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.
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Mark Manson
Mark Manson is an author, blogger and entrepreneur. He writes personal development advice that doesn't suck. His new book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, was released last week. He's wr...
63 min
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Stephanie Danler
Stephanie Danler is a writer based in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School and is the author of the newly released novel Sweetbitter. She's written essays for Travel + Leisure, Lit Hub, Vogue and The Paris Review. She...
69 min
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Evan Ratliff
Evan Ratliff is the CEO, co-founder and editor of Atavist Magazine. This past July he collected 10 pieces of journalism from the magazine's five year history in a new book from Norton called Love and Ruin. Evan is also a co-host of the Longform po...
78 min
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Tanwi Nandini Islam
Tanwi Nandini Islam, author of Bright Lines, a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, speaks to Writers Who Don't Write about running a retail business while maintaining a writing career, putting herself out there on the Internet a...
65 min
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Reza Farazmand
Reza Farazmand draws comics and writes things at Poorly Drawn Lines (PDL). PDL's Wikipedia page is ridiculous, mostly because it's accurate, so I'm going to post the whole thing here. "Poorly Drawn Lines features mostly standalone c...
48 min
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Ester Steinberg
Ester Steinberg is a comedian in Los Angeles. She is the star of Oxygen’s hit show Funny Girls. Her dark comedy smoking whitefish is currently in development at ABC. She was recently featured in Time Out LA for her hugely popular Kibitz Room Comedy...
70 min
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Matt Lubchansky
Matt Lubchansky is a cartoonist and an editorial assistant at The Nib, which is a cartoon website relaunching this summer at First Look Media. He's the author/co-author of three books; co-author of the recently published Dad Magazine (Quirk Books ...
56 min
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Dana Schwartz
Dana Schwartz is an arts and entertainment writer for the New York Observer. She was formerly a New Yorker cartoon assistant and a staff writer and video producer at Mental Floss. She runs the parody Twitter accounts for @guyinyourMFA and @dystopianya....
64 min
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Tim Urban (Part II of II)
Tim Urban is the head writer for Wait But Why, a very unique blog with a cult following that Kyle and I love. We love it so much, in fact, that we convinced Tim to sit in our sweltering studio for almost 3 hours and then cut that recording into two...
68 min
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Tim Urban (Part I of II)
Tim Urban is a writer for Wait But Why, a very unique blog with a cult following that Kyle and I love. We love it so much, in fact, that we convinced Tim to sit in our sweltering studio for almost 3 hours and then cut that recording into two parts. In...
72 min
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Jessica Pressler
Jessica Pressler is a contributing writer for New York Magazine and has written for Elle, GQ, and a number of other outlets. She speaks to us this week about some of her profile pieces on the titans of the finance world, celebrity interviews, the...
72 min
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Jason Diamond
Jason Diamond is an associate editor at Men's Journal and the author of the forthcoming book, Searching for John Hughes. Prior to this he was an editor at Jewcy.com and Flavorpill, and he founded the literary website Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His work has ...
67 min
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Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Nguyen is the editorial director for Google Play Books. Before this, he was a book reviewer at Grantland, worked at Amazon and Oyster Books, and has published online at The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Millions, and...
75 min
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Aaron Edwards
Aaron Edwards is a mobile editor at Buzzfeed News. Before that, he was an editor at Breaking News, at Digital First Media's Project Thunderdome, and at the New York Times as a James Reston Reporting Fellow. He also held internships at The AP Londo...
59 min
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Lev Grossman
The author of The Magicians
74 min
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Ian Hunt
World Famous Comedian
48 min
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Bijan Stephen
Editor at The Verge
56 min
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Clive Thompson
A journalist for Wired and The New York Times Magazine and author
88 min
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Laurie Frankel
The author of This Is How It Always Is
49 min
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Victoria Taylor
The Queen of Reddit
72 min
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Matt Gallagher
Author of Empire City
57 min
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Teaser
Writers Who Don’t Write is an hour-long longform interview show about telling the stories our guests never could, hosted by Jeff Umbro and Kyle Craner. We publish new episodes on Wednesday nights.
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