This Writing Life
Episodes
Tuesday Aug 30, 2016
Episode 64 - Laura Lippman reads from Wilde Lake
Tuesday Aug 30, 2016
Tuesday Aug 30, 2016
As a trailer for the next guest on This Writing Life Podcast, the wonderful American crime writer Laura Lippman reads from her new novel, Wilde Lake.
Parental advisory notice: there is a gratuitous mention of a de-trousered Bill Clinton.
Part one of three to follow.
Friday Aug 26, 2016
Episode 63 - Vendela Vida on why Fargo beats Parenthood
Friday Aug 26, 2016
Friday Aug 26, 2016
In this second Writing Life Podcast Extra, Vendela Vida offers some TV recommendations and asks the questions for a change. Your host blethers on...
Tuesday Aug 23, 2016
Episode 62 - Vendela Vida on the real and fictional Patti Smith(s)
Tuesday Aug 23, 2016
Tuesday Aug 23, 2016
In this first of two Writing Life Podcast extras, Vendela Vida recalls meeting the real rock star Patti Smith - who appears as herself in The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty. Vida also discusses how Dave Egger's A Hologram for a King changed her last novel.
Saturday Aug 20, 2016
Episode 61 - Vendela Vida: Part 4
Saturday Aug 20, 2016
Saturday Aug 20, 2016
The final part of ThisWriting Life's cheerful conversation with Vendela Vida begins with wondering whether writing is a form of narcissism and ends with a discussion of parenthood.
Thursday Aug 18, 2016
Episode 60 - Vendela Vida Readng from The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty: Part 2
Thursday Aug 18, 2016
Thursday Aug 18, 2016
Vendela Vida reads a second passage from her excellent new novel, The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty. It begins after a little banter and a glass of water.
Tuesday Aug 16, 2016
Episode 59 - Vendela Vida: Part 3
Tuesday Aug 16, 2016
Tuesday Aug 16, 2016
In part three of This Writing Life's chat with American writer Vendela Vida about her latest novel The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty, we begin by asking: 'Why Casablanca?'
Sunday Aug 14, 2016
Episode 58 - Vendela Vida on Joan Didion, and Interviews
Sunday Aug 14, 2016
Sunday Aug 14, 2016
In this mini-podcast, Vendela Vida explains why Joan Didion is a formative literary hero, and why long-form interviews are great. Phew.
Part three to follow.
Friday Aug 12, 2016
Episode 57 - Vendela Vida: Part 2
Friday Aug 12, 2016
Friday Aug 12, 2016
Part 2 of Vendela Vida's Writing Life podcast begins with a discussion of performance: parenthood as performance, self as performance, acting as performance.
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
Episode 56 - Vendela Vida: Part 1
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
Vendela Vida is a novelist, editor (of The Believer magazine), screenwriter, literacy advocate (via 826 Valencia). She is also a wife, of the similarly busy writer Dave Eggers, and mother.
Friday Aug 05, 2016
Episode 55 - Vendela Vida: Reading from The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
Friday Aug 05, 2016
Friday Aug 05, 2016
As a trailer for the next subject on This Writing Life, Vendela Vida reads from her latest novel, The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty - just released in paperback via Atlantic Books in the United Kingdom.
Friday Aug 05, 2016
Episode 54 - David Gates: Part 5
Friday Aug 05, 2016
Friday Aug 05, 2016
In the final part of David Gates' episode of Writing Life, we begin by exploring the question of religion that we failed to address in Part 4. 'I am not a religious person. I am to some degreee obsessed with it.'
Tuesday Aug 02, 2016
Episode 53 - David Gates: Part 4
Tuesday Aug 02, 2016
Tuesday Aug 02, 2016
In the fourth and penultimate part of our podcast with David Gates, we set out by talking about money - how to earn it, keep writing, earn money from writing.