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University of Minnesota Press “I want to be a living work of art”: On the Marchesa Luisa Casati“If the public can predict you, it starts to like you. But the Marchesa didn’t want to be liked.” For the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Marchesa Luisa Casati astounded Europe. Artists such as Man Ray painted, sculpted, and photographed her; writers such as Ezra Pound and Jack Kerouac praised her strange beauty. An Italian woman of means who questioned the traditional gender codes of her time, she dismissed fixed identities as mere constructions. Gathering on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the first publication of Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marche...

2025-02-1949 min

Mix Off Radio Electric Street Beat Mix Show 12-23-24 (DJ Mix) NewHouseMusic-ElectronicMusicElectric Street beat mix show Intro Ready Set Go [Locus] - Luke Dean SWITCH [KICA Records] - KICA Feel [TAU] - Adana Twins & Hardt Antoine Wild [DIRTYBIRD] 2CB [Planet Haze Records] - Marc Wellon Nasty - Dotwork Say What (Ben Teller Remix) - Keinemusik NOZU -Free Everybody Be Somebody (Archie Hamilton Edit) - Ruffneck Reroute [DIRTYBIRD] It All Starts With A Star ft. Francesco Tristano [Maison D'Etre] - Francesca Lombardo Milito Pa ft. Ssero [No Religion Lab.] - Rendher The Game [DIRTYBIRD] House Work (STUND Remix...

2024-12-241h 30

Piers Morgan Uncensored Trump's Selling Bibles?Piers is joined by a global super-pack in the shape of Sage Steele, Vincent Oshana, Francesca Fiorentini, Esther Krakue and Ava Santina to discuss this week's burning topics.From Donald Trump's relationship with the Bible, to Princess Catherine's health, the Baltimore Bridge disaster, Meghan Markle's latest money-making venture and Sam Smith's cheeky fashion faux pas, just another action-packed debate!00:00 - Introduction 01:07 - Francesca Fiorentini on Trump: “He’s a bible salesman”04:00 - Do you think Donald Trump prays nightly?05:58 - Ava Santina: “I don’t think Donald Trump is th...

2024-03-2937 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele REPLAY Jenny JacksonSince releasing this episode in January, Pineapple Street, now out in the UK, has become a New York Times bestseller! Enjoy! ---Jenny Jackson’s forthcoming novel Pineapple Street is one of the best books I’ve read in the last year, but Jenny is also a Vice President and Executive Editor at Knopf, so she knows all about publishing from the other side of things too. She has an incredible list of authors, from Emily St John Mandel, to Cormac McCarthy, Helen Fielding, Katherine Heiny, who we’ve had on this podcast before...

2023-04-1351 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Tessa HadleyIf you want to write domestic fiction I cannot recommend reading Tessa Hadley, or indeed listening to her here, enough. Tessa, who has been long-listed twice for what is now the Women’s Prize and whom the Washington Post called “one of the greatest stylists alive”, wrote four failed novels throughout her thirties and was finally published aged 46, with Accidents in the Home. She has now written eight novels and is one of the modern masters of domestic fiction, burrowing into the complex inner lives of middle aged women and the clashes between them, their feelings and the o...

2023-02-1657 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Andrew Sean GreerAndrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of six novels including Less and Less is Lost, which are both bittersweet, tragicomic road trip tales about Arthur Less, a failing and flailing mid-list novelist. But it’s not just through his fiction that Greer is familiar with mid-list despondency. He originally wrote Less when he was feeling exactly that way himself, but then, although it was rejected by 12 British publishers, felt slightly less dependent when it went on to win the Pulitzer! Last he year he published a follow-on, Less is Lost, which his agent actually advised him not to...

2023-02-0951 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Monica HeiseyMonica Heisey is the author of the very funny Really Good, Actually, which just came out a week ago and became an instant Sunday times bestseller. It’s about a woman in her twenties getting divorced, which is something that Monica herself did aged 28, weirdly just after she had begun to write a different novel in which her character Kathleen had started to have marriage problems. That book didn’t make it, which we talk about here, but Monica is actually pretty used to things not making it because she’s also a TV writer (her credits...

2023-02-0251 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Alan GarnerLast year, Alan Garner became the oldest person ever to be shortlisted for the Booker prize, at the age of 87, for his novel Treacle Walker. Alan has been writing novels and other books for more than 60 years, many of them rooted in the folklore and mythology of Cheshire where he is from. His first novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen had people calling him the new Tolkien and he received an OBE in 2001 for services to literature. Among Alan’s books is his incredible memoir Where Shall We Run To, in which he describes his childhood. He was...

2023-01-2646 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Jenny JacksonJenny Jackson’s forthcoming novel Pineapple Street is one of the best books I’ve read in the last year, but Jenny is also a Vice President and Executive Editor at Knopf, so she knows all about publishing from the other side of things too. She has an incredible list of authors, from Emily St John Mandel, to Cormac McCarthy, Helen Fielding, Katherine Heiny, who we’ve had on this podcast before. And she says that after 20 years in publishing writing has taught her to be a better editor. Finally, she says, she understands why it is that authors can be...

2023-01-1950 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Robert WebbGood news for Peep Show fans! I am so delighted to have Robert Webb on the podcast today. Rob's memoir How Not To Be A Boy is one of my favourite books ever, a brilliant look at Rob's background and what I think we would now call toxic masculinity – it's the best exploration I've ever seen of how gender stereotypes serve men as badly as they serve women. Rob has also written an excellent novel, Come Again, about a woman grieving her late husband who suddenly finds herself back at university meeting him for the first time. ...

2023-01-1255 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Deesha PhilyawThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw’s book of deliciously vibrant and rebellious short stories about sex and black women navigating social pressures, won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2021, and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2020. What I love about Deesha’s writing journey is that she did so much other stuff before she even thought about writing. It was only really when she quit her more high-flying job and began teaching the creative processes of writing as an English teacher that Deesha began to learn those creative processes hersel...

2023-01-0556 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele REPLAY Meg MasonI am on a little break from Season 3 for Christmas this week, but I thought you might enjoy a replay of my interview with Meg Mason in July last year, in which she talks about the traumatic experience of writing her "untitled Christmas novel"!Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!Do come find me on Twitter - @francescasteele - or Instagram - @francescasteelewrites - I'd love to hear your stories about self-doubt, rejection and – of course – success! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

2022-12-2952 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Sarah TurnerWho deserves to be a writer? When Sarah Turner was in her early twenties she had a baby, found it challenging and, unable to find writing online to match her experience, set up a blog. A couple of years later that blog, The Unmumsy Mum, had nearly 100,000 readers and landed Sarah a book deal. Her three very funny, honest non-fiction books about parenting have all been bestsellers, as has her debut novel Stepping Up, which came out this year. So why is Sarah on Write-Off. Well, because of that question: who deserves to be a...

2022-12-2254 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Ian RankinMy guest this week is so well-known that his unfinished manuscripts and first drafts have been displayed at the National Library of Scotland. Sir Ian Rankin has published more than 35 books in his 36 years of writing. That includes 24 novels about the Edinburgh police detective John Rebus, which have sold over 30 million copies around the world. His latest, A Heart Full of Headstones, came out this year. What is so interesting about Rankin’s publishing history is that he really didn’t make it straight out the gate. In fact it took him a while writing in quite...

2022-12-1557 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Bonnie GarmusMy guest today is the fabulous Bonnie Garmus! Despite wanting to be a writer all her life, Bonnie’s debut Lessons in Chemistry was published when she was 64. The book, about Elizabeth Zott, a formidable 1950s chemist and reluctant cooking show host, has gone on to sell in 40 countries, has been sitting on the bestseller lists for months and is being made into a TV show.But before this Bonnie wrote several books, the last of which was sent out to and rejected by 98 agents. Wow! We talk about her husband asking her why she was co...

2022-12-0846 min

Soulsorts The Soulsorts Record Room 22 Indie Soul Archive 50 #2The Soulsorts Record Room ’22 Indie Soul Archive 50 #2Playlist:Soul Vigilantes – Shy2unes – All I Need Is YouShayna Steele – Different This TimeFrancesca Sortino – FlatteringWicked Jazz Sounds Band – Three Elements (Tribute To EWF)Black Lillies – Between the Lines (Bennson Remix)Augie's Side Effect – About TimeTrizonna McClendon – My SpecialMarisa Lindsay – I Think I Want To Be In LoveKatie Cole – Think About ItRoberto Crichlow – Isn't It LovelyChristie Andrews – SmileNia Allen – Since You...

2022-09-063h 29

Torn MiniskirtIt's 1965 and London is about to become the capital of cool. Designer Mary Quant is watching the fashionable girls of Chelsea go by from the window of her shop, Bazaar. Their hemlines seem to be getting shorter and shorter. Inspired, Mary gets to work and what she comes up with many will find deeply shocking. It’s the miniskirt.In episode eight of Torn, Gus Casely-Hayford finds that media, society and feminists can never agree on whether the miniskirt is a good thing. Fashion historian Valerie Steele draws parallels with the 1920s when feminist disagreed ov...

2022-08-2915 min

The Domain of Women Uplifting the Domain of WomenIn this episode you’ll hear each of my guests tell me about a woman in their field that they admire. I’m so glad that I can use this podcast as a space to appreciate and celebrate the work of brilliant women!If you or someone you know wants to chat with me for season two, please reach out to me!Links:Follow Clare Wilkinson on Twitter!More about Judith Okely!Follow Anna on Twitter!More about Dr. Teresa Steele!Follow Amber on Twitter!

2022-06-2819 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Liane MoriartyIt’s hard to express quite how much I love Liane Moriarty's writing. I have read all of her books, some of them many times, and I just think she combines such a good eye for women's interior lives and the complex issues we confront in ordinary, everyday life with a great sense of humour and unique momentum. Liane published her first novel at 38, spurred on when her sister Jaclyn, also an author, was published. Her first attempt, though – a children’s book – was, she says, rejected by everyone. I love listening to Liane talk about sibling rivalry and support...

2022-04-2851 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele David DuchovnyYou probably know David Duchovny from decades on our screens as the FBI agent Fox Mulder in The X-Files and the TV show Californication, as well as the recent Judd Apatow film The Bubble and last year's Netflix hit The Chair, a campus comedy in which David plays himself – taking the mick out of himself.It’s not often that Hollywood and literary fiction collide in this way but David Duchovny is in fact now a successful novelist as well as a musician and actor, with four novels under his belt and a new novella, The Reser...

2022-04-2145 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Joanne HarrisThis interview has a special place in my heart because Joanne Harris, the prolific author known for the gorgeous Chocolat, among other things, was the first person I ever interviewed. I spoke to her for my university newspaper 20 years ago, and she was, thankfully, very nice then and remains very nice today. I’m not sure I’ve spoken to a more adventurous novelist. Joanne fearlessly tackles whichever genre she is interested in at the time and indeed isn’t fond of the notion of genres at all actually. We talk about her excellent new thriller, A Narro...

2022-04-1447 min $Writer\'s Bone$

Writer's Bone Episode 526: Rachel Barenbaum, Author of Atomic AnnaRachel Barenbaum returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford and Kelly J. Ford about her latest novel Atomic Anna. To learn more about Rachel Barenbaum, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Also listen to our first interview with the author. Atomic Anna was featured in February 2021's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." To learn more about Kelly J. Ford, visit her official website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Listen to our first chat with the author in Episode 402. ...

2022-04-1241 min $Writer\'s Bone$

Writer's Bone Friday Morning Coffee: Tessa Hadley, Author of Free LoveAuthor Tessa Hadley chats with Daniel Ford on the latest Friday Morning Coffee episode about her novel Free Love. National Library Week also gives Caitlin Malcuit an excuse to discuss the magic of libraries and librarians. She also talks about how libraries are woefully underfunded at the national level. #FundLibraries To learn more about Tessa Hadley, read her work in The New Yorker. Free Love was featured in February 2022's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm, A Mighty Blaze podcast, and Write-Off with Francesca...

2022-04-0828 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Jeffrey ArcherJeffrey Archer is a bit different from many of my usual guests. He’s not at all sentimental, he’s very confident – I mean this is a former MP who went to prison for perjury after all – and in many ways that confidence seems impenetrable. But this is, I think, what makes him so interesting to listen to because even Jeffrey Archer is afflicted by self-doubt and even Jeffrey Archer has had to come up with strategies for dealing with it, even if sometimes the strategy is basically just being ferociously productive. Since his first book, Not a Penny More, No...

2022-04-0745 min $Writer\'s Bone$

Writer's Bone Episode 525: Keith Law, Author of The Inside GameAuthor and journalist Keith Law helps Daniel Ford and Mike Nelson celebrate Major League Baseball's upcoming Opening Day by discussing his books The Inside Game and Smart Baseball. Law also chats about the analytics revolution, the use and abuse of amateur pitchers, and why great writers have to be great readers. To learn more about Keith Law, visit his official website and read his work for The Athletic. Also follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Smart Baseball was featured in September 2017's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar" and The Inside Game landed in September 2021's...

2022-04-051h 02

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Abi ElphinstoneI loved talking to Abi Elphinstone, a bestselling children’s author who writes about dreamsnatchers and sky gods and wildcats. She has been called a worthy successor to C.S. Lewis by The Times, and talks regularly at schools about her writing process, with great enthusiasm even when the kids mistake her for JK Rowling. I was especially grateful to Abi for fitting me in when she was practically moments from giving birth, and I think that’s testament to how she’s always keen to chat about her work whenever she can. We actually haven’t had an...

2022-03-3138 min $Writer\'s Bone$

Writer's Bone Episode 524: Edwin Hill & Paul VidichThis is the first episode in March not to feature our new co-host Kelly J. Ford, which means we had to bring on two authors to help us fill the wine glass-shaped hole we had in the show. Daniel Ford chats with our dear literary friend Edwin Hill about his new standalone novel The Secrets We Share. Daniel then welcomes Paul Vidich, perhaps our favorite spy fiction author at the moment, back on the show to discuss his latest novel The Matchmaker. To learn more about Edwin Hill, visit his official website, like his Facebook...

2022-03-2937 min $Writer\'s Bone$

Writer's Bone Friday Morning Coffee: John Nardizzi, Author of The Burden of InnocenceOG Writer's Bone guest John Nardizzi joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about his latest Ray Infantino novel The Burden of Innocence. Caitlin Malcuit is off this week, so Daniel runs down a few topics such as the United States accepting 100,000 Ukrainian refugees (but only 75,000 Afghans not too long ago with more time to plan and execute a smooth withdrawal) and some stupid questions from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings (“Do you agree with this book that is being taught with kids that babies are racist?”). To learn more ab...

2022-03-2524 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Chris PalingChris Paling, a BBC radio producer, had an auspicious start as a writer, accidentally stumbling across a very starry agent with his first attempt at writing a novel. That novel didn’t actually sell though, along with several others, and later in his career, after he had been published, Chris began to keep a diary of his musings about the industry. Not originally intended for publication, that diary is in fact now published as A Very Nice Rejection Letter, a lovely, very funny book. Chris is really good on that sort of sixth sense as to whether something is wor...

2022-03-2441 min $Writer\'s Bone$

Writer's Bone Episode 523: Eli Cranor, Author of Don't Know ToughAuthor Eli Cranor stops by the show to drink a little God's Own and chat with Daniel Ford and Kelly J. Ford about his debut Don't Know Tough. Learn more about Eli Cranor, visit his official website, like his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter. To learn more about Kelly J. Ford, visit her official website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Listen to our first chat with the author in Episode 402. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Write-Off with Francesca Steele.

2022-03-2247 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Sandra NewmanIf you don’t already know Sandra Newman, you are going to be hearing a lot about her in the next year or so. Her new book, The Men, about a world in which everyone with a Y chromosome vanishes, is out this June, and she is also currently writing a much anticipated feminist retelling of George Orwell’s 1984. Sandra has experienced plenty of failure, notably when her publisher declined to publish the second book in her two book deal, We discuss unlikeable books, and she tells me all about the time she pulled off a remar...

2022-03-1743 min $Writer\'s Bone$

Writer's Bone Episode 522: Alex Segura, Author of Secret Identity (With Special Guest Host Kelly J. Ford)Alex Segura, author of the Pete Fernandez series, joins Daniel Ford and Kelly J. Ford on the show to chat about his new book Secret Identity. To learn more about Alex Segura, visit his official website, like his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Also listen to our last chat with the author. Make sure you read his "The Delectable Neo-Noir of Taylor Swift" post on Tidal as well. To learn more about Kellye Garrett, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Also listen...

2022-03-1545 min $Writer\'s Bone$

Writer's Bone Friday Morning Coffee: Yara Zgheib, Author of No Land to Light OnAuthor Yara Zgheib joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to chat about her novel No Land to Light On. Caitlin Malcuit also discusses the disparate treatment of refugees from Syria and Ukraine. To learn more about Yara Zgheib, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Instagram. No Land to Light On was featured in January 2022's "Books That Should Be On Your Radar." Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Write-Off with Francesca Steele.

2022-03-1129 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Paula HawkinsWhen The Girl on the Train came out in 2015 and went straight to number one on global bestseller lists Paula Hawkins was pitched like a debut. But in fact Paula had written several previous novels, romantic comedies, under a pseudonym, the last of which hadn’t done well at all, leaving Paula feeling seriously rejected. What I loved about talking to Paula is they even though she is now one of the most famous thriller writers alive, she remains extremely cautious and circumspect, with vivid recollections of how it felt before she was successful and before she started to really...

2022-03-1045 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Matt CainI find this interview so inspiring. Matt Cain is a successful arts journalist and at the time of his first book submission he was Culture Editor for Channel 4, praised in particular for his coverage of the Woman’s Prize for Fiction. But 2010, the semi-autobiographical book Matt had been working on about a child growing up -like himself - gay in the north of England - was rejected in part for being what he says were coded ways of saying it was “too gay”. Matt’s book was put up for submission three times over the next decade and rejected by more...

2022-03-0337 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Clare ChambersWelcome back! Clare Chambers is kicking off this season. Clare has written nine published novels - her first when she was just 26 and her latest, Small Pleasures, a wonderful book long-listed for the Woman’s Prize last year. But just before Small Pleasures there was a failed novel that nearly caused Clare to give up on writing altogether. It took her five years to write and then no one wanted to buy it.We talked about her feeling her career was over aged 50, working as an editor herself for the legendary publisher Diana Athill, how she swi...

2022-02-2347 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Meg MasonWhat do you do when you've written an entire book you hate? Martha, the narrator or Sorrow and Bliss, is intelligent, critical, loving, cruel: an incredibly nuanced unforgettable character. She suffers from an undiagnosed mental health condition and when we meet her she has just split up with her husband Patrick. It's a very wise, sad funny book, with a unique, dry tone. I absolutely loved it.I love it perhaps even more now that i know it was born of failure. Meg Mason is a journalist, originally from New Zealand now living...

2021-07-0752 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Douglas StuartWhat a year the Booker prize winning author Douglas Stuart has had. Born on a housing estate in Glasgow Douglas and his siblings were raised by a single mum who died of alcoholism when he was 16. In his 30s, by this time working in fashion in New York, fouglas started writing a book about a little boy similar to him - Shuggie Bain, a kind, resilient, gay child struggling to fit in to his working class Thatcherite community and trying to take care of gregarious, well-meaning, alcoholic mother. Ten years later, the novel finally finished, it was rejected first b...

2021-06-3047 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Michèle RobertsThe Booker longlisted, Women’s Prize shortlisted Michèle Roberts is, like her books, wonderfully erudite, perceptive and expressive. Michèle has been writing professionally for more than 40 years and has published 17 novels, 2 memoirs and has contributed to many poetry and essay collections too. She was once poetry editor at the feminist magazine Spare Rib and her 2007 memoir Paper Houses is a vivid account of her involvement is 70s socialism and feminism. Her new novel Cut Out, about the women who helped Matisse create his art, is out in August. She is by any metric a literary success. ...

2021-06-2349 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Alex WheatleThe British novelist Alex Wheatle has such an extraordinary backstory that when he was working in the writers’ room for Steve McQueen’s BAFTA winning film series Small Axe, McQueen ended up making one of the films about Alex’s own life. Alex was raised in a care home where he was abused. He emgered as teenager in Brixton under-educated and ill-prepared for adulthood, and in 1981 was sent to prison for a year for his involvement in the Brixton Riots. Prison though turned out to be Alex's salvation. There he met a man who encouraged him to revive his childh...

2021-06-1645 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Ann NapolitanoAnn Napolitano is the author of three novels, including Dear Edward, which spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and which is the heart-breaking story of a boy who loses his parents and brother in a plane crash, of which he is the only survivor. Ann wanted to be a writer from the age of ten, but after graduating from her MFA programme in her twenties had her first book rejected by 80 agents. Her second book found her an agent but then failed to sell. Ann was extremely honest about how tough that w...

2021-06-1045 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Julian FellowesJulian Fellowes is, of course, rather well known for creating a little TV series you might have heard of called Downton Abbey. And that wasn’t his first screen success either, having already won an Oscar for his screenplay for Gosford Park in 2002. Julian has had an eclectic career, appearing on the long-running series Monarch of the Glen and a Bond movie. His accent, his family background, the subjects of class that fascinate him - all of these have sometimes led to people accusing him of being a snob and perhaps assuming that everything has come easy to him. And...

2021-06-0246 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Phoebe MorganMy guest this week is Phoebe Morgan, the author of four books and Editorial Director at HarperCollins. Phoebe's first book, The Doll House, was published just five years after she left university, and quickly became a Kindle bestseller. Her books since then have been published in several languages and this year, she got her first US deal for The Wild Girls, a pacy thriller about friendship souring in Botswana (great for you summer holiday!).Phoebe has written about how it felt to finally get that US deal in her blog, which is full of really honest...

2021-05-2643 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Harry ParkerMy guest this week is Harry Parker, a writer and artist who had a very interesting route to becoming an author. Harry is an army veteran who lost his legs following an IED explosion while on tour in Afghanistan. Several years later and back in the UK, Harry wrote a novel, Anatomy of a Solider, which tells the story of Sergeant Tom Barnes, who also loses his legs in an explosion, through the perspectives of 45 inanimate objects: a gun, a bag of fertiliser, a prosthetic leg, a grieving mother’s handbag and so on. It’s an ex...

2021-05-2036 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Katherine HeinyMy guest this week is Katherine Heiny, who I’m happy to report is as funny in person and she is on the page. When I first approached Katherine for this podcast she told me that she had 9 million insecurities but rejection wasn’t one of them, and I thought, ok, maybe she’s not right for Write-Off. But then she kept writing back over the next couple of days adding caveats and comments and it became clear that in fact she did have things to say about rejection but perhaps not things that we all usually think of.

2021-05-1339 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Andy WeirAndy Weir is best known for his novel The Martian, a very clever and funny book about an astronaut stranded on Mars, which was made into a (2015) Ridley Scott film starring Matt Damon. Andy had two failed novels behind him before he self-published The Martian and even when it became an e-book bestseller didn't think to find an agent because earlier attempts had left him feeling like he wasn't good enough. (An agent an traditional publisher later approached him.) We talk about Andy's struggle with rejection and about his new (third published) book, Project Hail Mary...

2021-05-0646 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele Anna HopeAnna Hope has written three very successful novels, the last of which, Expectation, was published to much fanfare in 2019 and which has been optioned for film. But before that Anna experienced plenty of rejection as an actor, and then when she turned to writing her first novel failed to sell. Anna was such a joy to speak to and she felt like the perfect first guest for Write-Off, talking openly and honestly about quite how difficult that experience was and how she got through it to become the hugely successful novelist she is today.

2021-05-0541 min

Write-Off with Francesca Steele TrailerWelcome to Write-Off with Francesca Steele, a podcast about writing rejection in all its forms, from self-doubt to books not selling, and how people get through it. I'm a writer and journalist based in London with some personal experience of this after my own first book failed to sell. Guests include Anna Hope, Andy Weir, Katherine Heiny, Michele Roberts, Julian Fellowes, Ann Napolitano, Phoebe Morgan, Harry Parker, Alex Wheatle and Douglas Stuart. I hope you find them as inspiring as I do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2021-04-3001 min

Daybreak With the Ivy League cancelled, Princeton track athletes turn elsewhereOn February 18, the Ivy League announced that it will not be holding spring athletic competitions. Today, sports reporter Wilson Conn speaks to junior pole vaulter Hanne Borstlap and senior triple jumper Kara Steele, two athletes on the women’s track team, about their reactions to the cancellation, and how they are planning to stay competitive without a season.Today’s episode was written by Francesca Block and Wilson Conn, and produced under the 145th managing board of the Prince. Our theme was composed by Ed Horan, class of 22. Photo via Beverly Schaefer / Princeton Athletics.

2021-03-0707 min

Throwback Sports Productions RS Game #12 - Expos @ HornetsGame NotesRS Game #12 - Montreal Expos @ Red Hornets (2-13-2021)Venue: Steele StadiumPre-game Notes:The Hornets return home after their first loss of the season, falling to the Diamondbacks in a wild close game, 2-1. The Expos are coming into today looking to keep their wildcard hopes alive, and win their third straight game. Sally Dobbs will try and right the ship for the Hornets as she goes against the Expos’ Julie Dunkel. Enjoy the game!Pitching Match-up: Ju...

2021-02-2850 min

Throwback Trivia Takedown Ep. 37: Francesca Mitchell vs. Jodie SteeleThrowback Trivia Takedown takes trivia back to the glory days of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Two challengers go head to head in a duel of the decades where the one with the most nostalgic knowledge of pop culture comes out victorious. Do you know your nostalgia? bfopnetwork.com

2021-02-0945 min

Speaking of Writers Jennifer Probst- Our Italian SummerAbout OUR ITALIAN SUMMER Workaholic and single mother Francesca Ferrari is one step away from a nervous breakdown when her studious, straight-laced, 17-year-old daughter Allegra is caught with illicit drugs. Allegra is sick of being ignored by her uptight mother whose one true love is her work. And Francesca’s mother, Sophia, knows that they’re all in trouble. Sophia is concerned that her family is falling apart in front of her eyes, and she also can’t seem to shake the feeling that her health is failing, fast. Sophia declares that a summer in Italy might just b...

2021-01-1513 min

Associated Emma Steele at Fair by DesignLois and Francesca chat to Emma Steele, Investment Manager at Fair by Design. They discuss Emma's career trajectory, the remit of the Fair by Design Fund, and how impact investing works. Fair By Design Emma's LinkedIn

2019-11-2441 min