Summary: Young adult author Nora Raleigh Baskin joins Marrie Stone to discuss her new middle-grade novel, Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story. She discusses survivor's guilt, unprocessed emotion and how books for young readers can be the best way to explore difficult subject-matter, rules for middle grade writers, and more. In the second half, Alexander Weinstein joins to talk about his debut short story collection, Children of the New World. He talks about experimental fiction, inventive structures for a story, point of view choices, knowing when things aren't working, as well as a host of practical advice for writers. Here's a review of the book in the New York Times Book Review. Download audio. (Broadcast date: September 7, 2016)
