10 Minute Writer's Workshop

A peek into how great writers conjure and craft their work. From creative rituals to guilty distractions, writers reveal what it really takes to get pen to paper.

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Workshop 61: The Last Line
A special goodbye from The 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
2 min
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Workshop 60: Manoush Zomorodi
This week, we talk to Manoush Zomorodi, author of Bored and Brilliant and host of the WNYC podcast Note to Self
11 min
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Workshop 59: Jennifer Egan
This week, we talk to Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad and, most recently, Manhattan Beach
10 min
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Workshop 58: Welcome to Nightvale's Jeffrey Cra...
This week, we talk to the co-creators of Welcome to Nightvale and co-authors of It Devours, Jeffrey Cranor & Joseph Fink
12 min
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Workshop 57: Dan Brown
This week, we talk to blockbuster thriller author Dan Brown, on tour for his latest, Origin.
10 min
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Workshop 56: Speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz
This week, we speak to former speechwriter for Michelle Obama, Sarah Hurwitz
10 min
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Workshop 55: Virginia Macgregor
This week, we speak to the author of What Milo Saw and Wishbones, Virginia Macgregor
10 min
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Workshop 54: Atul Gawande
A conversation with Atul Gawande, author of "Being Mortal".
11 min
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Workshop 53: Celeste Ng
In this episode, we talk with Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You, about writing families..
11 min
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Workshop 52: Louise Penny
In this episode, we talk with Louise Penny, author of the Inspector Gamache mysteries.
10 min
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Workshop 51: Howard Axelrod
This episode, we speak with Howard Axelrod, author of The Point of Vanishing.
10 min
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Workshop 50: Alice Fogel
This episode, we talk with New Hampshire Poet Laureate Alice Fogel.
7 min
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Workshop 49: Michael Cunningham
This episode, we talk with Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours.
12 min
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Workshop 48: Roxane Gay
This episode, we speak to Roxane Gay, author, essayist, teacher, and all around-superwoman.
9 min
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Workshop 47: Jonathan Safran Foer
Author, outspoken vegetarian, social media abstainer and writing teacher Jonathan Safran Foer is author of three novels: Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and, most recently, Here I Am, which follows four generations of a J...
9 min
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Workshop 46: Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is best known for two characters: Inspector John Rebus, the protagonist of now 21 mystery novels, and the city of Edinburgh, whose dark corners come alive in Rankin’s hands. Rebus made his debut in the 1987 crime novel Knots & Crosses. In Ra...
11 min
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Workshop 45: Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pull from her decades of interviews with a broad variety of thinkers and seekers, exploring the intersectio...
7 min
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Workshop 44: Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve had a small, but devoted following as a literary author when her second novel, The Pilot's Wife was named an Oprah Book Club pick. The recognition propelled her into a New York Times bestselling novelist. Two days after her 18th novel, The...
11 min
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Workshop 43: John Scalzi
John Scalzi, the Hugo Award-winning author of science fiction both serious and less-so and an internet star from way, way back. He is former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, perhaps best known for his Old Man's War serie...
11 min
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Workshop 42: Tana French
Tana French is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Dublin Murder Squad series. The newest, called The Trespasser, is the sixth in the best-selling, habit-forming series. "It’s taken for granted that anybody who’s read one [Tana French novel] will ver...
12 min
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Workshop 41: Ben H. Winters
Ben Winters is a little incomprehensible. Not his output, which is consistently great, but his wild imagination and range. He's a teacher, a playwright, an Edgar and Phillip K. Dick Award-winning novelist, he's written children's books, an existential ...
10 min
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Workshop 39: Lindy West
Lindy West, columnist for The Guardian, and author of How to be a Person and Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman. Lindy writes about feminism, social justice, body image, pop culture and, lately, politics. She's a funny and original thinker, and brave. She...
13 min
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Workshop 38: Victoria (V.E.) Schwab
Victoria Schwab... VE Schwab... V... the author's name depends on her audience, which, like the dark worlds she builds, is a well-thought out design. Ms. Schwab, we'll say, burst onto the scene in 2011 with The Near Witch. A dozen books later, adult, ...
12 min
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Workshop 37: Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh says she writes to explore why people do weird things. The daughter of a Croatian mother and Iranian father, she was a serious piano student who knew she didn't want to be a pianist when she felt the call to write - and not just write,...
10 min
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Workshop 36: Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran is the best-selling author of How to Be a Woman, Moranthology, and columnist for the Times of London. She and her sister developed and write 'raised by wolves" --a British television series loosely based on their experience in a family of...
10 min