First Draft Episode #251: John Hodgman
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John Hodgman, comedian and author of The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That is All, as well as collections of humorous essays Vacationland: True Stories From Painful Beaches and Medallion Status: True Stories From Secret Rooms. John is also the host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast as well as I, Podius with Elliott Kalan.
This episode was sponsored by HIGHLAND 2, a better way to write, and The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly by Jamie Pacton, out from Page Street Books now!
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode
The Dead Pilots Society production of “Only Child”
Ben Acker (listen to his First Draft here)
Don Faulkner, writing instructor and poet who taught John at Yale
Lee K. Abbott, short story writer with collections such as All Things, All At Once
Raymond Carver, author of short story collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral
John Hodgman’s episode of Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Geoffrey Kloske is the President and Publisher of Riverhead Books
Dave Eggers, author of The Circle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and founder of McSweeny’s Internet Tendency
George Plimpton, writer and editor of The Paris Review
Writer’s House is the literary agency where John worked
Mark Adams (travel books) Meet Me In Atlantis and Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska
Jesse Thorn, co-host of John’s Judge John Hodgman, and host of Bullseye
George Saunders, author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo
John wrote Dicktown with his friend, fellow podcaster and writer David Rees
John’s interview in Publisher’s Weekly, in which he was interviewed by Elaine Szewczyk
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