Writer's Bone

Writer's Bone

Aspiring writers, best-selling scribes, and award-winning screenwriters confront existential dread and writing angst! A podcast for the conversationalist.

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October 14, 2025 42 mins

Author Mary Roach returns to the show to discuss her latest book Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

To learn more about Mary Roach, visit her official website. Also listen to our past interview with the author in Episode 198 and Friday Morning Coffee.

This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

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On the latest Friday Morning Coffee, host Caitlin Malcuit discusses why it's healthy and helpful to question and explore the seedier aspects of our nostalgic fandom. 

Author and journalist Joshua Moore then joins Daniel Ford to chat about his book Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Conquered the World.

To learn more about Joshua Moore, visit his official website

This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and ...

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October 7, 2025 33 mins

Author Sam Sussman joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his debut novel Boy From the North Country

To learn more about Sam Sussman, visit his official website. Also read his piece "The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son" in Harper's Magazine.

This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

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September 9, 2025 41 mins

Author and comedian Amy Silverberg chats with Daniel Ford about her debut novel First Time, Long Time

To learn more about Amy Silverberg, visit her official website. Also listen to her appearance on Daniel Paisner's As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast.

This episode is sponsored by Accountability Workshops' Fall Writing Camp, The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes, As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast, and Libro.fm.

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August 25, 2025 60 mins

Author and journalist Peter Ames Carlin joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his book Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run.

To learn more about Peter Ames Carlin, visit his official website.

This episode is sponsored by Accountability Workshops' Fall Writing Camp, The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes, and Libro.fm.

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August 19, 2025 45 mins

Author Sara Reish Desmond joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her debut short story collection What We Might Become

To learn more about Sara Reish Desmond, visit her official website.

This episode is sponsored by Accountability Workshops' Fall Writing Camp, The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes, and Libro.fm.

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In honor of today's guest and subject matter, host Caitlin Malcuit talks about what author and journalist Robert W. Fieseler might call  "the Floridafication" of the United States and how minority rights are still under attack in the Sunshine State.

Then, Fieseler returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his latest book American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives.

To learn more about Robert W. Fie...

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Author Dave Patterson (Soon All the Light Will Be Perfect) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his short story collection Euphoria.

To learn more about Dave Patterson, visit his official website or listen to our first interview with the author in Episode 353. Also stop by his Euphoria book event, emceed by Richard Russo, at Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine, on Aug. 12 from 7 - 8 p.m.

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August 5, 2025 47 mins

Author C.M. Kushins (Nothing’s Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon, Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin) joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss his book Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard.

This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

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August 1, 2025 27 mins

Host Caitlin Malcuit discusses the "chop and drop" gardening method and how new insights into how erosion fosters river creation could aid in river restoration and rehabilitation.

Then, author Dheepa R. Maturi joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about her eco-thriller 108.

To learn more about Dheepa R. Maturi, visit her official website.

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July 29, 2025 34 mins

Local Reading, Mass., author Claudette Sabbag chats with Daniel Ford at the Writer's Collaborative Learning Center about her debut novel Deer in the Road.

This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

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July 22, 2025 46 mins

Legendary Washington Post journalist and columnist, Washington D.C. insider, and author Sally Quinn joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her latest novel Silent Retreat

To learn more about Sally Quinn, visit her official website. Also read her Washington Post column about her husband Ben Bradlee's struggle with Alzheimer's.

This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

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July 18, 2025 25 mins

On the latest Friday Morning Coffee episode, host Caitlin Malcuit discusses Pura Belpré, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian.

Author Allison King then chats with Daniel Ford about her debut The Phoenix Pencil Company.

To learn more about Allison King, visit her official website. Also catch her at Porter Square Books on July 24

This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

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July 15, 2025 31 mins

Author Peter Swanson (The Kind Worth Killing, Eight Perfect Murders) returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about his latest book Kill Your Darlings.

To learn more about Peter Swanson, visit his official website. Also listen to our preview interviews with the author in Episode 410 and Episode 279

This episode is sponsored by The Dark Road by Kathleen Rhodes and Libro.fm.

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July 8, 2025 36 mins

Author Michelle Huneven (Search, Off Course) joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her latest novel Bug Hollow.

To learn more about Michelle Huneven, visit her official website.

Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.

 

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July 1, 2025 52 mins

Author and historian Greg Grandin (The Empire of Necessity, Fordlandia, Empire’s Workshop) joins Daniel Ford to discuss his latest book America, América: A New History of the New World.

To learn more about Greg Grandin, visit his official website.

Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.

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June 27, 2025 37 mins

Author and journalist Rachel Slade talks with Caitlin Malcuit and Daniel Ford about her book Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way), which is now out in paperback.

To learn more about Rachel Slade, visit her official website.

Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.

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Best-selling author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois) joins Daniel Ford on the show to discuss her latest book Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings.

To learn more about Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, visit her official website.

Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.

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June 17, 2025 32 mins

Author Ivy Pochoda (Sing Her Down, These Women) joins Daniel Ford to discuss her novel Ecstasy, out now from G.P. Putnam's Sons.

To learn more about Ivy Pochoda, visit her official website. Also watch her appearance on "CBS Saturday Morning."

Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.

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June 13, 2025 44 mins

Host Caitlin Malcuit discusses sports betting in America with guest co-host Scott Cassell.

Then, author and journalist John W. Miller joins Daniel Ford to chat about his book The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball.

To learn more about John W. Miller, visit his official website.

Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm.

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