Iconic broadcaster Jane Pauley will be in Columbus on January 9 with the Thurber House, and we talked about her career, her latest book, Your Life Calling, and how I’m “adorable.”
This may be the high point of my career.
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Here’s a great essay from a very cool writer I interviewed a few years back, Sonya Huber.
Dr. Christine Horner helped lead the fight to make insurance companies pay for breast reconstruction after mastectomies. The third edition of her book Waking the Warrior Goddess has just come out and she joins me to discuss steps that women can take to decrease the risk of breast cancer.
Listen to Dr. Christine Horner on Craft
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Stand up comic, actor, and podcaster Erin Foley will be in Columbus on February 8 at the Woodlands Tavern. I talked to her about comedy, her Sports without Balls podcast, and my inability to understand sports or do stand-up.
Erin Foley poster
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Tuesdays with Morrie is the best selling memoir of all time but author Mitch Albom spans genres with sports writing, fiction, and nonfiction. His latest, The First Phone Call from Heaven, is a novel exploring themes of loss and religion, and Mitch tells me about the book and the people he most likes to mentor.
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Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and a great TED talk, returns with his latest, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others. In this interview, he talks about his thesis that almost everybody is trying to sell themselves at work. And then I take him off topic to talk about how these techniques can be used to get kids to clean their rooms.
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Ohio State University’s Chief Data Officer James Brenza and Metcalf and Associate’s CEO Maureen Metcalf have a common interest: how does Big Data illustrate leadership choices? Brenza and Metcalf recently published an article looking at the role of Big Data in integral leadership and they tell me about the intersection of these two fields. Listen in to hear how Brenza defines data scientist and why they are ok with being wrong.
Craft with Maureen Metcalf and James Brenza
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This week’s guest Byron Edgington describes his memoir The Sky Behind Me and reasons why he became a helicopter pilot even though this mode of transportation has no “hands free” setting.
Cover of The Sky Behind Me by Byron Edgington
Here’s this week’s Craft promo with Byron Edgington, author of The Sky Behind Me.
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Every now and then I read an article like this Time to Write? Go Outside that gives advice on where or how to write and it makes me think again about the many pieces of advice I’ve heard from authors over the last five years. Sometimes I imagine that if I put them all together, they would immediately contradict each other so thoroughly that no one would bother listening to practitioners again. Other times, I think I see a theme in the advice I’ve heard: practice stay in the chair, keep writing and kill your critic.
