Steve Almond on ALL THE SECRETS OF THE WORLD
"And I had to actually give up and say, Okay, maybe I'll go to the grave not having written a novel, and I don't have to carry around shame about that. I can just do the kind of writing that I'm maybe better at or that it is my calling to do, and the moment I stopped putting so much pressure on myself and stopped\xa0making it a big ego drama about me,\xa0that actually opened up space in my creative life for me to enter the hearts and minds of all these characters who were all keeping secrets from one another.\u201d Steve Almond\u2014bestselling author, co-host of The Dear Sugars podcast, writing teacher\u2014has just published his first novel,\xa0All the Secrets of the World, and he joins us on the show to talk about revisiting California in the 80s, keeping empathy for all of his characters, his literary influences (including Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders and Lorrie Moore), share some great writing advice, and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer. And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Margie and Marc.
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Featured Books:
All the Secrets of the World\xa0by Steve Almond
William Stoner and the Battle for Inner Life\xa0by Steve Almond
Stoner\xa0by John Williams
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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).
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A full transcript of this episode is available\xa0here.