S1 Ep15: Mark Meynell
Mark Meynell has done a lot of thinking about civility and cynicism and the writer’s responsibility not just to win arguments, but to tell the truth. In this episode, Jonathan […]
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S1 Ep14: Jessica Hooten Wilson
Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of English at John Brown University, is currently preparing the unfinished manuscript of Flannery O’Connor’s last novel for publication. In this episode, Jonathan and […]
S1 Ep13: Mary Laura Philpot
Mary Laura Philpott is the author of I Miss You When I Blink, a nationally bestselling memoir-in-essays. Her writing also appears in publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington […]
S1 Ep12: Joseph Patton
Joseph Patton is a staff songwriter at Sony/ATV Music Publishing on Nashville’s Music Row. In this episode, Jonathan and Joseph talk about what happens in Music Row writing rooms, the […]
S1 Ep11: Karen Swallow Prior
Karen Swallow Prior is the author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books. In this episode she talks with Jonathan about the instructive power of fictional worlds […]
S1 Ep10: Shawn Smucker
Shawn Smucker is the author of Light from Distant Stars (among other books). In this episode, Jonathan and Shawn discuss the nitty gritty of Shawn’s writing habits, the unique challenges and rewards […]
S1 Ep9: Kristy Dempsey
Jonathan and Kristy talk about her new book Papa Put a Man on the Moon (written in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing), the process of writing […]
S1 Ep8: Helena Sorenson
Jonathan and Helena (author of the Shiloh series) talk about balancing affirmation with criticism, the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, and the importance of maintaining sensitivity to the world. […]
S1 Ep7: Doug McKelvey
Jonathan and Doug discuss the search for “a word that rhymes with everything” and how this search characterizes Doug’s writing process aesthetically, morally, and theologically. Doug McKelvey is the author […]
S1 Ep6: Russ Ramsey
Jonathan and Russ go back and forth about the fine line between fact and fiction, the fallibility of human memory, and where truth comes from, specifically as these issues pertain […]