Craft Talk Book Club

Nicole Breit & Mary Adkins
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Craft Talk Book Club

Craft Talk Book Club is a podcast for writers who want to improve their craft by reading great books. Each month, Nicole Breit (Spark Your Story Lab creator and Best American Essays notable essayist) and Mary Adkins (The Book Incubator founder and HarperCollins novelist) choose a recently published novel or memoir to unpack the craft choices made by the author—which they discuss over four weekly episodes. Together, we’ll read and learn from some of the best writers publishing today.

  1. 08/03/2023 · BÔNUS

    We’re Taking a Break!

    Mary and Nicole are taking a break before season 2. Catch up on The Idiot by Elif Batuman before they return later this year. See you next season!

    1min

  2. 06/03/2023

    ”Persephone’s Children”, part 4: Proximal vs emotional distance...

    A common challenge for writers of memoir is how to create emotional safety while bringing readers in close. One of the ways McCandless does this is by including photos, artifacts and documents as a starting point for essaying. Nicole + Mary discuss the many ways McCandless brings a sense of play to her exploration of difficult truths in Persephone's Children.

    17min

  3. 27/02/2023

    ”Persephone’s Children”, part 3: What holds it all together?

    Persephone's Children doesn't follow a traditional narrative arc; it doesn't even have a consistent first-person narrator. And yet the story McCandless tells feels perfectly cohesive. Nicole and Mary consider key elements that unify the book and speculate on the placement of a visual metaphor that gave them pause.

    16min

  4. 20/02/2023

    ”Persephone’s Children”, part 2: Hermit Crab Essay 101...

    A contract, a word search, a play, a grimoire. How does a writer go about finding the right container to shape their story? Mary and Nicole discuss their favorite essays in Persephone's Children, why they work so well, and how a writer might discover the right form to tell their own vulnerable stories.

    16min

  5. 13/02/2023

    ”Persephone’s Children”, part 1: Mosaic memoir, deconstructed.

    What is a mosaic memoir? And why go about writing one vs a traditional straightforward narrative? Nicole + Mary dig into the ways crafting a memoir-in-essays helped Rowan McCandless grapple with difficult subject matter like racism, intergenerational trauma, and domestic abuse.

    14min

  6. 30/01/2023

    ”Black Cake” by Charmaine Wilkerson: Symbols

    Perhaps the most significant and explicit symbol in this novel is black cake, and it's rich (pun intended) indeed. In this final episode discussing Black Cake, we unpack Wilkerson's choice to build a world around this one dessert, and all the implications of that choice.

    12min

  7. 23/01/2023

    ”Black Cake” by Charmaine Wilkerson: Character descriptions

    Writing character descriptions is the bane of Mary's existence...and Wilkerson does it so well in this book. In this episode, we analyze a couple of her character descriptions and why they work so well, and Mary shares a trick she uses to describe characters.

    10min

  8. 16/01/2023

    ”Black Cake” by Charmaine Wilkerson: Point of view...many of them

    Black Cake is a story told from many points of view, and not in an omniscient way. Wilkerson skips POVs chapter to chapter, delineating the shifts in point of view with breaks. What are the costs and benefits of writing a novel in this way? We discuss in this episode.

    15min
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Craft Talk Book Club is a podcast for writers who want to improve their craft by reading great books. Each month, Nicole Breit (Spark Your Story Lab creator and Best American Essays notable essayist) and Mary Adkins (The Book Incubator founder and HarperCollins novelist) choose a recently published novel or memoir to unpack the craft choices made by the author—which they discuss over four weekly episodes. Together, we’ll read and learn from some of the best writers publishing today.

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  • Criado por
    Nicole Breit & Mary Adkins
  • Anos de atividade
    2022 - 2023
  • Episódios
    26
  • Classificação
    Livre
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    Craft Talk Book Club

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