Aaron Burch

The Lives of Writers

Michael talks with Aaron Burch about longhand, episode 10 of this podcast, Aaron’s help getting Autofocus and The Lives of Writers noticed, HAD/WAS, Short Story Long, slowing down, A Kind of In-Between, sounding like yourself, constraint, the How to Write a Novel anthology, teaching writing by thinking about other crafts, how books might come together, and more.

Aaron Burch is the author of A Kind of In-Between, The Year of the Buffalo, How to Write a Novel: An Anthology of 20 Craft Essays About Writing, None of Which Ever Mention Writing, and several other books. He started the literary journal Hobart, which he edited for twenty years, and is currently the editor of Short Story, Long and the co-editor of WAS (Words & Sports) and HAD. He lives in Ann Arbor, MI and is online: on Twitter and Instagram at @aaron__burch, and the world wide web at aaronburch.net

You can buy A Kind of In-Between and the How to Write a Novel anthology bundled here.

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

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