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Novelist Spotlight is a gathering place for people interested in reading and writing great fiction and literature. This is where you will hear from the authors who write the novels and learn of their motivations, writing process, characters, struggles and successes.
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Episode 207: Novelist Spotlight #207: A look back at the life and writing of Charles Bukowski (opens the original)
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In the spotlight in the late novelist and poet Charles Bukowski, as remembered by with David Calonne and Howard Sounes. Calonne is a lecturer with the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. Sounes is an author, and his books include the title Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life. Charles Bukowski was a German American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his adopt
Episode 206: Novelist Spotlight #206: Writing lessons from longtime Johns Hopkins professor Mark Farrington (opens the original)
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In the spotlight is Mark Farrington, who recently retired after nearly 40 years of teaching writing, the past 25 of them teaching writing programs at Johns Hopkins University. Consider his accolades: His short fiction has won the Editor’s Choice Award in the Raymond Carver Fiction Contest He was awarded an Individual Artists Grant from the Virginia Commission on the Arts Four times he was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award in the Johns Hopkins MA in Writing Program He won the Outstanding Serv
Episode 205: Novelist Spotlight #205: Literary agent Kate McKean on the myths of publishing success (opens the original)
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In the spotlight is Kate McKean, literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her master’s degree in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi, and her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, and Catapult. She recently published her first book. The title is Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life. She also writes the Agents & Books newsletter at agentsandbooks.com. Learn more about Kate
Episode 204: Novelist Spotlight #204: Author Nathaniel Popkin writes of Oct. 7 and fractured Jewish identity (opens the original)
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In the spotlight is Nathaniel Popkin, author of the new novel Partly Strong, Partly Broken. Set in suburban New Jersey during the fall of 2023 and told through the eyes of a passionate, inclusivity-minded Rabbi, the novel unfolds in the shadow of Hamas’ gruesome attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel's subsequent devastation of Gaza. Partly Strong, Partly Broken is Popkin’s fourth novel and his eighth book. He is also a writer and producer of history documentary films, the co-founder of th
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