The Writing Table with Kris Clink

Alden Jones explores tips for writing memoirs and discusses her work in fiction.  She is the author of The Wanting Was a Wilderness, Unaccompanied Minors, and The Blind Masseuse. Her books have won awards including the New American Fiction Prize and the Lascaux Book Prize and been finalists for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and two Lambda Literary Awards. Short works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing, The Cut, the Boston Globe, Agni, Prairie Schooner, the Iowa Review, Post Road, and The Rumpus. Alden holds degrees in literature and creative writing from Brown University, New York University, and Bennington College. She is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College.  Her latest work is Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing Learn more at alden-jones.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/X: @writingtablepc Everywhere else: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: writingtablepodcast@gmail.com.

Bestselling author Susan Wiggs discusses her writing practices and shares the backstory surrounding her passion project, Wayward Girls.  Susan Wiggs’s life is all about family, friends…and fiction. She lives at the water’s edge on an island in Puget Sound, and in good weather, she commutes to her writers’ group in a 21-foot motorboat. She’s been featured in the national media, including NPR, PRI, and USA Today, has given programs for the US Embassies in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, and is a popular speaker locally, nationally, internationally, and on the high seas. From the very start, her writings have illuminated the everyday dramas of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. Her books celebrate the power of love, the timeless bonds of family and the fascinating nuances of human nature. Today, she is an international best-selling, award-winning author, with millions of copies of her books in print in numerous countries and languages. According to Publishers Weekly, Wiggs writes with “refreshingly honest emotion,” and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is “one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book.” Booklist characterizes her books as “real and true and unforgettable.” Susan is a former teacher, a Harvard graduate, an avid hiker, an amateur photographer, a good skier and terrible golfer, yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book. She lives on an island in Puget Sound, where she divides her time between sleeping and waking. Her latest novel is Wayward Girls.  Learn more at SusanWiggs.com  Special thanks to Net Galley for an advance review copy.  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/X: @writingtablepc Everywhere else: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: writingtablepodcast@gmail.com.

Following over two hundred interviews, journalist Megan Greenwell's book, Bad Company, shines light onto the lives of those living and working downstream from private equity decision makers.  Megan Greenwell is a journalist with extensive experience in all areas of print and digital media. She volunteers as the deputy director of the Princeton Summer Journalism Program, a workshop and college access initiative for first-generation and low-income high school students. In her most recent full-time job, Megan worked as the editor of Wired.com and, for four months, the interim editor-in-chief of WIRED, overseeing the publication’s transition to a global newsroom. In previous roles, she served as editor-in-chief of Deadspin, launched digital features programs at Esquire and New York magazine's The Cut, edited investigations and narrative features for ESPN the Magazine, and covered the war in Iraq from Baghdad for The Washington Post. She has also written features and essays for The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The California Sunday Magazine, Slate, and several other publications. She has done two tours as an advice columnist on workplace issues, for The New York Times and WIRED. Stories Megan has edited have been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and a GLAAD Media Award, and she was part of the Washington Post team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. She has taught journalism at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications and serves as chair of the board of trustees of the Columbia Daily Spectator. A California native, she lives in New York with her husband, a physician and scholar of global health, and their pug Theo.  Learn more at megangreenwell.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/X: @writingtablepc Everywhere else: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: writingtablepodcast@gmail.com.

Jaclyn Goldish peels back the curtain on her process and lessons learned as she's published four novels.  Jaclyn is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and NYU School of Law. She practiced estate planning law at a large Chicago firm for seven years before leaving her job to travel the world and write novels. After culling her possessions into only what would fit in a backpack, she traveled for over a year until settling in Tel Aviv, where she can often be found writing from cafés near the beach. She is the author of The Chateau, The Main Character, and The Safari.  Learn more at jaclyngoldis.com.  Special thanks to Net Galley for an advance review copy.  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/X: @writingtablepc Everywhere else: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: writingtablepodcast@gmail.com.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Shalvis writes contemporary romance and romantic comedies filled with madcap adventures and shenanigans and sexy times. (just don’t tell her mom). She’s sold 20 million plus copies worldwide to date and lives with her family in a small mountain town near Lake Tahoe full of quirky characters (Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is mostly coincidental).  Jill’s latest novel is Better Than Friends.  For more information visit www.jillshalvis.com Many thanks to NetGalley for providing an advance copy of this novel. Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/X: @writingtablepc Everywhere else: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: writingtablepodcast@gmail.com.