The Lives of Writers

Meg Tuite

Episode Summary

Michael talks with Meg Tuite about growing up in a family of readers, A Confederacy of Dunces, the beginnings of writing and publishing, early books, risk, sentences as worlds unto themselves, her newest book WHITE VAN, focusing on dark or uncomfortable material, the effect of suicide on her family, language that works on multiple levels, new work, and more.

Episode Notes

Michael talks with Meg Tuite about growing up in a family of readers, A Confederacy of Dunces, the beginnings of writing and publishing, early books, risk, sentences as worlds unto themselves, her newest book WHITE VAN, focusing on dark or uncomfortable material, the effect of suicide on her family, language that works on multiple levels, new work, and more.

Meg Tuite is author of many books of varying forms, including a novel-in-stories, Domestic Apparition (San Francisco Bay Press), a short story collection, Bound By Blue, (Sententia Books) Meet My Haze (Big Table Publishing), and most recently White Van (Unlikely Books). Her work has been published in over 600 literary magazines and over fifteen anthologies. She teaches workshops for Bending Genres, where she is also an editor.

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.