Month: March 2018

One of James’s favorite books of 2018 inspires one of his favorite conversations. Jon Pineda, author of LET’S NO ONE GET HURT, joins the show to talk about being worried for your characters, maintaining a sense of wonder, fooling yourself into writing, inventing the Voltron of fathers, becoming a cobbler (!) and living a life with fewer disclaimers. Plus, Miciah Bay Gault chats about HUNGER MOUNTAIN and the MFA in publishing and writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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Jon Pineda: http://www.jonpineda.com/

Jon and James discuss:

HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT dir by Kent Jones

HITCHCOCK by Francois Truffaut

NORTH BY NORTHWEST dir by Alfred Hitchcock

Voltron

The Incredible Hulk

WE THE ANIMALS by Justin Torres

Marilynne Robinson

JESUS’ SON by Denis Johnson

GIOVANNI’S ROOM by James Baldwin

IF THE SKY FALLS by Nicholas Montemarano

THE LOVER by Marguerite Duras

Amy Hempel

ANGEL HEAD: A MEMOIR by Greg Bottoms

HELL AT THE BREECH by Tom Franklin

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Miciah Bay Gault: https://vcfa.edu/

http://hungermtn.org/

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Emerson College

Syracuse University

Melissa Febos

Donika Kelly

EPHEMERAL ARTERY

Over the course of eleven books, including his latest novel, THE UNMADE WORLD, Steve Yarbrough has established himself as a master of language and place. But James knows him as the leader of the greatest workshop ever. They discuss that class at Sewanee, as well as being a Southern writer with a British aesthetic, structuring novels based on the football calendar, and getting poked in the stomach. Plus, Annie Hartnett on being more productive.

Steve Yarbrough

Steve and James discuss:

Sewanee Writers’ Conference

Jill McCorkle

Johnny Carson

IN THE SHADOW OF 10,000 HILLS by Jennifer Haupt

THE GIRL FROM BLIND RIVER by Gale Massey

Bill Parcells

Jimmy Johnson

University of Arkansas

William Harrison

John Clellon Holmes

James Whitehead

Bill Belichick

Graham Greene

Emerson College

Pamela Painter

Margot Livesey

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Larry McMurtry

BOOKMARKED: LARRY McMURTRY’S THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Steve Yarbrough (SY)

PRISONERS OF WAR by SY

THE END OF CALIFORNIA by SY

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

Ron Hansen

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Bill Evans

Raymond Carver

THE DIXIE ASSOCIATION by Donald “Skip” Hayes

Richard Yates

William Trevor

“Wildwood Flower”

“Blowing up on the Spot” by Kevin Wilson (from PLOUGHSHARES, Winter 2003-4)

Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”

THE PIGEON TUNNEL by John LeCarre

Alice Munro

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy

Gary Fisketjon

Greg Michalson

Fred Ramey

Knopf

THE OXYGEN MAN by SY

The Harvard Book Store

Michael Nye

OBJECTS OF AFFECTION by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough

Unbridled Books

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Annie Hartnett

Annie and James discuss:

“If You Want to Write a Book, Write Every Day or Quit Now” by Stephen Hunter

“Why the Best Way to Get Creative Is to Make Some Rules” by Aimee Bender

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/writing-every-day-writers-rules-aimee-bender/all#ixzz58vlFL9eU

THE ELECTRIC WOMAN by Tessa Fontaine

Sarah Shute

THE DEFINING DECADE by Meg Jay

ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT by Stephen King

DEEP WORK by Cal Newport

Anne Vogel

Benjamin Percy

THE SOUND OF MUSIC