449 FBF: How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead

Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 27, originally published in November 2010. Jason Hartman talks with author, editor and literary coach, Ariel Gore. Some call her The Indiana Jones of literature" and her books include Bluebird: On Women and Happiness (forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the critically acclaimed writing guide How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead, the Booksense pick novel The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, the Oregon Book Award finalist Atlas of the Human Heart, and cult classic The Hip Mama Survival Guide. She founded the award-winning parenting zine Hip Mama back in 1993. Over the years, the zine featured many new and emerging writers. Still, The New Yorker raved: Gore's the quality of the writing that sets Hip Mama apart. Ariel now serves as Hip Mama's consulting editor. The Utne Reader said, Ariel Gore's transformation from globetrotting teenager to the hippest of mamas reads like a movie script about a Gen-X slacker following her bliss to unlikely success. Website: Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness