FOURTH WALL BE DAMNED—in this 'sode, Ben and Jack field the questions you sent in, straight from your brain, about writing, writing at work, embarrassing reads, and a whole lot more.

Episode Seven: The Process, Part Two, w/ Danielle Evans

Nov 28th, 2017 42m 15s

POD SPECIAL ALERT! We sat down to interview Danielle Evans about the nitty-gritty details of her writing process, but over the course of the interview——and, spoiler alert, after some technical bungling——we wound up with a very different and far

Episode Six: The Process

Nov 14th, 2017 58m 52s

TRUST THE PROCESS. In this 'sode Ben and Jack break down the daily writing process: habits, rituals, writer's-block-breakers. Longhand? Scrivener? Alcohol? We go through the nitty-gritty of what works best for us, and how writers can—and should

Episode Five: The Book Deal w/ Lucy Tan

Oct 24th, 2017 1h 15m

What is it ACTUALLY like to get a book deal? Lucy Tan, author of What We Were Promised (Little, Brown 2018) comes on and talks to Jack and Ben about all the nitty gritty details of her book deal, and how a workshop short story turned into $$$.

Episode Four: Teaching w/ Matthew Thomas

Oct 10th, 2017 1h 9m

Jackson and Ben debut a new segment called Revisions, where they respond to your comments and all that's happened since the last episode. Then your fearless co-hosts dig into teaching, the white whale of writing jobs. Stay tuned for some appall

Episode Three: MFAs w/ Judith Claire Mitchell

Sep 26th, 2017 1h 14m

Ben and Jack give an honest look at their MFA experiences, and break down what it takes to get accepted to one of the top programs in the country with Judith Claire Mitchell (author of A Reunion of Ghosts and The Last Day of the War and Directo

Episode Two: Setting w/ Emma Straub

Sep 12th, 2017 1h 16m

In this episode, Ben and Jack talk setting. Does it matter where you're writing from--or where you're writing about? Should writers stick to were they come from, or avoid what they don't know? And we also get to our first weekly segments: Weekl

Episode One: Write & Eat w/ Chad Harbach

Sep 12th, 2017 53m 54s

Episode One! Jackson and Ben introduce themselves (and their books!) and talk about what the pod's all about. Then we interview Chad Harbach, NYT-bestselling author of The Art of Fielding, about the decade-long birth of his book and what writer