Writers and Writings

Aaron Cline Hanbury
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A show about writers, writings, and a little bit of everything else. I’m Aaron Cline Hanbury, and in each episode, I speak with a writer of some variety about his or her work. Or maybe someone else’s work. The point is to chase what’s interesting and good, to find out how writers write, what they learn in the process, and what we can learn, too.

  1. 04/12/2022

    19. To Read Like a Saint | Talking about spiritual reading with Jessica Hooten Wilson

    She calls it reading iconically. Which is to say, Jessica Hooten Wilson approaches literature like an icon, an object that itself can be beautiful but points toward something else. That’s what she writes about in The Scandal of Holiness, it’s really what she’s been writing about for years, and that’s what we talked about for today’s conversation.

    31 min

  2. 03/29/2022

    18. Yes, You Can Live More than One Life | Talking about the reading lives we live with Arnold Weinstein

    From the introduction of his new book: “We enter the bookstore, see all the books arrayed there, and think: so many books, so little time; but the truth goes the other way: books do not take time, they give time. They enable us to see the dimensions of life, a gift and a vision that are unavailable to us as we live day to day.” And that’s what we’re talking about today.

    55 min

  3. 03/22/2022

    17. A Most Iconic Writing Tool | Talking about a the life and times of the typewriter with Martyn Lyons

    Maybe, when you fantasize about your writing life, you picture a quill pen and scrolling parchment. But probably not. More than likely, you think about the machine that still stars in almost every novel and film about writers: the typewriter. In a new book, historian Martyn Lyons looks at the relatively short life of the typewriter and how its most famous users approached their work on the famed machines.

    40 min

  4. 03/15/2022

    16. Read a Lot, Work Hard | Talking about reading and writing with Karen Swallow Prior

    Romanticism gave the writing world its share of luminaries. Poe, Dickinson, Wadsworth. But despite its good reads, the movement also left us some poor assumptions about the nature of writing itself. You know, ideas about those uncontrollable moods of inspiration that end in a great novel. The reality of writing is a lot more, well, unromantic. And simpler.

    35 min

  5. 03/08/2022

    15. The Point of Magazine Making | Talking about editing and magazines (and editing magazines) with The Point’s Jon Baskin

    I like them. I work on them, and I read them. Because there’s a certain magic to the way a magazine is more than just words or just pictures. It’s not just an aesthetic: a magazine can host a whole conversation, bringing ideas big and small, conflicting and complementary into view. That’s what good magazines do. Good magazines like The Point. But it’s not easy. Just ask the magazine’s founding editor.

    45 min

  6. 03/01/2022

    14. Highbrow Comics Take Blue Collar Work | Talking about words and pictures (or pictures and words) with cartoonist Grant Snider

    Picture this: Drawing and writing a full-page, stand-alone comic strip every week, doing commissioned illustrations for children’s books, and publishing more comics in places like the New Yorker, all while working your day job as an orthodontist — and being a father of five. It’s hard to imagine, but actually easy to picture. Because that’s Grant Snider.

    39 min

  7. 02/22/2022

    13. For Whom Clarity Is King | Talking about writing and life’s big questions with Os Guinness

    There’s a saying that goes like this: The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates, right? As often as that idea gets batted around, though, the big questions about life — why are we here? what really matters? — seem mainly to go ignored. That’s what the preeminent social critic Os Guinness writes about in his newest book. Which highlights another interesting phenomenon: Searching for answers to the deepest questions almost always centers around reading and, yep, writing.

    45 min

  8. 02/15/2022

    12. Writing the Way Home | Talking about leaving and (maybe) returning with Grace Olmstead

    We really only have two choices: We either go home or we go somewhere else. For a good percentage of educated, upwardly mobile Americans, the default choice seems to be to leave. But why? And, more importantly, what are we leaving behind?

    47 min
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A show about writers, writings, and a little bit of everything else. I’m Aaron Cline Hanbury, and in each episode, I speak with a writer of some variety about his or her work. Or maybe someone else’s work. The point is to chase what’s interesting and good, to find out how writers write, what they learn in the process, and what we can learn, too.

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  • Creator
    Aaron Cline Hanbury
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Aaron Cline Hanbury
  • Show Website
    Writers and Writings

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