197: Maggie Ginsberg- Author of Still True

Hear us Roar · Jul 20, 2023 · 28m

This week we talk with Maggie Ginsberg (Still True, Univ of Wisconsin Press, September 2022). Maggie, a journalist and magazine editor, always thought the novelists she admired were born with "magic author brains", that ideas simply flowed out of their fingers onto the page. It was only after she decided to write a book herself that she discovered the similarities with er non-fiction interviews—the characters were actually "real people" and all she had to do was ask the right questions so she could understand their story. We discuss the pluses and challenges of publishing with an academic…