Community of Writers Podcasts
Stay abreast of our summer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir by following to hear panels, and craft talks from esteemed agents and editors. Later in the year we will be adding selected craft talks from previous summers.
Year-round, we also host Bibliocracy Radio , a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir and cultural criticism.
Community of Writers Podcasts
Bibliocracy Radio: Robin Romm on Radical Empathy
My guest this week is Robin Romm, author of a breakout 2007 collection of stories, The Mother Garden, a celebrated memoir,The Mercy Papers and, now, a new collection titled Radical Empathy. She’s been awarded an O. Henry Prize in short fiction. Her journalism and nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Wired, and Slate. Today she's joining me to read from and discuss the ten stories collected in Radical Empathy, some of which appeared originally in Sewanee Review, ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review and other top-notch literary journals. Romm's fiction draws favorable comparison to the work of Grace Paley and Amy Hempel for its empowering, funny, sly, insightful and sincerely honest characterizations and worldview.
Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio
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