Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
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Author and educator Martin Puchner, whose new book is The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate (Norton).
This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously suggested by my guest, Martin Puchner. Take one piece of research, a photograph, a document, an object and contemplate not only what it says, but how it got into your hands. How many people handled it before you? What kinds of institutions, and the people working for them, preserved them? How did these objects come into being and how did they survive? Hopefully, in asking these questions, you’ll discover the biographies of these objects. They will become full interlocutor and not just props.
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and tune in next week for another prompt or suggestion.
I also spoke with Martin Puchner in 2018. You can listen to that conversation here.
Music: Aaron Shapiro
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Kim MacQueen Interviews Lisa Romeo - Interview #508 A (5/7/18)
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Yang Huang - Interview #501 (3/19/18)
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