Episode 047 - Creative Writing/Books About Writing
02/20/18 • 60 min
This month our genre is Creative Writing/Books About Writing! With real, live, award-winning authors! (Well, one anyway.) We discuss our own experiences with these sort of books, why people might read them, and whether hairstyles might affect someone’s ability to stop time. Plus: Meghan reveals her knowledge about accordions!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Books We Read This Month
- Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life by Natalie Goldberg
- The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of the Eulogy by Julia Cooper
- The Elements of Style (Illustrated) by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, illustrated by Maira Kalman
- Steering the Craft: A Twentieth-first Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga by Hirohiko Araki
- Triggering Town: Letters and Essays on Writing Poetry by Richard Hugo
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Books and Other Media We Mention
- Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (featuring RJ!)
- Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
- Hamlet's Hit Points by Robin D. Laws
- The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki
- Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by William J. Higginson
- Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life
- How to Be An Accordion Player: An Instructional Booklet with Illustrations by Geoff Berner
Links, ...
This month our genre is Creative Writing/Books About Writing! With real, live, award-winning authors! (Well, one anyway.) We discuss our own experiences with these sort of books, why people might read them, and whether hairstyles might affect someone’s ability to stop time. Plus: Meghan reveals her knowledge about accordions!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Books We Read This Month
- Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life by Natalie Goldberg
- The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of the Eulogy by Julia Cooper
- The Elements of Style (Illustrated) by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, illustrated by Maira Kalman
- Steering the Craft: A Twentieth-first Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga by Hirohiko Araki
- Triggering Town: Letters and Essays on Writing Poetry by Richard Hugo
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Books and Other Media We Mention
- Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (featuring RJ!)
- Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
- Hamlet's Hit Points by Robin D. Laws
- The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki
- Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by William J. Higginson
- Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life
- How to Be An Accordion Player: An Instructional Booklet with Illustrations by Geoff Berner
Links, ...
Previous Episode
Episode 046 - 2018 Reading Resolutions
This episode we look back on our Reading Resolutions from last year and discuss our plans for reading in 2018!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify (new!), or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray
Links, Articles, and Things
- Two-Fisted Library Stories
- Books on my shelf that I have not read
- National Novel Generation Month
- Book Riot's Reading Tracking Spreadsheet
- Book Riot’s 2018 Read Harder Challenge
- The Master List of 2018 Reading Challenges
- Circulating Ideas - The Librarian Interview Podcast
Questions
- Do you have any Reading Resolutions in 2018?
- Send us questions for our 50th episode!
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Join us again on Tuesday, February 20th (not the 16th as we said in the podcast) for our episode on our Non-fiction Creative Writing Books!
Then come back on on Tuesday, March 6th when we’ll update you on our non-book club reading!
Next Episode
Episode 047b - Terrible Stories by Matthew (you have been warned)
In last week's episode (Episode 047 - Creative Writing/Books About Writing) Matthew threatened to read some of the fiction he'd written for exercises from Ursula K. LeGuin's Steering the Craft: A Twentieth-first Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story. For better for worse he's recorded some, so here you go. (He didn't even do some of them properly!)
If for some reason you want more of Matthew's fiction, check out Two-Fisted Library Stories, the fiction anthology zine he edits.
Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!
Join us again on Tuesday, March 6th when we’ll catch you up on what other things we’ve been reading.
Then come back on Tuesday, March 20th when we’ll be talking about Southern Gothic books!
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