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***Listen to Cameron’s Episode*** Author Cameron Conaway is a triple threat. He writes. He teaches. He fights. The latter was literal several years ago when he stepped into the ring as a Mixed Martial Artist but now his battles are on the world stage, raising
Woe be unto you writer, should you land in a Washington Post article titled “The five worst sentences I read in January.” When I read that post written by the new nonfiction book critic Carlos Lozada, I knew two things. First, I needed to interview Lozada. Second, I was afraid to
BlogTalkRadio, the largest talk radio network, has named Behind the Prose a most “Popular in Writing” show for the episode, “No Excuse Zone: Physician and writer Andrew Bomback discusses craft and commitment.” Bomback discussed his two essays which appeared in Full Grown People and in
So in case you’ve been living under a literary rock, Sarah Gerard’s debut novel Binary Star is a cosmic force in its own right. According to Wolf Literary Services, Gerard’s made EIGHT best lists for 2015. Count ’em: ONE: GQ‘s Six Best Books of January TWO: Buzzfeed’s
BY JENNIFER GENEST Objects are a writer’s friend. Almost any object is loaded if you think about it long enough. I am always surprised when objects in a story end up doing the “heavy lifting (explaining difficult or emotional things)” without it seeming forced or obvious.
Tomorrow, I’m interviewing Dr. Andrew Bomback on Behind the Prose. We’ll discuss the craft in two of his nonfiction essays, “I know that Elmo is Not a Child Molester” in Full Grown People and “Errands” which ran in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s
It is with great Behind the Prose pride,that I share the awesome news about Natalie Baszile’s first novel. Queen Sugar is moving to Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network under the helm of Selma director Ava DuVernay. I am proud, but I’m not surprised. Days before the news broke,
Besides having one of the best writer’s websites I’ve ever seen, Joan Dempsey has successfully merged the craft she loves with a business model that helps others reach their writing goals. On March 8 at 6 PM EST, she joins me on the Behind the Prose
If there ever was a book that surely will be a movie, Natalie Baszile’s debut novel Queen Sugar is it. I met Natalie at the 2012 VONA Voices Workshop. In a nonfiction workshop taught by Faith Adiele, I had the pleasure of reading excerpts of
I’ve never read Frankenstein. And honestly, I never wanted to. But then I found “This Monstrous Heart” by Aimee Baker. By the time she finished weaving in and out of three narratives in the creative nonfiction essay, I not only wanted to read Mary Shelley’s legendary tome
“The whole book feels like it’s going to dismantle itself on the next page or sentence, yet somehow Gerard is always in control, building up to a perfect and explosive ending.” – Juliet Escoria, Fanzine One has to be some kind of writer to execute those
Think you don’t have time to write? Andrew Bomback is a physician and writer (with toddlers and a wife) but he’s still managed to write a novel, a textbook, many academic papers, and first-person essays. On Sunday, February 15, he’ll join me in the virtual Behind
After the first two great episodes of my new radio show Behind the Prose, I needed to transcribe just over 60 minutes of audio featuring my phenomenal guests Tavonne Carson and Jennifer Genest. Why transcribe? Well it’s ADA compliant! I want as many writers who
Join me on Sunday, February 1 at 6 p.m. for an interview with writer Soo Na Pak about her creative nonfiction. Soo Na Pak is a writer and artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her essays and prose appear in The Butter; TheRumpus.net; AlterNet.org; “Outsiders Within: