In the literary series How I Wrote This, creator Pamela Hensley sits down with acclaimed novelists, essayists, playwrights, translators, and poets to learn more about their lives and the events that shaped their work.

Each episode delves into the “story behind the story” while each season moves to a different city. Guests have included: Jennifer Egan, Joseph O’Neill, Adelle Waldman (Brooklyn); Julia Franck, Jenny Erpenbeck, Jonathan Garfinkel (Berlin); Mikhail Iossel, Sean Michaels, Kim Thuy, Heather O’Neill (Montreal), and many more.

They are winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the International Booker, the German Book Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Listen to the stories and insights, and at times the intimate memories, of great writers of our time.

All conversations are available to download, stream, replay, and share through this website or on your podcast app. Follow us on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.

Original music (Attention to Details) is by Tyler Rauman.