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The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

“Learn how acclaimed writers keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid writer’s block.” Each week, host Kelton Reid chats with guests like Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, on life after becoming a laureate; #1 New York Times bestselling author, Emily Henry on her past life as a YA mid-lister; Celebrated author, Walter Mosley, on his conflicted feelings after winning a National Book Award; NY Times bestselling author, Lisa Scottoline, on what she learned from literary lion Philip Roth; #1 NY Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane on what he borrowed from Clint Eastwood; and bestselling author, Matt Haig, on the process behind his novel, The Midnight Library, and serial guest hosts: neuroscientist Michael Grybko, journalist Adam Skolnick, and short story writer Robert Bruce.
461 episodes

Episodes

How #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Jim Butcher Writes: Redux

00:36:367/25/2025

How NY Times Bestselling Author Antony Johnston Writes

00:39:417/18/2025

How #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Anne Lamott Writes: Redux

00:37:037/11/2025

How #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Jodi Picoult Writes: Redux

00:36:557/4/2025

How to Build a Meaningful Author Platform with Nicole Meier and Gretchen Schaffer of Book Works

00:35:056/27/2025

How Founding Editor of the LA Review of Books Tom Lutz Writes: Part Two

00:39:546/20/2025

How Bestselling Author Rachel Slade Writes

00:45:386/13/2025

How #1 Sunday Times Bestselling Ghostwriter Marie Ellis Writes

00:38:256/6/2025

How NY Times Bestselling Author Hanif Abdurraqib Writes

00:33:485/30/2025

How NY Times Bestselling Author Laura Munson Writes

00:55:135/23/2025