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Ep 55: Best of 2024 (So Far!)

Chicago Writers Podcast

Release Date: 08/05/2024

S2 Ep 07: Nocturnal Creatures with Jessica Keller show art S2 Ep 07: Nocturnal Creatures with Jessica Keller

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Jessica Keller drops by the podcast to discuss the short story 'Nocturnal Creatures' by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.   

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Author Anna Sortino stops by the podcast to discuss Ted Chiang's 'Story of Your Life.'   

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Megan Stielstra and Sara Cutaia join the pod to discuss Megan's essay 'Here is My Heart' from THE WRONG WAY TO SAVE YOUR LIFE. 

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Jen Coffeen drops by the podcast to discuss the prologue and chapter 1 of BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON by Dorothy Sayers and all the complex romance hidden in this classic detective series.   

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Rachel's Recommendations Favorite 2024: What's Not Mine by Nora Decter Non-2024 book: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2024 book no one read: Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn Most anticipated 2025 by a Chicago author: Original Sins by Eve L. Ewing Most anticipated by an author with a long gap since last book: Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Small press titles: The Gloomy Girl Variety Show by Freda Epum Leave: A Postpartum Account by Shayne Terry No Offense: A Memoir in Essays by Jackie Domenus Friends might think you're nuts but sorry not sorry: The Harder I Fight...

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Sara Cutaia joins us to discuss a story from A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan.     

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YA author James Klise joins the first episode of season two to discuss the first chapter of THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE.   

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It's a mid-year check in with the Chicago Review of Books!  Rachel: Shayla Lawson’s How To Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir Lindsay Hunter’s Hot Springs Drive Nora Decter’s What’s Not Mine Ananda Lima’s Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! Gianni Washington’s Flowers From the Void   Greg: Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar Hello, Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano Perris, California, by Rachel Stark Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, by Ananda Lima There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, by Hanif Abdurraqib The Rich People Have...

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Ep 54: Claire Lombardo, Author, on Visualizing Stories, Pacing, and Your Second Book show art Ep 54: Claire Lombardo, Author, on Visualizing Stories, Pacing, and Your Second Book

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In this episode, author Claire Lombardo discusses throughlines, visualizing a story, outlining after drafting, pacing, working on multiple projects, and how the second book is the hardest you'll write.      

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Ep 53: Ian Endsley, Video Game Developer, on Writing for Games, Structure, and Storytelling Through Player Choice show art Ep 53: Ian Endsley, Video Game Developer, on Writing for Games, Structure, and Storytelling Through Player Choice

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In this episode, Ian Endsley talks writing for video games, player choice, dialogue, constraints, examples of great writing in games, and the feeling of space.   Turnfollow's Games    Stories Matter Foundation

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It's a mid-year check in with the Chicago Review of Books! 

Rachel:
Shayla Lawson’s How To Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
Lindsay Hunter’s Hot Springs Drive
Nora Decter’s What’s Not Mine
Ananda Lima’s Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr!
Gianni Washington’s Flowers From the Void
 
Greg:
Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar
Hello, Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano
Perris, California, by Rachel Stark
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, by Ananda Lima
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Rich People Have Gone Away, by Regina Porter
The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami
The Forty-Year Kiss, by Nickolas Butler
 
Mike:
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
Termush by Sven Holm
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Blood and Lightning: Becoming a Tattooer by Dustin Kiskaddon
Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s by Anne Morrissy
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima
The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird
The Material by Camille Bordas
Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer