Jordan Michael Smith (@WriterJMS) stops by for this month’s extra podcast to celebrate his piece for The Atavist Magazine.
It’s called “The Snitch,” and details the story around the serial killer Scott Kimball, but, more specifically, the mistakes made by the FBI, thus turning this true-crime yarn on its head.
Jordan talks about:
Continue reading “Episode 260: Jordan Michael Smith Spins a True-Crime Yarn for The Atavist”
Joe Drape is back to talk about his latest book, The Saint Makers: Inside the Catholic Church and How a War Hero Inspired a Journey of Faith.
Joe is a sports writer for The New York Times covering college football and horse racing, among other feature assignments.
In this episode we talk about diagramming stories the way you would diagram a sentence and
Joe is the author of several books including American Pharoah, Our Boys, and Black Maestro.
I want to give a shoutout to Hippocamp 2021! It is happening! Registration opens May 15. It’s a writers’ conference for CNFers like you. Check it out.
Phil Hoad (@phload) is a journalist based in the south of France and his latest piece is featured in The Atavist. It’s titled “Cat and Mouse.”
It tells the story of two animal rights activists and their drive to find who they think is a serial killer of cats, rabbits, and foxes, but mainly cats.
In this bonus episode, I speak with lead editor Jonah Ogles (@jonahogles) about Phil’s pitch, what makes certain pitches have legs while others don’t, and the importance of figuring out how to end things. It’s much like when I spoke with Atavist editor-in-chief Seyward Darby.
Then Phil unpacks the story from there.
Continue reading “Episode 245: Phil Hoad and his Atavist Story ‘Cat and Mouse’”
Scott Eden returns to the show to talk about his incredible and ambitious piece for The Atavist titled “The Guilded Age.”
This extra interview in your feed is part of a new partnership with The Atavist where I interview that month’s featured writer about that month’s story to provide readers and listeners some extra depth to the experience.
In this very first one with The Atavist, Scott talks about:
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