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Timothy O'Grady is our second guest in our podcast series, Tell me how you write
Mar 14, 2025
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Moving from West Belfast to the streets of San Francisco, Monaghan is exhilarating is an epic portrait of art and war, authenticity and selling out, told through the fates of three men.

Timothy is known for his sparse and beautiful writing. The way that he varies his sentence length and creates complex characters sets him apart. He is also one of those r…

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Tell Me How You Write
Maya Angelou apparently wrote in hotel rooms that had been stripped of all their furniture and paintings, Zadie Smith recommends writing with no internet connection to suck you into cyberspace, and Sylvia Plath famously got up at dawn to hit the typewriter.
Writers’ processes and routines are essential when it comes to making it all happen. On ‘Tell me how you write?’, Patrick Galbraith and Sadia Nowshin talk to a fascinating range of writers, journalists, and poets about how they do it. How many words do they try to write a day, do they write in the morning or the afternoon, do they edit as they go or do they knock out a whole manuscript before returning, fearfully, to the beginning?
Whether you’re an aspiring writer or an old hand, ‘Tell me how you write?’ is a fascinating deep dive into the mechanics of literature.
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