Write The Book

Neurologist and neurophysiologist, Suzanne O’Sullivan, MD, whose new book is Is It All in Your Head? True Stories of Imaginary Illness(Other Press), which concerns psychosomatic disorders.  This week's Write the Book Prompt is to write about trying to convince someone about something important that is, for whatever reason, deemed implausible. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music Credit: Aaron Shapiro

Neurologist and neurophysiologist, Suzanne O’Sullivan, MD, whose new book is Is It All in Your Head? True Stories of Imaginary Illness(Other Press), which concerns psychosomatic disorders.  This week's Write the Book Prompt is to write about trying to convince someone about something important that is, for whatever reason, deemed implausible. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music Credit: Aaron Shapiro

Award-Winning Poet Major Jackson, whose collection Roll Deep comes out in paperback February 28th (Norton). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to write a poem that attempts to imitate the work of Major Jackson. Read some of hisworkyourself and think about intention, rhythm, meter, rhyme. Maybe write a golden shovel, where you choose a line from a poem by Major, and use each word in the line as an end word in your own poem. Keep the borrowed words in order. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music Credit: Aaron Shapiro

Award-Winning Poet Major Jackson, whose collection Roll Deep comes out in paperback February 28th (Norton). This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to write a poem that attempts to imitate the work of Major Jackson. Read some of hisworkyourself and think about intention, rhythm, meter, rhyme. Maybe write a golden shovel, where you choose a line from a poem by Major, and use each word in the line as an end word in your own poem. Keep the borrowed words in order. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music Credit: Aaron Shapiro

Hoping you'll enjoy the show's new music, written by Aaron Shapiro, as Write the Book joins WBTV in Burlington, VT. Mondays 3-5 p.m. Now streaming at 993wbtv.org - scroll down and click "Now Streaming" to load the stream in iTunes. 

Hoping you'll enjoy the show's new music, written by Aaron Shapiro, as Write the Book joins WBTV in Burlington, VT. Mondays 3-5 p.m. Now streaming at 993wbtv.org - scroll down and click "Now Streaming" to load the stream in iTunes. 

An interview from 2012 with Julia Alvarez about her then-new book, A Wedding in Haiti. She recently published a new book about death "for children of all ages," Where Do they Go? - with illustrations by Vermont artist Sabra Field. This week's Write the Book Prompt is to consider Julia Alvarez's statement, "Part of us dies with the death of people we love." And to write. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music credits: 1) "Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) "Filter" - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students).  

An interview from 2012 with Julia Alvarez about her then-new book, A Wedding in Haiti. She recently published a new book about death "for children of all ages," Where Do they Go? - with illustrations by Vermont artist Sabra Field. This week's Write the Book Prompt is to consider Julia Alvarez's statement, "Part of us dies with the death of people we love." And to write. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music credits: 1) "Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) "Filter" - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students).  

Michael DeSanto, co-owner of local independent bookstore chain, The Phoenix, in an interview from 2012.  This week's Write the Book Prompt is to write about someone buying the wrong book, with disastrous consequences.  Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music credits: 1) "Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) "Filter" - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students).    

Michael DeSanto, co-owner of local independent bookstore chain, The Phoenix, in an interview from 2012.  This week's Write the Book Prompt is to write about someone buying the wrong book, with disastrous consequences.  Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music credits: 1) "Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) "Filter" - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students).    

Interview with Gregor Hens, author of Nicotine, out this month from The Other Press.  This week's Write the Book Prompt is to write about denying yourself something you love. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music credits: 1) "Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) "Filter" - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students).

Interview with Gregor Hens, author of Nicotine, out this month from The Other Press.  This week's Write the Book Prompt is to write about denying yourself something you love. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music credits: 1) "Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) "Filter" - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students).

Interview from the archives with Andrew Goldstein, author of The Bookie's Son, published by 617 Books. Andrew Goldstein's book was inspired by events in his own life. This week's Write the Book Prompt is to notice how you react in situations with family, friends, co-workers. Where you might normally become upset or frustrated in a certain situation, try instead to focus on how you might reinterpret the moment for a poem or a scene in a book of prose. How would you convey your own emotions, but also, how would you get across the experience of being with these people? Could you write it so that someone who's never been around your cousin Adelaide might understand JUST how manipulative she is? Or how kind? Or how deeply in denial? Pay attention to yourself in the moment, and try instead to focus on how you might reinterpret that interaction for the page. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music credits: 1) "Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) "Filter" - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students).

Interview from the archives with Andrew Goldstein, author of The Bookie's Son, published by 617 Books. Andrew Goldstein's book was inspired by events in his own life. This week's Write the Book Prompt is to notice how you react in situations with family, friends, co-workers. Where you might normally become upset or frustrated in a certain situation, try instead to focus on how you might reinterpret the moment for a poem or a scene in a book of prose. How would you convey your own emotions, but also, how would you get across the experience of being with these people? Could you write it so that someone who's never been around your cousin Adelaide might understand JUST how manipulative she is? Or how kind? Or how deeply in denial? Pay attention to yourself in the moment, and try instead to focus on how you might reinterpret that interaction for the page. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music credits: 1) "Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) "Filter" - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students).

Interview from the archives with the novelist Carol Anshaw. We discussed her book, Carry The One, published in 2012 by Simon and Schuster. This week's Write the Book Prompt is to write about an accident. Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion. Music credits: 1) "Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) "Filter" - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students).