Electric Sheep

Books & Literature

Let's learn how to write by analysing the best of the best and all the rest. How do writers do it? How do they keep us turning the pages until we finish their book or throw it across the room? Fiction, non-fiction, classics, pulp, poetry, plays, whatever you wanna call it, it's the written word.

Location:

United States

Genres:

Books & Literature

Description:

Let's learn how to write by analysing the best of the best and all the rest. How do writers do it? How do they keep us turning the pages until we finish their book or throw it across the room? Fiction, non-fiction, classics, pulp, poetry, plays, whatever you wanna call it, it's the written word.

Language:

English

Website:

https://anchor.fm/electricsh33p

Episodes

Die Trying

5/10/2024

Lee Child takes us to a preppers paradise buried in the Montana mountains full of anti-globalist nutjobs in this 1998 thriller. Not only interesting for how on-point it was (think Alex Jones, QAnon, etc) but also in highlighting the difference between good and great art, high and base emotions, and the addictive nature of popular/pulp fiction. I wanted Tolstoy but all I got was Jack bloody Reacher.

Duración:00:30:34

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

4/17/2024

George Orwells depressing deep dive into the mind of an Incel poet can teach us plenty about clear writing, creativity, and the difference between art, advertising and propaganda. It also helped me realise that even Orwell is human, someone who worked on ideas and got better over time. Read it only if you've already read 1984, Wigan Pier, Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and his essays but before Burmese Days..

Duración:00:23:39

Shake Hands with the Devil

4/10/2024

Roméo Dallaire takes us on a journey into hell. Torn a thousand different ways, he shows the brutal reality of war, genocide, and the danger of seeing some humans as more human than others. Like Pandoras Box, though, there are glimmers in the darkness and they're worth facing.

Duración:00:18:42

Reacher: Bad Luck and Trouble

4/3/2024

Lee Childs' hero is an all-American cheeseburger whose escapades are full of lessons on writing like drawing out suspense, fast ways to ID characters, and smoothly integrating your research. Plus they offer amazing insights into The Industry... enjoy x

Duración:00:17:48

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz

3/7/2024

Michela Wrong takes us on a journey through the collapse of Mobutu's Zaire with lessons on investigative journalism done right, the brutal lives of the common people, and trickle-down corruption in one of the worlds most effed up places.

Duración:00:19:00