50! Episode 50! I’m so happy to celebrate this milestone with my guest Daniel Kraus, whose most recent book, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books for 2015 shortly after we recorded this conversation. It’s a meaty one, this conversation, from what it means to finish a project twenty years in the making, to the desire to divorce yourself from the reception of your work–if that’s even possible–to building a career as a weekend novelist. We also talked about Daniel’s filmmaking career, defying genre labels, going “off-brand”, and the strange relationship between readers and writers on social media.
photo credit Suzanne Plunkett
Social media. We talked about that a lot. Daniel has been planning his twitter exodus for some time, and pulls the trigger on December 31st. Longtime listeners know my own tense relationship with it these days, and if you follow me on twitter you’ve seen me make various declarations this year that do or don’t stick to varying degrees. You’ll hear in our conversation how very close I’ve been to chucking it, and my reasons for that. My talk with Daniel convinced me that this is the year. I’m going to take 2016 off. I’ll still use twitter (and my facebook page) for updates about the podcast, appearances, and book news. A year from now I’ll see how it went and perhaps in 2017 return to my former omnipresence. Maybe twitter won’t even exist anymore! Who knows.
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Show Notes!
Daniel’s web site | Daniel on twitter (FOR NOW)
Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of 2015
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