#55: Using Cue Words to Structure Better Dialogue

Denis Johnson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert McKee

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Recording of Craft Lecture: "Writing Better Scenes"

September 9, 2025

Sep 11 • 

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August 2025

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Aug 20 • 

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#54: Putting Your Chapter Titles to Work

Karen Russell, Brian Evenson, Danya Kukafka, Chuck Palahniuk, Diane Williams

Aug 17 • 

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July 2025

#53: Traveling for Research: A Field Report

Jack Hitt, Andrew McCarthy, The Codex Calixtinus, Tom Bissell, John Kelly, James Salter

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June 2025

#52: How I Research a Novel, in the Stacks and in the World

Andrea Barrett, Allison Amend, Lauren Groff, Will Chancellor

Jun 11 • 

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Recording of June 3, 2025 Craft Lecture

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“Sentence Acoustics and Style”: This lecture on how to write better sentences and paragraphs will begin with theory and then proceed through a number of…

Jun 3 • 

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May 2025

#51: "Confounding and Transformative Works" by Tom McAllister, author of IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE

Tom McAllister, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, David Lynch, Stevie Wonder, Terrance Malick, Sandra Cisneros, Anthony Bourdain.

May 14 • 

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May 5 • 

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