Nicholas Delbanco's guest appearances

Nicholas Delbanco

The Virtual Memories Show

Book Nook

Jesse Sheidlower

Ed Ward

Otto Penzler

Ashton Applewhite

Kurt Andersen

David Shields

Bob Stein

Jean Houston

Mitch Albom

Eddy Portnoy

Jennifer Weiner

Ben Miller

Sara Bir

Andrew Parker

Gary Clark

OwlTail

Author &amp; MFA teacher Nicholas Delbanco rejoins the show to celebrate Why Writing Matters (Yale University Press). We get into the notion of literary greatness, the immense craft and revision involved in good writing, the pride of seeing his students achieve lofty heights, and the ways imitation and influence can give way to originality. More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Author &amp; MFA teacher <a href="http://nicholasdelbanco.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Nicholas Delbanco</a> rejoins the show to celebrate <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300264828/?tag=virtualmemories-20" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Why Writing Matters</a> (Yale University Press). We get into the notion of literary greatness, the immense craft and revision involved in good writing, the pride of seeing his students achieve lofty heights, and the ways imitation and influence can give way to originality. More info <a href="http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-480-nicholas-delbanco" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">at our site</a> • Support The Virtual Memories Show via <a href="https://patreon.com/vmspod" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a> or <a href="https://paypal.me/vmspod" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Paypal</a>

Episode 480 - Nicholas Delbanco

Once upon a time authors went out on book tours. They would travel around the country and meet their readers in bookstores and libraries and all sorts of literary venues. The prevalence of authors going out on book tours has been in decline since the financial crisis of 2008. After that publishers began tightening their budgets and if you were not an author with a big name they were much more reluctant to subsidize your plane tickets and hotel expenses.

Best of the Book Nook: What Remains by Nicholas Delbanco

He's been blackening the blank page for more than 50 years, and now Nicholas Delbanco joins The Virtual Memories Show to talk about writing, teaching, and sleepwalking through life! We get into his new essay collection, Curiouser and Curiouser, the importance of establishing a writing routine or habit, the process of revising a decades-old trilogy in light of his growth as a writer, the art of faking spontaneity on the page, the value of a good MFA program, his refutation of his friends' belief that language is a finite resource and not a renewable one, his assessment that he's a minor writer (or, even worse, "a writer's writer"), and the place the deracinated consider home. Plus: I fall back into the trap of Acquisitive Alchemy! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

He's been blackening the blank page for more than 50 years, and now <a href="http://nicholasdelbanco.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Nicholas Delbanco</a> joins The Virtual Memories Show to talk about writing, teaching, and sleepwalking through life! We get into his new essay collection, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Curiouser-Essays-21st-Century/dp/0814254160" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Curiouser and Curiouser</a>, the importance of establishing a writing routine or habit, the process of revising a decades-old trilogy in light of his growth as a writer, the art of faking spontaneity on the page, the value of a good MFA program, his refutation of his friends' belief that language is a finite resource and not a renewable one, his assessment that he's a minor writer (or, even worse, "a writer's writer"), and the place the deracinated consider home. Plus: I fall back into the trap of Acquisitive Alchemy! • More info <a href="http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-244-nicholas-delbanco" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">at our site</a> • Support The Virtual Memories Show via <a href="http://patreon.com/vmspod" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a> or <a href="http://paypal.me/vmspod" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Paypal</a>

Episode 244 - Nicholas Delbanco