Brevity Podcast Episode #9: Rhiannon Navin and Ander Monson
April 5, 2018 § 1 Comment
This episode, Brevity takes a detour into fiction, speaking with debut author Rhiannon Navin about making fiction from fact and how she turned her real-life emotional experience into a novel. Then it’s back to our regularly scheduled creative nonfiction, with Ander Monson, editor-in-chief of Diagram.
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Show notes and links to people, places and things we’ve discussed are below.
Next episode, it’s time for our listeners’ very own One-Minute Memoirs! Audio Editor Kathryn Rose and I will discuss what made the winning submissions stand out, and how to make your own story pack maximum punch in minimum space. And you’ll hear 15 fantastic, very short memoirs.
Show Notes: Episode #9 People and Books
Find out more about:
Charley Douglas and the “laff box”
Useful Adjectives and Adjectival Phrases to Describe Ander Monson:
- phenomenal
- maverick
- self-involved
- trickeration-loving
- asinine
- straight-shooting
- family-betraying
- law-breaking
- ne’er-do-well
- bad boy
- future addict
- serious and accomplished
- brainy but beautiful
- chubby
- crazy
- more than likely delusional
- poetryish
- encyclopedic
- whale-kicking
- profane
- piratical
- regretful
- sympathetic
- criminal
- pensive
- bright but misguided
- hurt, badly, baldly
- good
- trying real hard to be good
Additional music by John Stebbe, Ars Sonor, and Kai Engel via freemusicarchive.org.
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Allison K Williams is Brevity’s Social Media Editor and the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book. Want writing news, events, and upcoming webinars? Join the A-List!
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Lovely name for a podcast – will save and have a listen 🙂