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How Bestselling Author & Podcast Host Elizabeth Day Writes

How Bestselling Author & Podcast Host Elizabeth Day Writes

FromThe Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience


How Bestselling Author & Podcast Host Elizabeth Day Writes

FromThe Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
May 6, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

#PodcastersForJustice
Award-winning author and broadcaster, Elizabeth Day, talked to me candidly about How to Fail, hanging out with Gloria Steinem, genre equality, and how she wrote her compeller, "Magpie."
Elizabeth is a novelist, lauded journalist, and host of the chart-topping podcast, How To Fail, which has featured guests including Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gloria Steinem, and Brene Brown.
Her latest novel, Magpie, was published in the UK in September 2021 and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Described as "... a taut, psychological suspense novel about a perfect couple and their seemingly perfect roommate...," bestselling author Matt Haig called it "...a clever, suspenseful read with a brilliant central pivot."
Elizabeth was a staff feature writer for the Observer for eight years and her writing has appeared in The Telegraph, The Times, the Guardian, New York Magazine, Vogue, Grazia, Elle, and Vanity Fair. She is also a contributing editor for Harper's Bazaar.
Stay calm and write on ...
In this file Elizabeth Day and I discussed:

How failure makes us human

Cooking pasta for Stanley Tucci

Why we don't call Jonathan Franzen a "Domestic Thriller" writer

Writing about the struggles women go through to become mothers

Booking an Airbnb to finish her book

And a lot more!

Show Notes:
Magpie by Elizabeth Day (Amazon Affiliate)
Elizabeth Day Amazon Author Page (Amazon Affiliate)
Elizabeth Day on Facebook
Elizabeth Day on Instagram
Elizabeth Day on Twitter
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Released:
May 6, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Kelton Reid studies the habits, habitats, and brains of a wide spectrum of renowned writers to learn their secrets of productivity and creativity. Tune in each week to learn how great writers keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid block. Explore our archives at writerfiles.fm to find interviews with notable guests that include bestselling authors John Scalzi (Old Mans War), Greg Iles (Natchez Burning), Jay McInerney (Bright Lights, Big City), Kevin Kelly (founder of WIRED magazine), Emma Donoghue (Oscar Nominee for Room), Maria Konnikova (The Confidence Game), Andy Weir (The Martian), Dan Buettner (The Blue Zones), Austin Kleon (Steal Like an Artist), Daniel Pink (When), and serial guest hosts: neuroscientist Michael Grybko, journalist Adam Skolnick, and short story writer Robert Bruce.