Sad Me of the Past Podcast
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Welcome to Sad Me of the Past, the podcast where everybody wins! On this episode, we were joined by author and journalist Joe Fassler while he was in town for his reading at Prairie Lights. We talk about his new novel The Sky Was Ours, and the 10 year process of writing it, which began with a single short story at Iowa. Joe shares a piece of writing from his late teens, written while he was in the Iowa Young Writers' Studio. We discuss his journey from apathetic high school student to a highly recognized journalist and author, as well his tips, tricks and inspiration for aspiring writers everywhere.
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Joe Fassler is a writer and editor based in Denver, Colorado. He is an MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his fiction has appeared in The Boston Review and Electric Literature. In 2013, Fassler started The Atlantic’s “By Heart” series, in which he interviewed authors—including Stephen King, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Carmen Maria Machado, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and more—about the literature that shaped their lives and work. That led to editing Light the Dark, a book-length collection that included favorites from “By Heart” alongside new contributions. Fassler’s nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian, Longreads, and The Best American Food Writing. Fassler currently teaches writing at Vermont’s Sterling College. The Sky Was Ours is his first novel.
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- Joe Fassler's website
- The Sky Was Ours (Buy)
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Music: Sailing Away by HoliznaCC0, free for use under a Creative Commons license. Nam Le Website pic, Dave Tacon.
