Craft talk with a writer's inner weather.
Author2Author pairs literary conversation with frank reflection on the habits that keep books moving. Recent episodes range from suspense plotting and memoir to climate-inflected fiction, spiritual revision, and the stubborn commitment required to face a blank page.
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Author2Author is a literary conversation show about books, process, persistence, and the emotional terrain of making art. It keeps returning to a simple conviction: writing a book and building a life ask many of the same things from a person. The episodes are less about platform polish than about the human mechanics of authorship. How does a writer commit when no one is waiting? What changes when a genre stops fitting? Where does craft end and courage begin? Recent conversations follow those questions into suspense, memoir, spiritual practice, climate fiction, short stories, and the long private work of revision. Corinne Sullivan's episode frames a move from literary fiction into suspense as more than a marketing adjustment. It becomes a conversation about recognizing the shape that suits the writer. Sarvat Hasin's episode widens the lens to discipline, community, and the way shared commitment can make writing feel possible. There is practical craft here, but the show is often more interested in the hidden pressure behind craft. Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew's conversation brings memoir, bisexuality and spirit, fiction, essays, and books on writing into a sustained discussion of creativity and spiritual practice. William Luvaas's episode moves through publishing stories, narrative through lines, and a story collection concerned with climate change's effect on daily life. The pacing is loose enough to let ideas surface naturally. The register is encouraging, candid, and occasionally playful. It can pause over a practical distinction, then swing toward something more philosophical. The show is especially good at treating writers as whole people rather than as productivity machines. Publication matters, but so do attention, fit, discipline, and love of the work. Author2Author suits listeners who want craft talk with soul in it. It also suits readers curious about how different kinds of books come into being. Its best moments make the writing life feel difficult, ordinary, and worth choosing again.
Made for: Author2Author is for writers, serious readers, memoirists, fiction writers, and anyone interested in the private discipline behind published work. It especially suits listeners who want encouragement tied to craft rather than generic inspiration.
What sets it apart: The show connects specific writing choices to deeper questions of fit, commitment, spirituality, and daily life. It gives publishing and craft stories room to become conversations about how writers actually keep going.
Bill Kenower, Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, talks to writers of all genres about the books we write and the lives we lead, and how these two are one in the same.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded craft conversation on climate-minded fiction, narrative focus, and the strange routes books take into print.
William LeVasse's The Three Devils gives this Author to Author conversation a steady artistic center: six longer stories shaped by climate anxiety and the near-future strain it may bring to ordinary life.
Practical craft talk for working writers.
Host Bill Kenower interviews author Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew about writing, memoir, and the intersection of writing and spirituality.
Bill Kenower interviews author William Luvaas about his writing journey and new story collection, 'Three Devils and Other Stories'.
Bill Knauer interviews Corinne Sullivan, senior news editor at Cosmopolitan and author of Yours Always, about moving from literary fiction to psychological suspense.
Sarvat Haseen discusses Strange Girls, her fourth novel and first U.S.
Author to Author marks the 25th anniversary re-release of Cameron West's memoir First Person Plural, My Life as a Multiple, with host Bill Knauer.
Bill Knauer interviews Claire Heywood about The Wandering Queen, her third novel, which reimagines Queen Dido through evidence from Tyre, Carthage, and later literary traditions.
Bill Knauer interviews Reyna Marder Gentin about Jessica Harmon, Stepped Away, a literary road-trip novel about a 30-year-old aspiring writer and her famous poet mother, Cynthia.