Writer-ing

Rove through Georgia farms and country doctor's offices with peacocks and misfits and tough as nails Southern ladies in Brad Gooch's biography ”Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor." We explore drawing characters and places and patterns from life, transmuting memories into stories, turning the mundane into the mystical, and the DETAIL of routines. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad GoochAmazon | Bookshop.orgFind Sarah:X: @sarahbethgdubInstagram: @sarahgeorgewaterfieldMore Mangum Talks: https://www.mangumtalks.com/

A deep and stumbling dive into Kurt Vonnegut’s and Suzanne McConnell's 2019 co-biography, co-autobiography, and co-craft book, “Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style.” Scratching the surface of Vonnegut’s writing experience, teaching, and philosophy through finding what you want (really want) to write about, swoops vs. bashers (and what patience lets you do whether you’re one or the other), and a writer’s first duty as entertainer (and what that means for plot and characters).Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style: Bookshop.org | AmazonFind Sarah: X: @sarahbethgdubInstagram: @sarahgeorgewaterfieldMore Mangum Talks: https://www.mangumtalks.com/

Revel in Amy Gary’s 2016 book, “In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown.” We dive into how the author of classics like “Goodnight Moon,” “The Noisy Book,” and “The Runaway Bunny” captured the power of patterns, brought research to children’s literature, and always thought she should be doing something more “serious.” And, using ski receipts as writing materialsIn the Great Green Room: Bookshop.org | AmazonFind Sarah: X: @sarahbethgdubInstagram: @sarahgeorgewaterfieldMore Mangum Talks: https://www.mangumtalks.com/

Deep dive into Stephen King’s classic memoir disguised as writing guide (or how-to manual dressed up as autobiography?), “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.” We peek into King’s handling of rejection, shame, and thinly veiled checklist. Plus, deciding what to put on the spike you drive into your own wall.On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: Bookshop.org | AmazonFind Sarah: X: @sarahbethgdubInstagram: @sarahgeorgewaterfield

An investigation into Lucy Worsley’s 2022 book, “Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman.” We dive into how Christie transforms the domestic, how she moved her writing from chaos to plot, and what Worsley calls the Grand Dame of Mystery’s “Christie tricks” — what they are, what they let her do, and how we can develop our own.Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman Bookshop.org | AmazonGet your own Cabinet of Daily Curiosities Templatehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1HtmA5QpXy6kHNk12jKY12hLIyxCpBh5H/view?usp=sharing