Writers Who Don't Write
Hosted by Jeff Umbro and Kyle Craner, this project began as a way for the two of them to get over their own fears of writing, and slowly morphed into an inspiring multi-year project to tell the stories others find difficult. Each episode brings a well-known creative into the studio to discuss his or her career, their newest projects, and one story they’ve always struggled to tell. Guests include Andy Weir, Lev Grossman, Stephanie Danler, The McElroys, Claire Messud, Mark Manson & Tim Urban, among dozens of others.
1
Introducing Storybound (and a WWDW update)
Introducing Storybound
42 min
2
V.E. Schwab
V.E. Schwab
53 min
3
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and the New York Times Bestselling author of 28 books
35 min
4
Camille Perri
Camille Perri
48 min
5
Matthew Pearl
This week we sat down with author Matthew Pearl to discuss his path from studying law to writing and researching six(!) novels including The Dante Chamber, The Last Bookaneer, The Technologists, The Last Dickens, The Poe Shadow, and The Dante Club.
54 min
6
Jeff Pearlman
We chat with journalist and author Jeff Pearlman about writing profiles, writing about sports and the people who play them, and what it takes to do great research. Jeff has written several books including but not necessarily limited to Football for a ...
58 min
7
Jennifer Wright
Jennifer Wright is the Author of Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them, and It Ended Badly: Thirteen of The Worst Break-Ups In History, is a political editor at Harper's Bazaar, and has written for publications...
65 min
8
Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and the Cinder Spires. He lives in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He came on the show this week to discuss his career, ...
44 min
9
2018 Summer Reading List
In this episode, in lieu of an author interview, Jeff and Kyle talk about the books they're currently reading, as well as the books that are on their respective reading lists for this summer. Kyle's fantasy heavy list includes The Kingkiller ...
22 min
10
John Green via Off Track
This week on the show we're trying something a little bit different. Another podcast Jeff produces via The Podglomerate was able to get an interview with legendary author John Green, so we decided to play it for you. This was a two parter, so if y...
29 min
11
Melissa Albert
This week on the show we speak with NYT bestselling author Melissa Albert, who's new novel The Hazel Wood is out now. We discuss what it's like to write your first novel, to write without knowing quite where you're going (at least at fir...
49 min
12
Born to the Blade: Michael R. Underwood, Marie ...
We sat down with Michael R. Underwood, Marie Brennan, and Cassandra Khaw; three of the four authors of Born to the Blade. Born to the Blade is a new serialized fiction offering from Serial Box - a company that specializes in serialized fiction in audio...
33 min
13
Tom Rachman
Tom Rachman is the author of four books, including The Imperfectionists, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers, Basket of Deplorables, and his most recent work The Italian Teacher. We spend a lot of time discussing Tom's writing and revising process...
45 min
14
Stina Leicht
Stina Leicht is the author of four novels: Blackthorne, Cold Iron, Of Blood and Honey and And Blue Skies From Pain. Her Feminist essays were featured in the Hugo Award winning Women Destroy Science Fiction! Issue of Lightspeed Magazine. She is currentl...
41 min
15
Paul Cantor
Paul Cantor is a Writer and Music Producer who's written for major publications like Vice, Rolling Stone, Esquire, NY Mag, Fader, Vulture, and many many more. He's recently focused on publishing stories to Medium while he finishes his first b...
61 min
16
Michael Finkel
Michael Finkel is a journalist who has written for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Men's Journal, The Atlantic, and Skiing Magazine, among others. He is the author of Stranger in the Woods and True Story, which was turned into a major motion pict...
67 min
17
Dara Horn
Dara Horn is the award winning author of Eternal Life, as well as four other novels: A Guide For The Perplexed, All Other Nights, The World To Come, and In The Image. She's also written a non-fiction book called The Rescuer, as well as pieces for ...
58 min
18
John August
John August is the author of Arlo Finch and the Valley of Fire and the host of Scriptnotes and Launch. He’s mostly known as a screenwriter. His credits include Go, Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, Titan A.E., Charlie and Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride and ...
67 min
19
Neel Mukherjee
Neel Mukherjee is a Calcutta born author living in London. His third book, A State of Freedom, was just published by WW Norton in January 2018 and is available wherever books are sold.The music at the top and the bottom of the hour is brought to you...
65 min
20
The 2017 Recap
Jeff and Kyle sit down to recap the books they read in 2017, what they're looking forward to in 2018, and where some of our previous guests are at in life and their careers.
34 min
21
Rerun: Lillian Cunningham
Writers Who Don't Write interviewed Lillian Cunningham in March of 2017 regarding her role as the editor of the Washington Post's On Leadership section and host of the popular Presidential podcast. She sat down with us to chat about writing, ...
56 min
22
The Star Wars (Novelist) Episode
Claudia Gray, Delilah Dawson and Ken Liu have authored nearly a dozen original Star Wars stories between them. They join the Writers Who Don’t Write this week to discuss writing within the Star Wars universe and everything that encompasses.
60 min
23
Andy Weir
Andy Weir is the author of The Martian and, most recently, Artemis. Though he's wanted to be a writer his whole life, it was just a few years ago with the runaway success of The Martian that he was able to do so. He's a lifelong space nerd an...
63 min
24
Amy Rose Spiegel
Amy Rose Spiegel is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. Currently, she’s the editor-in-chief of Talkhouse Music, where musicians become critics and essayists. Previously, she was a story editor at Rookie and an associate editor at BuzzFeed. She is the ...
62 min
25
Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman is an American author and journalist, currently based in Istanbul. Prior to his writing career, he served five distinguished tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. His books are Green on Blue and Dark at the Crossing, and he’s written f...
59 min