, writing trauma while maintaining hu...
Alisa Alering
Alisa Alering discusses their debut novel, Smothermoss, growing up on a farm, writerly trickery, place, southern Pennsylvania, how unlimited access to...
IAWB Presents 90s Book Club: The Vacuum Vagina, with Ryan Bradford
Lindsay is joined by Ryan Bradford as they discuss the weird but forgotten horror anthology, Grim Prairie Tales, starring James Earl Jones's wig, Jame...
Joanna Pearson
Joanna Pearson discusses her debut novel, Bright and Tender Dark, as well as branding, homesteading online, Tressie McMillan Cottom, the weirdness of...
Barrie Miskin
Barrie Miskin discusses her debut memoir, Hell Gate Bridge, motherhood, depression, how the book began as a form as therapy, writing a fast draft, wor...
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her debut novel, Housemates, Philadelphia, BODIES, the spectrum of Ottessa Moshfegh to Grace Paley, structure, road tr...
Craig Willse
Craig Willse discusses his debut novel, Providence, as well as writing family systems, grief, the many times he rewrote the book, layering in tension,...
Live from Exile in Bookville in Chicago with Shze-Hui Tjoa!
Today, live from Exile in Bookville in Chicago, Shze-Hui Tjoa discusses her debut memoir, The Story Game, as well as excavating her childhood from bur...
Morgan Talty
Morgan Talty live-comments on his own Goodreads review, then discusses his debut novel, Fire Exit, as well as why he enjoys interacting with his onlin...
Live from Exile in Bookville in Chicago with Kimberly King Parsons!
We're live from the beautiful Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago at Lindsay's favorite bookstore, Exile in Bookville! Kimberly King Parsons talks...
Ferdia Lennon
Ferdia Lennon discusses the historical background of his debut novel, Glorious Exploits, skepticism and the divine, reading the classics, coming back...
Lucas Mann
Lucas Mann discusses his essay collection, Attachments, as well as Brad Pitt, being a dad but not a dumb dad, intentions vs. writing, fooling himself...
Temim Fruchter
Temim Fruchter discusses her debut novel, City of Laughter, the Jewish folklore and queer joy that informed it, the circular/non-linear structure to b...
Alexandra Tanner
Alexandra Tanner talks about her debut novel, WORRY, along with sibling dynamics, current slang (we don’t know what it is), allowing for characters to...
Amy Shearn
Amy Shearn discusses her new novel, Dear Edna Sloane, as well as unplugging, being a woman writer of a certain age, the notion of creating content vs....
Juli Min
Juli Min discusses her debut novel, Shanghailanders, as well as starting with place, working toward the backward-in-time structure, writing sisters, w...
Julia Hannafin
Julia Hannafin discusses their debut novel, Cascade, as well as the research she did into the Farallon Islands, writing from life, bird shit, grief, w...
Clare Beams
Clare Beams (The Garden) discusses the fascinating medical history behind her new novel, writing a “ghost story,” crafting a sympathetic villain and a...
Daniel Sweren-Becker
Daniel Sweren-Becker discusses his new novel, Kill Show, as well as using the oral history format, finding the right balance of red herrings to tantal...
Katya Apekina
Katya Apekina discusses her new novel, Mother Doll, as well as using humor as a coping mechanism and a vehicle for intimacy, sex scenes, giving a ghos...
Brandi Wells
Brandi Wells talks about their debut novel, The Cleaner, and discusses the Muppet Babies, writing a character who’s inventing her own world, what cons...
Sarah Kain Gutowski
Sarah Kain Gutowski discusses her book-length narrative in poems, The Familiar, the way she’s made space for her Extraordinary and Ordinary Selves, fi...
John Cotter
Today, John Cotter (Losing Music) discusses writing a memoir by accreting details, revision, being a gusher or not, reinventing the wheel with every p...
Abbott Kahler
Today, Abbott Kahler (Where You End) discusses the true story that inspired her novel, how her writing process changed as she pivoted from nonfiction...
Kate Brody
Today, Kate Brody discusses her literary crime debut, Rabbit Hole, inhabiting and subverting the crime genre, writing sex scenes, writing men, the nar...
Julie Myerson
Julie Myerson discusses the immersive structure of her new novel, how her real life influenced her fiction, dealing with intense public backlash and r...
Yael Goldstein-Love
Yael Goldstein-Love discusses her time- and genre-bending novel, The Possibilities, trying to put motherhood into words, using quantum mechanics to ex...
Andrew Porter
Andrew Porter discusses his new collection, The Disappeared, how his process changes depending on what he’s working on, trying to hold a novel in his...
Athena Dixon
Athena Dixon discusses her new book, The Loneliness Files, the cases that inspired the essays, how social media can help and harm the creative process...
Rachel Cantor
Rachel Cantor discusses her new novel, Half-Life of a Stolen Sister: A Novel of the Brontës, writing a modern take on historical characters, finding h...
E.J. Koh
In this truly wonderful and enlightening episode, E.J. Koh discusses her debut novel, the magic of dogs, familial relationships, how poetry helped her...
Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney discusses her new novel, which is based on silent film star Colleen Moore and the fairy castle she created, as well as the best kind o...
Chloé Caldwell
Chloé Caldwell discusses her memoir, The Red Zone, as well as the ambitious decision to center a book around her period/PMDD, periods in pop culture,...
Cleo Qian
Cleo Qian discusses moving between poetry and fiction, the inspiration behind some of the stories in her debut collection, allowing her book to age as...
Eden Robins
Eden Robins (Franny Stands Up) discusses her new novel, catharsis in comedy, how being a funny woman is STILL transgressive, the terror of writing the...