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Ep 89: When Fiction Incorporates History with Joselyn Takacs

In the latest episode of Write the Damn Book Already, Joselyn Takacs and I discussed her first novel, Pearce Oysters (Zibby Books, 6/25/2024).

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Her writing process (and the system she and her adviser had for keeping her consistent)
  • Free writing versus stream-of-consciousness writing 
  • The fun way she’s including the book’s theme in her upcoming book events
  • Joselyn's top tricks for getting through writer’s block
  • How writing ahead can help authors figure out the book’s trajectory


ABOUT JOSELYN

Joselyn Takacs holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University. Her fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Narrative, Tin House, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature, and elsewhere.

She has published interviews and book reviews in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Entropy. Joselyn has taught writing at the University of Southern California and Johns Hopkins University.

She lived in New Orleans at the time of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, and in 2015, she received a grant to record the oral histories of Louisiana oyster farmers in the wake of the environmental disaster. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.


CONNECT WITH JOSELYN

Website: www.joselyntakacs.com/about

Instagram: @joselyn_takacs

Purchase a copy of Pearce Oysters


WHAT JOSELYN'S READING

Free Love by Tessa Hadley 


BOOK REC OF THE WEEK

In a Not So Perfect Wor


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