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Novelist Spotlight — 101 episodes
Episode 202: Novelist Spotlight #202: Famed British novelist Graham Greene, as remembered by fellow novelist Thomas Waugh
Episode 201: Novelist Spotlight #201: A conversation about romance novels domination of fiction publishing
Episode 200: Novelist Spotlight #200: Canadian novelist Jane Bow on her new thriller and the writing life
Episode 199: Novelist Spotlight #199: ‘Troublemaker,’ the extraordinary life of activist Jessica Mitford
Episode 198: Novelist Spotlight #198: Tyson Cornell on Rare Bird Books’ new partnership with Simon & Schuster
Episode 197: Novelist Spotlight #197: The writing life and the perils of girlhood and keeping memories
Episode 196: Novelist Spotlight #196: ‘Rock of Pages’ illustrates connection between 1980s heavy metal and literature
Episode 195: Novelist Spotlight #195: Kid Comet — superhero stories with heart for middle-grade boys
Episode 194: Novelist Spotlight #194: How an author obituary launched a new writing career
Episode 193: Novelist Spotlight #193: New publisher reprinting forgotten books by American women authors
Episode 192: Novelist Spotlight #192: American Iranian author Nick Berg on autofiction and his CIA-agent father
Episode 191: Novelist Spotlight #191: Short story writer Bob Johnson and ‘The Continental Divide’
Episode 190: Novelist Spotlight #190: Judith Valente explores ‘the Italian soul’ and how to savor the full joys of life
Episode 189: Novelist Spotlight #189: A conversation with Pulitzer Prize finalist Vauhini Vara
Episode 188: Novelist Spotlight #188: Book publicists Gretchen Koss and Meg Walker of Tandem Literary
Episode 187: Novelist Spotlight #187: The branding/advertising professional who turned fiction writer
Episode 186: Novelist Spotlight #186: Novelist and short story writer Janice Deal
Episode 185: Novelist Spotlight #185: Detective writer Tracy Clark’s five tips for creating characters readers will cherish
Episode 184: Novelist Spotlight #184: ‘Letters to Kafka’ author Christine Estima
Episode 183: Novelist Spotlight #183: The amazing power of AI chatbots for authors
Episode 182: Novelist Spotlight #182: A conversation with New York literary agent Melissa Edwards
Episode 181: Novelist Spotlight #181: Ghostwriting memoirs with Ruby Peru
Episode 180: Novelist Spotlight #180: ‘Book of Souls’ and ‘Book of Demons’ author Kevin Moore
Episode 179: Novelist Spotlight #179: A conversation with the creator of the Nena Knight series of suspense novels
Episode 178: Novelist Spotlight #178: Political thriller novelist Michael Fedor
Episode 177: Novelist Spotlight #177: Detective novelist Libby Cudmore and her five tips for writing series characters
Episode 176: Novelist Spotlight #176: Bestseller Abigail Owen and her four tips for writing great beginnings
Episode 175: Novelist Spotlight #175: Time traveler Amy Daughters writes to Facebook friends and books to the reading public
Episode 174: Novelist Spotlight #174: Flash- and micro-fiction author Ran Walker on the nature of the craft
Episode 173: Novelist Spotlight #173: Bestselling historical novelist Alyson Richman
Episode 172: Novelist Spotlight #172: National Book Award finalist moves from traditional to self-publishing
Episode 171: Novelist Spotlight #171: Opera singer faced the music and became a fiction writer instead
Episode 170: Novelist Spotlight #170: Remembering the great novelist Paul Auster and his electric imagination
Episode 169: Novelist Spotlight #169: From the Department of Homeland Security to thriller writer
Episode 168: Novelist Spotlight #168: Edinburg, Scotland psychological thriller writer Rosie Walker
Episode 167: Novelist Spotlight #167: Media strategist Paula Rizzo on the 10 questions every author needs to answer
Episode 166: Novelist Spotlight #166: Hot new Canadian author Deepa Rajagopalan
Episode 165: Novelist Spotlight #165: Barbara Kyle, actor turned novelist and book coach
Episode 164: Novelist Spotlight #164: John Darnton, Pulitzer-winning NYT veteran turned novelist
Episode 163: Novelist Spotlight #163: Rachel Turow on using self-talk to optimize your writing and mental state
Episode 162: Novelist Spotlight #162: A conversation with the author of “The Fragment from the Shroud”
Episode 161: Novelist Spotlight #161: Remembering “Catch-22,” the landmark Joseph Heller novel
Episode 160: Novelist Spotlight #160: A conversation with award-winner author Tom Zoellner
Episode 159: Novelist Spotlight #159: Biographer Laurence Leamer on Capote, Hitchcock, Carson, Warhol and others
Episode 158: Novelist Spotlight #158: Nurse, lawyer, justice advocate, novelist
Episode 157: Novelist Spotlight #157: Bookstores alive and well — and here is a novelist who started one
Episode 156: Novelist Spotlight #156: Deconstructing master novelist Don DeLillo
Episode 155: Novelist Spotlight #155: Bestselling author Matt Coyle, creator of the Rick Cahill crime novels
Episode 154: Novelist Spotlight #154: The light and darkness of famed novelist William Styron
Episode 153: Novelist Spotlight #153: The great John Updike, revisited by James Schiff
Episode 152: Novelist Spotlight #152: Remembering sexual pioneer and controversial novelist D.H. Lawrence
Episode 151: Novelist Spotlight #151: A conversation with the founder of Shepherd, an upstart competitor to Amazon
Episode 150: Novelist Spotlight #150: A look back and ahead with literary lion Jay McInerney
Episode 149: Novelist Spotlight #149: A deceased Word War II veteran, a secret, a letter — and the novelist who brought the story to life
Episode 148: Novelist Spotlight #148: A look back at sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury with biographer Jonathan Eller
Episode 147: Novelist Spotlight #147: Bestselling romance author Audrey Carlan
Episode 146: Novelist Spotlight #146: A conversation with novelist and short story writer T.C. Boyle
Episode 145: Novelist Spotlight #145: Joanna/J.F. Penn — novelist, writing teacher and podcaster
Episode 144: Novelist Spotlight #144: Poet, novelist and Cornell professor Robert Morgan on the life and writing of Thomas Wolfe
Episode 143: Novelist Spotlight #143: Golden Globe and Emmy Award writer/director Dean Hargrove
Episode 142: Novelist Spotlight #142: International banker turned award-winner crime novelist Carl Vonderau
Episode 141: Novelist Spotlight #141: Daniel Kraus, author of “Whalefall,” “The Shape of Water” and “Trollhunters”
Episode 140: Novelist Spotlight #140: Tyson Cornell, founder and CEO of book publishing house Rare Bird
Episode 139: Novelist Spotlight #139: Screenwriter turned novelist Jennifer Manocherian
Episode 138: Novelist Spotlight #138: Writing advice from top-selling British thriller/mystery novelist Simon Toyne
Episode 137: Novelist Spotlight #137: L.A. trial lawyer Scott Lord makes the case for thriller fiction
Episode 136: Novelist Spotlight #136: Vanessa Riley, author of Regency Era fiction, romance and mystery novels
Episode 135: Novelist Spotlight #135: Photographer, movie director and author Lawrence Schiller
Episode 134: Novelist Spotlight #134: Larry McMurtry, the ‘unknowable’ novelist, is brought to life in Tracy Daugherty's new biography
Episode 133: Novelist Spotlight #133: A look back at Thomas Wolfe with scholar and Thomas Wolfe Society board member Joseph Bentz
Episode 132: Novelist Spotlight #132: The life and writing of Philip Roth, as documented by Benjamin Taylor
Episode 131: Novelist Spotlight #131: In memoriam, Cormac McCarthy as remembered by McCarthy scholar Steven Frye
Episode 130: Novelist Spotlight #130: A look back at Kurt Vonnegut with literary scholar Susan Farrell
Episode 129: Novelist Spotlight #129: Screenwriter turned medieval fantasy novelist Josh Rutherford
Episode 128: Novelist Spotlight #128: Victoria Benton Frank’s fiction hits the big three — food, sex and laughter
Episode 127: Novelist Spotlight #127: Finding inspiration and procrastination from hosting this podcast
Episode 126: Novelist Spotlight #126: Actor, standup comedian and thriller author Amy Young wants readers to meet her at “The Water Tower”
Episode 125: Novelist Spotlight #125: A conversation with summer reads novelist Meg Mitchell Moore
Episode 124: Novelist Spotlight #124: The horror, suspense and cinematic ambitions of bestseller Taylor Adams
Episode 123: Novelist Spotlight #123: Legendary author Graham Greene on the novel-writing process
Episode 122: Novelist Spotlight #122: Seafaring author Robin Lloyd is back at the helm
Episode 121: Novelist Spotlight #121: Dog lover David Rosenfelt’s move from Hollywood movies to canine-titled comedic novels
Episode 120: Novelist Spotlight #120: From the badlands to House of Sand and Fog with Andre Dubus III
Episode 119: Novelist Spotlight #119: A look back at Norman Mailer, the bad boy of literature
Episode 118: Novelist Spotlight #118: Indian American author Vib Jain makes splash with her debut
Episode 117: Novelist Spotlight #117: After 20-year hiatus, Ray Ring returns to the novel writing business
Episode 116: Novelist Spotlight #116: Author Jennifer Rosner finds catharsis in novelizing the tragic and expected
Episode 115: Novelist Spotlight #115: Romantic comedy novelist and neuroscientist Ali Hazelwood
Episode 114: Novelist Spotlight #114: Kayla Olson makes the move from YA sci-fi to romantic comedies
Episode 113: Novelist Spotlight #113: The notorious, gilded, white girl and author Kate Manning
Episode 112: Novelist Spotlight #112: N.Y. Times bestselling romantic comedy novelist Allison Winn Scotch
Episode 111: Novelist Spotlight #111: Erika T. Wurth, author of "White Horse"
Episode 110: Novelist Spotlight #110: 20-year-old author Chloe Terranova and the Terranova Universe
Episode 109: Novelist Spotlight #109: Ray Nayler takes readers to the depths with his debut novel ‘The Mountain in the Sea’
Episode 108: Novelist Spotlight #108: Horror author Andy Davidson on success and what frightens readers
Episode 107: Novelist Spotlight #107: Some like it hot, and romance novelist Eva Leigh is one of them
Episode 106: Novelist Spotlight #106: Celebrated Canadian horror novelist Ainslie Hogarth
Episode 105: Novelist Spotlight #105: The Talking Heads meets Don DeLillo with movie adaptation of ‘White Noise’
Episode 104: Novelist Spotlight #104: Edgar-nominated mystery author Kat Rosenfield
Episode 103: Novelist Spotlight #103: Katy Hays on art, tarot cards and her smashing debut novel
Episode 102: Novelist Spotlight #102: Anna Hogeland on being haunted by the creative impulse