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Catherine Newman on laughter, death and embracing your voice
Not Too Busy To Write
English - February 01, 2023 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Personal Journals Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Catherine Newman is a writer with a varied career including two parenting memoirs and a middle grade novel. She had written for the New York Times, O Magazine, The Boston Globe and was a columnist for Real Simple Magazine. Her debut novel We All Want Impossible Things is the story of Ash, whose best friend Edi is dying of cancer. Set over a few weeks in a hospice, this book is filled with laughter and heartbreak. Catherine and I talk about the relief of laughing in the face of death, learning to embrace your natural writing voice and the how years of having to make a living from writing has had a positive impact on Catherine's daily writing habit. We All Want Impossible Things is out now.
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We All Want Impossible Things - Catherine Newman
Catherine Newman on instagram - @catherinenewman
Catherine's website - catherinenewmanwriter.com
Penny on instagram - @pennywincer