Workshop 3: Patti Smith

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Workshop 3: Patti Smith

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Nov 13, 2015

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Virginia sits down with her idol, rocker and writer Patti Smith.

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Nov 13, 2015

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Workshop 1: Salman Rushdie: Author Salman Rushdie gives a 10-minute writer's workshop before an event recorded for radio in Portsmouth. The workshop was recorded backstage. #writing by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 2: Stacy Schiff: Author Stacy Schiff gives a 10-minute writer's workshop before an event recorded for radio in Portsmouth. The workshop was recorded backstage. #writing by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 9: Spiritual Author, Marianne Williamson: Marianne Williamson has written six New York Times best sellers, including The Age Of Miracles and A Return To Love. Known in some circles as Hollywood's favorite self-help guru, we just had to find out what the process for a spiritual author entails. by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 8: Tom Perrotta: Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes. Recently, he provided the foreword to a new Penguin edition of The Scarlet Letter. We made a date with... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 28: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer: Legal decisions are rarely read for pleasure. And though read and re-read and excerpted and quoted, they are not always quotable. Clocking in at an average of just under 5000 words, they can sound jargony, pompous and bone-dry in the wrong hands. Today... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 23: Judy Blume: Anyone who's ever been an awkward adolescent knows that for decades now, dog-eared copies of Judy Blume's books have been passed around school playgrounds like secrets, or read under the covers after lights out. Her best known books - Are You There God... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
9 min listen
Workshop 24: Chuck Klosterman: Essayist, novelist, columnist, sportswriter and former ethicist for the New York Times Magazine, Chuck Klosterman has got a wildly original voice. That makes sense for a guy who's written about glam metal bands in North Dakota, or whether you should hi... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 15: Olivia Laing: We are thrilled to say the 10-Minute Writer's Workshop has picked up a ton of new listeners, so, we're bringing you this bonus episode to say thank you! and welcome...we are ecstatic to have you! On this episode, author, columnist and critic Olivia ... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 22: Donald Hall: Donald Hall is now 87 and no longer writing poetry, a pursuit he calls "a young man's game" which takes "too much testosterone." But Hall, former Poet Laureate of both New Hampshire and the United States, long ago cemented his place in literary history... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 3: Patti Smith: Virginia sits down with her idol, rocker and writer Patti Smith. by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 12: Tom Gjelten: Long-time NPR reporter and five-time author Tom Gjelten recently visited the studios here at NHPR. We, of course, couldn't resist talking to him about his latest book, A Nation of Nations, and asking him for ten minutes. by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 20: Aaron Mahnke of Lore: A bona fide podcasting star, Aaron Mahnke has turned his love of the darker side of history into the spooky smash hit, Lore, which he researches and authors. He's also the author of four thrillers, a veteran of self-publishing, and handy with an 80s fi... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 17: James McBride: "Kill 'em and leave" was James Brown's commandment to his band before every show...it's also the title of a biography of the soul legend, the latest by James McBride. The National Book Award winner is also a musician and composer. We sat down with him ... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
11 min listen
Workshop 27: Cynthia Ozick: The novelist, short story writer and essayist Cynthia Ozick's best known piece of writing is called The Shawl, a brutal, phantasmal story of a woman and two children marching to a Nazi concentration camp. The Holocaust and Jewish identity are recurring... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
12 min listen
Workshop 37: Ottessa Moshfegh: Ottessa Moshfegh says she writes to explore why people do weird things. The daughter of a Croatian mother and Iranian father, she was a serious piano student who knew she didn't want to be a pianist when she felt the call to write - and not just write,... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 26: Andre Dubus III: Andre Dubus III's memoir Townie told the story of his violent childhood on the wrong side of the tracks. Writing was his way out, and he's made more than good, with multiple NYT bestsellers, an Oprah’s Book Club pick, and an Oscar-nominated film adapta... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 30: Jodi Picoult: It’s our 30th episode, this time with the phenomenally successful Jodi Picoult. Small Great Things is her 24th novel - and the ninth straight to debut at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. If Picoult has a "thing" it's writing about tho... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 46: Ian Rankin: Ian Rankin is best known for two characters: Inspector John Rebus, the protagonist of now 21 mystery novels, and the city of Edinburgh, whose dark corners come alive in Rankin’s hands. Rebus made his debut in the 1987 crime novel Knots & Crosses. In Ra... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 35: Jonathan Lethem: Jonathan Lethem is the best-selling author of Gun, with Occasional Music, Fortress of Solitude, and other novels, including the Naitonal Book Critics' Circle award-winning Motherless Brooklyn. He's known for reanimating and remixing genres - hard-boile... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
11 min listen
Workshop 29: Josh Ritter: In this episode of the 10-Minute Writer’s Workshop, singer-songwriter, musician and novelist Josh Ritter – who might say writer first, musician second. It was a song that spun into his 2011 novel Bright's Passage. Josh Ritter’s songs draw deeply from t... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 34: Catalog Writer Jeff Ryan: 'In Maine, when we say something is "wicked good" – we really mean it.' That's how LL Bean describes their Wicked Good Slippers, and how we describe Jeff Ryan, who for decades wrote Bean's catalog copy. We spoke to him about finding the story in every... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 41: Ben H. Winters: Ben Winters is a little incomprehensible. Not his output, which is consistently great, but his wild imagination and range. He's a teacher, a playwright, an Edgar and Phillip K. Dick Award-winning novelist, he's written children's books, an existential ... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
11 min listen
Workshop 45: Krista Tippett: Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pull from her decades of interviews with a broad variety of thinkers and seekers, exploring the intersectio... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 44: Anita Shreve: Anita Shreve had a small, but devoted following as a literary author when her second novel, The Pilot's Wife was named an Oprah Book Club pick. The recognition propelled her into a New York Times bestselling novelist. Two days after her 18th novel, The... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 43: John Scalzi: John Scalzi, the Hugo Award-winning author of science fiction both serious and less-so and an internet star from way, way back. He is former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, perhaps best known for his Old Man's War serie... by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 52: Louise Penny: In this episode, we talk with Louise Penny, author of the Inspector Gamache mysteries. by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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Workshop 58: Welcome to Nightvale's Jeffrey Cranor & Joseph Fink: This week, we talk to the co-creators of Welcome to Nightvale and co-authors of It Devours, Jeffrey Cranor & Joseph Fink by 10 Minute Writer's Workshop
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