Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
Arts:Books
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
655
Rebecca Valley - 10/24/22
Stephen Kurkjian - Archive Interview (10/17/22)
Editors of Vermont Almanac - 10/10/22
Kim MacQueen Interviews John Killacky and Mark Redmond - 9/26/22
Kimberly Garrett Brown - 9/19/22
Doug Wilhelm - 9/12/22
Angela Palm and Malisa Garlieb - Archive Interviews (8/5/22)
Daniel Lusk - 8/29/22
Fiona Barton - 8/15/22
Stephen Cramer - Archive Interview (8/8/22)
Mohsin Hamid - 8/1/22
Laura Budofsky Wisniewski - 7/25/22
Shanta Lee Gander - 7/18/22
Archive Interview - J Robert Lennon (7/11/22)
Wendy Call - Archive Interview (7/4/22)
Jennifer Egan - 6/27/22
Carlos Allende - 6/20/22
Jori Lewis - 6/13/22
Meg Wolitzer - Archive Interview (6/6/22)
Lois Eby and Nadine Budbill - 6/1/22
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Lit Society: Books and Drama
Ex Libris
Fresh Air
Anne of Avonlea
The Count of Monte Cristo
Myths and Legends
What Should I Read Next?