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02:24||Season 0, Ep. 0Gary, Whitney, and Mira analyze another recently-published novel on the next episode of Writers Who Read. Next up: Let Us Descend by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.Ward draws on Dante's Inferno as a metaphor for the agonizing journey of an American slave. Annis is our Virgil, guiding us deeper and deeper into hell, as the spirit of her African warrior grandmother helps her to develop her own resourcefulness and strength.
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3. 64: Holly - Stephen King
44:29||Season 2, Ep. 3Whitney Pinion, Mira Landry, and Gary McBride talk about Holly by Stephen King, which is Writers Who Read book number 64. Discussion slides for this novel and all novels discussed are available at WritersWhoRead.com. More information about Literary Forensics is available here and here.In every episode we analyze and discuss one novel that has been published within the past 18-24 months. We do this because we are writers who read with intent–we read to study content and form and to uncover techniques that we can apply to our own writing.We read like writers, turning our favorite authors into our writing teachers.We do this through Literary Forensics, a set of tools that allow us to look beyond the surface of plot points, down into the tapestry of themes, contexts, and symbols that hold the very intentions of the author.We uncover why they wrote this novel and how they did it.If you'd like to join our LIVE! meetings in person, find upcoming novel titles and event registration information here and be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter.Writers Who Read has been meeting in Boulder, Colorado, since 2018, and we are affiliated with the Boulder Writers Alliance.Up Next: Holly - Stephen King
02:27||Season 0, Ep. 0Gary, Whitney, and Mira analyze another recently-published novel on the next episode of Writers Who Read. Next up: Holly by Stephen King.The eponymous private investigator Holly Gibney has now appeared in five Stephen King novels, so she pops off the page fully formed and richly drawn. King is also a master at scene setting, and although he claims not to plot, don't believe him. This well-structured story also centers around retired professors Emily and Rodney Harris, who also happen to be cannibals who want to live forever.2. 63: Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
41:31||Season 2, Ep. 2Whitney Pinion, Mira Landry, and Gary McBride talk about Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, which is Writers Who Read book number 63. Discussion slides for this novel and all novels discussed are available at WritersWhoRead.com. More information about Literary Forensics is available here and here.In every episode we analyze and discuss one novel that has been published within the past 18-24 months. We do this because we are writers who read with intent–we read to study content and form and to uncover techniques that we can apply to our own writing.We read like writers, turning our favorite authors into our writing teachers.We do this through Literary Forensics, a set of tools that allow us to look beyond the surface of plot points, down into the tapestry of themes, contexts, and symbols that hold the very intentions of the author.We uncover why they wrote this novel and how they did it.If you'd like to join our LIVE! meetings in person, find upcoming novel titles and event registration information here and be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter.Writers Who Read has been meeting in Boulder, Colorado, since 2018, and we are affiliated with the Boulder Writers Alliance.Next Up: Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
02:14||Season 0, Ep. 0Gary, Whitney, and Mira analyze another recently-published novel on the next episode of Writers Who Read. Next up: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett.Pulitzer Prize finalist author and noted Nashville independent bookstore owner Ann Patchett uses Thornton Wilder's 1938 play, Our Town, to frame her meta exploration of its themes. Multiple Our Town productions ripple through Lara Kenison's past as she relates her life's journey to her three daughters. And what did Lara's dalliance with a movie star really mean? Quite a lot, actually.1. 62: Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
50:01||Season 2, Ep. 1Chelsea Pennington, Whitney Pinion, Mira Landry, and Gary McBride talk about Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, which is Writers Who Read book number 62. Discussion slides for this novel and all novels discussed are available at WritersWhoRead.com. More information about Literary Forensics is available here and here.In every episode we analyze and discuss one novel that has been published within the past 18-24 months. We do this because we are writers who read with intent–we read to study content and form and to uncover techniques that we can apply to our own writing.We read like writers, turning our favorite authors into our writing teachers.We do this through Literary Forensics, a set of tools that allow us to look beyond the surface of plot points, down into the tapestry of themes, contexts, and symbols that hold the very intentions of the author.We uncover why they wrote this novel and how they did it.If you'd like to join our LIVE! meetings in person, find upcoming novel titles and event registration information here and be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter.Writers Who Read has been meeting in Boulder, Colorado, since 2018, and we are affiliated with the Boulder Writers Alliance.Next Up: Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
03:41||Season 0, Ep. 0Chelsea Pennington joins Gary, Whitney, and Mira to analyze another recently-published novel on the next episode of Writers Who Read. Next up: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.Colorado Springs author Rebecca Yarros hit best-seller pay dirt with this, the first book in her Empyrean fantasy book trilogy, which is also being turned into an Amazon series. Yarros uses an ingenious method to simultaneously world-build and to pace her action scenes: as the tension mounts for our heroine, Violet conquers her fears by reciting rote passages from her cherished history books.