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