In this week’s episode, I talk to author and journalist Kenny Porpora about his debut memoir The Autumn Balloon. The show also features: An interview with Emily Griffin, Kenny’s editor at Grand Central Publishing Writers on Writing Radio Show My New School MFA classmate Erin
Like writer and teacher Joan Dempsey said of her old fiction pieces, I’ve found if I let a work sit too long, by the time I dig it up again, it doesn’t seem like anything I’d have written or would want to pretend I wrote.
This episode is filled to capacity with awesomeness. First, you’ll hear the rest of Associate Senior Editor Roxanne K. Young’s interview about her work at the Journal of the American Medical Association and Dr. Andrew Bomback’s essay “Errands” which ran in the “A Piece of
“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
In the pilot episode of Behind the Prose, I interviewed Tavonne Carson, MFA. We analyzed her essay “Closer” which was published in Gastronomica, The Critical Journal of Food Studies. We discuss how Tavonne employed imagery to transplant the reader to her grandmother’s kitchen on Thanksgiving, and