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Workshop 41: Ben H. Winters

Workshop 41: Ben H. Winters

From10 Minute Writer's Workshop


Workshop 41: Ben H. Winters

From10 Minute Writer's Workshop

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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
Apr 5, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Ben Winters is a little incomprehensible. Not his output, which is consistently great, but his wild imagination and range. He's a teacher, a playwright, an Edgar and Phillip K. Dick Award-winning novelist, he's written children's books, an existential detective series and landed a New York Times bestseller with the Jane Austen meets the kraken mash-up, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
His most recent novel, Underground Airlines, imagines an alternative American history - and present. The civil war never happened, and slavery is legal in four southern states under protection of the Constitution. Underground Airlines is an ingenious work of speculative fiction that at times seems chillingly plausible. It landed on several top ten lists in 2016...from Fresh Air contributor Maureen Corrigan to the BBC.
We caught up with him at the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord, NH before interviewing him and The Underground Railroad author, Colson Whitehead.

Episode music by Podington Bear
Ad music by Uncanny Valleys
Released:
Apr 5, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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A peek into how great writers conjure and craft their work. From creative rituals to guilty distractions, writers reveal what it really takes to get pen to paper.