Episode #60: Julie Phillips on biography, writing while mothering, and Ursula le Guin

28/03/2024 50 min

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Episode Synopsis

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston have the pleasure of interviewing Julie Phillips, author of THE BABY ON THE FIRE ESCAPE; JAMES TIPTREE JR, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF ALICE B SHELDON; and the to-be-titled biography of Ursula le Guin.
In this episode, you'll hear:

About Julie's thoughts on writing while mothering
What a dramatic line is in biography
Ghabiba, Courtney, and Julie compare fiction to writing biography
About fairytales that feature mothers
Julie's process for writing Ursula le Guin's biography
Ursula le Guin's REAL writing advice and if her writing routine on the internet was something she actually did

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