Write About Now Podcast
1) Joyce Maynard on J.D. Salinger, Survival, and Writing Through ADHD
Joyce Maynard has been writing for 53 years. At 18, she landed on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, caught the eye of J.D. Salinger, and disappeared into a relationship that would define her f...Show More
2) Inside the Pluribus Writers' Room
Since its debut on Apple TV Plus, Pluribus has sparked an unusually intense response. Viewers not only watch it, they debate it and project onto it. Executive Producer Alison Tatlock talks about why t...Show More
3) The Money Conversation Writers Can No Longer Avoid
People in their 50s are confronting a financial reality nobody prepared us for. We grew up assuming steady careers, pensions, and a clear path to retirement. Instead, we're juggling layoffs, credit ca...Show More
4) 3 Keys to Building a Seven-Figure Writing Business
Former Hollywood TV writer Amy Suto walked away from Hollywood to build a seven-figure freelance writing business. She talks about the 3 pillars that got her there, the Substack tweaks that added $100...Show More
5) The Magazine Traditional Media Refuses to Make
Lili Zarghami spent decades working in women's magazines before realizing none of them were speaking to women like her anymore. After turning 40 and getting laid off, she decided to create Jenny Mag—a...Show More
6) 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
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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