Write About Now Podcast
1) Elizabeth George: Inside the Mind of a Master Crime Writer
The legendary crime writer talks about how she builds characters, steals voices, mines real communities for detail, and turns dark human behavior into bestselling fiction. We also get into real police...Show More
2) Why Teens Are More Unhappy Than Ever
Smartphones and social media have changed childhood in ways few of us could have predicted. For starters, many children are now getting their first phone at just 10 or 11 — far younger than the techno...Show More
3) Kaila Yu on the Cost of Asian Fetishization
My guest this week is Kaila Yu. Her new memoir, Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty takes on a provacative question: what happens when you’ve built a large part of your car...Show More
4) The Truth Behind One of History’s Most Misunderstood Men
Captain William Kidd is one of the most famous names in pirate lore. But what if he wasn’t actually a pirate at all? In this episode, bestselling author and scientist Samuel Marquis joins me to talk a...Show More
5) A Sassy Conversation with Magazine Icon Jane Pratt
When I helped launch Twist magazine in the late '90s, we basically huddled around old issues of Sassy like sacred texts, trying to decode what made them so special. The answer? Jane Pratt. So it was w...Show More
6) Captain Cook Reached Paradise. Then It Turned on Him.
Historian Hampton Sides joins the show to talk about The Wide Wide Sea, his riveting new book about Captain James Cook’s final—and fatal—expedition in 1776. We get into: Why Cook lost his cool on hi...Show More
7) What Every Author Gets Wrong About Publicity
Guest Kim Dower has spent the last 40 years helping authors get noticed — as one of the top literary publicists in the business. She's also a celebrated poet, with a brand-new collection out now calle...Show More
8) The New Retirement Is Not At All What We Expected
A lot of Gen Xers are facing an existential crisis, feeling stuck, burned out, unemployed, and just unsure about the future. This was supposed to be the time when we start to wind down so why does it ...Show More
9) The Advice We’d Give to Our Younger Selves
Gretchen Rubin joins the show to talk about her new book, Secrets of Adulthood, in which she boils down a lifetime of wisdom into powerful aphorisms that resonate. Gretchen is a bestselling author, po...Show More
10) The NYT called Gen X Obsolete. That Didn't Go Well.
When the New York Times declared it was “the end of work as we knew it” for Gen X, it did not feel fine. The story called the generation obsolete, irrelevant, and even likened them to candlestick make...Show More