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In Conversation With … Michael Bourne, author
Living The Writing Life Podcast with Nancy Christie
English - December 20, 2023 18:29 - 49 minutes - 39.1 MBBooks Arts Fiction Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Michael Bourne is the author of Blithedale Canyon (Regal House, 2022). He is a long-time contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine and he has written for the New York Times, the Globe & Mail, The Economist, Literary Hub, and Salon.
His fiction has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines including, most recently, december, The Southampton Review, and Tin House. Blithedale Canyon is his first novel. He grew up in Northern California and now lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his wife and son.
For more about Michael, visit his website and follow him on Instagram (michaelrbourne) and Twitter/X (@bournewriter).
In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about the reality of transitioning from being a published short story writer to a published novelist—both the creative aspect and the business side of it.