Ranked #1
Workshop 53: Celeste Ng
Workshop 53: Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng came out of the gate strong. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You, was a New York Times bestseller an... Read more
20 Sep 2017
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12mins
Ranked #2
Workshop 42: Tana French
Workshop 42: Tana French
Tana French is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Dublin Murder Squad series. The newest, called The Trespasser, is t... Read more
19 Apr 2017
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12mins
Ranked #3
Workshop 30: Jodi Picoult
Workshop 30: Jodi Picoult
It’s our 30th episode, this time with the phenomenally successful Jodi Picoult.Small Great Things is her 24th novel - an... Read more
2 Nov 2016
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12mins
Ranked #4
Workshop 14: Anatomical Historian Alice Dreger
Workshop 14: Anatomical Historian Alice Dreger
Alice Dreger is a historian of science, anatomy, and medicine, known for her work studying and advocating for people bor... Read more
6 Apr 2016
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8mins
Ranked #5
Workshop 36: Caitlin Moran
Workshop 36: Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran is the best-selling author of How to Be a Woman, Moranthology, and columnist for the Times of London. She ... Read more
25 Jan 2017
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10mins
Ranked #6
Workshop 38: Victoria (V.E.) Schwab
Workshop 38: Victoria (V.E.) Schwab
Victoria Schwab... VE Schwab... V... the author's name depends on her audience, which, like the dark worlds she builds, ... Read more
22 Feb 2017
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12mins
Ranked #7
Workshop 39: Lindy West
Workshop 39: Lindy West
Lindy West, columnist for The Guardian, and author of How to be a Person and Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman. Lindy writ... Read more
8 Mar 2017
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13mins
Ranked #8
Workshop 13: Alexander Chee
Workshop 13: Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee is a careful craftsman of language. As we came to find out, when we talked to him from Argot Studios in N... Read more
23 Mar 2016
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10mins
Ranked #9
Workshop 33: Emma Donoghue
Workshop 33: Emma Donoghue
Irish author Emma Donoghue may be best known for Room, her novel written in the voice of a young boy confined with his ... Read more
14 Dec 2016
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8mins
Ranked #10
Workshop 3: Patti Smith
Workshop 3: Patti Smith
Virginia sits down with her idol, rocker and writer Patti Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices... Read more
13 Nov 2015
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10mins
Ranked #11
Workshop 23: Judy Blume
Workshop 23: Judy Blume
Anyone who's ever been an awkward adolescent knows that for decades now, dog-eared copies of Judy Blume's books have bee... Read more
27 Jul 2016
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9mins
Ranked #12
Workshop 24: Chuck Klosterman
Workshop 24: Chuck Klosterman
Essayist, novelist, columnist, sportswriter and former ethicist for the New York Times Magazine, Chuck Klosterman has go... Read more
10 Aug 2016
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10mins
Ranked #13
Workshop 29: Josh Ritter
Workshop 29: Josh Ritter
In this episode of the 10-Minute Writer’s Workshop, singer-songwriter, musician and novelist Josh Ritter – who might say... Read more
19 Oct 2016
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10mins
Ranked #14
Workshop 26: Andre Dubus III
Workshop 26: Andre Dubus III
Andre Dubus III's memoir Townie told the story of his violent childhood on the wrong side of the tracks. Writing was his... Read more
7 Sep 2016
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10mins
Ranked #15
Workshop 34: Catalog Writer Jeff Ryan
Workshop 34: Catalog Writer Jeff Ryan
'In Maine, when we say something is "wicked good" – we really mean it.'That's how LL Bean describes their Wicked Good Sl... Read more
28 Dec 2016
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9mins
Ranked #16
Workshop 28: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
Workshop 28: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
Legal decisions are rarely read for pleasure. And though read and re-read and excerpted and quoted, they are not always ... Read more
5 Oct 2016
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11mins
Ranked #17
Workshop 4: Alexander McCall Smith
Workshop 4: Alexander McCall Smith
The Scottish author, Alexander McCall Smith, lets us in on his writing process before an event recorded for radio in Por... Read more
25 Nov 2015
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9mins
Ranked #18
Workshop 19: Richard Russo
Workshop 19: Richard Russo
Richard Russo is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody’s Fool - both were adapted into films star... Read more
2 Jun 2016
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14mins
Ranked #19
Workshop 45: Krista Tippett
Workshop 45: Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also th... Read more
31 May 2017
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7mins
Ranked #20
Workshop 11: Uber YouTuber, Grace Helbig
Workshop 11: Uber YouTuber, Grace Helbig
We spoke to YouTube superstar and writer of books Grace Helbig after the publication of her second tongue-in-cheek guide... Read more
23 Feb 2016
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7mins