Robert Repino had a couple of false start novels before setting out on The War With No Name series, which was inspired by a dream (really) and now includes three books: MORT(E), CUL-DE-SAC, and D’ARC. He and James discuss their MFA memories, learning to write, 80s nostalgia, and fans getting MORT(E) tattoos. Plus, Urban Waite and James talk about MFAs and creating your own residency.

Robert Repino

Robert and James discuss:

Emerson College

St. Joseph’s University Press

Arts Boston

TKTS

Pamela Painter

DeWitt Henry

David Emblidge

Aditi Rao

Jessica Treadway

Jennifer Weltz

Laura van den Berg

Urban Waite

Michael Mann

Kapo Amos Ng

Animal Farm

1984

GHOSTBUSTERS

BACK TO THE FUTURE

THE GODFATHER

LETHAL WEAPON

METROID

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

STAR TREK

MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

Urban Waite 

Urban and James Discuss: 
Emerson College

Western Washington University

University of Washington

Margot Livesey

St. Botolph Club

Vermont Studio Center

Chip Cheek

WHAT IF? WRITING EXERCISES FOR FICTION WRITERS ed by Pamela Painter & Anne Bernays

Richard Hoffman

Frederick Reiken

Lizzie Stark

Thomas Mallon

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Mineral School

AWP Conference

Sewanee Writers’ Conference

Yaddo

The Millay Colony

HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES, the dazzling debut by Carmen Maria Machado has garnered tremendous acclaim, including being named a finalist for the National Book Award. Carmen and James discuss never being done editing, her enviable file of images, and being thrown out of a plane. Plus, Editorial Director at Graywolf Press, Ethan Nosowski.

Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen and James discuss: 

Ethan Nosowsky

FIVE CHAPTERS

GRAYWOLF PRESS

THE NEW YORKER

I WANT TO SHOW YOU MORE by Jamie Quatro

Kelly Link

Kevin Brockmeier

Shuchi Saraswat

Kimberly Glyder

Aimee Bender

Karen Russell

Laura van den Berg

Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop

ANNIHILATION by Jeff Vander Meer

SMALL BEER PRESS

A STRANGER IN OLONDRIA Sofia Samatar

THE WINGED HISTORIES by Sofia Samatar

TENDER by Sofia Samatar

Sam J. Miller

Alyssa Wong

Alice Kim

TIN HOUSE

McSWEENEY’S

Yaddo

WOODCUTTERS by Thomas Bernhard

NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro

Ted Chiang

STRANGE HORIZONS

THE AMERICAN READER

Graywolf Press

Ethan and James Discuss:

National Book Award

IndieNext Pick

Page-Turner Blog

Kent Wolf

Graywolf Press

McSweeney’s

FSG

Oxford University Press

Fiona McCrae (Graywolf)

CLMP

Jeff Seroy (FSG)

Josh Glusman (Norton)

Robert Giroux

Alan Williams

Stephen King

Nadine Gordimer

John Steinbeck

MacMillan Publishing

Bruce Machart

Houghton-Mifflin

David Vann

TOMB SONG by Julian Herbert

Christina MacSweeney

Tracy K. Smith

A LUCKY MAN by Jamel Brinkley

THE CONVERT by Deborah Baker

THE LAST ENGLISHMAN by Deborah Baker