James and Urban discuss desperate writing, genre snobbery, risking freezing to death for booze, and how a brush with the law turned him into a writer. Plus Becky Tuch discusses literary magazines and her website The Review Review.
Urban and James Discuss
Redivider
Vermont Studio Center
Poachers by Tom Franklin
Hell at the Breech by Tom Franklin
Graham Greene
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Paris Review
The New Yorker
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Deliverance by James Dickey
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Becky and James Discuss:
Noon
Tin House
Ploughshares
One Story
Lydia Yuknavitch
Roxanne Gay
Juked
